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The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told

The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told
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


The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told

The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told
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.


Nothing Like It In the World

Nothing Like It In the World
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.


Speedway to Sunshine

Speedway to Sunshine
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.


Last Train to Paradise

Last Train to Paradise
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.


Walt Disney's Railroad Story

Walt Disney's Railroad Story
Author:
Publisher: Carolwood Pacific LLC
Total Pages: 422
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 0975858424

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Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow

Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow
Author: Dee Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2001-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780805068924

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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.


Long Island Rail Road

Long Island Rail Road
Author: Stan Fischler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1845
Genre: Railroads
ISBN: 9781616731564

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Florida East Coast Railway

Florida East Coast Railway
Author: Seth H. Bramson
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738543413

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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.