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Historical Atlas of Early Railways

Author : Derek Hayes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781771621755
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Historical Atlas of Early Railways written by Derek Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sense the very earliest railways were simply ruts caused by the passage of carts on softer ground. Railways of this nature may have been in use as early as 2200 BCE. But railways became a worldwide economic force only in the middle of the nineteenth century, some forty or fifty years after the first demonstration of a mechanically powered train. What radically changed--in the space of less than three decades--was the method of propulsion, from human or horse power to steam powered "travelling engines," the forerunners of the modern railway locomotive. Such railways enabled faster, more efficient transport of people and goods, opened the world to settlement and changed the nature of war, allowing supplies and soldiers to be moved much faster than on horseback or on foot. Historical Atlas of Early Railways highlights the innovations, failures and most memorable moments of railways through the ages. Read about a variety of designs and inventions including the steam underground in 1863, rack and mountain railways, electric railways, monorails and atmospheric railways. Study the world's oldest surviving railway map. This newest addition to the popular Historical Atlas Series features 320 maps and 450 photos and other illustrations, and is a beautifully designed chronicle for anyone who has a fondness for history, maps or trains.

The First Railways

Author : Derek Hayes
Publisher : Times Books
ISBN 13 : 9780008249489
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book The First Railways written by Derek Hayes and published by Times Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly illustrated volume covering the emergence of the modern railway in a unique, essentially geographical way. Contemporary maps, many never before published, showing the locations and routes of the early railways.

Inside National Health Reform

Author : John E. McDonough
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520274520
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Inside National Health Reform written by John E. McDonough and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law. An account of the process from the 2008 presidential campaign to the moment in 2010 when the bill was signed into law before anyone had a chance to digest the document. At a time when the nation is taking a second look at the ACA, "Inside National Health Reform" provides essential information for Americans to review the governmental processes and politics in enacting this legislation.

The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads

Author : John F. Stover
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415921404
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads written by John F. Stover and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999

The Scottish Railway Atlas

Author : David Spaven
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 9781780272382
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Railway Atlas written by David Spaven and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich diversity of Scotland's railway network has never before been the subject of a specialist atlas. This book showcases 181 topographical and railway maps, telling the story of the country's railways from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Researched and written by David Spaven - who co-wrote the best-selling Mapping the Railways on the history of Britain's rail network - this beautiful atlas allows the reader to understand the bigger story of the effects of the railways on the landscape and the impact of Scotland's distinctive geography on the pattern of railway development over a period of nearly 200 years. The unique map selection is supported by an informative commentary of key cartographic, geographic and historical features. This sumptuous atlas will appeal not just to railway enthusiasts and those who appreciate the beauty of maps, but also to readers fascinated by the role of railways in Scotland's modern developments.

Atlas of North American Railroads

Author : Bill Yenne
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 9780760322994
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Atlas of North American Railroads written by Bill Yenne and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2005-12-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its postwar peak, the North American railroad industry comprised as many as 100 lines. The classic system maps produced by the railroads of the day, collected for the first time in this volume, offer a sweeping view of the industry’s remarkable reach in the period of its greatest power. Each railroad’s routes unfold in multi-page spreads featuring a capsule history, vital specs such as track mileage and years of operation, and period photographs, all detailing the mid-twentieth-century might of North American railroads.

A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946

Author : Richard C. Carpenter
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801880780
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 written by Richard C. Carpenter and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing 202 hand-drawn color maps of every railroad line in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, this book provides a unique record of a time when passenger trains still made stops in every town and freight trains carried the bulk of the nation's cargo. Drawn at a scale of 1 inch to 4 miles, the maps include main and branch passenger and freight lines, former steam locomotive and manual signal tower stations, towns that functioned as crew change points, track pans, coaling stations, and a variety of indexes of railroad features. Carpenter is a longtime observer and collector of railroad history. This is the first volume in a series that eventually will provide the first comprehensive atlas of the U.S. post-World War II railroad system. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The First Railroads

Author : Derek Hayes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780228100096
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Railroads written by Derek Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A highly illustrated volume tracing the emergence of modern railways. In this book, [the author] compiles archival maps and illustrations, many never before published, showing the locations and routes of the world's early railways, as well as the locomotive and rail technology that was key to the development of those railroads. In addition to maps, the illustrations include photos of most of the surviving first locomotives from collections around the world and of replicas too, where they exist"--Amazon.com.

Early Railways

Author : Stephen Weston
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 9781526700162
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Early Railways written by Stephen Weston and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Railways, A Guide for the Modeler will encourage and support the modeling of the earliest period of railway history, from the very beginnings of steam traction at the start of the nineteenth century, up to about 1880; a period which for British modelers has scarcely been covered in book form. Over these few decades the railways evolved from something which at the start was markedly different, into a scene that any present-day railwayman would recognize. It is a time with much to commend it from a modelers point of view. The trains were much shorter and therefore easier to fit into the limited space most of us have available as, correspondingly, were the station layouts, especially at the beginning of the period. Modeled at 7mm to the foot scale, a modern steam express would need at least 12 or 13 feet in length and a minimum curve radius of 6 feet, whereas an 1840 express of a loco and a dozen carriages might be no more than about 6 feet long and, behind the scenes at least, able to take curves of no more than 2 or 3 feet radius, as well as being able to instantly catch the eye of the viewer.

Railway Maps of the World

Author : Mark Ovenden
Publisher : Viking Press
ISBN 13 : 9780670022656
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book Railway Maps of the World written by Mark Ovenden and published by Viking Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of international railway maps and posters features a chronological timeline from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway of 1830 to the proposed 2020 high-speed networks of China in an atlas representing more than one hundred countries.

British Columbia

Author : Derek Hayes
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781926812571
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book British Columbia written by Derek Hayes and published by Douglas & McIntyre Limited. This book was released on 2012 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical Writing, the BC Book Prizes' Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award, and the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia. Over 900 maps tell the story of the planners, schemers, gold seekers and fur traders who built Canada's westernmost province. When gold was discovered in quantity in 1858, leading to the gold rush that created British Columbia, the interior of the province was mostly unknown except for the routes blazed by fur traders. Thirteen years later, British Columbia became a province of Canada, and a transcontinental railway was built to connect the land west of the Rocky Mountains with the rest of the country. The efforts of these explorers, fur traders, gold seekers and railway builders involved the production of maps that showed what they had found and what they proposed to do -- the plans and the strategies that created the province we know today. Master map historian Derek Hayes continues his renowned Historical Atlas Series with a richly rewarding treasure trove, bringing to light the dramatic history of British Columbia. Ranging from maps by early Aboriginal inhabitants and by the Europeans who arrived to explore and exploit the province's vast resource wealth -- to the maps drawn by those who, decades later, prepared for war, built dams and tracked murders -- the over 900 maps in this collection, two-thirds of which are published for the first time, reveal the thoughts and plans of the dreamers, explorers and dynasty makers who built today's British Columbia. This is a history of both the dreams that came true and those that didn't -- yet all are part of the dramatic tale of the forging of Canada's western frontier.

The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads

Author : John F. Stover
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415921343
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads written by John F. Stover and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999

Illustrated Atlas of Maine's Street and Electric Railways

Author : Charles Heseltine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781502406224
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Illustrated Atlas of Maine's Street and Electric Railways written by Charles Heseltine and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical Atlas of Central Europe

Author : Paul Robert Magocsi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487523319
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Historical Atlas of Central Europe written by Paul Robert Magocsi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central Europe remains a region of ongoing change and continuing significance in the contemporary world. This third, fully revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Central Europe takes into consideration recent changes in the region. The 120 full-colour maps, each accompanied by an explanatory text, provide a concise visual survey of political, economic, demographic, cultural, and religious developments from the fall of the Roman Empire in the early fifth century to the present. No less than 19 countries are the subject of this atlas. In terms of today's borders, those countries include Lithuania, Poland, and Belarus in the north; the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, and Slovakia in the Danubian Basin; and Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, and Greece in the Balkans. Much attention is also given to areas immediately adjacent to the central European core: historic Prussia, Venetia, western Anatolia, and Ukraine west of the Dnieper River. Embedded in the text are 48 updated administrative and statistical tables. The value of the Historical Atlas of Central Europe as an authoritative reference tool is further enhanced by an extensive bibliography and a gazetteer of place names - in up to 29 language variants - that appear on the maps and in the text. The Historical Atlas of Central Europe is an invaluable resource for scholars, students, journalists, and general readers who wish to have a fuller understanding of this critical area, with its many peoples, languages, and continued political upheaval.

The Historical Atlas of the British Isles

Author : Ian Barnes
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783408065
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book The Historical Atlas of the British Isles written by Ian Barnes and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual history of the many peoples who’ve inhabited and shaped Britain, from hunter-gatherers to Celts, Vikings, Normans, and modern immigrants. This atlas covers the history of the British Isles from earliest times to the present day. The first hunter-gatherers, who crossed into what would become the United Kingdom by the land-bridge, and later followed by more familiar peoples the Celts, Angles, Saxons, Vikings, and Normans, who together would create Britain’s unique history. Each of these groups contributed ideas that shaped the lands, languages, and thoughts at the core of British identity. This story is illustrated with 150 full-color maps and plans that range across many topics, such as agricultural, political, and industrial revolutions. The expansion of the islands’ peoples across the oceans left a lasting legacy on the world, and on Britain itself. The book shows the fluctuating fortunes of the states by which Britain currently identifies itself, from an Anglo-Scottish imperium to devolved power, independence, and the often-painful process by which the modern map evolved. The forces of history and religion have often divided the islands’ peoples, but DNA unites them much more than most would realize as they continue to embrace new cultures arriving in search of refuge, opportunity, and equality.

American Railroads

Author : John F. Stover
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226776603
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book American Railroads written by John F. Stover and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few scenes capture the American experience so eloquently as that of a lonely train chugging across the vastness of the Great Plains, or snaking through tortuous high mountain passes. Although this vision was eclipsed for a time by the rise of air travel and trucking, railroads have enjoyed a rebirth in recent years as profitable freight carriers. A fascinating account of the rise, decline, and rebirth of railroads in the United States, John F. Stover's American Railroads traces their history from the first lines that helped eastern seaports capture western markets to today's newly revitalized industry. Stover describes the growth of the railroads' monopoly, with the consequent need for state and federal regulations; relates the vital part played by the railroads during the Civil War and the two World Wars; and charts the railroads' decline due to the advent of air travel and trucking during the 1950s. In two new chapters, Stover recounts the remarkable recovery of the railroads, along with other pivotal events of the industry's recent history. During the 1960s declining passenger traffic and excessive federal regulation led to the federally-financed creation of Amtrak to revive passenger service and Conrail to provide freight service on bankrupt northeastern railroads. The real savior for the railroads, though, proved to be the Staggers Rail Act of 1980, which brought prosperity to rail freight carriers by substantially deregulating the industry. By 1995, renewed railroad freight traffic had reached nearly twice its former peak in 1944. Bringing both a seasoned eye and new insights to bear on one of the most American of industries, Stover has produced the definitive history of railroads in the United States.

Iron Road West

Author : Derek Hayes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550178388
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book Iron Road West written by Derek Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Columbia wouldn't exist without the railway; the province was brought into the Canadian Confederation in 1871 in exchange for the promise of a transcontinental line to the West Coast. It was the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1886 that set off economic development in the province, created the city of Vancouver and spurred others to build competing lines. In Iron Road West, Derek Hayes charts the development of the province through its railway lines, using a wealth of photographs and other visuals to show how rails were laid through the wild terrain that characterized much of British Columbia. As railways revolutionized the province, they inevitably incited fierce competition and personal hatreds, creating an exciting frontier-like environment that Hayes describes in vivid detail. The book also covers the emergence of the modern freight railway in British Columbia, including fully automated and computerized trains. An extensive section details our railway legacy, including preserved railways, locomotives and facilities that can still be visited today. Prolifically illustrated, Iron Road West will fascinate not only railway enthusiasts, but anyone with an interest in the history of the province.