Backwoods Railroads of the West
Author | : Richard Steinheimer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard Steinheimer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : D. C. Jesse Burkhardt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
A reflection of the effects of highways--and their hugely subsidized trucks--upon railroads, and of the incompetence of the Southern Pacific. The trucks took much rail freight on the coast, the SP--partly through government rules & inertia--failed to meet the competition; many lines were closed, most of the rest were sold to small, hungry, competent firms. This is the story. It is well told in a style familiar to rail fans: lists of stations, engine rosters, control blocks. Abundant photos, a few in color. Current through the visit of the X2000 in mid-1993. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author | : JESSE. BURKHARDT |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780874224269 |
Author | : Richard Steinheimer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1963* |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John T. Gaertner |
Publisher | : Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A detailed history of one of J.J. Hill's enterprises--the line into the lucrative Willamette Valley (Portland and points south) where he could duke it out with Harriman's Southern Pacific. Many photos and charts. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author | : Carlos A. Schwantes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Includes schedule of the California Zephyr, and brief comments about points of interest along the route from Chicago to San Francisco.
Author | : Seth H. Bramson |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1625844530 |
All aboard for the history of one of the most audacious and innovative railroad engineering feats in history from the celebrated Floridian author. Although several people had considered constructing a railroad to Key West beginning in the early 1800s, it took a bold industrialist with unparalleled vision to make it happen. In 1902, Henry Flagler made the decision to extend the Florida East Coast Railway to “the nearest deepwater American port.” In this book, renowned Florida historian Seth H. Bramson reveals how the Key West Extension of the Flagler-owned FEC became the greatest railroad engineering and construction feat in United States, and possibly world, history, an accomplishment that would cement Flagler’s fame and legend for all time. Join Bramson as he recounts the years of operation of this great railroad, what it did for the Florida Keys and what it meant to the resident conchs. Includes photos
Author | : Edward Hepple Hall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Utah |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ronald L. Lewis |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807862975 |
In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties precipitated by deforestation. As the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachian region, West Virginia provides an ideal site for studying the broader social impact of deforestation in Appalachia, the South, and the eastern United States. Most of West Virginia was still dominated by a backcountry economy when the industrial transition began. In short order, however, railroads linked remote mountain settlements directly to national markets, hauling away forest products and returning with manufactured goods and modern ideas. Workers from the countryside and abroad swelled new mill towns, and merchants ventured into the mountains to fulfill the needs of the growing population. To protect their massive investments, capitalists increasingly extended control over the state's legal and political systems. Eventually, though, even ardent supporters of industrialization had reason to contemplate the consequences of unregulated exploitation. Once the timber was gone, the mills closed and the railroads pulled up their tracks, leaving behind an environmental disaster and a new class of marginalized rural poor to confront the worst depression in American history.
Author | : Richard Steinheimer |
Publisher | : W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780393057430 |
A lavishly photographed tribute to history's railroads covers everything from steam engines to the latest diesel-powered locomotives, canvassing 160 of the photographer's most significant train images as taken in front of western landscapes, in inclement weather, from risky vantage points, and more. First serial, Classic Trains.