SP Trainline
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Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,31 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Railroads
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Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,31 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Railroads
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Author : Joyce M. Cox
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1467126489
In the late 1800s, the area now known as Sparks consisted of ranches and farms. It was not until the early 1900s that Sparks would become the sixth-largest city in Nevada, almost overnight. E.H. Harriman moved the Salt Lake Division of the Southern Pacific Railroad from Wadsworth to swampland four miles east of Reno, and that area would become Sparks. The railroad was the largest and most reliable employer for 54 years, before leaving in 1957. Some railroad employees were transferred and reassigned to jobs outside of Sparks, but many chose to stay. Employment was found in Nevada's thriving hospitality industry, including John Ascuaga's Nugget Casino. Sparks became a major distribution center for national companies like S.S. Kresge and Pacific Freeport, and many manufacturing companies opened after Nevada passed the right-to-work law in 1951. Sparks is now the fifth-largest city in Nevada.
Author : J.P. Bray
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Page : 47 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Railroads
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Author : Michael L. Greer
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 172831500X
Use this vivid, well-documented book as a guide to walk down Main Street and experience the sensations of smoke, soot, and steam from 1869 to 1957 in a Central California community as it grew from a berg to an incorporated city and found its spot in the history of the golden state of California.
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Page : 462 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Railroads
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Railroads
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Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Locomotives
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Page : 852 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Railroads
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Page : 862 pages
File Size : 25,50 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Railroad engineering
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Author : Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
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Page : 452 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 1924
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