The Great Railroad Revolution (73 page)

Railway company agents,
169
,
172

Railway construction,
25–50

costs,
46–48

labor,
38–40

promotion,
33–36
,
37
,
38

See also
Transcontinental railroads

Railway manias,
23
,
85
,
124
,
163

Railway travel

collective travel,
222–223

connections,
84

experiences,
73–85
,
161–162
,
167–168
,
208–213

luxury and prestige services,
181–190
,
263–268
,
300–303
,
308
,
309–315
,
324
,
325
,
327–328
,
329
(
see also
Passenger services
)

nighttime,
81
,
83

and segregation,
208
,
212–213

Sunday travel,
83

Railways

achievements and impact,
216–230

British investment,
124

deregulation,
347–350

early opposition,
27
,
63
,
86–87
,
92

government support,
28–34
,
51
,
52
,
85
,
129
,
153
,
166
,
173
,
233
,
341–345
,
356

and immigration,
169–173

interwar boom,
307–308

nationalization,
291–292

postwar expansion,
121–124
,
159–165

regulation,
192–193
,
256–257
,
295–296
,
297–298
,
311
,
347

route mileages,
68
,
72
,
85
,
90
,
123–124
,
159
,
174–175
,
215
,
259
,
261
,
288–289
,
306
,
307
,
308
,
318–319
,
349–350

vertical integration,
48

Western expansion,
168–180

Rainhill Trials,
16
,
17

Ramsey, Joseph,
247

Raquette Lake Railroad,
224

Raton Pass,
173

Rea, Samuel,
290

Redfield, William,
53
,
125

Refrigerated wagons,
179
,
255
,
333

Reno brothers' gang,
202
,
203

Rensselaer & Saratoga Railroad,
23

Reutter, Mark,
62

Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad,
106

Richmond & Petersburg Railroad,
103

Rifkind, Simon,
325

Ripley, William Z.,
296

River transportation,
6

Roads,
10–14

“corduroy roads,”
10

and government funding,
12
,
332
,
343
,
356

interstate highways,
304–306
,
308
,
321
,
332

plank roads,
69
,
70

safety,
318

“shunpikes,”
12

turnpikes,
8
,
11–13
,
26–28
,
29
,
31
,
48
,
217
,
303–304

Robber gangs,
202–206

Robinson, John and Lester,
132

Rockefeller, John D.,
225

Rocket
,
16

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
308
,
322

Roosevelt, Theodore,
272

Rosecrans, William,
113

Roulette
,
4

Royal Blue
,
264–265

Royal Gorge,
173–174

“Runners,”
84

Russia,
171–172
,
294
,
357

Russian Revolution,
294

Ruth, Babe,
227

Sacramento Valley Railroad,
128
,
129
,
132

Safety,
48
,
80
,
190–200
,
251
,
256
,
318
,
323
,
351
,
354

Saint, Eva Marie,
266

Salamanca
,
15

San Francisco Examiner
,
237

Sand Creek massacre,
148

Sandboxes,
45

Santa Fe Railroad.
See
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad

Saudi Arabia,
357

Saunders, Richard, Jr.,
253
,
290
,
294–295
,
324
,
325
,
329
,
345–346

Saunders, Stuart,
336–337

Savage, Charles,
143

Savannah, Albany & Gulf Railroad,
92–93

Schenectady & Troy Railroad,
67

Schmidt, Carl,
171

Scott, Thomas,
98
,
234

Seashore
,
263

Sebastopol Avenue, Battle of,
283

Second World War,
306
,
317–318
,
321–324

Seven Days' Battle,
116

Seymour, Silas,
137–138
,
140

Sherman, William,
114–115
,
116
,
118
,
138
,
147
,
149
,
150
,
176–177

“Sherman hairpin,”
115

Sherman Summit,
147

Sherwood, Lorenzo,
31

Shin Hollow,
56

Signaling,
47–48
,
49
,
270
,
354

Skyscrapers,
xxvi
,
217

Slave labor.
See under
Labor

Sleeping cars,
4
,
46
,
181–188
,
242
.
See also
Carriages

Snow sheds,
144

Sodus Bay & Southern Railroad,
248–249

Some Like It Hot
(film),
184

Sorrel, Gilbert Moxley,
113

South America,
155
,
226

South Carolina Railroad,
22

Southern Pacific Railroad,
175–176
,
205
,
250
,
253
,
323
,
348

Southern Railroad,
248
,
346

Southern railways

and Civil War,
90–94
,
99–105
,
111–113
,
115
,
122–123

and convict labor,
164–165

fares,
93
,
161

gauge change,
201

postwar reconstruction,
160–165

and segregation,
208
,
212–213

Sparkcatchers,
43

Spielberg, Steven,
331

Sports,
226–227

St. Lawrence Seaway,
333

St. Paul & Pacific Railroad,
177

Stagecoaches,
15–16
,
27
,
44
,
62
,
73
,
84
,
154

Staggers Act,
348
,
349–350

Stanford, Leland,
131–133
,
141
,
146
,
152–153
,
155
,
156

Starrucca Viaduct,
57

Station agents,
78

Station clocks,
xxv
,
218–219

Station restaurants,
209

Station wagons,
211

Stations,
218–219
,
220–221

depots,
76–78

Grand Central Station,
245
,
286–287
,
358

Penn Station,
260
,
285
,
358

Union Station,
219
,
260
,
344

union stations,
xxiv
,
200–201
,
260–261
,
344

Steam road carriages,
13

Steam shovels,
38

Steamboats and steamships,
5–7
,
10
,
13
,
240

Stephenson, George,
15–16
,
59
,
74

Stephenson, Robert,
41

Stevens, John,
17
,
45

Stevens, Robert,
45–46

Stevenson, Robert Louis,
207–209

“Stock watering,”
239
,
246
,
257

Stockton & Darlington Railway,
15–16
,
18
,
48–49

Stourbridge Lion
,
17–18
,
21

Stover, John,
103
,
117
,
133
,
178
,
237–238
,
251–252
,
255
,
259
,
319

Streamlining,
313
,
314

Streetcars.
See
Tramways

Strickland, William,
18

Strikes,
xxv
,
231–238
,
251
,
262
.
See also
Labor unions

Strobridge, James Harvey,
141
,
144–146
,
151–152

Strobridge, Mrs. James Harvey,
145

Subways,
278–279
,
285

Summit Tunnel,
142
,
144
,
147

Sunset Limited
,
345

Super Chief
,
313
,
328

Surrey Iron Railway,
4

Sweden,
171

Switzerland,
286

Sylphorama of America
,
169

Taft, William Howard,
272

Tallahassee Railroad,
33

Tanfield Way,
3

Taylor, George Rogers,
6
,
9–10
,
11
,
47

Telegraph,
49
,
63–65
,
78
,
80
,
145–146
,
195–196
,
217

Texas, US annexation of,
89–90

Texas & Pacific Railroad,
234

Thomas, Philip E.,
18

Thompson, William,
149–150

Thomson, John Edgar,
65–66

Ticketing,
78–79
,
267–268

Time, standardization of,
xxiv
,
219–220

Timetables,
78
,
181
,
255

Todd, W. Parsons,
277

Tom Thumb
,
21–22
,
41

Tourism,
223–226

Track bed,
45–46

Track gauge,
14
,
59–62
,
85
,
92
,
201
,
256
.
See also
Loading gauges

Train, George,
136

Train speeds,
80
,
84
,
264–265
,
311