History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad

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University Press of Kentucky, 1972 - Transportation - 572 pages
 

Contents

A Town Grows Legs The Birth of the L N
1
The State Between the War The L N in Wartime 186165
27
The Sinews of Transportation Part I
45
The Contours of Postwar Strategy
59
Combinations and Complications 186573
79
Northern Invaders and Southern Invasions 187073
102
The Furies Uncaged Depression and Expansion 187279
123
Newcombs Octopus The Zenith of Territorial Expansion 187981
150
The Sinews of Transportation Part II
314
The Great Freight Hate Debate
345
Through a Glass Darkly The L N in Politics 18801920
368
Gotterdammerung The Close of an Era 190221
395
From Riches to Rags Prosperity and Depression 192140
419
Resurrection and Redirection War and Modernization 194159
452
Into the Maw of Progress
493
POSTSCRIPT
523

The Financiers Take Charge Interterritorial Expansion 188083
171
Scandal and Reorganization 1884
195
A Curmudgeon for All Seasons Milton H Smith and His Administration
223
In Pursuit of Profits Financial Policy 18851902
244
Tracks to the Door Developmental Extension 18851902
263
Childhoods End Interterritorial Expansion 18851902
288
APPENDICES
525
NOTES
541
BIBLIOGRAPHY
555
INDEX
559
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