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Reading Railroad Heritage

Author : Kenneth C. Springirth
Publisher : America Through Time
ISBN 13 : 9781634990233
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Reading Railroad Heritage written by Kenneth C. Springirth and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2017 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reading Railroad Heritage is a photographic essay of the history of a well-run system up to its acquisition by the Consolidated Rail Corporation in 1976, and its legacy that includes the Reading & Northern Railroad, certain electrified commuter lines operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority in the Philadelphia area, and a sampling of a number of short line railroads that were initiated to preserve rail service. The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad opened its first line from Philadelphia to Reading in 1839. Within a few years, it constructed railroad lines throughout the coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania and in 1893 became the Reading Company. The railroad was noted for its design and building of steam locomotives, which culminated in the fabulous T1 class of steam locomotives placed in service in 1945-1946. Some of these freight locomotives, with their classic arched cab windows, powered the Iron Horse Rambles of the 1960s. Circumstances beyond its control, including the decline in the hauling of anthracite coal and passenger business, ended in the bankruptcy of the railroad."--Page 4 of cover.

The Reading's Heritage, 1833-1958; 125th Anniversary of a Pioneer Railroad

Author : Joseph Anton Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reading's Heritage, 1833-1958; 125th Anniversary of a Pioneer Railroad written by Joseph Anton Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

Author : Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811729567
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (295 download)

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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.

"The Reading's Heritage" (1933-1958)

Author : Joseph Anton Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "The Reading's Heritage" (1933-1958) written by Joseph Anton Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Reading Railroad: The twentieth cenytury

Author : James L. Holton
Publisher : Garrigues House Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780962084430
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book The Reading Railroad: The twentieth cenytury written by James L. Holton and published by Garrigues House Pub. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trains Across the Continent, Second Edition

Author : Rudolph Daniels
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253214119
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Trains Across the Continent, Second Edition written by Rudolph Daniels and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trains Across the Continent North American Railroad History Second Edition Rudolph Daniels A wonderfully readable, illustrated guide to the history of railroads in America. "Trains Across the Continent is everything you need to know about railroad history—both educational and enjoyable reading." —Dean Bruce, President, Railroad Education Training Association "Trains Across the Continent should be in every public school library in the country. Quickly and concisely Dr. Daniels leads you through the maze of building, merging, and a myriad of other details necessary to understand modern railroading. Steam, diesel, passenger, and freight are all carefully explained on a national scale rather than railroad specific, making this book even more of a useful tool for the student." —Donald D. Snoddy, Historian, Union Pacific Railroad "Trains Across the Continent" is a truly comprehensive account of how railroads helped shape, and are continuing to shape, the history of North America." —Jonathan B. Hanna, Historian, Canadian Pacific Railway "Nothing but positive comments about it from faculty and students alike. . . . The industry bible in this area." —Phillip B. Cypret, Sacramento City College "Professor Daniels displays both passion and scholarship in this nicely arranged buffet of subjects both large and minute, important and interesting, serious and fun, to present a delicious overview of railroad history." —James D. Porterfield, author of Dining by Rail "Daniels manages to make brief mention of all major points of North American railroad history . . . from the workings of a steam locomotive to the dawn of the railroad mega-merger, nearly every conceivable aspect of railroading receives attention. . . . This volume is a must for those wishing to broaden or hone their knowledge of the birth and evolution of the railroad industry in North America." —Rail News Updated maps, new appendices, a greatly expanded bibliography, detailed discussions of the recent attempted mergers of the CN and BNSF, of the diesel locomotive, and of railroad electrification further round out the usefulness of Trains Across the Continent as the complete and concise introduction to North American railroads. Rudolph Daniels is Chair of the Behavioral Sciences Department at Western Iowa Tech Community College, where he teaches history and Railroad Operations Technology.

Strasburg Rail Road

Author : Eric S. Conner and Steve Barrall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467125075
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Strasburg Rail Road written by Eric S. Conner and Steve Barrall and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Strasburg Rail Road was chartered in 1832, no one anticipated the myriad of obstacles the short line would encounter. What began as an afterthought in the early 19th century eventually became one of America's premier steam train excursions and the most visited heritage railroad in the continental United States. By 1957, the declining condition of its rails and the lack of freight and passenger service seemed to mark the end of the railroad, but it was given new life in 1958, and not even the wildest imagination foresaw the remarkable transformation and development this "Methuselah of railroads" would undergo. This book chronicles the unlikely success of America's oldest continuously operating railroad. Explore how and why Strasburg's four-and-a-half-mile line survived, and discover the story behind its ascension to prominence as an iconic, internationally known, small-town steam railroad.

Working for the Railroad

Author : Walter Licht
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400855845
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Working for the Railroad written by Walter Licht and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Licht chronicles the working and personal lives of the first two generations of American railwaymen, the first workers in America to enter large-scale, bureaucratically managed, corporately owned work organizations. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Reading Railroad's Wreck Trains and Disasters

Author : Benjamin L. Bernhart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781891402494
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Reading Railroad's Wreck Trains and Disasters written by Benjamin L. Bernhart and published by . This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great Northern Railway Through Time

Author : Dale Peterka
Publisher : America Through Time
ISBN 13 : 9781634990080
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Great Northern Railway Through Time written by Dale Peterka and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Northern Railway Through Time takes us on a tour of the American Northwest―the last American frontier―from St. Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington. The Great Northern opened up the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, the dramatic Cascade Mountains of Washington and the Continental Divide at Marias Pass. President James J. Hill intended the Great Northern to be a freight hauling road, but tourists riding on the GN's premier passenger train, The Empire Builder were delighted by the prairie, the farmland, the Big Sky Country, the mountains, and Glacier National Park. The G.N.'s reputation grew. Today, Amtrak's Empire Builder traverses the same territory. The Great Northern Railway Through Time presents photos taken over the course of seventy five years by photographers of the era. The author has provided ample photo captions pointing out features that have changed over the years and features that have stayed the same. The early photos are fresh―never before published. The more recent shots were made by twenty of America's finest rail enthusiast photographers.

Remembering the Pennsylvania Railroad

Author : Kenneth Springirth
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering the Pennsylvania Railroad written by Kenneth Springirth and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great Railroad Revolution

Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610391802
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Great Railroad Revolution written by Christian Wolmar and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status. Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them. In The Great Railroad Revolution, renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.

Reading and Berks County, Pennsylvania

Author : Cyrus T. Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Reading and Berks County, Pennsylvania written by Cyrus T. Fox and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Csx Transportation Railroad Heritage

Author : Kenneth C. Springirth
Publisher : America Through Time
ISBN 13 : 9781634993456
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Csx Transportation Railroad Heritage written by Kenneth C. Springirth and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CSX Transportation Railroad Heritage is a photographic essay of this major railroad that was formed in 1980 by a merger of the Seaboard Coast Line with the Chessie System, providing a history that goes back to its beginning with the opening in 1830 of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which was the first common carrier railroad in the United States. An early predecessor railroad was the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway which introduced the figure of a sleeping kitten "Chessie" in 1933 that became a well-recognized advertisement for passenger service and later for freight service. Each of the railroads that were merged contributed to CSX reaching important population, energy, and manufacturing markets. The CSX Pride in Service program resulted in three special painted locomotives (shown in this book) honoring the nation's veterans, active military personnel, and first responders.

Railway Adventures and Anecdotes

Author : Richard Pike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Railway Adventures and Anecdotes written by Richard Pike and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Railroads of Pennsylvania

Author : Lorett Treese
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811748871
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Railroads of Pennsylvania written by Lorett Treese and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional histories of the great railroads and relics of rail culture.

The Great Northern Railway

Author :
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452907102
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Great Northern Railway written by and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by historians at Harvard Business School, Mississippi State U., and St. Cloud State U. (Minn.), this history details the development and day- to-day affairs of this powerful business, and the careers of the main figures instrumental in its operation. This definitive work, first published by