Timothy Starr hardcover
The relatively small geographic area spanning from the southeast border of Ohio west to Kansas City and north to Canada was home to more locomotive terminals, yards and back shops than any other section of the United States. The Midwest region was dominated by the city of Chicago, home to dozens of railroads and major shop sites beginning in the 1850s and continuing to present. Rail lines connected the city directly to the country's most important raw materials as well as to the major seaports. Other Midwestern cities like Omaha, Indianapolis, St Louis, Detroit, Kansas City and Minneapolis/St Paul were also among the most important freight interchange points and back shops in the nation.
Among the shops included in this book are the
Burnside Shops of the Illinois Central, the 40th Street (Chicago) Shops
of the Chicago and North Western, the Burlington Shops of the CB&Q, the Silvis (Moline) Shops of the Rock Island, the Big Four's Beech Grove Shops, the Lake Shore's Collinwood (Cleveland) Shops, Oelwein Shops of the Chicago Great Western, the Joilet Shops of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern (beltway) and facilities of the Soo, Monon, Nickel Plate, Frisco, Pere Marquette, Grand Trunk, Wabash, and Milwaukee Road.