{"product_id":"michigan-railroads-railroad-companies-trains-and-railroads-9780870133183","title":"Michigan Railroads \u0026 Railroad Companies (Trains and Railroads)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichigan Railroads \u0026amp; Railroad Companies (Trains and Railroads)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Meints, Graydon M.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780870133183.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichigan Railroads and Railroad Companies is an invaluable reference manual for everyone interested in regional transportation history, the history of railroading, and Michigan history in general. It contains complete, cross-referenced listings for every company formed to operate a railroad in the state of Michigan. In addition to the comprehensive entries for major lines, Graydon Meints has included details about the many small, common-carrier steam and electric companies, logging roads, and numerous other primitive and contemporary rail systems. This encyclopedic reference guide also contains information on the so-called \"paper railroads,\" companies that were projected but which never laid a foot of track.\nMichigan Railroads is divided into three parts. One includes alphabetical entries for the actual and intended railroad companies themselves, the date and purpose for their organization, and a brief history from their origins to their dispositions. Included in this portion of the work are a number of railroad \"family trees\" showing the corporate antecedents of the largest of the rail lines operating in the state today. Another contains a chronology of significant corporate events; it works as a useful finding aid for accessing source data contained in the first section. A third contains a statewide county-by-county listing of railroads, both paper and real.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Michigan State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946202787893,"sku":"ByrdShop_0870133187","price":77.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780870133183_1c63b34e-216d-40e6-974e-d79537521e24.jpg?v=1778870850","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/michigan-railroads-railroad-companies-trains-and-railroads-9780870133183","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}