Southern Pacific's First Century
Author | : Southern Pacific Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Pacific railroads |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Southern Pacific Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Pacific railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brian Solomon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9781610605083 |
Author | : Richard J. Orsi |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : 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 | : John R. Signor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9781930013025 |
Author | : Brian Solomon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Railroad bridges |
ISBN | : 9781610604581 |
Author | : Donald Duke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
From the little woodburner of 1864 to the Daylight.
Author | : Richard J. Orsi |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2005-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520940865 |
The only major U.S. railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific acquired a unique history and character. It also acquired a reputation, especially in California, as a railroad that people loved to hate. This magisterial history tells the full story of the Southern Pacific for the first time, shattering myths about the company that have prevailed to this day. A landmark account, Sunset Limited explores the railroad's development and influence—especially as it affected land settlement, agriculture, water policy, and the environment—and offers a new perspective on the tremendous, often surprising, role the company played in shaping the American West. Based on his unprecedented and extensive research into the company's historical archives, Richard Orsi finds that, contrary to conventional understanding, the Southern Pacific Company identified its corporate well-being with population growth and social and economic development in the railroad's hinterland. As he traces the complex and shifting intersections between corporate and public interest, Orsi documents the railroad's little-known promotion of land distribution, small-scale farming, scientific agriculture, and less wasteful environmental practices and policies—including water conservation and wilderness and recreational parklands preservation. Meticulously researched, lucidly written, and judiciously balanced, Sunset Limited opens a new window onto the American West in a crucial phase of its development and will forever change our perceptions of one of the largest and most important western corporations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author | : Donovan L. Hofsommer |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : 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 | : David M. Bernstein |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2011-03-14 |
Genre | : 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 | : John R. Signor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |