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Author | : Robert E. Riegel |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Account of the railroad conquest of the United States.
Author | : Carlos A. Schwantes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Includes schedule of the California Zephyr, and brief comments about points of interest along the route from Chicago to San Francisco.
Author | : Robert E. Riegel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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On December 23, 1852, the first train on the first railroad west of the Mississippi River steamed proudly from St. Louis to Cheltenham—the immense distance of five miles. In that moment of exaltation, writes Robert Edgar Riegel, "flags waved, bands played, and orators prophesied the flowering of the West under the beneficent influence of the steam locomotive. For once the orators were right. An epoch was marked. Twenty-five years earlier the musical whistle of the locomotive was as yet unheard in the United States. Twenty-five years later steel tracks spanned the continent from New York to San Francisco." In this account of the railroad conquest of the United States, the author is primarily concerned with the western phase of the story. He follows the Iron Horse west through Indian trouble, labor difficulties, civil war, and farmer disillusionment to the completion of the western railroad net. All aspects of the subject—financial, industrial, engineering, as well as the development of railroad regulation—are covered in this classic work.
Author | : Robert Edgar Riegel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1974 |
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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 | : Edward H. Cass |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9780965021333 |
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Author | : Donald B. Robertson |
Publisher | : Caxton Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Mountain railroads |
ISBN | : 9780870043857 |
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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This book includes 368 pages of maps, photographs and technical data on the history of railroading in California. There are detailed reports on dates of operation, mergers, miles of track, maximum grade, gauge and rail weight. It also includes the histories of thousands of locomotives.
Author | : Tom Murray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781616731540 |
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By the time it was merged into the Union Pacific in 1995, the Chicago & North Western was one of the nations oldest surviving railroads, a testament to the Midwestern stoicism with which it had gone about its business since 1859. This illustrated history chronicles how C&NW emerged from a collection of regional carriers to become a strategic link between eastern railroads and the West. Author Tom Murray traces the railroads expansion as it extended secondary lines throughout the Midwest. He also explores C&NWs joint ownership of UP passenger trains and describes how the railroad answered challenges from regional rivals with the "400" series of passenger trains. As fascinating as the story are the hundreds of accompanying illustrations--historical photographs, archival images, route maps, and period print ads. The result is an entertaining and informative history of an iconic Midwestern railroad--a narrative that spans the decades from the 1850s to the 1990s and takes in steam and diesel motive power, freight and passenger operations, and all the key characters, events, and deals that figured in the Chicago & North Westerns rise and eventual demise.
Author | : H. Roger Grant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780875802145 |
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Provides a history of the Chicago & North Western Railway system from its beginnings in 1848 until its sale to the Union Pacific, exploring the growth of the company and its role in shaping the West.
Author | : Jane Eliot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Pacific railroads |
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Text and illustrations describe the history of railroads in the American West.