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Author | : William Lowell Putnam |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2011-07-25 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0786489200 |
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Describing and detailing the boring of major railroad tunnels throughout Canada, the United States, and Mexico, this book covers the period from the creation of Virginia's Blue Ridge Tunnel in the 1850s to Copper Canyon's Continental and El Descanso tunnels in the early 1960s. Other notable tunnels featured here include Massachusetts' notoriously expensive and slow-progressing Hoosac Tunnel; Colorado's rail and water Moffat Tunnel; Montana's Flathead Tunnel; and several major tunnels along the Canadian Pacific's main line. In addition to providing details on the tunnels, the author considers the reasons they were created, their engineers, and their use. The book includes more than 50 period and contemporary photos. A glossary explains concepts related to railroad construction and maintenance.
Author | : Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Cascade Tunnel (Wash.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gordon H. Chang |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 1328618579 |
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A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.
Author | : Great Northern Railway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Indians in art |
ISBN | : |
Download Electrified Through the Cascades Via America's Longest Tunnel Route of the Empire Builder Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Bill Yenne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780880297837 |
Download The Great Railroads of North America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Mary E. Lyons |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1625849524 |
Download The Blue Ridge Tunnel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The true story of the construction of the historic Crozet railroad tunnel—as seen through the eyes of three Irish immigrant families who helped build it. In one of the greatest engineering feats of the time, Claudius Crozet led the completion of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Tunnel in 1858. More than a century and a half later, the tunnel stands as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, but the stories and lives of those who built it are the true lasting triumph. Irish immigrants fleeing the Great Hunger poured into America resolved to find something to call their own. They would persevere through life in overcrowded shanties and years of blasting through rock to see the tunnel to completion. In this intriguing history, Mary E. Lyons follows three Irish families in their struggle to build Crozet’s famed tunnel—and their American dream. Includes photos and illustrations
Author | : American Society of Civil Engineers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Tunnels |
ISBN | : |
Download New York Tunnel Extension, the Pennsylvania Railroad Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Stephen R. Little |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1452067716 |
Download Tunnels, Nitro and Convicts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Still suffering the devastation of the Civil war that ended only ten years earlier, North Carolina shipped prison inmates from Raleigh to build the Mountain Division of the western North Carolina railroad. Some amazing and astonishing events occurred from 1875 through 1879 as this mountain railroad (3 miles straight-line distance, requiring 9+ miles of track) was pushed up the eastern continental divide. Six tunnels were excavated, from 89 to 1,800 feet long, each 15 feet tall. For open cuts, solid rock was cracked by dousing cold mountain water on roaring fires. The first use in the southeastern U.S. of a new product called Nobel's Blasting Oil (now called nitroglycerin!) was on the project. It was mixed with sawdust and corn meal, making nitroglycerin mash. A very heavy wood-burning locomotive was picked up off the tracks by the convicts and pushed several miles overland to the top of the mountain to help dig out the longest tunnel. The most common tool used was a flat rock held in the strong hands of the convicts to dig and spread dirt as they prepared the flat path needed to lay crossties for the rails. Tunnels, Nitro and Convicts condenses the incredible history of the most ambitious earth-moving, mountain-conquering project in the United States as of the 1870s into an engaging, easy-to-read story. The fascinating and compelling intertwining of long dark caves, blasting and cracking of massive rocks, the first use of nitroglycerin in the southeastern United States, and pushing a big locomotive several miles through the woods up a mountain ... all by hundreds of convicts who worked under severe conditions with the most basic tools ... makes this true account of post-civil war railroad history a story you must read!
Author | : American Society of Civil Engineers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Tunnels |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mike Murtha |
Publisher | : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1771601337 |
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"Based on previously unpublished reports and journals thought to be lost, Through An Unknown Country provides the reader with a harrowing and riveting account of a 19th century expedition through the northern mountain ranges of western Canada. In the winter of 1874-75, Edward Worrell Jarvis (1846 1894) and Charles Francis Hanington (1848-1930) took part in an expedition on behalf of the Canadian Pacific Survey from Quesnel, British Columbia, to Winnipeg, Manitoba. It led them over the northern Rocky Mountains through what would come to be known as Jarvis Pass (Kakwa Provincial Park, British Columbia) and eventually onto the Canadian plains. The trip took them 116 days and covered over 3000 kilometres, of which almost 1500 was travelled on snowshoes. Through An Unknown Country brings together the day-to-day reports of Jarvis and the more entertaining narrative of the epic journey by Hanington into a single volume for the first time. Recounting harrowing treks through deep mountains, densely forested valleys, open foothills and wide prairie, this highly readable adventure story can most certainly be read alongside the better-known journals of Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser, David Thompson and Paul Kane."--