The Great Railroad Revolution (72 page)

New Deal,
308

New Haven Rail Road,
194
,
210
,
336
,
341

New Jersey Railroad Company,
17

New Orleans
,
7

New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate Road),
298

New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad,
167
,
286

New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railroad,
248

New York & Harlem Railroad,
23
,
52
,
58
,
240
,
241
,
274

New York & New Haven Railroad,
167

New York Central Railroad,
70–71
,
168
,
219
,
270
,
298
,
333

and Civil War,
121–122

construction,
47
,
66–67
,
67–68

electrification,
286–287

financial difficulties and merger,
286
,
308
,
335–337

and First World War,
292

and interurban railways,
283–284

prestige services,
264–267
,
308

and Vanderbilt takeover,
182
,
238
,
240–241
,
244
,
248

New York City

elevated railways,
244
,
273
,
278–279

Erie Railroad terminals,
58

Grand Central Station,
245
,
286–287
,
358

Grand Opera House,
244

health and public transport,
358

Penn Station,
260
,
285
,
358

railway electrification,
286–288

Staten Island ferry,
240

and Transcontinental railroad,
153

New York State,
30–31
,
54–55
,
59–60
,
68
,
192
,
286–287
,
330
,
345

New York Sun
,
157

New York Times
,
167–168

New York Tribune
,
83

Newcomen, Thomas,
5

News butchers,
74
,
207

Newton's Station, Mississippi,
111

Niagara Falls,
256
,
270

Nickel Plate Road.
See
New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad

Nitroglycerine,
142
,
167

Nixon, Richard,
341–342
,
348

Norfolk Southern Railroad,
349

Norfolk Western Railroad,
347

Norris, Frank,
253

North by Northwest
(film),
266

North Coast Limited
,
302

North Platte, Nebraska,
143

North River Steamboat
,
6–7

North Shore Railroad,
286

Northern Central Railroad,
98
,
249

Northern Pacific Railroad,
169
,
176–177
,
178
,
233
,
235
,
250
,
269
,
302

Northwestern Pacific Railroad,
175

Obama, Barack,
20
,
352
,
353

Office blocks,
xxvi
,
218

Ogden, William,
69
,
70

Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain Railroad,
248

Ogdensburg Republican
,
193

Ohio Central Traction Company,
283–284

Oil crises,
343–344
,
347

Old Ironsides
,
43

Olmsted, Frederick Law,
93–94

Olney, Richard,
236–237

Opening ceremonies,
57–58

Orange & Alexandria Railroad,
101–102
,
113

Oregon Central Railroad,
177

Oregon Trail,
129

Orient Express
,
313

Oriental Limited
,
301–302

Pacific City Lines,
330–331

Pacific Electric Network,
282

Pacific Railroad Acts,
128–129
,
136–137
,
148

Palmyra & Jacksonburgh Railroad,
49

Panic of 1837,
31
,
48
,
51–52

Panic of 1857,
68

Panic of 1873,
124
,
163
,
165
,
233
,
253

Panic of 1893,
178
,
235
,
246
,
249
,
255
,
259

Panic of 1903,
273

Papin, Denis,
5

Parmalee, Franklin,
72

Passenger services,
262–268
,
306
,
307
,
323

competition with freight,
350

decline of,
229–239
,
300
,
324
,
345

See also under
Railway travel

Passengers

behavior,
79

black,
45
,
73
,
208
,
212–213
,
302

Chinese,
208

rich,
36
,
84

Patrons of Husbandry,
253

Peale, Franklin,
42

Pearl Harbor,
306

Pearson & Hudson River Railroad,
52

Peninsula Campaign,
106
,
116

Penn Central Railroad,
329–330
,
337–338
,
341
,
347
,
348

Pennsylvania Limited
,
264–265
,
266–267
,
269

Pennsylvania Railroad,
xiv (map)
,
8–10
,
65–66
,
68–70
,
70–71
,
168
,
189
,
333

and aviation,
302–303

and Civil War,
90
,
97–98
,
105
,
117
,
121

commuter services,
277–278

electrification,
286
,
297
,
299
,
309

financial difficulties and merger,
286
,
308
,
335–338

and First World War,
290
,
292

Frankford Junction accident,
323–324

freight services,
213–214

and Hudson tunnels,
285–286
,
287

and interurban railways,
283–284

labor relations,
233–234
,
238
,
261

and Narragansett Pier Railroad,
210

prestige services,
264
,
265
,
266–267
,
301
,
302–303
,
315

and Ripley plan,
296–297

workforce,
229–230

Pen-y-Darren ironworks,
14

Pere Marquette Railway,
299

Perelman, Alfred,
337

Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railroad,
283

Peto, Samuel,
39

Philadelphia, Germantown & Norristown Railroad,
43
,
52

Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad,
97–98
,
189

Philadelphia & Reading Railroad,
235–236
,
248
,
299–300

Picnic Train disaster,
195–196

Pierce, Franklin,
193

Pinkerton's,
203–204
,
235

Pioneer, The
,
183–184

Pioneer Zephyr
,
311

Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad,
168

Platelayers' carts,
110

Plum Creek ambush,
149–150

Plumb, Glenn,
295

Plumbe, John,
125–128

Pony Express,
154

Poor, Henry,
89
,
191

Populist movement,
236
,
257
,
273

Porters,
186–187
,
229
,
265
,
301

Postal services,
161
,
302–303
,
332–333

Powder River Basin,
358

Powderly, Terence,
234

Powell, J. C.,
165

Power, Tyrone,
81

Prestige services.
See under
Railway Travel

Progressives,
273

Promontory Point,
xxiii
,
151
,
154
,
155
,
156

Prospect & Coney Island Railroad,
223

Prostitutes,
155
,
172

Public relations,
50
,
169–170

Public Works Administration,
308

Pullman, George,
xxiv
,
83
,
181–190
,
237

Pullman attendants,
186–187

Pullman cars,
181–190
,
206
,
263–264
,
267
,
271
,
312–313
.
See also
Carriages

Pullman News
,
185–186

Pullman strike,
186
,
235–238
,
262

Rail network, US (2010),
xvi–xvii (map)

Rail World,
354

Railroad Bureau,
100
,
103

Railroad Safety Appliance Act,
199–200

Railroad Temperance Society,
206

“Railroad wars,”
xxii
,
94
,
107
,
173–174

Railroads

1850,
xv (map)

1880,
x–xi (map)

1916,
xii–xiii (map)

Rails

iron-covered,
3
,
45–46

L-shaped,
3–4

steel,
196

toothed,
15

T-shaped,
45–46

Railway barons,
238–252
,
255–256
,
290
,
298
,
355

Railway charters,
11
,
12
,
17
,
19–20
,
23
,
26
,
29
,
48

Railway companies

and antitrust legislation,
274
,
290–291

consolidation,
68
,
123–124
,
165
,
167
,
200–201
,
238
,
248
,
256
,
259–262
,
293–299
,
347
,
358

labor relations,
231–238
(
see also
Labor unions
)

management structures,
229–232

monopoly powers,
30
,
65
,
205
,
216
,
238
,
255
,
259
,
271
,
273
,
294
,
316

public hostility,
119
,
204–206
,
216
,
238–239
,
243
,
245
,
250–257
,
271
,
290
,
295
,
355–356

and regulation,
256–257
,
272–274