Weber, Northern Railroads, 130.
Maury Klein, History of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (New York: Macmillan, 1972), 41-43.
Vance contends regional rather than national integration was determined in part by geographical route ways, in North American Railroad, 111-15.
George Rogers Taylor and Irene Neu, The American Railroad Network, 1861-1890 (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1956), 53-57, 49-83.
Henry V. Poor, Manual of the Railroads of the United States for 1872-73 (New-York: H.V. & H.W. Poor, 1872), xxxii-xxxiii, hereafter Poor, Manual of Railroads.
Add local planning and regulation book. Such schemes had a considerable ante-bellum history, and both the American Congress and the Canadian Parliament had learned that although running a railroad through the public domain changed the value of land, rising prices would not necessarily accrue to the government, and so they sought to capture part of the increased value by retaining part of the land near the tracks.
James Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), 50-52.