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Book Synopsis Crossroads of a Continent by : Peter A. Hansen
Download or read book Crossroads of a Continent written by Peter A. Hansen and published by Railroads Past and Present. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossroads of a Continent: The Missouri Railroad tells the story of the state's railroads and their vital role in American history. Missouri and St. Louis, its largest city, are strategically located within the American Heartland. On July 4, 1851, when the Pacific Railroad of Missouri began construction in St. Louis, the city took its first step to becoming a major hub for railroads. By the 1920s, the state was crisscrossed with railways reaching toward all points of the compass. Authors Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, and Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes explore the history of Missouri railroads through personal, absorbing tales of the cutthroat competition between cities and between railroads that meant the difference between prosperity and obscurity, the ambitions and dreams of visionaries Fred Harvey and Arthur Stilwell, and the country's excitement over the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color images of historical railway ephemera, Crossroads of a Continent is an engaging history of key American railroads and of Missouri's critical contribution to the American story.
Book Synopsis Louisville & Nashville Passenger Trains by : Charles B. Castner
Download or read book Louisville & Nashville Passenger Trains written by Charles B. Castner and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original sources deliver the definitive word on L&N motive power and rolling stock from the booming Pan American era of the '2Os through the Amtrak days of the '70s, as well as a complete roster of equipment and reproductions of period ads. Includes a chapter on modeling L&N passenger equipment and trains.
Download or read book American Railroads, 1921 written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :104 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis American Railway Accounting by : Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library
Download or read book American Railway Accounting written by Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad by : Maury Klein
Download or read book History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad written by Maury Klein and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1972 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism by : J. P. Daughton
Download or read book In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism written by J. P. Daughton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an ostensibly democratic nation whose motto read “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” but liberal ideals were savaged by a cruelly indifferent administrative state. African workers were forcibly conscripted and separated from their families, and subjected to hellish conditions as they hacked their way through dense tropical foliage—a “forest of no joy”; excavated by hand thousands of tons of earth in order to lay down track; blasted their way through rock to construct tunnels; or risked their lives building bridges over otherwise impassable rivers. In the process, they suffered disease, malnutrition, and rampant physical abuse, likely resulting in at least 20,000 deaths. In the Forest of No Joy captures in vivid detail the experiences of the men, women, and children who toiled on the railroad, and forces a reassessment of the moral relationship between modern industrialized empires and what could be called global humanitarian impulses—the desire to improve the lives of people outside of Europe. Drawing on exhaustive research in French and Congolese archives, a chilling documentary record, and heartbreaking photographic evidence, J.P. Daughton tells the epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad, and in doing so reveals the human costs and contradictions of modern empire.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Railway Engineering Association by : American Railway Engineering Association
Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Railway Engineering Association written by American Railway Engineering Association and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 1-10.
Book Synopsis The Story of American Railroads by : Stewart H. Holbrook
Download or read book The Story of American Railroads written by Stewart H. Holbrook and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly comprehensive history, featuring more than 100 photographs and contemporary prints. Involving struggles against nature, corrupt politicians, and other obstacles, the colorful account abounds in tales of ingenuity and colossal achievement.
Book Synopsis Records Relating to North American Railroads by :
Download or read book Records Relating to North American Railroads written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo Publisher :University of North Texas Press ISBN 13 :157441464X Total Pages :244 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (744 download)
Book Synopsis Traqueros by : Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo
Download or read book Traqueros written by Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no other industrial technology changed the course of Mexican history in the United States--and Mexico--than did the coming of the railroads. Tens of thousands of Mexicans worked for the railroads in the United States, especially in the Southwest and Midwest. Construction crews soon became railroad workers proper, along with maintenance crews later. Extensive Mexican American settlements appeared throughout the lower and upper Midwest as the result of the railroad. The substantial Mexican American populations in these regions today are largely attributable to 19th- and 20th-century railroad work. Only agricultural work surpassed railroad work in terms of employment of Mexicans. The full history of Mexican American railroad labor and settlement in the United States had not been told, however, until Jeffrey Marcos Garcílazo's groundbreaking research in Traqueros. Garcílazo mined numerous archives and other sources to provide the first and only comprehensive history of Mexican railroad workers across the United States, with particular attention to the Midwest. He first explores the origins and process of Mexican labor recruitment and immigration and then describes the areas of work performed. He reconstructs the workers' daily lives and explores not only what the workers did on the job but also what they did at home and how they accommodated and/or resisted Americanization. Boxcar communities, strike organizations, and "traquero culture" finally receive historical acknowledgment. Integral to his study is the importance of family settlement in shaping working class communities and consciousness throughout the Midwest.
Book Synopsis Railway Statistics of the United States of America ... by :
Download or read book Railway Statistics of the United States of America ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Session of the Association of American Railroads, Operations and Maintenance Department by : Association of American Railroads. Mechanical Division
Download or read book Proceedings of the Session of the Association of American Railroads, Operations and Maintenance Department written by Association of American Railroads. Mechanical Division and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :238 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (89 download)
Book Synopsis United States Railroad Administration Publications by : Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library
Download or read book United States Railroad Administration Publications written by Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Index-digest of Decisions of the United States Railroad Labor Board (cumulative) by : United States Railroad Labor Board
Download or read book Index-digest of Decisions of the United States Railroad Labor Board (cumulative) written by United States Railroad Labor Board and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Index-digest of Decisions of United States Railroad Labor Board to May 1, 1922 (decisions Nos. 1-949) by : United States Railroad Labor Board
Download or read book Index-digest of Decisions of United States Railroad Labor Board to May 1, 1922 (decisions Nos. 1-949) written by United States Railroad Labor Board and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The United States Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 2188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Railroads in the African American Experience by : Theodore Kornweibel
Download or read book Railroads in the African American Experience written by Theodore Kornweibel and published by . This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For over a century, railroading provided the most important industrial occupation for blacks. Brakemen, firemen, porters, chefs, mechanics, laborers - African American men and women have been essential to the daily operation and success of American railroads. The connections between railroads and African Americans extend well beyond employment. Civil rights protests beginning in the late 19th century challenged railroad segregation and job discrimination; the major waves of black migration to the North depended almost entirely on railroads; and railroad themes and imagery penetrated deep into black art, literature, drama, folklore, and music."--Page 2 of cover.
