Electric Indiana the rise and fall of the world's greatest interurban railway center, 1893-1941
Interurban versus automobile -- Memories and the personal discovery of Indiana's interurban era -- The promise of electricity, the peril of gasoline -- Investor's dilemma: interurban or automobile? -- Hoosier hysteria; or, the interurban boom years -- Gas belt prosperity and Indiana's...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Bloomington, Indiana
Indiana University Press
2023
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| Schriftenreihe: | Railroads past and present
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Interurban versus automobile -- Memories and the personal discovery of Indiana's interurban era -- The promise of electricity, the peril of gasoline -- Investor's dilemma: interurban or automobile? -- Hoosier hysteria; or, the interurban boom years -- Gas belt prosperity and Indiana's interurban pioneers -- Hugh McGowan, interurban empire builder -- The expansive dozen years -- Growing traffic, going the distance -- Travel by interurban -- A time for sober reflection -- Jitney, the emergence of a disruptive technology -- Losing traction, rising highway competition -- Deadly delusion: the comeback that never was -- Remnants -- Why really coined the word "interurban"? "In the early twentieth century, an epic battle was waged across America between the interurban railway and the automobile, two technologies that arose at roughly the same time in the late 1890s. Nowhere was this conflict more evident than in the Midwest, and specifically Indiana, where cities of industry such as Indianapolis, Gary, and Terre Haute were growing faster every day. By 1904, Indianapolis had opened the Traction Terminal, which was widely acclaimed to be the largest and most impressive interurban station in the world. Yet, today there is only a 90-mile remnant of this once great system still operating within Indiana. Featuring over 90 illustrations and featuring contemporary accounts and newspaper articles from the period, Electric Indiana is a biographical study of the rise and fall of a onetime important transportation technology that achieved its most impressive development within the Hoosier state"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben, Index |
| Beschreibung: | xv, 320 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780253067128 978-0-253-06712-8 |