Although far less numerous than company histories, state studies are nonetheless important resources. Their scope is regionally diverse, but a majority center on the Midwest. Illinois is covered by Simon Cordery’s The Iron Road in the Prairie State: The Story of Illinois Railroading. Indiana’s railroad past is chronicled in Richard S. Simons and Francis H. Parker’s Railroads of Indiana. Iowa has Hofsommer’s Steel Trails of Hawkeyeland: Iowa’s Railroad Experience. Graydon M. Meints examines Michigan in Railroads for Michigan. Minnesota is the focus of Richard S. Prosser’s Rails to the North Star: A Minnesota Railroad Atlas. Missouri has a multiauthored work by Peter A. Hansen, Carlos A. Schwantes, and Donovan L. Hofsommer: Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851–1921. Three works study the South: Wayne Cline’s Alabama Railroads; Robert H. Hanson’s The Railroads of Georgia, 1833–2000; and Gregg M. Turner’s A Journey into Florida’s Railroad History. Western states have David F. Myrick’s two-volume Railroads of Arizona and Dale Martin’s study, Ties, Rails, and Telegraph Wires: Railroads and Communities in Montana and the West. Brian Solomon explores Pennsylvania’s railroads in Railroads of Pennsylvania.
