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Author : Edward M. DeRouin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972874328
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (743 download)
Download or read book Moving Mail and Express by Rail written by Edward M. DeRouin and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dirk Wales
Publisher : Great Plains
ISBN 13 : 9780963245908
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (459 download)
Download or read book A Lucky Dog written by Dirk Wales and published by Great Plains. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of Owney, a dog who traveled all over the U.S.A. on mail trains from 1888 to 1896.
Author : Mike Sullivan
Publisher : Libri Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781912969005
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Mail Rail written by Mike Sullivan and published by Libri Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Post Office Railway, when it started running in 1927, was the first fully automated driverless railway in the world, a full forty years before the Victoria Line started service in London in 1967. The railway below London became the main means of moving mail, with Mount Pleasant being the hub of the distribution system. Linking with London's main line stations, most of the country's long-distance mail travelled via the Post Office Railway. The fascinating story of how it began, how it was built, and why it closed is told here in an accessible way that tries to cover a highly technical and innovative system in a way that is easy to understand. The railway closed in 2003, but that was not the end of the story. The Postal Museum took over part of the Mount Pleasant sorting office to tell the story of 500 years of postal history and to open Mail Rail again with specially built trains as a visitor attraction and the start of a whole new adventure. If you are a railway enthusiast, postal enthusiast, urban explorer, or just interested in finding out more about one of London's best-kept secrets, this book is a must read for you.
Author : Julian Stray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782001182
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Mail Trains written by Julian Stray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to the prompt delivery of the nation's mail is its efficient transit throughout the country. From 1830, the Post Office relied increasingly on the overland rail network to achieve this, with Railway Post Offices, Sunday Sorting Tenders and District Sorting Carriages among the services introduced. More important lines carried the famous 'Night Mail' carriages, rarely seen by the public, other than those seeking out the late-night facility of posting directly into the side of a mail train. All these were supplemented by additional services enabling even rural locations to enjoy a 'next day' service only dreamed of in the age of the mail coach. This book provides a history of the overland carriage of mail by rail, from draughty and poorly lit sorting carriages in 1838 through to the purposeful late-twentieth-century 'Ladies in Red'.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Transportation of Mail written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Service and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Monica Halpern
Publisher : National Geographic Kids
ISBN 13 : 9780792269939
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (699 download)
Download or read book Railroad Fever written by Monica Halpern and published by National Geographic Kids. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and its effects on American life. By the 1840s, daring Americans were trickling westward to begin a new life in the great wide open. When gold was discovered in 1848, the promise of riches drew people by the thousands out to California. But the journey was slow and dangerous, since the best ways of travelling were by wagon and on foot. During the "railroad fever" of the 1830s, thousands of miles of track were laid, mostly throughout the Northeast and the South. Few had dreamt of extending this new travel westward-but all it takes is a few. Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act in 1862, allowing for the start of the first transcontinental railroad. Though construction problems and hard times confronted them, American workers, Chinese immigrants, and former slaves pounded away through the rough geography of the western U.S., paving a path for the new train. A day in the life of a railroad worker was not an easy one. The work was backbreaking; the conditions were terrible; and workers were often faced with attack from Native Americans. The building of the railroad turned into a great race between two companies, the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific, to see who could finish their part of the railroad faster. The company that got farthest stood to make the most money. The "great race" turned into a national pastime-with reports of progress dominating the news. Railroad Fever illuminates the struggles of the railroad worker, the anger of the Plains Indians, and the many changes in both American life and geography that were prompted by the railroad. The completion of the transcontinental railroad left empty boomtowns across the country, changed the ethnic face of America, and, of course, created a new exciting and fast way of travel. Like the other titles in the Crossroads America series, Railroad Fever is illustrated with period paintings, drawings, and photographs. Also included are a glossary and an index.
Author : Michael O. Tunnell
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064437248
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)
Download or read book Mailing May written by Michael O. Tunnell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-09-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays it's no big deal or a girl to travel seventy-five miles. But when Charlotte May Pierstorff wanted to cross seventy-five miles of Idaho mountains to see her grandma in 1914, it was a very big deal indeed. There was no highway except the railroad, and a train ticket would have cost her parents a full day's pay. Here is the true story of how May got to visit her grandma, thanks to her won spunk, her father's ingenuity, and the U.S. mail. 00-01 CA Young Reader Medal Masterlist and 01 Colorado Children's Book Award (Pic. Bk Cat.)
Author : Better Homes and Gardens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780696019371
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Trains & Railroads written by Better Homes and Gardens and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fun projects for kids to do.
Author : Marilyn Coffey
Publisher : Out West Press
ISBN 13 : 9780962631726
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (317 download)
Download or read book Mail-order Kid written by Marilyn Coffey and published by Out West Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the orphan train movement through the eyes of one small child who yearns to know her "real" mother, survives a tortured childhood, when she encountered whippings and sexual abuse, and ultimately, as an adult, comes to terms with her past, her faith, and herself.
Author : Peter Bently
Publisher : QEB Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1609927907
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Train is on Track written by Peter Bently and published by QEB Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Train is speeding through the countryside when Dog sees a red signal. There's a fallen tree and the mail train is stuck! How can Train help to keep the mail moving? It's time to get busy with machines that race, vroom and zoom! This vibrant series is designed to excite playful pre-schoolers. Each story features a popular vehicle as the central character, and involves a group of animal characters in a supporting role. A detailed spread on different parts of the vehicle will help children tom understand what makes up the machines and help familiarise them with vehicle vocabulary and noises.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Railroad Mail Clerks written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John R. Stilgoe
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813930502
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Train Time written by John R. Stilgoe and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike many United States industries, railroads are intrinsically linked to American soil and particular regions. Yet few Americans pay attention to rail lines, even though millions of them live in an economy and culture "waiting for the train." In Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape, John R. Stilgoe picks up where his acclaimed work Metropolitan Corridor left off, carrying his ideas about the spatial consequences of railways up to the present moment. Arguing that the train is returning, "an economic and cultural tsunami about to transform the United States," Stilgoe posits a future for railways as powerful shapers of American life. Divided into sections that focus on particular aspects of the impending impact of railroads on the landscape, Train Time moves seamlessly between historical and contemporary analysis. From his reading of what prompted investors to reorient their thinking about the railroad industry in the late 1970s, to his exploration of creative solutions to transportation problems and land use planning and development in the present, Stilgoe expands our perspective of an industry normally associated with bad news. Urging us that "the magic moment is now," he observes, "Now a train is often only a whistle heard far off on a sleepless night. But romantic or foreboding or empowering, the whistle announces return and change to those who listen." For scholars with an interest in American history in general and railroad and transit history in particular, as well as general readers concerned about the future of transportation in the United States, Train Time is an engaging look at the future of our railroads.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Helfenstein
Publisher : Spies LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780984412600
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Making of on Her Majesty's Secret Service written by Charles Helfenstein and published by Spies LLC. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on years of research, hundreds of interviews, and exclusive access to the archives of author Ian Fleming, screenwriter Richard Maibaum, and director Peter Hunt, this inside look features never-before-published script details and hundreds of rare, behind-the-scenes photographs.
Author : Julian Stray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 074781113X
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Mail Trains written by Julian Stray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to the prompt delivery of the nation's mail is its efficient transit throughout the country. From 1830, the Post Office relied increasingly on the overland rail network to achieve this, with Railway Post Offices, Sunday Sorting Tenders and District Sorting Carriages among the services introduced. More important lines carried the famous 'Night Mail' carriages, rarely seen by the public, other than those seeking out the late-night facility of posting directly into the side of a mail train. All these were supplemented by additional services enabling even rural locations to enjoy a 'next day' service only dreamed of in the age of the mail coach. This book provides a history of the overland carriage of mail by rail, from draughty and poorly lit sorting carriages in 1838 through to the purposeful late-twentieth-century 'Ladies in Red'.
Author : Katherine Cole Stevenson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471143949
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Houses by Mail written by Katherine Cole Stevenson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1995-07-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the American Dream by Mail Order --Smithsonian Americans have ordered from Sears, Roebuck just about everything they have needed for their homes for 100 years--but from 1908 to 1940, some 100,000 people also purchased their houses from this mail-order wizard. Sears ready-to-assemble houses were ordered by mail and shipped by rail wherever a boxcar or two could pull in to unload the meticulously precut lumber and all the materials needed to build an exceptionally sturdy and well-designed house. From Philadelphia, Pa., to Coldwater, Kans., and Cowley, Wyo., Sears put its guarantee on quality bungalows, colonials and Cape Cods, all with the latest modern conveniences--such as indoor plumbing. Houses by Mail tells the story of these precut houses and provides for the first time an incomparable guide to identifying Sears houses across the country. Arranged for easy identification in 15 sections by roof type, the book features nearly 450 house models with more than 800 illustrations, including drawings of the houses and floor plans. Because the Sears houses were built to last, thousands remain today to be discovered and restored. Houses by Mail shows how to return them to their original charm while it documents a highly successful business enterprise that embodied the spirit and domestic design of its time. "After decades of obscurity, Sears houses have become chic." --Wall Street Journal "These were . spacious, solidly built homes." --Parade "Don't be surprised if your own cozy bungalow turns up [in the book]."--Philadelphia Inquirer "A nostalgic and informative look at the tastes of Americans in the years before World War II."--Publishers Weekly "The bible to researchers of Sears' ready-cut homes."--Saturday Evening Post
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prologue written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
