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Author : Frank Hamilton Spearman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Strategy of Great Railroads written by Frank Hamilton Spearman and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Hamilton Spearman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Strategy of Great Railroads written by Frank Hamilton Spearman and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank H 1859-1937 Spearman
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781359780140
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Strategy of Great Railroads written by Frank H 1859-1937 Spearman and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Frank Hamilton Spearman
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230415994
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)
Download or read book The Strategy of Great Railroads written by Frank Hamilton Spearman and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... THE VANDERBILT LINES On the lower river front of a little New Jerseytown, flanked on the one hand by dreaming hulks of rheumatic towboats, and on the other by the decaying buildings of a past generation, stands a forsaken hotel. Its windows, framed once to cheer, stare wide and sightless upon the street, and its heavy oak doors swing crazily to every wind; its floors creak uneasily under strange feet and its broken halls echo vacantly to living voices. Only bats and spiders and wood-worms seek its hospitality now; yet to the American railroad world this ruin ought to be of singular interest. The name of the place was once the Steamboat Hotel--the genius of its owner breaking out even then in the title he chose for his inn. But the venture was never, at its best, all that its founder hoped. What now lends strange interest to the shabby landmark is, that out of the magic of its early days have risen stately palaces, lofty facades, a dynasty of American railway magnates, the splendor of Oriental dreams, and a system of transportation unapproached in the story of the world; for under the roof of this New Brunswick ruin Mrs. Vanderbilt, it is said, saved the first eight hundred dollars that gave her husband, the Commodore, his start in the transportation business. To-day the Vanderbilts are the merchant princes of the railway world. Yesterday, on their own lines, they handled 70,000 cars; to-morrow it may be 100,000. When the founder of the system began in those early days to wrestle with problems of transportation, when he was getting his first taste of competition and rate wars and was carrying passengers by boat from New Brunswick to New York for sixpence, with their dinners (perhaps literally) thrown in--the straight tariff being two...
Author : Frank H. Spearman
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781497862494
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (624 download)
Download or read book The Strategy of Great Railroads written by Frank H. Spearman and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1904 Edition.
Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610391802
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
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.
Author : Peter A. Hansen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253062373
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Crossroads of a Continent written by Peter A. Hansen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921 tells the story of the state's railroads and their vital role in American history. Missouri and St. Louis, its largest city, are strategically located within the American Heartland. On July 4, 1851, when the Pacific Railroad of Missouri began construction in St. Louis, the city took its first step to becoming a major hub for railroads. By the 1920s, the state was crisscrossed with railways reaching toward all points of the compass. Authors Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, and Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes explore the history of Missouri railroads through personal, absorbing tales of the cutthroat competition between cities and between railroads that meant the difference between prosperity and obscurity, the ambitions and dreams of visionaries Fred Harvey and Arthur Stilwell, and the country's excitement over the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color images of historical railway ephemera, Crossroads of a Continent is an engaging history of key American railroads and of Missouri's critical contribution to the American story.
Author : Howard Elliott
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330744086
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Truth About the Railroads (Classic Reprint) written by Howard Elliott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Truth About the Railroads Upon the one hand there is a critical public. Upon the other, the railroads are struggling with forces which are causing rates to remain stationary or to decline, causing wages to rise or to remain stationary, bringing demands from a prosperous and luxurious people for increasingly expensive facilities and service, and causing taxation to rise at an alarming rate. These four forces are all at work reducing the margin between income and outgo and making it more and more difficult for the owners of railroad properties to keep their lines in suit able condition to carry on the business of the country, and to obtain a return commensurate with the risk of the business and sufficient to attract further investment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Isaiah Leo Sharfman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331728085
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The American Railroad Problem written by Isaiah Leo Sharfman and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Railroad Problem: A Study in War and Reconstruction The object of this book is to provide for the intelligent citizen - including the large inarticulate public, as well as the student, the publicist, the legislator, the business man, the shipper, and the railroad security holder, executive, and employee - an analysis of the American railroad problem as it presents itself to-day. Of all the great current social and economic questions, it is doubtful whether any domestic problem is as significant or far-reaching, from the standpoint of the general welfare, as the problem of the railroads. Not only is every citizen vitally concerned in its satisfactory adjustment, but the degree of success which crowns the joint efforts of private enterprise and government activity in its solution will constitute the most convincing test of the efficacy of our democratic institutions in meeting the dominant tasks of this generation. At every point, therefore, the essential issues must be conceived in terms of their public bearing, and each measure designed to adjust conflicting claims must be assessed with reference to the common good. A great complexity of interests is involved. Even when reduced to most general categories, they comprehend those of the users of the transportation service, of the owners of the railroad properties, and of the employees engaged in the performance of transportation tasks. While each of these interests must be adequately safeguarded, the public stake in the proper functioning of the transportation industry transcends them all. "Justice," once wrote Dean Roscoe Pound, "is the ideal compromise between the activities of each and the activities of all in a crowded world." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : William James Cunningham
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266418931
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (189 download)
Download or read book American Railroads written by William James Cunningham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Railroads: Government Control and Reconstruction Policies Up to the middle of the decade 1900 to 1910, the steady growth in traffic and the economies from improved Operating methods, enabled the rail roads to absorb the burden of higher wages and other costs, and to move the traffic at lower rates per ton-mile. The net income was sufficient to pay a reasonable rate of return on securities and to attract new capital when needed. New lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Henry Greenleaf Pearson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331434187
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (341 download)
Download or read book An American Railroad Builder written by Henry Greenleaf Pearson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An American Railroad Builder: John Murray Forbes The materials for this study have been chiefly the immense mass of Forbes's correspondence as preserved in his letter-press books, a maze to which his unpublished Reminiscences have served as a clue. Except for the annual reports of the Michigan Central and the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroads, and pertinent state and national documents, contemporary matter in print is meagre and throws light, if at all, on things done rather than on ways by which they were. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Charles A. Prouty
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484118255
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)
Download or read book President Roosevelt's Railroad Policy written by Charles A. Prouty and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from President Roosevelt's Railroad Policy: Report of a Discussion Before the Economic Club of Boston, March 9, 1905 It is said that railroad stocks were low in 1897, and they were. They were in 1901. Since 1901 Northern Securities stock has advanced $560 to $65 per share. That means a further advance in the market value of the capital stock of the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern of over - money enough, once more, to construct those two railroads from the head of Lake Superior to the Pacific Coast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Swann
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331438380
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (383 download)
Download or read book An Investor's Notes on American Railroads (Classic Reprint) written by John Swann and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Investor's Notes on American Railroads Railroads, their Origin and Problems. C. F. Adams Jr. F Railroad Transportation. Prof. A. T. Hadley. 1; The Railways and the Republic Jas. F. Hudson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Charles E. Mitchell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780243134601
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book American Railways Under Government Operation and the Financial Outlook (Classic Reprint) written by Charles E. Mitchell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Railways Under Government Operation and the Financial Outlook Fearing that some of you, hurried by the business of the day, may feel that you must leave this audience before I have fairly launched into a discussion of my subject, I am going to give you a glimpse of the last page of the book, as it were, so that you may know how the story comes out. I am going to throw my colors to the breeze at the very beginning and say that I am unalterably opposed to Government ownership and operation of railroads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Railroad History written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julius Grodinsky
Publisher : Beard Books
ISBN 13 : 9781587980039
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 1869-1893 written by Julius Grodinsky and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Henry Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781528473811
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book National Consolidation of the Railways, of the United States (Classic Reprint) written by George Henry Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
