Author : Richard J. Orsi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520251644
The only major US railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific played a major role in the shaping of the West & the development of southern California in particular. 'Sunset Limited' explores the corporate strategy over time to reveal how the company saw its place in the world.
Author : Kerry Sullivan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780738582078
The Southern Pacific Railroad is California's railroad. As the Central Pacific, it bored and blasted its way east from Sacramento, across the towering High Sierra, meeting with the Union Pacific at Promontory, Utah, completing the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, and profoundly changing the growing United States. By the early 20th century, the Southern Pacific was a rail colossus, stretching from San Francisco Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. Yet the Southern Pacific remained essentially Californian. Its rail lines gave muscle to the lovely California coast, the fertile San Joaquin and Imperial Valleys, and the timber industry of the north coast. Yet for all its might and majesty, for many Californians the Southern Pacific was a smaller, more intimate part of the fabric of their daily lives.
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Page : 778 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : John R. Signor
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780986048791
Author : Southern Pacific Company
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Pacific railroads
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Author : David M. Bernstein
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2011-03-14
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1439639981
The Southern Pacific Railroad and its predecessors served Texas from 1853 to 1996. Stretching from El Paso to the Louisiana border and from the Rio Grande Valley to the Red River, Southern Pacific opened up vast areas of the state to settlement by transporting people, building materials, and livestock. The railroad fueled Texass economy by moving oil, timber, agricultural commodities, coal, automobiles, petrochemicals, cement, steel, consumer goods, and myriad other products. It hauled the marble that built the state capitol in Austin and the materials to build the massive seawall in Galveston. Southern Pacific also played an important role in developing the ports of Beaumont, Galveston, Houston, and Corpus Christi. This book is a photographic record of Southern Pacific in eastern Texas during the 50-year period following World War II to the 1996 merger with the Union Pacific Railroad.
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 10,81 MB
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ISBN : 9781610605076
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780760329313
More than just a railroad, the Southern Pacific was an empire, anchored in San Francisco but stretching from Portland, Oregon, to several ports on the Gulf of Mexico. From austere western roots, the "Espee" grew into a far-flung railroad of some 17,000 route miles. In fact, for many years, it was the nations only true transcontinental railroad. This illustrated history tells the tale of SP's development from 1861 through its 1996 acquisition by Union Pacific. Through some 150 archival photographs, route maps, period ads, and timetables, readers are treated to the history of steam and diesel power, as well as freight and passenger operations. In addition to images of the Southern Pacific's flashy red and orange Daylight streamliners, the book features photography from the railroads fabled Coast Line, Shasta Route, Golden State Route, and the granddaddy of 'em all, the Overland Route.
Author : Donovan L. Hofsommer
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781603441278
Don Hofsommer chronicles the twentieth-century history of a transportation giant. Here is a story of divestiture and merger, Sunset Route, and Prosperity Special. " . . . a treasure house of information about the Southern Pacific Company . . . . This book is a joy to read."--Richard C. Overton, from the Foreword
Author : Southern Pacific Railroad Company
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 1894
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