The Great Railroad Revolution (71 page)

Harriman, Edward,
248–250

Harrison, Benjamin,
200

Hartford & New Haven Railroad,
167

Harvey, Fred,
209

Haupt, Herman,
66
,
105–109
,
112
,
114
,
117
,
166
,
290

Havana Special,
226

Hayes, Rutherford,
234

Hayne, Robert,
91

Hearst, William Randolph,
237

Hell on Wheels towns,
143
,
148
,
179

Hemingway, Ernest,
226

High-speed rail,
351–352
,
359

Hill, James J.,
177
,
235
,
246
,
272
,
300

Hoboes,
205–206
,
317–318

Holbrook, Stewart H.,
20
,
22
,
34
,
56
,
57
,
66–67
,
82
,
111
,
199
,
205
,
219
,
220

Holliday, Doc,
173

Homestead Act,
130

Hood, John,
114

Hoosac Tunnel,
165–167
,
287

Hopkins, Mark,
131

Horse Soldiers, The
(film),
111

Horseshoe Curve,
66
,
105

Hospital trains and ambulance,
115

Housatonic Railroad,
83

Hoxie, Herbert,
137

Hudson River Railroad,
85
,
240

Hudson tunnels,
287

Humming Bird,
335

Huntington, Collis P.,
131
,
151
,
250

Huntington, Henry E.,
282

Hurricane Agnes,
333–334
,
338

ICC.
See
Interstate Commerce Commission

Illinois & Michigan Canal,
69

Illinois Central Railroad,
39
,
85
,
87
,
117
,
168
,
249
,
250
,
299
,
353

Immigrants,
169–173
,
206–208
.
See also under
Labor

Indian railways,
74

Indian wars,
147–150

Indiana Central Railroad,
113

Indianapolis, Crawfordsville & Western Railroad,
282

International News Reel Company,
315

Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC),
xxvi
,
199
,
212
,
248
,
257
,
259
,
262
,
271–272
,
348
,
356

and “Big John” case,
346–347

and First World War,
288
,
289
,
290
,
292

and interwar period,
295–297
,
299
,
305–306
,
317

and railway closures,
334–335
,
339
,
342

Interurban railways,
280–284
,
330

Irish laborers,
55–56
,
139
,
141
,
151–152
,
160
.
See also
Immigrants

Iron imports,
33

Jackson, Nelson,
303

Jackson, Thomas “Stonewall,”
101
,
104

Jacksonville, St. Augustine & Halifax Railroad,
225

James-Younger gang,
202
,
203–204

Janney, Eli,
197
,
198
,
200

Japan,
315
,
357

Jefferson, Thomas,
62

Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Railroad,
113
,
203

Jensen, Oliver,
224

Jessop, William,
4

John Bull
,
41
,
43

Johnson, Andrew,
141
,
151

Johnson, Lyndon B.,
326
,
336
,
341

Johnston, Joseph,
101

Judah, Theodore,
xxiii
,
128
,
130–132
,
134–135
,
137

Julesburg, Colorado,
143

Kansas City Times
,
204

Kansas Pacific Railroad,
148–149

Keaton, Buster,
110–111

Kelley, Oliver,
253
,
254

Kemble, Fanny,
74

Kentwood & Eastern Railroad,
317

King, William,
85

Klondike gold rush,
307

Knights of Labor,
234

Kornweibel, Theodore, Jr.,
39–40
,
123
,
164
,
186

Labor,
38–40
,
159–160

convict labor,
38
,
39
,
164–165
,
225

immigrant labor,
38
,
39
,
40
,
160
(
see also
Immigrants
;
Irish laborers
)

slave labor,
22
,
25
,
38
,
39–40
,
47
,
91
,
94–96
,
102
,
123
,
163–164

and Transcontinental railroad,
139–149
,
143–144
,
146
,
150–152

Labor unions,
xxv
,
231–238
,
251
,
262
,
288
,
322
,
325–326
,
329
,
336

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad,
168
,
194

Lamps, kerosene,
81

Lancaster Turnpike,
11

Land grants,
xxii
,
xxiii
,
xxiv
,
33
,
35
,
85
,
96
,
129
,
135
,
144
,
148
,
175
,
177

Laramie, Wyoming,
143

Lee, Robert E.,
95
,
108
,
116

Lehigh Valley Railroad,
256
,
334
,
338
,
348

Level crossings,
42
,
47–48
,
192
,
311

Lewis, Isaac,
64

Lewis, Roger,
342

Lincoln, Abraham

and Civil War,
96–100
,
105
,
106
,
113
,
122

funeral cortège,
183–184

and Rock Island incident,
86–87

and Transcontinental railroad,
xxiii
,
128
,
130
,
135
,
138
,
201

Lindbergh, Charles,
315

Little Schuylkill Navigation, Railroad, and Coal Company,
23

Liverpool & Manchester Railway,
16
,
18
,
59
,
74

Loading gauges,
44
,
183
.
See also
Track gauge

Locomotion
,
16

Locomotive technology,
13–17
,
20–21
,
40–46
,
196–198
,
297–298
,
327
.
See also
Diesel locomotives
;
Electrification

Loder, Benjamin,
55
,
57

London Underground,
278
,
285

Long Island Rail Road,
35
,
277–278
,
285
,
287
,
329–330
,
345
,
358

Longstreet, James,
113

Lookout points,
78

Los Angeles,
175
,
176
,
281–282
,
330–331
,
352
,
354

Louis XIV, King,
4

Louisville & Nashville Railroad,
87
,
93
,
111–112
,
114
,
162
,
204
,
335

Lucin Cutoff,
288

Luxury and prestige services.
See under
Railway Travel

Lykens Valley Colliery,
286

Madison Southern Railway,
317

Mail-order brides,
172

Mail-order goods,
xxv
,
218

Maine Central Railroad,
334

Manassas Gap Railroad,
101–102

Manhattan Railway,
278

Mansfield, Josie,
244

Mark Twain Zephyr
,
312

Martin, Albro,
12
,
56
,
259
,
290
,
335

Martineau, Harriet,
75

Martinsburg Raid,
104

Masterson, William Barclay “Bat,”
173

Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania,
17

McAdoo, William,
291

McCallum, Daniel,
105
,
106–107
,
117–118
,
230–231

McClellan, George,
106

McClellan, Jim,
343

McDowell, Irvin,
101

Mees, Paul,
331

Mencken, H. L.,
323

Mennonites,
171–172

Metroliner
trains,
341

Mexican-American War,
89–90

Michigan Central Railroad,
70
,
82
,
122
,
194
,
245

Military Railway Service,
322

Militias,
173
,
233–234

Miller, Alexander,
283

Miller, Ezra,
197
,
222

“Millionaire's Express,”
277

Milwaukee Road.
See
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad

Mine Hill & Schuylkill Haven Railroad,
49

Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad,
189
,
334

Minor, D. Kimball,
154

Minot, Charles,
63–64
,
65

Mississippi & Missouri Railroad,
134–135

Missouri Pacific Railroad,
234
,
308

Mitchel, Ormsby,
109

Mobile & Ohio Railroad,
85
,
87
,
162

Mohawk & Hudson Railroad,
23
,
44
,
60
,
67

Monster
,
44

Mont Cenis Tunnel,
166

Morgan, David P.,
330
,
334

Morgan, John,
111–112

Morgan, John Pierpont,
188
,
224
,
246–248
,
259
,
260

Mormons,
146–147
,
151

Morse code,
65

Mountfield, David,
246

Mussel Slough tragedy,
253

Narragansett Pier Railroad,
210

Narrow-gauge railways,
174

Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad,
113–114

National City Lines,
330–331

National Road,
12

Native Americans,
171
,
217
,
270

attacks from,
147–150
,
154
,
202

and land issues,
37
,
54
,
127
,
128–129
,
179–180