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Book Synopsis The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia by : Bob Withers
Download or read book The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia written by Bob Withers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1827, a group of Baltimore capitalists feared their city would be left out of the lucrative East Coast-to-Midwest trade that other eastern cities were developing; thus, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chartered. Political pressure kept the B&O out of Pennsylvania at first, and so track crews headed for what is now West Virginia, building mountainous routes with torturous grades to Wheeling and Parkersburg. Eventually the B&O financed and acquired a spiderweb of branch lines that covered much of the northern and central parts of the Mountain State. This book takes a close look at the line's locomotives, passenger and freight trains, structures, and, most importantly, its people who endeared their company to generations of travelers, shippers, and small Appalachian communities.
Book Synopsis Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia by : Bob Withers
Download or read book Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia written by Bob Withers and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1827, a group of Baltimore capitalists feared their city would be left out of the lucrative East Coast-to-Midwest trade that other eastern cities were developing; thus, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chartered. Political pressure kept the B&O out of Pennsylvania at first, and so track crews headed for what is now West Virginia, building mountainous routes with torturous grades to Wheeling and Parkersburg. Eventually the B&O financed and acquired a spiderweb of branch lines that covered much of the northern and central parts of the Mountain State. This book takes a close look at the line's locomotives, passenger and freight trains, structures, and, most importantly, its people who endeared their company to generations of travelers, shippers, and small Appalachian communities.
Book Synopsis West Virginia Railroads Volume 3 by : Bob Withers
Download or read book West Virginia Railroads Volume 3 written by Bob Withers and published by TLC Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third of the West Virginia Railroads series and deals with one of the state's major railroads, the Baltimore & Ohio. The many photos of the late steam and early diesel periods, coupled with maps and a summary history, make this a very interesting look at the B&O in the Mountain State.
Book Synopsis History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by : John F. Stover
Download or read book History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad written by John F. Stover and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad in America. As an economic historian, Stover tells the history of the B & O from its beginnings in 1928, and through the dark times of this country's economic growth and downswings. He examines the programs undertaken by the company throughout its history to improve its lines, equipment, and service.
Book Synopsis West Virginia And Pittsburgh Railroad by : Alan Clarke
Download or read book West Virginia And Pittsburgh Railroad written by Alan Clarke and published by Quarrier Press. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the construction of railroads in West Virginia, largely to access the untouched stands of timber in such counties as Upshur, Webster, Nicholas, and Randolph. Johnson Newlon Camden and Henry Gassaway Davis were the two men that were the driving forces behind these railroads. They were industrialists and politicians as well as friends and rivals. Camden built the Clarksburg, Weston and Glenville Railroad connecting Clarksburg and Weston in north central West Virginia. Completed in 1879, it was extended to Buckhannon in the fall of 1883. The West Virginia and Pittsburgh Railroad soon built extensions from Weston to the Gauley River and south from Buckhannon. Davis started construction of the West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway in 1880, which followed the North Branch of the Potomac River south into Tucker and Randolph Counties. Sawmills and towns sprang up all along the railroads as vast quantities of lumber were harvested from the forests of West Virginia. As the forests were denuded, mines opened, more towns were built, and coal replaced lumber as the principal freight. While sections of the W. Va. & Pittsburgh have been abandoned, the present day successor to the B. & O. still hauls coal along these rail lines to the voracious power plants of the eastern United States. Author and railroad scholar Alan Clarke has once again offered an in-depth look at the building of railroads in West Virginia in the late nineteenth century. Much of the technical and historical information in the book will be of special interest to railroad buffs. However, Clarke's grasp of the state at that time in history, as well as the book's vintage photographs, maps, and illustrations, cause this book to appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Mountain State.
Book Synopsis West Virginia Railroads by : Bob Withers
Download or read book West Virginia Railroads written by Bob Withers and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted railroad author and B&O historian Bob Withers does a great job telling this important part of the West Virginia Railroads story. This third volume of the series features the B&O that entered the state in the 1830's and grew with the development of the coal and lumber industries.
Book Synopsis Chessie System Railroads in West Virginia by :
Download or read book Chessie System Railroads in West Virginia written by and published by C & O Historical Society. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an album of 135 full color photos depicting trains operating exclusively in West Virginia on the Chesapeake & Ohio, Baltimore & Ohio, and Western Maryland railroads during the era when they were part of the combine's Chessie System. Most photos range from 1972 to the late 1980s and show heavy trains powered by multiple locomotives hauling the black diamonds that were so much a part of these railroads character. The bright yellow/blue/vermilion paint scheme was always attractive to employees, railfans, modelers, and the public, and is fondly remembered. In addition to many interesting trains and operational situations, the beautiful rugged scenery of West Virginia is featured in clear, bright color photos taken by Everett N. Young, E. Roy Ward, Aruthur E. House, James Moseley, E. Sterling Hanger, Jr. and Thomas W. Dixon, Jr.
Download or read book The Great Road written by James D. Dilts and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad contributes not only to the railway history but to the history of the development of the United States in the 19th century. 80 illustrations.
Book Synopsis History of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad by : Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
Download or read book History of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad written by Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Railways by : Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
Download or read book American Railways written by Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Route, Resorts, and Resources of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, of Virginia and West Virginia by : Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
Download or read book Route, Resorts, and Resources of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, of Virginia and West Virginia written by Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Seceding from Secession by : Eric J. Wittenberg
Download or read book Seceding from Secession written by Eric J. Wittenberg and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thoroughly researched [and] historically enlightening” account of how the Commonwealth of Virginia split in two in the midst of war (Civil War News). “West Virginia was the child of the storm.” —Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran Maj. Theodore F. Lang As the Civil War raged, the northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union’s 35th state. Seceding from Secession chronicles those events in an unprecedented study of the social, legal, military, and political factors that converged to bring about the birth of West Virginia. President Abraham Lincoln, an astute lawyer in his own right, played a critical role in birthing the new state. The constitutionality of the mechanism by which the new state would be created concerned the president, and he polled every member of his cabinet before signing the bill. Seceding from Secession includes a detailed discussion of the 1871 U.S. Supreme Court decision Virginia v. West Virginia, in which former Lincoln cabinet member Salmon Chase presided as chief justice over the court that decided the constitutionality of the momentous event. Grounded in a wide variety of sources and including a foreword by Frank J. Williams, former Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and Chairman Emeritus of the Lincoln Forum, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in American history.
Book Synopsis Central Trunk Line to the West by : Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
Download or read book Central Trunk Line to the West written by Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report on the Location of the Western Portion of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-road by : Charles Ellet
Download or read book Report on the Location of the Western Portion of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-road written by Charles Ellet and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History and Description of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by : William Prescott Smith
Download or read book A History and Description of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad written by William Prescott Smith and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The War Came by Train by : Daniel Carroll Toomey
Download or read book The War Came by Train written by Daniel Carroll Toomey and published by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Speeches, Addresses, Etc by : Anthony Jerome Griffin
Download or read book Speeches, Addresses, Etc written by Anthony Jerome Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
