John F. Stover has published many journal articles as well as nine books, including American Railroads, The Life and Decline of American Railroad, and History of the Illinois Central Railroad. He is a fellow in the society of American Historians and has been a member of the editorial advisory board of Railroad History since 1970. In 1983 the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society awarded him the Senior Achievement Award in Railroad History.
"With clarity of purpose and critical analysis, John Stover a history of the nation's first common carrier railway . . . . The story of technological change on the B&O is told with verve . . . from the 'Tom Thumb' to dieselization in the post-World War II years . . . . Scholars of the rail industry will be rewarded with new insights into expansion of the B&O in the Gilded Age, and its role in the 'merger mania' of the 1960's."
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