Main entry:

Condit, Carl W.

Title & Author:

The railroad and the city : a technological and urbanistic history of Cincinnati / Carl W. Condit.

Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©1977.

Description:

xii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319) and index.
The pioneer roads and their stations: from the beginning to the time of the Civil War. The city and its natural setting ; The Little Miami Railroad ; Other Ohio lines ; Westward toward Chicago and the Mississippi ; Locomotives and trains in the early years -- Links with the south -- The terminal pattern of half a century. The panhandle and the Court Street stations ; Central Union Depot ; Rounding out the Cincinnati system ; Train operations and locomotives to World War I -- Grand schemes for the new century. Proposals for a Union Terminal ; Interurban and rapid transit plans ; Traffic and trains in the extravagant decade -- Cincinnati Union Terminal. Organization, planning, and design ; Construction and operation ; Reality and potentiality.

ISBN:

0814202659
9780814202654

Subject:

Railroads Ohio Cincinnati History.
Chemins de fer Ohio Cincinnati Histoire.
Railroads.
Cincinnati (Ohio) History.
Ohio Cincinnati.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 121729
Call No.: 10279 A1364; ID:85-B20644
Status: Available