Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A fine, engaging, and enlightening study of a corporate underdog's struggle to survive."
-Railroad History
"Grant tells a good story. His narrative is balanced between the factual, the anecdotal, and the broader issues."—Technology & Culture
"A thorough, well-written study of building and running a major midwestern 'little' railroad."
-Journal of American History
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Preface to the 1996 Edition
Preface to the 1984 Edition
Chapter One: A. B. Stickney Builds a Railroad: The Minnesota & Northwestern, 1883-1887
Chapter Two: The Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City, and the Formation of the Chicago Great Western, 1887- 1892
Chapter Three: Running the Maple Leaf Route, 1892-1904
Chapter Four: Years of Growth, 1895-1904
Chapter Five: Reorganization, Rehabilitation, and Recuperation: The Samuel M. Felton Years, 1908-1929
Chapter Six: Scandal, Depression, and War, 1929-1948
Chapter Seven: The Deramus Era, 1948-1957
Chapter Eight: The Final Decade, 1957-1968
Afterword
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
