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Author : Patsy Adam-Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Desert Railway written by Patsy Adam-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brendon Judd
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780143019152
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (191 download)
Download or read book The Desert Railway written by Brendon Judd and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the untold story of the hundreds of New Zealand railwaymen - shunters, builders, engine drivers, firemen, engineers - who answered the call to construct and operate a railway network in the Western Desert during the Second World War. Overlooked in other war histories, these men played a significant role in the Allied victory in North Africa. The desert railway became a crucial strategic operation, transporting soldiers, equipment and supplies to the front line, that the Germans were determined to destroy. The various challenges they faced, from relentless bombing, to the dreaded fifty-day-long khamseen winds, to the siege of Tobruk, culminated in the second Battle of El Alamein, during which Field Marshal Montgomery stated, 'Well, now it's the railway versus Rommel.' The Desert Railway is a tribute to the courage and enterprise of these railwaymen who kept the trains running no matter what.
Author : Donald B. Robertson
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History: The desert states written by Donald B. Robertson and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railroads are listed alphabetically by state with detailed company descriptions including dates of operation, miles of track, maximum grade, gauge, rail weight, and the histories of thousands of locomotives. With maps and black and white photos. The book also has chapters discussing the development of West, including construction of forts and post offices, and notes on railroad construction in the area (locomotive census, major builders, mileage, fuel consumption, etc.). The information in the book was gleaned from federal and state government data, and newspapers of the period.
Author : F. W. Aickin
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Desert Railway written by F. W. Aickin and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brendon Judd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473093013
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Desert Railway written by Brendon Judd and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Railway Group is made up of the 9th Railway Survey Company, the 10th Railway Construction and Maintenance Company, the Headquarters Railway Construction and Maintenance Group, the 17th Railway Operating Company, the 16th Railway Operating Company and the 13th Railway Construction Company.
Author : William Thomas Massey
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Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Desert Campaigns written by William Thomas Massey and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reena Deutsch
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738581484
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (814 download)
Download or read book San Diego and Arizona Railway written by Reena Deutsch and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveyors called the San Diego and Arizona Railway (SD&A) "The Impossible Railroad" because of its jagged, mountainous, and brutal desert route. The financier and driving force behind building this binational 148-mile rail connection to the east from San Diego, California, was businessman John D. Spreckels. Because of his perseverance, the jinxed 1907-1919 construction overcame a series of disasters, including the Mexican Revolution, a prolonged lawsuit, floods, World War I, labor shortages, a tunnel cave-in, and a lethal pandemic. Once up and running, the line was intermittently in and out of service and later sold and renamed the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway. While "The Impossible Railroad" still faces constant challenges and partial closures, freight and trolley service currently operate on its right-of-way, and tourist excursions are offered at its Campo, California, depot.
Author : Donald B. Robertson
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History: The mountain states written by Donald B. Robertson and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : George Bradshaw
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Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Bradshaw's railway &c. through route and overland guide to India, Egypt, and China; or The traveller's manual [&c. Title varies. Afterw.]. Bradshaw's through route overland guide to India, and colonial handbook [afterw.] Bradshaw's through routes to the capitals of the world and overland guide to India, Persia, and the Far East [afterw.] Bradshaw's through routes to the chief cities of the world. [Issues for 1858-62, 65, 69, 71/2, 73/4, 75/6, 78/9, 84, 98, 1903, [07] 13]. written by George Bradshaw and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ph.D., Reena Deutsch
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439640475
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book San Diego and Arizona Railway written by Ph.D., Reena Deutsch and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveyors called the San Diego and Arizona Railway (SD&A) The Impossible Railroad because of its jagged, mountainous, and brutal desert route. The financier and driving force behind building this binational 148-mile rail connection to the east from San Diego, California, was businessman John D. Spreckels. Because of his perseverance, the jinxed 19071919 construction overcame a series of disasters, including the Mexican Revolution, a prolonged lawsuit, floods, World War I, labor shortages, a tunnel cave-in, and a lethal pandemic. Once up and running, the line was intermittently in and out of service and later sold and renamed the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway. While The Impossible Railroad still faces constant challenges and partial closures, freight and trolley service currently operate on its right-of-way, and tourist excursions are offered at its Campo, California, depot.
Author : Murat Özyüksel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857737430
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Hejaz Railway and the Ottoman Empire written by Murat Özyüksel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railway expansion was symbolic of modernization in the late 19th century, and Britain, Germany and France built railways at enormous speed and reaped great commercial benefits. In the Middle East, railways were no less important and the Ottoman Empire's Hejaz Railway was the first great industrial project of the 20th century. A route running from Damascus to Mecca, it was longer than the line from Berlin to Baghdad and was designed to function as the artery of the Arab world - linking Constantinople to Arabia. Built by German engineers, and instituted by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the railway was financially crippling for the Ottoman state and the its eventual stoppage 250 miles short of Mecca (the railway ended in Medina) was symbolic of the Ottoman Empire's crumbling economic and diplomatic fortunes. This is the first book in English on the subject, and is essential reading for those interested in Industrial History, Ottoman Studies and the geopolitics of the Middle East before World War I.
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Total Pages : 1234 pages
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Total Pages : 644 pages
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Author : Steve Schmollinger
Publisher : Boston Mills Press
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Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book Tehachapi written by Steve Schmollinger and published by Boston Mills Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic and textual description of the heavily congested Tehachapi rail freight route in California.
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Author : Matthew D. Esposito
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351211838
Total Pages : 2985 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 written by Matthew D. Esposito and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-29 with total page 2985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 is the first collection of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Its dual purpose is to promote understanding of complex historical processes leading to globalization and generate interest in transnational and global comparative research on railways. In four volumes, organized by historical geography, this scholarly collection gathers rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. It adopts a capsule approach that focuses on short selections of significant primary source content instead of redundant and irrelevant materials found in online data collections. The current collection draws attention to railway cultures through railroad reports, parliamentary papers, government documents, police reports, public health records, engineering reports, technical papers, medical surveys, memoirs, diaries, travel narratives, ethnographies, newspaper articles, editorials, pamphlets, broadsides, paintings, cartoons, engravings, photographs, art, ephemera, and passages from novels and poetry collections that shed light on the cultural history of railways. The editor’s original essays and headnotes on the cultural politics of railways introduce over 200 carefully selected primary sources. Students and researchers come to understand railways not as applied technological impositions of industrial capitalism but powerful, fluid, and idiosyncratic historical constructs.
Author : Paul Clammer
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781841621142
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Sudan written by Paul Clammer and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wide appeal of this first dedicated guide to Sudan will satisfy the needs of aid workers, ecotravelers, and those with diverse interests in topics such as archaeology, travel photography, hiking, and diving.
