The Eastern Railroad
Author | : Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Russell H. Holter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Logging railroads |
ISBN | : 9780977617609 |
This long anticipated book features: 552 pages of text--First person accounts of life on the Tacoma Eastern railroad--400 rare photos-- custom drawn maps--plus many other illustrations. Learn the origins of this little logging line that grew from obscurity, survived despite economic panic, wars, limited financing, and both hostile and friendly acquisitions to become a national tourist destination and one of the most profitable rail lines west of Chicago.
Author | : Francis Boardman Bradlee |
Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781230440460 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...a Union Station could be built for the use of the Eastern and Boston and Lowell Railroads. The new terminus was so small that the locomotives drawing the trains did not enter it at all. About half a mile outside, the engine would be detached and switched off and the cars rolled into the station on their own momentum. This required good judgment and nerve on the part of the train crews, as the slightest miscalculation in applying the brakes might result in the cars crashing through the station into Causeway street. Strange to say, the practice continued for a great many years. The East Boston depot was given up almost entirely / to freight purposes (a few branch passenger trains were From a point a little northerly of the Charlestown State Prison, where the Boston & Maine freight yards now are, was then water and mud flats, which were not filled in until many years later. run for many years to East Boston from Lynn and Revere), and the stock in the East Boston Ferry Company was divided among the stockholders as a stock dividend. In 1854 the legislature of Massachusetts passed a law allowing railroad corporations to fund their floating debts by means of bond issues, and the stockholders of the Eastern Railroad accordingly authorized their directors to-issue bonds to an amount not exceeding 1,500,000.00, bearing six per cent, interest; of this $1,200,000.00 were sold at a rate averaging 83 1-3 per cent. In the meantime the Saugus branch was opened for.travel on February 1, 1853, its eastern terminus being Lynn Common, for its track did not join the main line of the Eastern at West Lynn. At its other end it connected with the Boston and Maine Railroad (main line) at Malden. The only intermediate stations at the beginning were East...
Author | : Eastern Railroad Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Erin Paul Donovan |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467128627 |
Built by James Everell Henry, the East Branch & Lincoln Railroad (EB&L) is considered to be the grandest and largest logging railroad operation ever built in New England. In 1892, the mountain town of Lincoln, New Hampshire, was transformed from a struggling wilderness enclave to a thriving mill town when Henry moved his logging operation from Zealand. He built houses, a company store, sawmills, and a railroad into the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River watershed to harvest virgin spruce. Despite the departure of the last EB&L log train from Lincoln Woods by 1948, the industry's cut-and-run practices forever changed the future of land conservation in the region, prompting legislation like the Weeks Act of 1911 and the Wilderness Act of 1964. Today, nearly every trail in the Pemigewasset Wilderness follows or utilizes portions of the old EB&L Railroad bed.
Author | : Eastern Railroad Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John C. Newell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780871086242 |
Author | : Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andy Cummings |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Railroad companies |
ISBN | : 9780942035711 |