Book Description
Looks at the history of transportation in the United States, discussing the need for railroads and steamships and how they impacted the nation.
Author : Suzanne Murdico
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823942787
Looks at the history of transportation in the United States, discussing the need for railroads and steamships and how they impacted the nation.
Author : Ted Wurm
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Page : 148 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Art
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Author : Bob Bass
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
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"When Robert Fulton installed a steam engine in the side wheel boat North River Steamboat in 1807, the world changed forever. With this innovation, riversthe natural transportation arteries of the South - were opened as routes to transport travelers and goods to previously inaccessible areas. Today, the steamboat triggers romantic images of adventures on the Mississippi taken from Mark Twain. But the opening of the major rivers in Florida to steamboat navigation was vital to the state's development." "This history brings together the author's unique experiences traveling Florida's steamboat routes with the historical record of the innovations and explorations that led to the steamboat's reign as the preferred mode of transport before the dawn of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
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Page : 1268 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1421429748
Complicating the existing scholarship by demonstrating that the railroad and telegraph in the United States were uneasy partners at best—and more often outright antagonists—throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Train and the Telegraph will appeal to scholars of communication, transportation, and American business history and political economy, as well as to enthusiasts of the nineteenth-century American railroad industry.
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Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Railroads
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Page : 954 pages
File Size : 20,13 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Railroads
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Author : Lorett Treese
Publisher : History Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2021-03-15
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ISBN : 9781540246585
The history of the Delmarva Peninsula is inextricably entwined with the story of its railroads. The earliest railroads were short, locally funded lines. The dream to connect Norfolk directly to Eastern Seaboard cities farther north was first realized by the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad in the 1880s. The line ran north-south along the peninsula to Cape Charles City, Virginia, where freight cars were loaded onto barges for the trip across the Chesapeake Bay. This line was eventually absorbed by the giant Pennsylvania Railroad, and the ferry service was eclipsed when the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel was completed in 1964. For more than a century, though, railroads played a critical role in the development of the Eastern Shore. Regional historian Lorett Treese tells this story.
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Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Railroad law
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Author : Robert H. Farson
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780961674014
This is a loving look at a special place and its railroads that carried people from small town to town, and sometimes to Boston. And from there on the Dude Train. The islands has railroads and they are here with the island steamers, the ferries. People came to New England on the famous night boats of the Fall River Line and on direct trains from New York. The Cape Codders and the Neptune. Hundreds of anectodes help the story. This heavily illustrated volume includes trains, locomotives, stations, bridges, wrecks, snow and storm damage, maps, railroad workers, broadsides and steamboats. A major book on trains that was thirteen years of research and writing,. Three paintings reproduced in color by Ted Rose America's finest railroad artist. Cape Cod Historical Publications Address: Winter: November-May, 3200 Binnacle Drive, C-1, Naples, Fl. 34103. Phone: 239-403-8224. Summer: May-November: P.O. Box 281, Yarmouth Port, MA 02675. Phone: 508-362-4761. Pay by check or money order. No credit cards accepted. Please add $4.75 for shipping/handling.