Railroad Nation

Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes is St. Louis Mercantile Library Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. He is author or editor of twenty books, including Electric Indiana: The Rise and Fall of the World's Greatest Interurban Railway Center, 1893–1941, and (with Peter Hansen and Don Hofsommer) Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851–1921. He grew up in Greenfield and Indianapolis, Indiana, and now lives in Missouri. He has taught undergraduate and graduate history for exactly fifty years, sixteen of which have been at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Railroad Imprints
Section I: Railroad Time and Space
1. Timeline and Overview: The Two Lincolns and the American Railroad
2. Coming to Terms with the Wonder of the Age
3. Spatial Reorientation; or, Passages to Elsewhere
4. God's Time versus Railroad Time
5. The Battle of the Gauges
Section II: Railroad Commercial Art
6. The Compass of Opportunity
7. Railroad Imperialism and Nation Building
8. Magician's Wand; or, Landscapes Repackaged for Homeseekers
9. Inventing New Vacation Destinations
10. Matchless Pleasurelands and Seasonal Variations
11. Print Works
12. Timetable Tyranny; or, The Clockwork Railroad
13. Railroad Cartography as the Lie of the Land
14. Meet Me in Saint Louis and Elsewhere: Railroad World Fairs
15. Looking and Seeing: From Car Windows into the Great Outdoors
16. In Cathedrals of Commerce; or, Celebrating the Railroad Landscape
17. Design Matters: From Jim Crow to Phoebe Snow
18. The Quest for Speed
19. Railroad Graphics Conscripted for the Duration
20. America's Second Transportation Revolution
Conclusion: Putting Things in Perspective
Notes
Index