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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 912
EAN: 9780801890024
ISBN: 0801890020
Label: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 360
Publication Date: December 04, 2008
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Sales Rank: 283142
Studio: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 recalls an era when steam locomotives were still king and passenger trains stopped at nearly every town in America. Railroad companies employed over a million workers, on the trains and along the tracks. Everything moved by rail: travelers, mail, and freight -- whether a massive electric generator or a child's bicycle.
Richard C. Carpenter's hand-drawn color maps recapture the precise details: the various trunk and ancillary railroad passenger lines that served thousands of towns; long-since demolished steam locomotive and manual signal tower installations; towns that functioned solely as places where crews changed over; track pans; coaling stations; tunnels; bridges and viaducts; and other rail-specific sites.
The third and largest volume in this acclaimed series includes 276 maps and drawings and focuses on Indiana, Lower Michigan, and Ohio. These states could be called the crossroads of the national railroad network, where east-west transcontinental lines crossed north-south inter-regional lines. Carpenter depicts the major rail centers of Indianapolis, Gary, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, and Chicago, as well as every town and rail junction from Mackinaw City, Michigan, to Tell City, Indiana.
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Rating: - Beautiful and mind boggling
This is an amazing piece of work. All of the railroads are shown as they existed in 1946, along with a vast array of other information including mileposts, stations, towers, yards, tunnels, track pans, etc. etc. The railroads are distinguished from each other by color, although some of the colors are used for more than one railroad. The amazing thing is that the whole thing is hand drawn, including all the lettering. Every railroad line location that I have any personal knowledge of is correct.
The main maps are based on the US Geological Survey 1:250000 maps, and cover about 25 miles east to west and 35 miles north to south. There are lots of detail maps at various scales. The main maps break the area covered into a regular grid, and there are no overlaps between maps.
Rating: - Very nice hand drawn color maps!
The hand drawn color maps are a refreshing change from today's computer generated maps. Lot's of good cross reference information like track pans, coaling stations, tunnels etc. It is a important reference book for me in my research. This is a very nice atlas -- Archival quality paper and binding.
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