Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download East Texas Railroads And Locomotives Collection full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online East Texas Railroads And Locomotives Collection ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Download or read book East Texas Railroads and Locomotives Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Material compiled from various sources concerning railroads and locomotives which have operated in East Texas.
Author : Murry Hammond
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439655871
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book East Texas Logging Railroads written by Murry Hammond and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the first logging railroad was built in Jasper County in the 1870s, the virgin East Texas forest spread across a vast area the size of Indiana. That first eight-mile logging line heralded a boom era of lumbering and railroading that would last well into the 20th century. Before the era was over, thousands of miles of logging railroads would be built, and hundreds of communities would spring up along their routes. As times changed, the mills closed and nearly all of the early rail lines were abandoned, but most of the communities they helped establish survived those changes and thrive into the present day.
Author : Robert S. Maxwell
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574410617
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Whistle in the Piney Woods written by Robert S. Maxwell and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the founding of the Houston, East and West Texas Railroad, its symbiotic relationship with forests and the lumber industry and its role in the development of East Texas.
Author : St. Clair Griffin Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of the Texas Railroads written by St. Clair Griffin Reed and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David M. Bernstein
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439639981
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas written by David M. Bernstein and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Pacific Railroad and its predecessors served Texas from 1853 to 1996. Stretching from El Paso to the Louisiana border and from the Rio Grande Valley to the Red River, Southern Pacific opened up vast areas of the state to settlement by transporting people, building materials, and livestock. The railroad fueled Texass economy by moving oil, timber, agricultural commodities, coal, automobiles, petrochemicals, cement, steel, consumer goods, and myriad other products. It hauled the marble that built the state capitol in Austin and the materials to build the massive seawall in Galveston. Southern Pacific also played an important role in developing the ports of Beaumont, Galveston, Houston, and Corpus Christi. This book is a photographic record of Southern Pacific in eastern Texas during the 50-year period following World War II to the 1996 merger with the Union Pacific Railroad.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book East Texas written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas L. Weiskopf
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738558844
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (588 download)
Download or read book Rails Around Houston written by Douglas L. Weiskopf and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several railroads were chartered by the Republic of Texas, but the first line built was the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado, which began construction near the Port of Houston Turning Basin in 1851. The BBB&C would become the oldest segment of the countryas first transcontinental railroad under sole ownership: the Southern Pacificas Sunset Route, connecting New Orleans and Los Angeles and completed in 1883. By the time oil was discovered near Beaumont in 1901, Houston was such a transportation hub that it became the heart of the petrochemical industry. Houston saw narrow-gauge lines, two interurban lines, light rail, and even a monorail. For many years, the chamber of commerce proudly proclaimed that Houston was the place awhere seventeen railroads meet the sea.a More than 30 beautiful trains with names like Sunset Limited, Sunbeam, Sam Houston Zephyr, Twin Star Rocket, Bluebonnet, Texas Rocket, and Texas Chief would serve three depots.
Author : Houston East and West Texas Railway Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780259631804
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (318 download)
Download or read book East Texas written by Houston East and West Texas Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : East and West Texas Railway Com Houston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330527627
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (276 download)
Download or read book East Texas written by East and West Texas Railway Com Houston and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from East Texas: Along the Line of the Houston East West Texas Railroad Dear Sir: - Pursuant to your request, made to me in January last, I have carefully looked over the country through which your railroad runs - and for some miles on either side, and I have the following plain statement of facts to present, in a brief, plain way: [The road, as you and all old Texans know, is the conception of Paul Bremond, a man with great knowledge of Texas, and a man with most wonderful conception, in fact prophetic. Minerals. I have had no way of making other than a surface examination and observation of minerals. Cuts in the roadbed and in the public dirt highways, and from wells bored for water and lubricating oils, were the only means in my reach. I have to report iron ore in the greatest abundance and of the very best hemitite, shotted, laminated, potleg and clayband steel ore, containing 45 to 59 per cent of metalic iron. This is found in Angelina, Nacogdoches, Rusk, Panola and Cherokee counties. There is gypsum, isinglass and lead in Angelina county, also building stone and clays for almost all purposes. Brown coal (or lignite) is found in large quantities in Nacogdoches, Cherokee and Shelby counties. From San Jacinto county to Logansport in Shelby county is found vitrifying clay, and also fire tile and the very best character of potters' clay. There are also several beds, and with large quantities of kaolin, ochre, marl, shale, chalk and glass sand. The day along the line of the road is a matter of more than a passing notice, for they are of great value, and capital will seek them sooner or later. The brick works at Garrison, in Nacogdoches county, has already demonstrated this fact; the glass sand has been tested and found of good quality. 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 : Douglas Lee Braudaway
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738507668
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Railroads of Western Texas written by Douglas Lee Braudaway and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Pacific Railroad was the second transcontinental line built in America, and the first that was open year-round. Railroads of Western Texas brings to life the days of frontier towns, the open range, and the building of the state of Texas. This part of the state's railroad history includes politicians and movie stars, train wrecks and robberies, shoot-outs and gun-running. Railroads of Western Texas reveals engaging stories of San Antonio and El Paso during their boomtown years. It tells of the creation of communities out of whole cloth including Hondo, Sanderson, Marfa, and Sierra Blanca. Other towns-villages really-blossomed when the iron rails came through: Uvalde, Del Rio, Alpine, Valentine, and Judge Roy Bean's town Langtry (the man known as "The Law West of the Pecos"). The railroad featured the third highest bridge in the world (the High Bridge over the Pecos River), and the fourth largest man-made lake in the United States (Medina Lake). These rails carried men and munitions during the Spanish American War and the Punitive Expedition, and many more\ during the First and Second World Wars.
Author : Railroad Commission of Texas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Texas Rail Freight System written by Railroad Commission of Texas and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Goen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735337807
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (378 download)
Download or read book Passenger Trains of Texas - Rock Island written by Steve Goen and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features photos and history of the Rock Island Railroad's passenger trains that once served the State of Texas. Included are chapters on the Graham branch, the Amarillo-Canadian River line, the Short Line Flyer, Arizona Limited, Texas Rocket, Choctaw Rocket, Memphis-Californian, Oklahoma Rocket, the Fort Worth to El Reno RDC cars, the Choctaw Rockette, Twin Star Rocket, the Imperial, Cherokee and the Golden State. Each train and chapter are arranged in the order that each train was discontinued beginning in the 1930s and ending in February 1968 when the Golden State was finally dropped. The book is 148 pages in length, hardback, and contains scores of rare black & white and color photographs, dining car menus, vintage timetables, and rare newspaper articles. A must have for any fan of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad or Texas railroad history. This is the second volume in a series of Texas passenger train books by Steve Allen Goen.
Author : Fred W. Frailey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253045274
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Last Train to Texas written by Fred W. Frailey and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midnight train rides, head-on freight collisions—there is never a dull moment when it comes to trains. Take a look at America's biggest railroads and meet the thunderous personalities who operate them. In Last Train to Texas, author Fred W. Frailey examines the workings behind the railroad industry and captures incredible true stories along the way. Discover how men like William "Pisser Bill" F. Thompson swerve from financial ruin, bad merger deals, and cutthroat competition, all while racking up enough notoriety to inspire a poem titled "Ode to a Jerk." Bold, savvy, and ready for a friendly brawl, the only thing louder and more thrilling than these men are the trains that they handle. Come along with Frailey as he travels the world, one railroad at a time. Whether it's riding the Canadian Pacific Railway through a blizzard, witnessing a container train burglary in the Abo Canyon, or commemorating a poem to Limerick Junction in Dublin, Ireland, Frailey's journeys are rife with excitement and the occasional mishap. Filled with humorous anecdotes and thoughtful insights into the railroading industry, Last Train to Texas is an adventure in every sense of the word.
Author : Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book East-Southeast Texas on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad written by Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1906* with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Don L. Hofsommer
Publisher : Texas A & M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585440467
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Quanah Route written by Don L. Hofsommer and published by Texas A & M University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iron Horse forever changed the American West, from a wild frontier to a network of scattered settlements tied together by steel rails. Behind the romantic image of the galloping Iron Horse, however, lies a rich history of American business activity. Railway giants have dominated this history, but small companies such as the Quanah, Acme & Pacific Railway Company (QA&P), a short line that operated in four counties of northwestern Texas from near the turn of the century into the 1980s, had just as great an impact in their areas of operation as the giants did on the national scene. The QA&P developed in an era when railroads were tightly regulated by the Railroad Commission of Texas and the federal Interstate Commerce Commission. The in-depth historical analysis of an American short line railroad presented here is in essence the study of all such carriers in the era before deregulation. Fully illustrated with photographs and memorabilia, this volume covers the Quanah Route's birth, valiant struggle for life, and eventual demise in a changing regulatory and competitive environment. This then is a history not only of a railroad but also of its service area, particularly during one of the last great railroad construction booms, which took place in West Texas during the 1920s. Through the years of the QA&P's life, energetic men such as Sam Lazarus and Charles Sommer juggled political and financial concerns against the changing times, Lazarus making the deal by which the QA&P became a subsidiary of the St. Louis–San Francisco (Frisco) road. In the end, the "good roads movement," trucking industry, and growing American passion for the private automobile spelled the end of the railroads' golden age as the prime carrier of passengers and products. As traced by Don L. Hofsommer in the full archives of the QA&P, the history of this short line railroad embodies the pulse and pathos of a place through the changing times of the twentieth century.
Author : East Line and Red River Railroad Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (278 download)
Download or read book The East Line and Red River Railroad Company (Texas). written by East Line and Red River Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1873* with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph A. Strapac
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253336019
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Cotton Belt Locomotives written by Joseph A. Strapac and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and only complete study of the Southwest's most successful railway is back in print! This book documents a proud history with diagrams, maps, and over 300 photographs. Includes a roster of every steam and diesel locomotive owned by the Cotton Belt and its predecessors up to 1977. A must-have for any locomotive enthusiast.
