" After the Civil War, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads in developing rail systems and organizing transcontinental travel. Through two world wars, federal government control, internal crises, external dissension, the Depression, and the great Ohio River flood of 1937, the L&N Railroad remained one of the country's most efficient lines. It is a southern institution and a railroad buff's dream. When eminent railroad historian Maury Klein's definitive History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad was first published in 1972, it quickly became one of the most sought after books on railroad history. This new edition both restores a hard-to-find classic to print and provides a new introduction by Klein detailing the L&N's history in the thirty years since the book was first published.
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Maury Klein, professor of history at the University of Rhode Island, is the author of several books, including Unfinished Business: The Railroad in American Life and The Life and Legend of E.H. Harriman.
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From its beginning Louisville was a city destined to prosper or perish on its commerce. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
operating unions, basing point system, territorial strategy, new rolling stock, water competition, latter road, southern roads, emergency board, ooo shares, cent bonds, lower route, terminal cities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Orleans, East Tennessee, Bowling Green, Ohio River, United States, Cincinnati Southern, Milton Smith, Albert Fink, Cumberland Gap, Green Line, Short Line, South Louisville, Central of Georgia, Illinois Central, World War, Cumberland Valley, Tennessee River, Wall Street, Georgia Railroad, Green River, Section Four, Board of Trade, Kentucky Central, Red Mountain New!
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From its beginning Louisville was a city destined to prosper or perish on its commerce. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
operating unions, basing point system, territorial strategy, new rolling stock, water competition, latter road, southern roads, emergency board, ooo shares, cent bonds, lower route, terminal cities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Orleans, East Tennessee, Bowling Green, Ohio River, United States, Cincinnati Southern, Milton Smith, Albert Fink, Cumberland Gap, Green Line, Short Line, South Louisville, Central of Georgia, Illinois Central, World War, Cumberland Valley, Tennessee River, Wall Street, Georgia Railroad, Green River, Section Four, Board of Trade, Kentucky Central, Red Mountain New!
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- The Civil War in Kentucky by Kent Masterton Brown on page 170, and page 269
- Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929 (Pivotal Moments in American History) by Maury Klein in Front Matter
- Yellow Fever and the South by Margaret Humphreys in Back Matter
- The Life and Legend of Jay Gould by Maury Klein in Back Matter
- Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction by Scott Reynolds Nelson in Back Matter
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