One Hundred Years of American Railroading
Author : John William Starr
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : John William Starr
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Kevin EuDaly
Publisher : Crestline Books
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 2016-09
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0785833897
Celebrate over 150 years of the North American railroad with this visual history. You'll be amazed by over 400 modern and vintages photographs of these trains!
Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1610391802
America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status. Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them. In The Great Railroad Revolution, renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.
Author : Stewart H. Holbrook
Publisher : New York : Crown Publishers
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Americana
ISBN :
The birth and development of our national railroad system, the men who built it in spite of weather, politicians, desert, and rivals; the ingenuity and inventiveness used to improve constantly devices and techniques in railroading.
Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2001-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780743203173
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Author : Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Keith L. Bryant
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0253039630
“Some of the most accomplished scholars of railroad history…tell the story of these enterprises which totally re-shaped the western landscape.”—The Michigan Railfan After Promontory profiles the history and heritage behind the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. Starting with the original Union Pacific—Central Pacific lines that met at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869, the book expands the narrative by considering all of the transcontinental routes in the United States and examining their impact on building this great nation. Exquisitely illustrated with full color photographs, After Promontory divides the western United States into three regions—central, southern, and northern—and offers a deep look at the transcontinental routes of each one. Included are contributions by such renowned railroad historians as Maury Klein, Keith Bryant, Don Hofsommer, H. Roger Grant, and Rob Krebs. Includes photos
Author : Chauncey Mitchell Depew
Publisher :
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Industries
ISBN :
Author : Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference. World's Fair Committee
Publisher :
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Ch. M. Depew
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release :
Category : History
ISBN : 5874367624