Milwaukee Road Narrow Gauge
Author : John Tigges
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Transportation
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Author : John Tigges
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
Author : John Tiggs
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
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ISBN : 9780911581232
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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Narrow gauge railroads
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Author : John Tigges
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738541181
When talk began circulating in 1848 about the importance of railroads, the people of Cascade grew anxious. Without direct access to navigable rivers other than the Mississippi over 36 miles away, their community could very well fade from existence. They needed a railroad as soon as possible. The idea raced forward, with the backing of the Chicago, Clinton, Dubuque and Minnesota Railroad Company, or "the River Road," which ran along the western bank of the Mississippi River and passed through Bellevue. Their hopes and dreams became reality in a three-foot-gauge line 31 years later, in 1879. In 1880, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway purchased the River Road, which included the narrow-gauge branch line to Cascade. Overjoyed at having a larger entity involved, anticipation for the widening of the rails to standard gauge grew quickly. This book relates the story from the beginning to its abandonment in 1936. Today Bellevue and Cascade survive as thriving small towns and are economically healthy. Despite the fact that 70 years have passed since the last spike was pulled, many people know of and recall Iowa's last narrow-gauge railroad.
Author : John Tigges
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780933449220
Author : Jim Scribbins
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1452914257
An eminent railway historian furnishes a detailed history of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific railroad, its groundbreaking service from Indiana to the Puget Sound, its pioneering use of electricity to move heavy trains over a long distance, and other technological advances. Reprint.
Author : August Derleth
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 1948
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Author : George E. Anderson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738550589
From the railroads' beginnings in the early 1870s to the complex rail network of the 1900s, the advance and decline of the copper industry in Michigan's Upper Peninsula was mirrored by the railroads that served it. With the abandonment in 1976 of the Houghton tracks of the Soo Line (formerly the Mineral Range, Duluth South Shore and Atlantic), Copper Country was once again without the railroad service that built it. This book seeks to tell this rich story of Copper Country railroads through a collection of pictures from various archival sources, including the authors' personal collections, the Houghton County Historical Society, Keweenaw County Historical Society, the Rudolf Maki collection, the Chuck Pomazal collection, the Michigan Technological University Van Pelt Library Archives, and the National Park Service archives.
Author : John C. Luecke
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 20,92 MB
Release : 2010
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Author : Tom Murray
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2005-10-29
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0760320721
The true grit and glory days of one of America's greatest railroads come to dramatic life in this full-scale illustrated history by industry veteran Tom Murray. Words and pictures carry readers across the vast tracts of land and time traversed by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific-better known to history as the Milwaukee Road. Ranging from the railroad's late-nineteenth-century beginnings to its purchase by onetime rival Soo Line in 1985, the book looks at The Milwaukee Road's famed streamlined Hiawatha passenger trains, the "Little Joe" electric locomotives, and the sprawling fabrication and repair facilities in its namesake city. Whether surveying the railroad's routes and the trains that plied them, and the people who worked behind the scenes, or focusing on the line's motive power, rolling stock, passenger and freight operations, The Milwaukee Road provides a broad-scale, brilliantly detailed portrait of a great railroad, an industry, and a bygone era.