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The first illustrated history of the people, machines, facilities, and operations that made Chicago the hub around which an entire continent's rail industry still revolves. In the mid-nineteenth century, Chicago's central location in the expanding nation helped establish it as the capital of the still-new North American railroad industry. As the United States expanded westward, new railroads and rail-related companies like Pullman established their headquarters in the Windy City, while eastern railroads found their natural western terminals there. Historically, railroads that tried to avoid Chicago failed. While the railroad industry has undergone dramatic changes over the course of its existence, little has changed regarding Chicago's status as the nation's railroad hub. In Chicago: America's Railroad Capital, longtime, prolific railroading author and photographer Brian Solomon - joined by a cast of respected rail journalists - examines this sprawling legacy of nearly 180 years, not only showing how the railroad has spurred the city's growth, but also highlighting the city's railroad workers throughout history, key players in the city and the industry, and Chicago's great interurban lines, fabulous passenger terminals, vast freight-processing facilities, and complex modern operations. Illustrated with historical and modern photography and specially commissioned maps, Chicago: America's Railroad Capital also helps readers understand how Chicago has operated - and continues to operate - as the center of a nationwide industry that is an essential cog in the country's commerce.
- Sales Rank: #173758 in Books
- Published on: 2014-10-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.38" h x .88" w x 8.75" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 192 pages
About the Author
Brian Solomon is one of today's most accomplished railway historians. He has authored more than thirty books about railroads and locomotive power, and his writing and photography have been featured in the world's top rail publications, including Trains, Railway Age, Passenger Train Journal, and RailNews. He divides his time between Massachusetts and Ireland.
Chris Guss has been writing about rail-related topics for over 20 years and photographing trains for almost 30 years. After graduating college, he worked in various operations and management positions for several railroads before becoming a freelance writer and photographer. Born in St. Louis, he has called Chicago home since 2000.
Michael W. Blaszak was born into a Pennsylvania Railroad family in Chicago, his grandmother having gone to work in the 12th Street Coach Yard during the Depression. After graduating from law school, he joined the Santa Fe Railway. Throughout his legal career, he has represented many Class 1, short-line, and passenger railroads, as well as writing numerous articles about the railroad industry and taking railroad photographs for nearly 50 years.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Why All Railroads Lead to Chicago
By Roy Blanchard
This book couldn’t have come at a better time. The nation’s railroads are facing some of the worst congestion ever, and the challenge of getting into and out of Chicago is a major contributing factor. What a change from what it was back in the day. The promotional material accompanying the title says, “ Historically, railroads that tried to avoid Chicago failed.” Yet now in the early 21st Century, the railroads that are there are looking for ways to exchange cars without going there. Chicago: America’s Railroad Capital tells how things came to this pass and what’s being done about it.
It’s a given in the railroad business that rail lines grew up to meet specific transportation needs, and they arranged their interactions to maximize their own returns on investment while minimizing nonproductive hours such as yard dwell time. The present volume is a no-nonsense chronological history of how today’s Chicago railroads network came about, lavishly illustrated and conveying a great sense of how and why the early rails managed to compete and collaborate all at once.
The book is arranged in four sections, each by a different author. Mike Blaszak, a prolific railroad writer in his own right, opens with an exhaustive and detailed history of how the railroads first came to Chicago, how they combined into our favorite fallen flag names, and ultimately evolved into the present-day properties. Included are two three-panel maps of freight routes and yards plus the passenger lines from Trains magazine, circa 2003.
Next Brian Solomon, a regular contributor to the Voyageur Press series of railroad books, does the same thing with the passenger routes, starting with a history and description of what Solomon calls the city’s “disparate stations.” How the Rock, Nickel Plate and New York Central worked LaSalle Street and the nearly next-door Grand Central Station, a Victorian edifice in the grand style, was shared by the B&O, Pere Marquette, Chicago Great Western and the Soo.
The IC had its own Central Station on the Lake Michigan waterfront, and between the two was Dearborn station, inhabited by the Santa Fe, Erie, Wabash, Monon and C&EI. Across the Chicago River, the Northwestern stood aloof, with a magnificent Beax Arts terminal, serving as the Chicago end for not only its own trains but also the long distance runs of the UP and SP. Finally, a few blocks south of that, stands Union station, built by the PRR and hosting trains of the Burlington, its NP and GN long distance partners, and the Milwaukee.
Now comes a delightful essay on railroad art, from the posters created to entice travelers to the railroads’ scenic lines back in the day, to how the city’s art and photography community recorded this great railroad legacy. We’re treated with quotes from Lucius Beebe, railroad publicity shots, samples of Jack Delano’s 4x5 Kodachromes for the Farm Security Administration, posters and commercial art, and even a vignette of an African-American family that worked in train service for three generations.
And finally, Part Four brings us to the present. Here we learn about the great variety of Amtrak long distance trains and commuter operations that still trace their heritage to predecessor roads like the IC, the Rock, the Milwaukee, the Northwestern, the South Shore, the Burlington and even the Wabash. Class I freight ops are well covered, here again acknowledging the fallen flag roads and how they morphed into the seven Class I roads operating in North America, all of which converge on Chicago. Rounding out the picture are the myriad short lines, regional rails, and switching roads, a few of which where there from the git-go (IHB, BRC, e.g.), but most of which are remnants of the earliest names to build into the Windy City.
What makes this book especially valuable to the present day student of the industry is the way the authors have shown why we have what we have today, why it works as it does, and and what’s being done to make Chicago, America’s Railroad Capital, work even better.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Needed an Editor
By Dick
This book is for train spotters, not a general audience. Even the historical chapter is nearly devoid of anything but modern photos of locomotives. There is no series of maps illustrating the sequence of railroad construction, only a couple of barely legible historical route maps. While the text exhibits a great deal of historical work, it is not united into a "story." One would have to copy out the information into a combined parallel chronology to understand what was going on. The chapter on terminals has NOT ONE picture of any facade of any of the many Chicago terminals -- only locomotives and cars on tracks in or near the train sheds. A badly-needed list of the abbreviations for railroad companies is missing, so if you can't memorize scores of abbreviations (e.g. C&NW, AT&SF, UP, ...) the text becomes very difficult to comprehend, Another missing part is a map of Chicago, only partly mitigated by the fold-out rail maps with correspondences to some of the many geographic references in the text. In short, this book badly needed an Editor -- not to correct the English, which is flawless, but to shape it into a book that lives up to the promise of its title.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Much better than expected.
By Hal Owen
This book is a splendid addition to a Chicago bound-train lover's library. The title says it all - good copy, great pictures and detailed maps should keep you in your favorite reading chair for many pleasurable hours. I'm surprised there wasn't more favorable buzz preceding C-ARC's release.
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