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Author : Greg Stout
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965904032
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Route of the Eagles written by Greg Stout and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a thoroughly researched look at Missouri Pacific's streamlined passenger train era, which lasted from 1940 to 1971.
Author : Patrick C Dorin
Publisher : TLC Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781883089719
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Missouri Pacific Passenger Trains written by Patrick C Dorin and published by TLC Publishing. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for passenger train buffs, MoPac fans and modelers, this overview of Missouri Pacific passenger trains and service tells the complete story since the first streamlined trains to travel the line, to the arrival of Amtrak in 1971. Nicknamed the Route of the Eagles, it spanned from the Midwest all the way to Mexico and operated a diverse fleet of colorful passenger trains in the years between World War II and Amtrak. Photographs, car diagrams, drawings, maps, timetables and consists, and advertising material round out this colorful history.
Author : Peter A. Hansen
Publisher : Railroads Past and Present
ISBN 13 : 9780253062369
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Crossroads of a Continent written by Peter A. Hansen and published by Railroads Past and Present. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossroads of a Continent: The Missouri Railroad 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 : Joel P. Rhodes
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826266428
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book A Missouri Railroad Pioneer written by Joel P. Rhodes and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyer and journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Louis Houck is often called the “Father of Southeast Missouri” because he brought the railroad to the region and opened this backwater area to industrialization and modernization. Although Houck’s name is little known today outside Missouri, Joel Rhodes shows how his story has relevance for both the state and the nation. Rhodes presents a more complete picture of Houck than has ever been available: reviewing his life from his German immigrant roots, considering his career from both social and political perspectives, and grounding the story in both state and national history. He especially tells how, from 1880 to the 1920s, this self-taught railroader constructed a network of five hundred miles of track through the wilderness of wetlands known as “Swampeast Missouri”—and how these “Houck Roads” provided a boost for population, agriculture, lumbering, and commerce that transformed Cape Girardeau and the surrounding area. Rhodes discusses how Houck fits into the era of economic individualism—a time when men with little formal training shaped modern industry—and also gives voice to Houck’s critics and shows that he was not always an easy man to work with. In telling the story of his railroading enterprise, Rhodes chronicles Houck’s battle with the Jay Gould railroad empire and offers key insight into the development of America’s railway system, from the cutthroat practices of ruthless entrepreneurs to the often-comic ineptness of start-up rail lines. More than simply a biography of a business entrepreneur, the book tells how Houck not only developed the region economically but also followed the lead of Andrew Carnegie by making art, culture, and formal education available to all social classes. Houck also served for thirty-six years as president of the Board of Regents of Southeast Missouri State Teacher’s College, and as a self-taught historian he wrote the first comprehensive accounts of Missouri’s territorial period. A Missouri Railroad Pioneer chronicles a multifaceted career that transformed a region. Solidly researched, this lively narrative also offers an entertaining read for anyone interested in Missouri history.
Author : Maury Klein
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801857713
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Life and Legend of Jay Gould written by Maury Klein and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jay Gould was an individual who for a century has been singled out as the most unscrupulous of the turn-of-the-century robber barons. In this splendid biography Maury Klein paints the most complete portrait of the notorious Gould ever written. Klein's Gould is a brilliant but ruthless businessman who merged dying railroads into expansive, profit-making lines, including the giant Union Pacific. 40 illustrations.
Author : H. Craig Miner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The St. Louis-San Francisco Transcontinental Railroad written by H. Craig Miner and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610605595
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Union Pacific Railroad written by Brian Solomon and published by . This book was released on with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and description of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743203173
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Nothing Like It In the World written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Author : Michael A. Landis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692990483
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Show-Me Katy written by Michael A. Landis and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, colorful look at the Missouri-Kansas-Texas "Katy" Railroad's route linking Parsons, Kansas with Sedalia, Missouri and St. Louis, Missouri. Also included are lines to El Dorado Springs; Moberly; Columbia; and Kansas City. With a special emphasis on the 1970s and 1980s, the book features more than 350 train photographs; detailed maps; and interviews with former employees. A town-by-town rundown highlights points of interest along the corridor, most of which became the Katy Trail State Park.
Author : Kevin EuDaly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965904025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Missouri Pacific Diesel Power written by Kevin EuDaly and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes detailed locomotive roster and index. A chronicle of the history of the diesel locomotive on the Missouri Pacific, its predecessors and subsidiaries.
Author : Charles A. Duckworth
Publisher : Missouri-Pacific Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781681842769
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (427 download)
Download or read book The Missouri-Illinois Railroad written by Charles A. Duckworth and published by Missouri-Pacific Historical Society. This book was released on 2020-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Frederick Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book When Railroads Were New written by Charles Frederick Carter and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of Missouri Pacific Railroad Company written by Missouri Pacific Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Molly Butterworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681062891
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Trains and Trolleys: Railroads and Streetcars in St. Louis written by Molly Butterworth and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle between St. Louis and Chicago to be the Midwest's leading city long predates the one between the Cardinals and the Cubs. Chicago won the fight to be considered part of the nation's first transcontinental railroad, and the Gateway City's delay in building a railroad bridge over the Mississippi River kept St. Louis in second place railroad service in the Midwest. But while Chicago had the Pullman Car Company, St. Louis featured more of the most important manufacturers in the rail industry, including American Car & Foundry and the St. Louis Car Company. St. Louis was dotted with historic rail structures ranging from its grand Union Station to depots built just after the Civil War, and a number of its suburbs were born of rail lines serving the area, with streets that still wear the names of the railroads they paralleled. In Trains and Trolleys of St. Louis, you have a ticket to hop aboard and travel across nearly two centuries through what the city built, operated, and preserved for the railroad. Hear the stories of the great-grandfathers who worked the rails, or take a walk down memory lane and a streetcar ride down to Gaslight Square. Local author and locomotive enthusiast Molly Butterworth carefully catalogues the history and significance of St. Louis' connection to its railroad days. Through the years, many of the railroad stations and streetcar stops have gone by the wayside, but their stories have lived on. Read about the ones you can still go enjoy, included in the many wonderful secrets shared among the pages of Trains and Trolleys of St. Louis.
Author : H. Craig Miner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Rebirth of the Missouri Pacific, 1956-1983 written by H. Craig Miner and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Missouri Pacific Railway Company (1880-1909)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Annual Report to the Stockholders of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company written by Missouri Pacific Railway Company (1880-1909) and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Asa Whitney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Project for a Railroad to the Pacific written by Asa Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
