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A History Of The Joplin & Pittsburg Electric Railway Company, 1890-1929, Robert Eastman Hickman
A History Of The Joplin & Pittsburg Electric Railway Company, 1890-1929, Robert Eastman Hickman
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This study was made to preserve the story of the Joplin & Pittsburg Railway Company, a transportation pioneer in the Pittsburg, Kansas, district. The study begins with the founding of Pittsburg, cursorily discusses the coming of steam trunk lines, and treats of the electric lines which were merged in 1910 to form the Joplin & Pittsburg Railway Company. From this juncture the study deals with the progress of the line until its end in 1929. Chronological order has been followed in the study in an effort to accentuate the cause and effect aspects of the company's life. Labor troubles, extensions, …