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Author : Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Eastern Railroad written by Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Dale Karr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780942147117
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Lost Railroads of New England written by Ronald Dale Karr and published by . This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 3rd edition of a railroad classic, Lost Railroads of New England comprises a summary of the rise and fall of New England's railroads and a fully annotated directory of all abandoned segments of every common carrier railroad in New England, updated through January 1, 2010. This edition features all new maps showing rail trails as well as abandonments, with detailed city maps for areas of dense railroad activity; new sections on rail trails and lines that have been reinstated; many more photographs of trails and rail artifacts on abandoned lines; and many directory entries rewritten for better clarity and expanded with new information.
Author : Andrew R. Black
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807174092
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Buried Dreams written by Andrew R. Black and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hoosac railroad tunnel in the mountains of northwestern Massachusetts was a nineteenth-century engineering and construction marvel, on par with the Brooklyn Bridge, Transcontinental Railroad, and Erie Canal. The longest tunnel in the Western Hemisphere at the time (4.75 miles), it took nearly twenty-five years (1851‒1875), almost two hundred casualties, and tens of millions of dollars to build. Yet it failed to deliver on its grandiose promise of economic renewal for the commonwealth, and thus is little known today. Andrew R. Black’s Buried Dreams refreshes public memory of the project, explaining how a plan of such magnitude and cost came to be in the first place, what forces sustained its completion, and the factors that inhibited its success. Black digs into the special case of Massachusetts, a state disadvantaged by nature and forced repeatedly to reinvent itself to succeed economically. The Hoosac Tunnel was just one of the state’s efforts in this cycle of decline and rejuvenation, though certainly the strangest. Black also explores the intense rivalry among Eastern Seaboard states for the spoils of western expansion in the post‒Erie Canal period. His study interweaves the lure of the West, the competition between Massachusetts and archrival New York, the railroad boom and collapse, and the shifting ground of state and national politics. The psychic makeup of Americans before and after the Civil War heavily influenced public perceptions of the tunnel; by the time it was finished, Black contends, the indomitable triumphalism that had given birth to the Hoosac had faded to skepticism and cynicism. Anticipated economic benefits never arrived, and Massachusetts eventually sold the tunnel for only a fraction of its cost to a private railroad company. Buried Dreams tells a story of America’s reckoning with the perils of impractical idealism, the limits of technology to bend nature to its will, and grand endeavors untempered by humility.
Author : Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Eastern Railroad written by Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Max R. Miller
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819577383
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Along the Valley Line written by Max R. Miller and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Connecticut Valley Railroad once carried both passengers and freight along the west bank of the Connecticut River between Hartford and Old Saybrook. Completed in 1871, today the railroad is known throughout New England for the nostalgic steam-powered excursion trains that run on a portion of the line between Essex and Chester. Until now the history of this popular tourist attraction has been the stuff of local lore and legend. This book, written by railroad historian and former vice president and director of Valley Railroad, Max R. Miller, provides the first comprehensive history of the Connecticut Valley Railroad through maps, ephemera, and archival photographs of the trains, bridges, and scenery surrounding the line. Offering tales of train wrecks, ghost sightings, booms and busts, Along the Valley Line will be treasured by railroad enthusiasts and historians alike.
Author : Eastern Railroad Company
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (574 download)
Download or read book The ... Annual Report of the Eastern Railroad Company ... written by Eastern Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743203173
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Nothing Like It In the World written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Author : Charles Nathan Harris
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1292 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Massachusetts Digest Supplement 1879-94 written by Charles Nathan Harris and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eastern Railroad Company
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Report of the Directors of the Eastern Rail-Road to the Stockholders written by Eastern Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610603751
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Csx written by Brian Solomon and published by . This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formed in 1980 as a holding company for the Chessie and Seaboard Systems and several other eastern railroads, CSX in 1986 merged these several companies into CSX Transportation, staking its claim as one of the nation's dominant merger roads. This illustrated history provides a background of CSX's 25 years on the American railroad scene, describing how the company came to swallow several legendary regional lines and merger roads. The book also examines CSX hardware, facilities, and operations on more than 20,000 miles of trackage throughout the eastern half of the United States, from 1980 through today. Included is an explanation of the 1999 agreement by which CSX and Norfolk Southern purchased and effectively split the operations of their northern rival Conrail. Marvelous color photography, of course, depicts CSX diesel-electric powered freight operations in eastern and Midwestern U.S. urban centers and rural areas.
Author : Philip E Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304733904
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Hampden Railroad -- The Greatest Railroad that Never Ran written by Philip E Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1980's, author Philip Johnson discovered a railroad bridge on the Central Mass branch in Bondsville. This began his investigation as to why the bridge was there, and what ran underneath. This discovery led him to a railroad lost in the woods with little written history. A stone post stands as a silent sentinel telling all that it is 82 miles to Boston from that point on the Hampden. This is the Hampden Railroad's story.
Author : Jeff Moore
Publisher : America Through Time
ISBN 13 : 9781634990103
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Eastern Oregon Shortline Railroads written by Jeff Moore and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of Oregon east of the Cascade Mountains is a raw and inhospitable land, largely the product of recent volcanic activity. Railroad builders constructed a couple mainlines skirting the edges of the region and some branch lines into agricultural communities, but found very little else to attract their interest. Over time, however, a small collection of interesting shortline railroads built or bought rail lines, either in conjunction with the developing timber industry in the Blue, Ochoco, and Wallowa mountains or to connect a few existing communities with the mainline that bypassed the town. This book tells the stories of these small railroads and the roles they played in the development and economies of the region; covered railroads includes the Big Creek & Telocaset; City of Prineville; Condon, Kinzua & Southern; Idaho, Northern & Pacific; Klamath Northern; Oregon & Northwestern; Oregon, California & Eastern; Oregon Eastern Division of the Wyoming/Colorado; Sumpter Valley; Union Railroad of Oregon; Wallowa Union; and others.
Author : Walter Licht
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400855845
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
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.
Author : Charles Wilson Felt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Eastern Railroad of Massachusetts written by Charles Wilson Felt and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 804 pages
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Download or read book Railway Locomotives and Cars written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Monthly Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eastern Railroad Company
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Act of Incorporation and By-laws of the Eastern Rail Road Company written by Eastern Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
