Author : Steve Hauff
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
The geared locomotive is important in the history of logging. It mechanized the transport of logs from forest to mill. The Willamette is but a footnote with only 33 ever built. Its impact belies the small number; it brought innovations later copied by the big players: Shay and Heisler. A useful and worthy contribution to the history of rail and logging. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Alexander Benjamin Craghead
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1625847947
In 1883, railroad financier Henry Villard brought Portland and the Pacific Northwest their first transcontinental railroad. Earning a reputation for boldness on Wall Street, the war correspondent turned entrepreneur set out to establish Portland as a bourgeoning metropolis. To realize his vision, he hired architects McKim, Mead & White to design a massive passenger station and a first-class hotel. Despite financial panics, lost fortunes and stalled construction, the Portland Hotel opened in 1890 and remained the social heart of the city for sixty years. While the original station was never built, Villard returned as a pivotal benefactor of Union Station, saving its iconic clock tower in the process. Author Alexander Benjamin Craghead tells the story of this Gilded Age patron and the architecture that helped shape the city's identity.
Author : Carlos A. Schwantes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803292284
Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This edition contains significant additional material on early mining in the Pacific Northwest, sea routes to Oregon in the early discovery and contact period, the environment of the region, the impact of the Klondike gold rush, and politics since 1945. Recent environmental controversies, such as endangered salmon runs and the spotted owl dispute, have been addressed, as has the effect of the Cold War on the region’s economy. The author has also expanded discussion of the roles of women and minorities and updated statistical information.
Author : Matt Coleman
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Logging
ISBN : 0890247021
This highly illustrated book explains the business of logging railroads and provides examples of prototype operations. Photos of locomotives, equipment, and structures set the stage for modeling logging scenes and designing a logging layout.
Author : Ed Austin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1467130311
To those with an interest in railroad history in the United States, mention of the words "narrow gauge" may bring to mind the extensive three-foot-gauge railroads of Colorado and Utah or perhaps the famous two-foot-gauge lines in Maine. However, few would think first of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Nonetheless, between 1877 and 1893, an extensive narrow-gauge railroad developed in Oregon" one that had aspirations of crossing the Cascade Mountains and connecting with the Central Pacific Railroad, thus giving Oregon its first access to the transcontinental railroad system. It is this railroad system, from its inception in 1877 to the present day, that Ed Austin explores herein.
Author : John T. Gaertner
Publisher : Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :
A detailed history of one of J.J. Hill's enterprises--the line into the lucrative Willamette Valley (Portland and points south) where he could duke it out with Harriman's Southern Pacific. Many photos and charts. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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Page : 902 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Locomotives
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Page : 504 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 1922
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Page : 926 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : Ken Boyd
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing Co
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1627005099
Historic North American Locomotives traces the historic development of North American locomotives from the early 1800s through today. Considered a photographic book with the look and feel of fine art, 100 locomotives are profiled using descriptive text and richly detailed and colored photographic imagery. A well-researched introduction provides the reader with a historical perspective. The author/photographer includes high-quality photographs, created through various techniques that vividly capture the distinctive features of the locomotives. From the 1805 Trevithick portable boiler to modern, high-speed locomotives such as the 2013 GE Genesis, the reader will enjoy viewing a variety of locomotives that are not usually shown together in one book.
