Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Preface
1. The Galena
2. The North Western Emerges
3. Years of Expansion, 1877-1892
4. The Omaha Road
5. The Hughitt Era
6. "The Best of Everything"
7. The Great War and the Roaring Twenties
8. The Great Depression and Bankruptcy
9. The Second World War and Postwar Railroading
10. The Heineman Era
11. Employee Ownership and After: The Provo and Wolfe Administrations
12. The Final Years
Notes
Additional Works on the North Western
Index

About the Author

H. Roger Grant, Professor of History at Clemson University, is author of 23 books, most of them on railroad history. His earlier company histories cover the Chicago & North Western, the Chicago Great Western, the Erie Lackawanna, and the Wabash railroads.

Reviews

"Richly detailed.... The writing is lively and the illustrations thoughtfully chosen."—Railroad History
"A lively commentary that should prove most fascinating.... A highly readable but serious history of the North Western."—Chicago Tribune
"A comprehensive and well-written study."—Trains