Author: Thomas Curtis ClarkePublish On: 2012-01-04
A classic history of American railroads, written by a famous 19th-century engineer, shares dozens of hand-drawn illustrations as well as coverage of everything from the lives of railway workers and the contributions of top magnates to ...
Author: Thomas Curtis Clarke
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 9781616083342
Category: Transportation
Page: 456
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A classic history of American railroads, written by a famous 19th-century engineer, shares dozens of hand-drawn illustrations as well as coverage of everything from the lives of railway workers and the contributions of top magnates to railway accidents and the railroad's role in transforming industry. Reprint.
Author: Association of American RailroadsPublish On: 1907
No company can be a subscriber to the Bureau unless it is a member or an
associate member of The American Railway Association. The object of the
Bureau is “ the enforcement of the Regulations for the Transportation of
Explosives, ...
Author: Association of American Railroads
Publisher:
ISBN: UCAL:B2865367
Category: Railroads
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Vol. 1 contains proceedings of the earlier organizations known as the General Time Convention (1872 to 1885) and the Southern Railway Time Convention (1877 to 1885)
An authoritative history of the American railroad passenger car, illustrated with nearly eight hundred photographs, engravings, and line drawings, examines interior designs and costs and recreates a lost age of elegance in rail travel This ...
Author: John H. White
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801827434
Category: Transportation
Page: 704
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An authoritative history of the American railroad passenger car, illustrated with nearly eight hundred photographs, engravings, and line drawings, examines interior designs and costs and recreates a lost age of elegance in rail travel
In The Great Railway Revolution, Christian Wolmar tells us the extraordinary one-hundred-and-eighty-year story of the rise, fall and ultimate shattering of the greatest of all American endeavours, of technological triumph and human tragedy, ...
Author: Christian Wolmar
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780857897794
Category: History
Page: 300
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In the 1830s, The United States underwent a second revolution. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line, the first American railroad, set in motion a process which, by the end of the century, would enmesh the vast country in a latticework of railroad lines, small-town stations and magisterial termini, built and controlled the biggest corporations in America. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, as the automobile and the aeroplane came to dominate American journey-making, the historic importance of the railroads began to be erased from America's hearts and minds. In The Great Railway Revolution, Christian Wolmar tells us the extraordinary one-hundred-and-eighty-year story of the rise, fall and ultimate shattering of the greatest of all American endeavours, of technological triumph and human tragedy, of visionary pioneers and venal and rapacious railway barons. He also argues that while America has largely disowned this heritage, now is the time to celebrate, reclaim and reinstate it. The growth of the US railroads was much more than just a revolution in mode, speed and convenience. They united the far-flung components of a vast and disparate country and supercharged the economic development that fuelled its rise to world-power status. America was created by its railroads and the massive expansion of trade, industry and freedom of communication that they engendered came to be an integral part of the American dream itself.
Containing correct tables, for time of starting from of all stations, distances, fares, etc. on all the railway lines in the United States; together with a complete railway map, also many principal steamboat and stage lines running in ...
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ISBN: PRNC:32101066799261
Category: Railroads
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Containing correct tables, for time of starting from of all stations, distances, fares, etc. on all the railway lines in the United States; together with a complete railway map, also many principal steamboat and stage lines running in connection with railroads.
