The Tootin' Louie [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway / / Don L. Hofsommer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784105903321
• Autore: Hofsommer Donovan L
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2005
• ISBN: 0-8166-9603-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Disciplina: 385/.0977
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-359) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Expectancy -- Lethargy, euphoria, and panic -- Albert Lea at last -- Optimism and realism -- The great Rock Island route -- Independent again -- The Little Harriman -- The newest and the best -- It will be a hummer -- Everything from caskets to corsets -- Struggling among the titans -- Sweet and sour -- Hard times in good times -- Soldiering on -- Mean and ugly -- Frey and dismemberment -- Reason for hope? -- Free at last -- Don't you know there's a war on? -- Sprague and prosperity -- Sprague at the throttle -- The ides of May -- Halting steps -- Days of red and white -- Valhalla -- Under a green and yellow flag.
• Sommario/riassunto: In The Tootin' Louie, railroad historian Don L. Hofsommer offers a comprehensive biography of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway and its Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and Illinois service areas. Incorporating primary research documents, including station records and dispatchers' reports, Hofsommer brings the M&StL to life by portraying the lives and times of the people involved in the railroad.