Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2016-07-09
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1459733584
Explore western Canada’s rich railway history, travelling from the grand railway hotels and rustic stations to the creative engineering that created spiral bridges and soaring trestles. Relive this time through a trip on one of the many steam trains, visit a railway museum, or walk the trails where trains used to rumble.
Author : William J. Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Alexandria (Va.)
ISBN : 9780976374763
Featuring Over 225 Historical Markers and Interpretive Signs Including the Parker-Gray Historic Distric
Author : H. David Stone
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781570037160
Spanning more than one hundred miles across rice fields, salt marshes, and seven rivers and creeks, the Charleston & Savannah Railroad was designed to revolutionize the economy of South Carolina's lowcountry by linking key port cities. This history of the railroad records the story of the C&S and of the men who managed it during wartime.
Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 14,97 MB
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1459728785
Explore eastern Canada's railway heritage, including stations from the late 1850s, grand hotels, bridges, and roundhouses of this era.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Terrorism
ISBN :
Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1459702174
Follow the evolution of the rail legacy of the Canadian Prairies from the arrival of the first engine on a barge to today’s realities. Rails Across the Prairies traces the evolution of Canada’s rail network, including the appearance of the first steam engine on the back of a barge. The book looks at the arrival of European settlers before the railway and examines how they coped by using ferry services on the Assiniboine and North Saskatchewan Rivers. The work then follows the building of the railways, the rivalries of their owners, and the unusual irrigation works of Canadian Pacific Railway. The towns were nearly all the creation of the railways from their layout to their often unusual names. Eventually, the rail lines declined, though many are experiencing a limited revival. Learn what the heritage lover can still see of the Prairies’ railway legacy, including existing rail operations and the stories the railways brought with them. Many landmarks lie vacant, including ghost towns and elevators, while many others survive as museums or interpretative sites.
Author : Jim Cox
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0786461756
Covering legendary and obscure intercity passenger trains in a dozen Southeastern states, this book details the golden age of train travel. The story begins with the inception of steam locomotives in 1830 in Charleston, South Carolina, continuing through the mid-1930s changeover to diesel and the debut of Amtrak in 1971 to the present. Throughout, the book explores the technological achievements, the romance and the economic impact of traveling on the tracks. Other topics include contemporary museums and excursion trains; the development of commuter rails, monorails, light rails, and other intracity transit trains; the social impact of train travel; and historical rail terminals and facilities. The book is supplemented with more than 160 images and 10 appendices.
Author : Graeme Pole
Publisher : Mountain Vision Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0969724985
With 54 black and white photographs and maps, Rails Across the Rockies tells the stories of the surveying and construction of the Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk Pacific, and Canadian Northern railways in the glory days of Canadian railroading. The construction of the Canadian Pacific, the Grand Trunk Pacific, and the Canadian Northern railways rank among the greatest political and financial gambles in Canada’s history. Politicians, engineers, and surveyors bickered and scrapped for years over why, how, and where to locate the rails. Each of the enterprises helped to stitch the country together physically while threatening to tear it apart politically. Great Railways of the Canadian West tells the stories of the scheming and the daring, and the monumental physical toil of laying steel across the mountains in the golden age of railroading in Canada.
Author : United States. Supreme Court
Publisher :
Page : 1382 pages
File Size : 34,8 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN :
Author : Hongchang Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 2024
Category : High speed trains
ISBN : 9819716950
Zusammenfassung: This book summarizes the quantitative research methods related to the social benefits of high-speed rails. It also explores the political, economic, technological, social and environmental impacts of high-speed rails. As China's new national business card, high-speed railways not only reflect the advanced technology of Chinese railways but also reflect China's increasing comprehensive national power. The highlight of the book is to conduct multidimensional analysis of the social benefits of the high-speed rail with a focus of spatiotemporal economics analysis
