Emily Brodman, a research assistant at Stanford, has created a data base of the directors of the Northern Pacific, Missouri Pacific, Mexican Central, Union Pacific, Chicago & Northwestern, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Chicago Burlington and Northern, Chicago Burlington and Quincy, the Burlington and Missouri (NE) and the Burlington and Missouri (IA), the Atlantic and Pacific. She traced the networks using a Pajak program to reveal the relationships of directors with multiple roads. It is available on the Spatial History Project website at Stanford.
"Patterns of Change in Railroad Company Board Members," 1872-1894, Spatial History Project, Stanford Univ.
Pletcher, Rails, Mines, and Progress, 37-49.
Athearn, Rebel of the Rockies, 5-37.
quote, Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr., Slow Train to Paradise: How Dutch Investment Helped Build American Railroads (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1996), 65.
Hart, Empire and Revolution,31-34.
Hart, Empire and Revolution, 49-51.
A. A. den Otter, The Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental Railway Idea in British North America (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1997), 158.