Electric Indiana [electronic resource] : the rise and fall of the world's greatest interurban railway center, 1893-1941 / Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes

Author: Schwantes, Carlos A., 1945-
Published: Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, [2023]
Physical Description: xv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

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"In the early twentieth century, an epic battle was waged across America between the interurban railway and the automobile, two technologies that arose at roughly the same time in the late 1890s. Nowhere was this conflict more evident than in the Midwest, and specifically Indiana, where cities of industry such as Indianapolis, Gary, and Terre Haute were growing faster every day. By 1904, Indianapolis had opened the Traction Terminal, which was widely acclaimed to be the largest and most impressive interurban station in the world. Yet, today there is only a 90-mile remnant of this once great system still operating within Indiana. Featuring over 90 illustrations and featuring contemporary accounts and newspaper articles from the period, Electric Indiana is a biographical study of the rise and fall of a onetime important transportation technology that achieved its most impressive development within the Hoosier state"--

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