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ISBN 13 : 9780960339853
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Railroads of Pennsylvania Encyclopedia and Atlas written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William D. Middleton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253027993
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of North American Railroads written by William D. Middleton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-06 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated and a joy to read, this authoritative reference work on the North American continent’s railroads covers the U.S., Canadian, Mexican, Central American, and Cuban systems. The encyclopedia’s over-arching theme is the evolution of the railroad industry and the historical impact of its progress on the North American continent. This thoroughly researched work examines the various aspects of the industry’s development: technology, operations, cultural impact, the evolution of public policy regarding the industry, and the structural functioning of modern railroads. More than 500 alphabetical entries cover a myriad of subjects, including numerous entries profiling the principal companies, suppliers, manufacturers, and individuals influencing the history of the rails. Extensive appendices provide data regarding weight, fuel, statistical trends, and more, as well as a list of 130 vital railroad books. Railfans will treasure this indispensable work.
Author : Pennsylvania Railroad
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guide for the Pennsylvania Railroad, with an Extensive Map written by Pennsylvania Railroad and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed narrative of what one would encounter while riding its length, beginning in Philadelphia and ending at Pittsburgh. Included are descriptions of all towns passed through, the stations and their method of operation, and points of local interest and sightseeing value. The volume was designed to be used by PRR passengers.
Author : Richard C. Carpenter
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421410354
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 written by Richard C. Carpenter and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Minnesota, the primary rail routes to the Pacific northwest--the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific--ran westward from Minneapolis-Saint Paul.
Author : Herbert H. Harwood
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253001552
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Railroad That Never Was written by Herbert H. Harwood and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of a doomed enterprise is “an important contribution to both rail and road history, as well as to business history”—photos and maps included (The Lexington Quarterly). Stretching over two hundred miles through Pennsylvania’s most challenging mountain terrain, the South Pennsylvania Railroad would form the heart of a new trunk line, from the East Coast to Pittsburgh and the Midwest. Conceived in 1881 by William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, and a group of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia industrialists, it was intended to break the rival Pennsylvania Railroad’s near-monopoly in the region. But the line was within a year of opening when J.P. Morgan brokered a peace treaty that aborted the project and helped bolster his position in the world of finance. The railroad right of way and its tunnels would sit idle for sixty years—before coming to life in the late 1930s as the original section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Based on original letters, documents, diaries, and newspaper reports, The Railroad That Never Was uncovers the truth behind this mysterious railway, one of the most infamous construction projects of the late nineteenth century.
Author : Ronald E. Ostman
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027108460X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers written by Ronald E. Ostman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers, Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell draw on the stunning documentary photography of William T. Clarke to tell the story of Pennsylvania’s lumber heyday, a time when loggers serving the needs of a rapidly growing and globalizing country forever altered the dense forests of the state’s northern tier. Discovered in a shed in upstate New York and a barn in Pennsylvania after decades of obscurity, Clarke’s photographs offer an unprecedented view of the logging, lumbering, and wood industries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show the great forests in the process of coming down and the trains that hauled away the felled trees and trimmed logs. And they show the workers—cruisers, jobbers, skidders, teamsters, carpenters, swampers, wood hicks, and bark peelers—their camps and workplaces, their families, their communities. The work was demanding and dangerous; the work sites and housing were unsanitary and unsavory. The changes the newly industrialized logging business wrought were immensely important to the nation’s growth at the same time that they were fantastically—and tragically—transformative of the landscape. An extraordinary look at a little-known photographer’s work and the people and industry he documented, this book reveals, in sharp detail, the history of the third phase of lumber in America.
Author : Michael Bezilla
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253029910
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Branch Line Empires written by Michael Bezilla and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga of a fierce business rivalry: “Absorbing, well-written . . . will appeal to American history scholars and railroad enthusiasts.” —Choice The Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroads helped to develop central Pennsylvania as the largest source of bituminous coal for the nation. By the late nineteenth century, the two lines were among America’s largest businesses and would soon become legendary archrivals. The PRR first arrived in the 1860s. Within a few years, it was sourcing as much as four million tons of coal annually from Centre County and the Moshannon Valley and would continue do so for a quarter-century. The New York Central, through its Beech Creek Railroad affiliate, invaded the region in the 1880s, first seeking a dependable, long-term source of coal to fuel its locomotives but soon aggressively attempting to break its rival’s lock on transporting the area’s immense wealth of mineral and forest products. Beginning around 1900, the two companies transitioned from an era of growth and competition to a time when each tacitly recognized the other’s domain and sought to achieve maximum operating efficiencies by adopting new technology such as air brakes, automatic couplers, all-steel cars, and diesel locomotives. Over the next few decades, each line began to face common problems in the form of competition from other forms of transportation and government regulation—and in 1968, the two businesses merged. Branch Line Empires offers a thorough and captivating analysis of how a changing world turned competition into cooperation between two railroad industry titans. Includes photographs
Author : Scott L. Mingus
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1611214629
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Targeted Tracks written by Scott L. Mingus and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Anyone who is interested in Civil War logistics, wartime railroads, and the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania needs to read this study.” —Eric J. Wittenberg, award-winning historian and author The Civil War was the first conflict in which railroads played a major role. Although much has been written about their role in general, little has been written about specific lines. The Cumberland Valley Railroad, for example, played an important strategic role by connecting Hagerstown, Maryland to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Its location enhanced its importance during some of the Civil War’s most critical campaigns. Because of its proximity to major cities in the Eastern Theater, the Cumberland Valley Railroad was an enticing target for Confederate leaders and an invaluable resource for the Union Army. In October 1859, abolitionist John Brown used the CVRR in his fateful Harpers Ferry raid. The line was under direct threat by invading Confederates during the Antietam Campaign, and the following summer suffered serious damage during the Gettysburg Campaign. In 1864, Rebel raiders burned much of its headquarters town, Chambersburg, including the homes of many CVRR employees. The railroad was as vital to residents of the bustling and fertile Cumberland Valley as it was to the Union war effort. Targeted Tracks is grounded on the railway’s voluminous reports, the letters and diaries of local residents and Union and Confederate soldiers, official reports, and newspaper accounts. The primary sources, combined with the expertise of the authors, bring this largely untold story to life. “Mingus and Wingert have done a splendid job telling the story of the industrial, economic, social, and military history of the CVRR . . . engaging.” —Ted Alexander, chief historian (ret.), Antietam National Battlefield
Author : Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811729567
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania written by Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guidebook to the museum in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, covering the history of the state's railroad industry, with a tour of the 100,000-square-foot exhibit hall, which displays dozens of historic locomotives and rolling stock significant to Pennsylvania's railroad heritage. A complete checklist of the museum's collection of rolling stock is included.
Author : William Arthur Shelton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Atlas of Railway Traffic Maps... written by William Arthur Shelton and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William D. Middleton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of North American Railroads written by William D. Middleton and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent reference with the latest information on railroads past and present for anyone who was ever enthralled by the romance of the rails
Author : Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781355557678
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (576 download)
Download or read book Guide for the Pennsylvania Railroad, with an Extensive Map written by Pennsylvania Railroad and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781363229772
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (297 download)
Download or read book GD FOR THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILRO written by Pennsylvania Railroad and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Pennsylvania State Railroad Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Report of the Pennsylvania State Railroad Commission for the Year Ending ... written by Pennsylvania State Railroad Commission and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Bender Wilson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company written by William Bender Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pennsylvania Railroad
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ISBN 13 : 9781363229802
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (298 download)
Download or read book GD FOR THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILRO written by Pennsylvania Railroad and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Randolph L. Kulp
Publisher : Allentown, Pa. : Lehigh Valley Chapter, National Railway Historical Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Railroads in the Lehigh River Valley written by Randolph L. Kulp and published by Allentown, Pa. : Lehigh Valley Chapter, National Railway Historical Society. This book was released on 1956 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
