The Hocking Valley Railway

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Author:

Miller, Edward H.

Foreword by:

Dixon, Thomas W.

Introduction by:

Grant, H. Roger

ISBN:

978-0-8214-1658-7

Publication Date:

Dec 2006

Publisher:

Ohio University Press

Book Format:

Hardback

List Price:

USD $29.95

Book Description:

The Hocking Valley Railway, complete with 150 photographs and illustrations, documents a historic transformation in midwestern transportation from slow canalboats to fast passenger trains. Historians and railroad enthusiasts will find much to savor in the story of this ever-changing company and the managers who ran it.

Book Details

Pages:	312
Detailed Subjects:	Transportation / Railroads / History
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	7 x 10 x 1 Inches
Book Weight:	1.88 Pounds

Author Biography

Miller, Edward H. (Author)

Born in 1943 in Ottumwa, Iowa, H. Roger Grant is a professor of history at the University of Ohio at Akron. A contributor to numerous history journals, Grant is also a noted railway historian and editor of Railway History. His books on the subject include Erie Lackawanna: Death of an American Railroad, 1938-1992 (1994), and Living in the Depot: The Two-Story Railroad Station (1993). Grant has also published several collections of postcards with railways and Ohio history as their themes.

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