Author : Art Peterson
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 2021-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781627008617
Art Peterson is back with more color images from his Krambles-Peterson Archive. This book focuses on freight railroading and features scenes of switching and trains in industrial areas in the Transition and Classic eras. Large photos and in depth captions go beyond just telling what's in the photo - they put the images in context with the greater railroad scene as well as what was going on in the larger society.
Author : Art Peterson
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 34,8 MB
Release : 2021-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781627008631
Art Peterson is back with more color images from his Krambles-Peterson Archive. This book focuses on freight railroading and features scenes of switching and trains in industrial areas in the Transition and Classic eras. Large photos and in depth captions go beyond just telling what's in the photo - they put the images in context with the greater railroad scene as well as what was going on in the larger society.
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 13,59 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Law firms
ISBN : 9781610600149
Author : Don Ball
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,38 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
Don Ball has been fascinated by railraods all his life. In this book he describes his "journey," in both words and a distillation of the thousands of superb photographs he has made, supplemented by those of many equally devoted rail photographers. In this volume, which complements his earlier Portrait of the Rails, Don Ball plunges into "real railroad country," far from the beaten path. He highlights his own railroad adventure, really the story of his life, beginning with a nostalgic recollection of his small-town Kansas boyhood. Through the years that followed, he combed nearly every state -- to photograph the last mainline steam locomotive or to get an elusive shot of some short-line railroad. Along the way, the author's informed view of the present and future of railroads emerges. A lifelong observer of the railroad scene, he offers practical suggestions and a bold vision of what may lie ahead. In this re-creation of both the romantic moods and workaday world of America's railroads, Don Ball's eye for drama and profound knowledge of railroading make each picture tell a story.
Author : John R. Stilgoe
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 1983
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780300236330
An engaging and delightfully illustrated account of the impact of railroads on the American built environment and on American culture from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the 1930s. "One of the most important [books] of the season, a wonderful piece of social history."--Ivan R. Dee, Chicago Tribune "Stilgoe ransacks magazines, ads, novels, poems, to create what is really 10 books crammed into one, dense with vivid fact and alluring conjecture. The chapter on trolleys alone is worth the price of the book. So is the one entitled 'Cinema.' A classic-to-be."--Robert Campbell, Boston Sunday Globe "An impressive new study.... Here in wonderful detail are the trains and the built environment adjacent to the right-of-way they traveled.... A stunning spatial analysis of the transformations wrought by the railroads."--Delores Greenberg, The New York Times Book Review "A honey of a book: scholarly, joyous, absorbing in its detail, often arresting in its insights... and packed with vintage photos and drawings."--Kirkus Reviews "An original, engaging, instructive, and wonderfully evocative book."--Leo Marx, The New York Review of Books "Whether we are enthusiasts, scholars, buffs, commuters, or Amtrak riders, Stilgoe offers us a new way to look at railroads and railroading."--Keith L. Bryant, Jr., Railroad History.
Author : Edwin P. Alexander
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1465436588
This glorious visual celebration of train travel keeps you on the right track with stop-offs at the most important and incredible rail routes from all over the world. Your first stop in The Train Book is the groundbreaking steam locomotives of the 19th century and your final destination is the high-speed bullet trains of today. From the Union-Pacific Railroad to the Trans-Siberian Railway, you'll cross the continents to experience epic journeys and staggering scenery. You'll pick a seat on the most iconic locomotives, including the Orient Express, the Blue Train, and the Eurostar. You can also inspect the engines of famous British trains, such as Rocket, Mallard, and Javelin, and international trains, such as India's Palace on Wheels and America's Thatcher Perkins. You'll meet the true pioneers of train and track, including "Father of the Railways" George Stephenson, engineering legend Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and Métro maestro Fulgence Bienvenüe. For train-spotters and transport enthusiasts everywhere, this is your trip of a lifetime.
Author : Frank H. Spearman
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Held for Orders: Being Stories of Railroad Life" by Frank H. Spearman. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Axel Lorenzsonn
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 087020470X
Based on the author’s extensive research into the early history of Wisconsin’s rails, Steam and Cinders chronicles the boom and bust of the first railroads in the state, from the charters of the 1830s to the farm mortgages of the 1850s and consolidation of the railroads on the eve of the Civil War. Featuring more than 75 period photographs, historic maps, and drawings, Steam and Cinders preserves the legacy of early Wisconsin railroading for railroad buffs and armchair historians alike.
Author : Jon A. Schlenker
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781943022847
Three modes of transportation have had a great influence on modernizing the world. They are ships, planes, and trains. All have helped shift populations, bind nations together, and shrink planet earth. In this book, our four goals, other than finding good stories, have been to produce a balanced anthology, to minimize material from the cited train anthologies above, to give you some sense of what early railroads, and working in them, was like, and to illustrate some of the ways in which they transformed an agricultural county and world into a modern one. --publisher
