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| Maps
Ownership and abandonment date.( page 4); track-circuit block signals (page 61); principal towns served (page 201) |
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| Index to places reached
Cities, towns and other passenger traffic generators (page 203); siding locations (in employee timetables) : Muncie-Anderson-Indianapolis Division (page 60); Northern Division (page 116); Other rail routes (page 209) |
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| Acknowledgments | 7 |
| Prelude: an Eventful Trip
The situation of central Indiana utilities in 1929 |
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| Chapter 1: A Solid Foundation
Companies comprising Indiana Railroad System: Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company (page 19); Union Traction Company of Indiana (page 19); Northern Indiana Power Company (page 20); Indiana Service Corporation (page 20); Indianapolis, Columbus & Southern Traction Company (page 21); Indianapolis as an interurban center (page 21); The Shoepf-McGowan syndicate (page 22); Samuel Insull (page 24); Middle West Utilities Company (page 26); Competition by automobiles and motor buses (page 27) |
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| Chapter 2: Consolidating Indiana
Insull-Morgan plan: Indiana Electric Corporation (page 29); Midland United Company (page 29); Receivership of Union Traction (page 31); A different plan: a consolidated organization (page 31); Purchase of Union Traction by Midland United (page 34); Receivership of THI&E (page 34); Abandonment of portions of THI&E (page 35) |
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| Chapter 3: Out of Nowhere--Indiana Railroad
Creation of Indiana Railroad (page 37); Purchase of THI&E by Midland United (page 37); Indianapolis Street Railway (page 39); Track and Roadway (p 40); Electric power (page 41); Passenger and freight terminals (page 42); Freight car interchange with steam railroads (page 47); Operation of freight trains (page 48); Freight car interchange with other interurbans (page 49); Freight train schedules (page 50); Kentucky Avenue freight terminal, Indianapolis (page 53); Potential for coal movements across the System (page 54); Signal systems (page 56) |
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| Chapter 4: The Highspeeds
Rolling stock on the System in 1930 (page 67); Design of the new “highspeed” cars (page 68); Highspeeds' delivery (page 70); Highspeeds in operation (page 72); Safety of train operations (page 76); peak route mileage (page 77) |
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| Chapter 5: The Roller Coaster
Rolling stock on the System in 1931 (page 79); Abandonments in 1931-1932 (page 79); Reduction in frequency of passenger service (page 83); Fuestel's death (page 83); Fall of Insull empire (page 86) |
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| Chapter 6: Politics and Bowman Elder
Indianapolis Railways (page 91); Reduced bus operations (page 91); Lower fares (page 92); Bowman Elder, receiver of Indiana Railroad (page 93); Indiana Railroad System in 1933-1934 (page 95); Formal leases for the Indiana Railroad System (page 97); Coal train operations (page 99); Change of Louisville terminal (page 101) |
89 |
| Chapter 7: 1935-1936--The Good Years
Purchase of ten Northern Indiana Railway cars (page 104); Railway Post Office cars (page 105); Car fires (page 107); Conversion of older cars for one-man operation (page 108); Pick-up and delivery of freight (page 112); Expansion: Richmond-Dayton line (page 113) Was it the Inflexible Flyer? A difficult day on the Northern Division (page 115) |
103 |
| Chapter 8: 1937--Strike!
Terre Haute streetcar strike (page 120); Ohio River flood (page 120); End of Northern Division passenger service (page 120); Andersen strike (page 122); Abandonment of Dayton line (page 124); Settlement of strike (page 125); Winter's Punch, Fighting the cold and snow of winter (page 127) |
119 |
| Chapter 9: Rolling Downhill (1938-1940)
Railfan trips (page 131); Conversion of Peru rail line to buses (page 133); Charter passenger services (page 139); Abandonment of Louisville line (page 141); Conversion of Terre Haute rail line to buses (page 143); Expansion of intercity motor truck service (page 143) |
131 |
| Chapter 10. Death Comes for the Railroad
Approval of conversion of the remaining lines (page 147); Attempts to sell the highspeeds (page 147); Arrangements for rail service abandonment (page 149); Arrival of replacement buses (page 151); The last day of rail passenger service (page 151); Closing down the rail line (page 153); The remaining trains of Public Service Company (page 154) |
147 |
| Chapter 11. Aftermath
Emergence of Indiana Railroad from receivership (page 157); Sale of Indiana Railroad by Midland United (page 158); Public Service Company's lease problem (page 159); Columbus collision (page 160); End of rail passenger service (page 160) |
157 |
| Chapter 12 The Motor Bus Era
Indiana Railroad Bus operations (page 163); Expand or sell: the only options (page 165); Indianapolis & Southeastern Trailways (page 168); Southeastern Trailways, Inc. (page 168) |
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| Chapter 13 City Service
Kokomo (page 171); Logansport, Wabash and Peru (page 172); Jeffersonville and Columbus (page 173); New Albany (page 174); Muncie (page 177); Anderson (page 179); Marion (page 182); Richmond (page 188); Terre Haute (page 190) |
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| Chapter 14 Isolated Freight Operations
The Binley Mine (page 195); Southern Indiana Railway, Inc. (page 197); Western Indiana Gravel Company (page 199); An abbreviated equipment roster (page 200) |
195 |
| Appendix
A. Public Timetables (page 201) B. Employee Timetables (page 208) |
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| Bibliography | 223 |
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