Rails Across Dixie: A History of Passenger Trains in the American South
Rails Across Dixie: A History of Passenger Trains in the American South
Editor/Author
Cox, Jim
Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: McFarland
Single-User Purchase Price:
$55.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$82.50
ISBN: 978-0-7864-4528-8
Category: History - United States -- History
Image Count:
161
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The book explores the technological achievements, the romance and the economic impact of traveling on the tracks. Other topics include contemporary museums and excursion trains; the development of commuter rails, monorails, light rails, and other intracity transit trains; the social impact of train travel; and historical rail terminals and facilities. The book is supplemented with more than 160 images and 10 appendices.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Sentimental Journey
- I. The Manufacture of Transportation
- 1 Making Tracks: Cumbersome Methodology Gets the Shaft
- 2 Belle Époque: The Golden Age of Train Travel
- II. Dixie Legends
- 3 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad: Riders of the Purple Stage
- 4 Central of Georgia Railway: Horses of a Different Color
- 5 Chesapeake & Ohio Railway: The Cat's Meow
- 6 Florida East Coast Railway: The Eighth Wonder of the World
- 7 Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad: Great Things Made of Little Things
- 8 Illinois Central Railroad: First in Line to Land a Grant
- 9 Louisville & Nashville Railroad: A Tale of Two Cities Dispossessed
- 10 Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway: Short Route from the Great Lakes to Florida
- 11 Norfolk & Western Railway: The Last Steam Road in America
- 12 St. Louis-San Francisco Railway: Unfilled Destiny
- 13 Seaboard Air Line Railroad: The Train of Tomorrow
- 14 Southern Railway: Crescent Rolls
- III. The Human Dimension
- 15 Segregation and Prejudice: Jim Crow, Colored Coaches and “Ladies' Cars”
- 16 Amenities and Appointments: Club Car, Parlor Car, Dining Car, Pullman
- 17 Portals to the World: Early Waiting Rooms
- IV. Present and Future
- 18 Passengers Wanted: Railroads in Decline and the Advent of Amtrak
- 19 On the Fast Track: The Anticipation of High Speed Rail
- 20 Progressive Southern Municipalities: Urban and Intercity Mass Transit
- Appendices
- A: Glossary
- B: Additional Passenger Lines
- C: Amtrak
- D: Museums and Exhibitions (by State)
- E: Terminals (by State)
- F: Dixie Rail Chronology
- G: Powerful Railway Personalities
- H: Dixie Lines
- I: Streetcars, Commuter Lines and Monorails (by State)
- J: Advertising and Passenger Information
- Bibliography