Rockford & Interurban Railway (Images of Rail)
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (922 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1467112399 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Riding the rails Excellent pictures of a time long past. Some picture details allow you to compare that same scene with how it looks today. Only negative is that there is only one map of the system which is very general in nature. A more detail map(s) would have been useful in locating remnants of the system to. Rick Nielsen said Five Stars. Great cool book. Love it
The Rockford & Interurban enjoyed a supernova of success, rising quickly in popularity before slowly dying when the automobile became widespread in the 1920s; the Great Depression finished the job in 1936.. Almost always electric, interurbans linked cities with burghs. Rockford, one of Illinois’s three largest urban centers during the 20th century, enjoyed a system appropriately named the Rockford & Interurban, dating from the city’s horse-drawn streetcars of the 1880s. Conventional passenger-train service spread rapidly by the 1850s, but another form of rail transportation did not emerge until the turn of the 20th century: the interurban. With today’s America dominated by the automobile, it is difficult to believe that until the 1920s nearly 100 percent of the US population traveled via rail. By World War I, the Rockford & Interurban ran from downtown Rockford to Cherry Valley and Belvidere; Winnebago, Pecatonica, and Freeport; Roscoe and Rockton; and Beloit and Janesville, Wisconsin
Machesney Park resident Brian Landis is an aficionado of northern Illinois/southern Wisconsin railroading. Both have been in search of early photographs of the R&I and, with the archives of the Chicago-based Shore Line Interurban Historical Society and local sources, present their story here. . About the Author Rockford native Mike Schafer is a transportation historian and photographer who has observed and documented the North American railroad scene
Machesney Park resident Brian Landis is an aficionado of northern Illinois/southern Wisconsin railroading. Both have been in search of early photographs of the R&I and, with the archives of the Chicago-based Shore Line Interurban Historical Society and local sources, present their story here. . Rockford native Mike Schafer is a transportation historian and photographer who has observed and documented the North Ameri