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Author | : Seth H. Bramson |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1625844530 |
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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 | : Seth Bramson |
Publisher | : Transportation |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781609493998 |
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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 U.S., 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.
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Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2011 |
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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 | : Seth Bramson |
Publisher | : Boston Mills Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9781550463583 |
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A revised and expanded illustrated history of the railroad from its inception, through the building of the Key West extension, to the present day.
Author | : Les Standiford |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2003-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400051185 |
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The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores. In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D. Rockefeller, dreamed of a railway connecting the island of Key West to the Florida mainland, crossing a staggering 153 miles of open ocean—an engineering challenge beyond even that of the Panama Canal. Many considered the project impossible, but build it they did. The railroad stood as a magnificent achievement for more than twenty-two years, heralded as “the Eighth Wonder of the World,” until its total destruction in 1935's deadly storm of the century. In Last Train to Paradise, Standiford celebrates this crowning achievement of Gilded Age ambition, bringing to life a sweeping tale of the powerful forces of human ingenuity colliding with the even greater forces of nature’s wrath.
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Publisher | : Carolwood Pacific LLC |
Total Pages | : 422 |
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ISBN | : 0975858424 |
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Author | : Dee Brown |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2001-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780805068924 |
Download Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the author of the best-selling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown's classic account of the building of the transcontinental railroad. In February 1854 the first railroad from the East reached the Mississippi; by the end of the nineteenth century five major transcontinental railroads linked the East Coast with the Pacific Ocean and thousands of miles of tracks criss-crossed in the West, a vast and virginal land just a few years before. The story of this extraordinary undertaking is one of breathtaking technological ingenuity, otherwordly idealism, and all-too-wordly greed. The heroes and villains were Irish and Chineselaborers, intrepid engineers, avaricious bankers, stock manipulators, and corrupt politicians. Before it was over more than 155 million acres (one tenth of the country) were given away to the railroad magnates, Indian tribes were decimated, the buffalo were driven from the Great Plains, millions of immigrants were lured from Europe, and a colossal continental nation was built. Woven into this dramatic narrative are the origins of present-day governmental corruption, the first ties between powerful corporations and politicians who "enjoyed the frequent showers of money that fell upon them from railroad stock manipulators, and gave away America." How the people of that time responded to a sense of disillusionment remarkably similar to our own adds a contemporary dimension to this story.
Author | : Stan Fischler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1845 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9781616731564 |
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Author | : Seth H. Bramson |
Publisher | : Red Wheel/Weiser |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738543413 |
Download Florida East Coast Railway Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Florida East Coast Railway has been the speedway to America's playground for more than 110 years. FEC offered some of America's finest rail passenger service until 1968 and remains the freight lifeline of Florida's east coast. The railroad arrived on the shores of Biscayne Bay on April 15, 1896, and it reached Key West in January 1912. That feat etched both Henry Flagler's and the railroad's names in Florida and U.S. railroad history. FEC's operation is so precise and punctual, its roadbed and motive power so well maintained, that it is the benchmark for every other railroad in the country.