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Author | : Robert D. Dobson |
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Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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It is the story of the Iron Range and Huron Bay Railroad that spent over $1,200,000 during the period of 1889 to 1995, to build a 36 mile railroad that never ran a train. It includes several detailed maps of the "grade" as it exists today from Champion, Michigan, all the way to Huron Bay on Lake Superior, near Skanee, and east of L'Anse. The author, from Negaunee, has walked most of the grade apart from the present road, and shares his experiences. The railroad was sold, and almost totally dismantled in 1901. The railroad had purchased two 120 ton Steam Locomotives, 2-4-0's, built a long 60' rock cut through the 1900' Huron Bay Summit, plus many other cuts as well, and built a large 112 pocket ore boat loading dock, and laid the track..
Author | : Philip E Johnson |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2014-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1304733904 |
Download The Hampden Railroad -- The Greatest Railroad that Never Ran Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the early 1980's, author Philip Johnson discovered a railroad bridge on the Central Mass branch in Bondsville. This began his investigation as to why the bridge was there, and what ran underneath. This discovery led him to a railroad lost in the woods with little written history. A stone post stands as a silent sentinel telling all that it is 82 miles to Boston from that point on the Hampden. This is the Hampden Railroad's story.
Author | : Herbert H. Harwood |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2010-09-06 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0253001552 |
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This account of a doomed enterprise is “an important contribution to both rail and road history, as well as to business history”—photos and maps included (The Lexington Quarterly). Stretching over two hundred miles through Pennsylvania’s most challenging mountain terrain, the South Pennsylvania Railroad would form the heart of a new trunk line, from the East Coast to Pittsburgh and the Midwest. Conceived in 1881 by William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, and a group of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia industrialists, it was intended to break the rival Pennsylvania Railroad’s near-monopoly in the region. But the line was within a year of opening when J.P. Morgan brokered a peace treaty that aborted the project and helped bolster his position in the world of finance. The railroad right of way and its tunnels would sit idle for sixty years—before coming to life in the late 1930s as the original section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Based on original letters, documents, diaries, and newspaper reports, The Railroad That Never Was uncovers the truth behind this mysterious railway, one of the most infamous construction projects of the late nineteenth century.
Author | : Philip Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2021-08-09 |
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ISBN | : 9781304803436 |
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The Hampden Railroad was completed in 1913. It was built to connect the railroads at Springfield to Palmer and northward to the vacation lands in New Hampshire and Maine. But it was not approved for use by the Massachusetts Railroad Commission. This book supplements my first book with maps and photos not available when that book was published.
Author | : Sarah Cullen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2019-11-08 |
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ISBN | : 9781706793885 |
Download I Never Ran My Train Off the Track, and I Never Lost a Passenger. Harriet Tubman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This notebook features a quote by Harriet Tubman, the famed conductor on the Underground Railroad. Adorned with a vintage train, the journal has college ruled, lined paper. This book can serve as a gratitude journal or a handy place to write to do lists or sermon notes.
Author | : Stephen E. Ambrose |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2001-11-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780743203173 |
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The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Author | : H. Roger Grant |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2005-04-30 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0313014051 |
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Railroads altered the landscape of the United States. Within a few decades of the invention of the locomotive, railways stretched from coast to coast, enabling people and goods to travel far greater distances than ever before, completely altering our concept of time and space. And while railroads may seem like an old technology, they continue to be an essential means of transporting both good and people, and new technologies are making the railroads an increasingly relevant resource for the 21st century. This volume in the Greenwood Technographies series tells the life story of all aspects of railroad technology—everything from the structure of the track to communications to what powers the locomotive.
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Total Pages | : 1320 |
Release | : 1899 |
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Author | : Lisa Moser |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2012-09-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375868496 |
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On his way to visit Granny Bett, who is feeling blue, Railroad Hank stops at the farms of several friends and, misunderstanding their offers to help, winds up with a trainload of crazy cargo.
Author | : Christopher Harris |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2015-01-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1499490003 |
Download Teaching the Underground Railroad Through Play Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Slavery is a sensitive topic in American history. This book provides resources and lesson plans for a week-long unit covering slavery, the Underground Railroad, and the abolition movement built around an award-winning board game. In Freedom: The Underground Railroad, students will take on the role of abolitionists helping slaves reach freedom in Canada. Background knowledge, primary source documents, and detailed lesson plans on teaching slavery and using the game provide full support for instruction. Customized Freedom mini-game scenarios designed by Brian Mayer and Christopher Harris. Game: Freedom: The Underground Railroad. Brian Mayer. Academy Games, 2013.