Author : Stan Fischler
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780760326855
Granted an operating charter in 1834, the Long Island Railroad is the oldest railway in America operating under its original name. This illustrated history begins with its origins in the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad in 1832, and covers such topics as the original attempts to reach Boston via Long Island and ferry services to Connecticut.
Author : David D. Morrison
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738511801
Chartered in 1834 to provide a route between New York City and Boston, the Long Island Rail Road ran from the Brooklyn waterfront through the center of Long Island to Greenport. The railroad served the agricultural market on Long Island until branches and competing lines eventually developed on the north and south shores of the island and several hundred passenger stations were built. After Penn Station was opened in 1910, the number of passengers commuting between Manhattan and Long Island began to multiply. Today, one hundred twenty-five stations serve the Long Island Rail Road. Long Island Rail Road Stations contains vintage postcards of the old Penn Station, which was demolished in the mid-1960s; the Grand Stairway at the Forest Hills Station, where Theodore Roosevelt delivered his famous unification speech on July 4, 1917; and the Amagansett station building, where Nazi spies boarded a train bound for New York City on June 13, 1942. Many of the historic stations featured in this book have been preserved by local preservation groups, while others have been replaced with modern buildings to accommodate the passengers who commute on the nation's largest commuter railroad.
Author : Vincent F. Seyfried
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The Long Island Railroad is the third oldest in the USA and has been in operation since 1836. When it opened in 1867 the South Side Railroad was its first direct competitor. In his detailed book, Vincent F. Seyfried has given a comprehensive account of its development.
Author : Bill Cotter
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738536064
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was the largest international exhibition ever built in the United States. More than one hundred fifty pavilions and exhibits spread over six hundred forty-six acres helped the fair live up to its reputation as "the Billion-Dollar Fair." With the cold war in full swing, the fair offered visitors a refreshingly positive view of the future, mirroring the official theme: Peace through Understanding. Guests could travel back in time through a display of full-sized dinosaurs, or look into a future where underwater hotels and flying cars were commonplace. They could enjoy Walt Disney's popular shows, or study actual spacecraft flown in orbit. More than fifty-one million guests visited the fair before it closed forever in 1965. The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair captures the history of this event through vintage photographs, published here for the first time.
Author : Eric S. Conner and Steve Barrall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 35,90 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1467125075
When the Strasburg Rail Road was chartered in 1832, no one anticipated the myriad of obstacles the short line would encounter. What began as an afterthought in the early 19th century eventually became one of America's premier steam train excursions and the most visited heritage railroad in the continental United States. By 1957, the declining condition of its rails and the lack of freight and passenger service seemed to mark the end of the railroad, but it was given new life in 1958, and not even the wildest imagination foresaw the remarkable transformation and development this "Methuselah of railroads" would undergo. This book chronicles the unlikely success of America's oldest continuously operating railroad. Explore how and why Strasburg's four-and-a-half-mile line survived, and discover the story behind its ascension to prominence as an iconic, internationally known, small-town steam railroad.
Author : David D. Morrison
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,60 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738576411
Photographs and text trace the history of Jamaica Station in Queens, New York, the hub of the Long Island Rail Road--
Author : Michael E. Hibblen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1467125385
For nearly 80 years, the Rock Island was a major railroad in Arkansas providing passenger and freight services. A decline in rail travel after World War II and an increase in trucks hauling freight over government-subsidized interstates were among factors that left the railroad struggling. Efforts to merge with other railroads were stalled for years by federal regulators. The Rock Island filed for bankruptcy in 1975 and attempted a reorganization, but creditors wanted the assets liquidated, with a judge shutting it down in 1980. Most of the tracks that traversed the state were taken up, but a few relics, like the Little Rock passenger station and the Arkansas River bridge, remain as monuments to this once great railroad.
Author : Joe Czachowski
Publisher : Turner
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : 9781596524989
The largest island in the continental United States, Long Island comprises Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties. With a rich history that has included American Indian tribes such as the Massapequa, Shinnecock, and Quogue, among others; colonists from England and the Netherlands; and immigrants who arrived by way of Ellis Island; Long Island thrives today on its wealth of industry, agriculture, natural beauty, and the contributions of its nearly eight million residents. Those very attributes are showcased in this volume, Historic Photos of Long Island. From the lighthouse at Montauk, to the growth of the Long Island Rail Road, to the factories of Long Island City, the breadth, contrasts, and vitality of the Island through a century of its life shine forth in the black-and-white images collected here. Windmills and tide mills, potatoes and oysters, aviators and fishermen--all are a part of the Island's history, and all are represented vividly among the nearly 200 images seen in Historic Photos of Long Island.
Author : Stan Fischler
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781616731564
Author : Heather Hill Worthington
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Dogs
ISBN : 9780979291883
Tells the story of Roxey, a stray dog that became the mascot of the Long Island Rail Road between 1901 and 1915, even meeting President Theodore Roosevelt. Based on a true story; includes author's notes with facts about Roxey and the history of the Long Island Rail Road.
