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Author : Carlton Jonathan Corliss
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Human Side of Railroading written by Carlton Jonathan Corliss and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carlton Jonathan Corliss
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ISBN 13 : 9781258592622
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Human Side of Railroading written by Carlton Jonathan Corliss and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book The Human Side of Railroading written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Human Side of Railroading written by and published by . This book was released on 1967* with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. E. Gorman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)
Download or read book On the Human Side of Railroading written by J. E. Gorman and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501747797
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book "Follow the Flag" written by H. Roger Grant and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Follow the Flag" offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. The corporate saga of the Wabash involved the efforts of strong-willed and creative leaders, but this book provides more than traditional business history. Noted transportation historian H. Roger Grant captures the human side of the Wabash, ranging from the medical doctors who created an effective hospital department to the worker-sponsored social events. And Grant has not ignored the impact the Wabash had on businesses and communities in the "Heart of America." Like most major American carriers, the Wabash grew out of an assortment of small firms, including the first railroad to operate in Illinois, the Northern Cross. Thanks in part to the genius of financier Jay Gould, by the early 1880s what was then known as the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway reached the principal gateways of Chicago, Des Moines, Detroit, Kansas City, and St. Louis. In the 1890s, the Wabash gained access to Buffalo and direct connections to Boston and New York City. One extension, spearheaded by Gould's eldest son, George, fizzled. In 1904 entry into Pittsburgh caused financial turmoil, ultimately throwing the Wabash into receivership. A subsequent reorganization allowed the Wabash to become an important carrier during the go-go years of the 1920s and permitted the company to take control of a strategic "bridge" property, the Ann Arbor Railroad. The Great Depression forced the company into another receivership, but an effective reorganization during the early days of World War II gave rise to a generally robust road. Its famed Blue Bird streamliner, introduced in 1950 between Chicago and St. Louis, became a widely recognized symbol of the "New Wabash." When "merger madness" swept the railroad industry in the 1960s, the Wabash, along with the Nickel Plate Road, joined the prosperous Norfolk & Western Railway, a merger that worked well for all three carriers. Immortalized in the popular folk song "Wabash Cannonball," the midwestern railroad has left important legacies. Today, forty years after becoming a "fallen flag" carrier, key components of the former Wabash remain busy rail arteries and terminals, attesting to its historic value to American transportation.
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Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Engines and the Engineman written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norm Cohen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068812
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (688 download)
Download or read book Long Steel Rail written by Norm Cohen and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition.
Author : George B. Abdill
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787208273
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book This Was Railroading written by George B. Abdill and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Part 1 of a historical collection of rare photos and true stories about the tracks, trains and trainmen of the Pacific Northwest...including Northern California. Railroading is the massive Mallet and the caboose hop. It is the lonely track walker, the roundhouse rumors, the water tender, the engineer’s long-spouted oil can. It is the age of steam centered in the most romantic field of industry and commerce ever to intrigue Mr. America. And here in this book of beauty and memory is the graphic story of railroading as the “New West” saw it and rode with it. Railroading to author George B. Abdill is the sound and picture of black bulk streaking and shrieking through the night with a jet of steam trailing back along the boiler. He saw and heard this as a boy on an Oregon farm and has carried it in his heart ever since. Now as a Southern Pacific engineer—“hoghead” to you—and a dedicated collector of railroadiana, he raises the lid of his personal locker to all other railroaders, active and armchair. Get into the cab and as Engineer Abdill steams up the grade he’ll spin you tales of the rails and illustrate them with a part of his precious collection, many of these photographs museum pieces of the first water, most of them never before published, all are rare.
Author : Neville A. Stanton
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 143987123X
Total Pages : 883 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Advances in Human Aspects of Road and Rail Transportation written by Neville A. Stanton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human factors and ergonomics have made considerable contributions to the research, design, development, operation and analysis of transportation systems and their complementary infrastructure. This volume focuses on the causations of road accidents, the function and design of roads and signs, the design of automobiles, and the training of the driver. It covers accident analyses, air traffic control, control rooms, intelligent transportation systems, and new systems and technologies.
Author : Elizabeth V. Baker
Publisher : Full Well Ventures
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Human Side of Grace written by Elizabeth V. Baker and published by Full Well Ventures. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article originally appeared in the April 1919 issue of Trust, a magazine produced by Elim Publishing House in Rochester, New York, founded by Mrs. Elizabeth V. Baker (1849-1915) and her three sisters. The magazine’s staff box lists Miss S.A. Duncan and Mrs. E.V. Baker as the editors and Mr. O.R. Hubbell as the treasurer. Trust magazine was published monthly from 1902 to 1932 “in the interests of Elim Faith Work and Bible Training School. Also to emphasize the return of our Lord as imminent, and the consequent Latter Rain Outpouring, now manifested in the earth as a preparation for that event. James 5:7, 8.” Trust magazine ceased publication in 1932.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Railroad Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 1989 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin C. Cooper
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449069215
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Cotton Belt Engineer written by Edwin C. Cooper and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a Texan. This is a TEXAS story. We spell it big here because it is a big story. A big story about a man from TEXAS. A story about a man who as a young boy saw what he wanted to do, set out to do it and accomplished his lifes ambition. The mans name was Cecil Standefer. The events in this book primarily happened in Texas between 1898 and 1981. He struggled some; had some personal losses and he overcame them. He grew up in a time when the United States of America grew to be recognized as a world power. His part in all that was that of a railroad employee. And not just any employee as Cecil Standefer was in engine service. He was in engine service for the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company and he was in this service for 50 years. Cecil Standefer wanted to become a locomotive engineer from the very first time he ever saw a train. He achieved his lifes ambition by becoming a Cotton Belt Engineer.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253052688
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book A Mighty Fine Road written by H. Roger Grant and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Grant has once again hit a home run . . . a detailed but readable history of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, a major Midwestern railroad.” —Carlos A. Schwantes, St. Louis Mercantile Library Professor Emeritus The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad’s history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it became the first railroad to reach and then cross the Mississippi River in 1856, it emerged as a leading American railroad company. But after aggressive expansion and a subsequent change in management, the company struggled and eventually declared bankruptcy in 1915. What followed was a cycle of resurrections and bankruptcies; a grueling, ten-year, ultimately unsuccessful battle to merge with the Union Pacific; and the Rock Island’s final liquidation in 1981. But today, long after its glory days and eventual demise, the “Mighty Fine Road” has left behind a living legacy of major and feeder lines throughout the country. In his latest work, railroad historian H. Roger Grant offers an accessible, gorgeously illustrated, and comprehensive history of this iconic American railroad. “This handsome, well-illustrated book merits the attention of any reader interested in the history of Iowa. And just as important, the book reminds us of the importance of railroads to the history and vitality of American society. All aboard!” —Iowa City Press-Citizen “A Mighty Fine Road lays out the amazing, yet heartbreaking history of the railroad I loved. The historical opportunities and disappointments of the Rock Island is clearly explained in Grant’s book, with visionaries keeping the dream moving forward, yet damaged and constrained by greed and lack of vision with the next management regime.” —Dan Sabin, President, Iowa Northern Railway Company
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Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Railroad Worker written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Railroad Trainman written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
