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Cleveland Mainline Railroads

By Craig , Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.;Erie Railroad Company.;New York Central Railroad Company.;New Y , Chicago;St. Louis Railroad.;Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Company.;Pennsylvania Railroad.;Sanders

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Year
2014
ISBN
9781467111379, 9781439644881, 1467111376
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
55 MB (57609499 bytes)
Series
Images of rail
Pages
127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Chicago & St. Louis Railroad;Pennsylvania RailroadRailroads--Ohio--Cleveland--History;Railroads;Hist

Description

In the 1800s, railroad development was instrumental in enabling Cleveland to become an industrial center. By 1920, Cleveland was the nation's fifth-largest city, with an economy dependent on the iron and steel, petroleum-refining, automotive, and chemical industries. It was second only to Detroit among American cities in the percentage of the population employed by industry. Railroads brought raw materials needed for manufacturing and carried the finished products to markets everywhere. The mainline railroads serving Cleveland included the Baltimore & Ohio, the Erie, the New York Central, the Nickel Plate Road, the Pennsylvania, and the Wheeling & Lake Erie. Images of Rail: Cleveland Mainline Railroads describes how these six railroads developed and what freight and passenger markets they served through the 1960s, a period during which railroads were the primary carriers of goods and passengers to Cleveland. Industry changed following World War II, leading to the...

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