Description: St. Louis Gateway Rail, Missouri, Images of Rail, Paperback Though the city of St. Louis is located on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River, for the railroads, the St. Louis Gateway extends into Illinois, north and south along both sides of the river. Two factors conspired against St. Louis's aspiration to become the preeminent rail center of the 19th-century American Midwest: there was no bridge across the Mississippi, and Missouri's loyalty to the Union during the Civil War was suspect. Chicago beat out St. Louis to attain the region's top railroad billing. Fast forward to the 1970s, when the Gateway Arch, dedicated in 1968, redefined the St. Louis riverfront and when the St. Louis Union Station closed to rail service. The 1970s was a decade of railroad debuts--Burlington Northern, Illinois Central Gulf, Family Lines--and a decade of railroad demises--Rock Island and Frisco. It signaled the end of a century of rail domination of the American transportation scene.
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Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9780738540702
Book Title: ST. Louis Gateway Rail : the 1970s
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6.5in
Author: Lesley Barker
Format: Perfect
Language: English
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), Railroads / Pictorial, United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI), United States / General
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Genre: Photography, Transportation, History
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
