Rockford Area Railroads
Railroads were key to Rockford,s rise as a thriving manufacturing and commercial center. With an area population of over 200,000 residents and a reputation for manufactured goods, Rockford had a critical need for railroads into the bust years of the 1970s. Eventually four railroads rose to prominence in Rockford, all of them Class 1 carriers: the Chicago and North Western; Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy; the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Pau,l and Pacific (the Milwaukee Road); and Illinois Central. For nearly a century, these four roads,all of them esteemed Midwestern railroads,carried the bulk of freight and passengers arriving and departing Rock…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4396-4100-2
- EAN: 9781439641002
- Produktnummer: 28056163
- Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 44'621 KB
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