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Railroaded

Author : Richard White
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393342379
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Railroaded written by Richard White and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations." —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book Review The transcontinental railroads were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating economic panics. Their dependence on public largesse drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations rearranged space and time, remade the landscape of the West, and opened new ways of life and work. Their discriminatory rates sparked a new antimonopoly politics. The transcontinentals were pivotal actors in the making of modern America, but the triumphal myths of the golden spike, Robber Barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age, often darkly funny, that shows history to be rooted in failure as well as success.

The Complete Book of North American Railroading

Author : Kevin EuDaly
Publisher : Crestline Books
ISBN 13 : 0785833897
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Book of North American Railroading written by Kevin EuDaly and published by Crestline Books. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate over 150 years of the North American railroad with this visual history. You'll be amazed by over 400 modern and vintages photographs of these trains!

Intermodal Railroading

Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781616731144
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Intermodal Railroading written by Brian Solomon and published by . This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated history chronicles one of the most revolutionary developments in freight railroading during the twentieth century: intermodal shipping, or the use of containers to move cargo between trains, trucks, and oceangoing vessels. It was a development that transformed the movement of freight around the world, with an almost incalculable impact on American industry. Intermodal railroading in North America begins tentatively, with attempts at piggybacking in the 1930s, before moving on to more serious developments in the period from World War II through the 1960s, notably by Canadian Pacific and the New Haven and Southern Pacific railroads. After looking at early intermodal technology and traffic, particularly the formation of pioneering equipment manufacturer and provider TTX, author Brian Solomon turns to the contemporary period. His account of mighty changes in North American shipping ranges from the implications of deregulation and various railroad mergers, to the emergence of partnerships between railroads and trucking and shipping firms. In addition to railroads like Conrail, BNSF, and CSX, this comprehensive history features trucking, freight delivery, and forwarding firms such as J. B. Hunt, Sea-Land, Maersk, and K-Line. It also considers the importance of specialized modern rolling stock, motive power, loading equipment, and intermodal hubs including South Kearney, Seattle, Long Beach, Oakland, and Houston.

Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

Author : Richard White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393082601
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America written by Richard White and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize: "A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations." —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book Review This original, deeply researched history shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike, robber barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age, often darkly funny, that shows history to be rooted in failure as well as success.

The Making of Modern America

Author : Gary Donaldson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442209577
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Modern America written by Gary Donaldson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Dr. Gary A. Donaldson's highly successful textbook The Making of Modern America, introduces students to the cultural, social and political paths the United States has traveled from the end of WWII to the present day. While deftly cataloguing the sweeping changes and major events in America from "Dewey Defeats Truman" through the election of our first black President, this newly updated edition never loses touch with that American history taking place at the level of the people. This edition details not just the United States' rich cultural history, but elegantly repositions it as integral to our understanding of any portion of this country's past. Donaldson provides a factual foundation for students and then pushes them to interpret those facts, framing the discussions essential to any complete study of American history. The Making of Modern America, Second Edition is updated to include: --An expanded chapter titled "America After the New Millenium" which more retrospectively and completely details the 21st century's first decade. --A new chapter titled "The Second Bush and Obama: From the War on Terrorism to the Audacity of Hope" updating readers on the calamitous end to President George W. Bush's second term, the Obama administration's first term challenges and the Great Recession. --Newly revised readings each profiling an historical event, speech or figure--Lee Harvey Oswald to Bill Gates to Condoleeza Rice-- at the conclusion of each chapter.

Model Railroading As Art

Author : Lance Mindheim
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781726325400
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Model Railroading As Art written by Lance Mindheim and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Model railroading offers the exciting opportunity to be approached in the same way as any other branch of the art world. As such, the same principles can be applied to elevate your modeling efforts to new levels. Follow along as we delve into scene composition, color treatment theory, weathering, backdrops, layout room preparation, photography, and more!

Railroaded

Author : Phillip Crawford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781718940383
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Railroaded written by Phillip Crawford and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2005 19-year-old Brandon Woodruff was charged with murdering his parents in a rural northeast Texas town in the heart of the Bible belt. There was no direct evidence tying him to the gruesome crime -- no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, no bloody prints -- but investigators were convinced the teen boy was living a double life who killed when his two worlds supposedly collided. Brandon was a horse wrangler and attending Abilene Christian Univeristy, and he also was a porn actor and dancing at Dallas gay clubs. There was no double life; just a boy coming out. At trial in March 2009 the prosecution took a coming out story, and turned Brandon into The Talented Mr. Ripley. Eight of the jurors believed "that being homosexual or gay is morally wrong," and the jury convicted him after deliberating only five hours. Brandon Woodruff was railroaded with a homophobic narrative, and is serving a life sentence without parole.

Prune Country Railroading

Author : Norman W. Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780930742119
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Prune Country Railroading written by Norman W. Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Railroad, what it Is, what it Does

Author : John H. Armstrong
Publisher : Simmons-Boardman Books, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Railroad, what it Is, what it Does written by John H. Armstrong and published by Simmons-Boardman Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Populäre Eisenbahnliteratur.

Model Railroading with John Allen

Author : Linn Hanson Westcott
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780890242988
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Model Railroading with John Allen written by Linn Hanson Westcott and published by Kalmbach Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of one of the world's best known HO railroads -- John Allen's spectacular Gorre & Daphetid Railroad, a line so wonderfully detailed that it took decades to build. Hundreds of photos and construction details explain the life and death of this magnificent layout.

An American Glossary

Author : Richard Hopwood Thornton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book An American Glossary written by Richard Hopwood Thornton and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dialect Notes

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Dialect Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Railroading Economics

Author : Michael Perelman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583671358
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Railroading Economics written by Michael Perelman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most economic theory assumes a pure capitalism of perfect competition. This book is a penetrating critique of the rhetoric and practice of conventional economic theory. It explores how even in the United States—the most capitalist of countries—the market has always been subject to numerous constraints. Perelman examines the way in which these constraints have been defended by such figures as Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, and Herbert Hoover, and were indeed essential to the expansion of U.S. capitalism. In the process, he rediscovers the critical element in conservative thought—the “forgotten traditions of railroad economics”—that has been lost in the neoliberal present. This important and original historical reconstruction points the way to a discipline of economics freed from the mythology of the market.

Railroading Religion

Author : David Walker
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469653214
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Railroading Religion written by David Walker and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railroads, tourism, and government bureaucracy combined to create modern religion in the American West, argues David Walker in this innovative study of Mormonism's ascendency in the railroad era. The center of his story is Corinne, Utah—an end-of-the-track, hell-on-wheels railroad town founded by anti-Mormon businessmen. In the disputes over this town's frontier survival, Walker discovers intense efforts by a variety of theological, political, and economic interest groups to challenge or secure Mormonism's standing in the West. Though Corinne's founders hoped to leverage industrial capital to overthrow Mormon theocracy, the town became the site of a very different dream. Economic and political victory in the West required the production of knowledge about different religious groups settling in its lands. As ordinary Americans advanced their own theories about Mormondom, they contributed to the rise of religion itself as a category of popular and scholarly imagination. At the same time, new and advantageous railroad-related alliances catalyzed LDS Church officials to build increasingly dynamic religious institutions. Through scrupulous research and wide-ranging theoretical engagement, Walker shows that western railroads did not eradicate or diminish Mormon power. To the contrary, railroad promoters helped establish Mormonism as a normative American religion.

Railroading in Eighteen Countries

Author : Maj.-Gen. Carl R. Gray
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789122872
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Railroading in Eighteen Countries written by Maj.-Gen. Carl R. Gray and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the Military Railway Service of the United States Army from its beginning in 1862 and including a brief account of the Service in World War I. It is specifically the story of the military use of railroads in World War II and in Korea. General Gray has focused his comprehensive account on the performance of the personnel of the Service, and on outstanding individuals wherever possible. Out of more than 351,000 men and women employees of American railroads serving in all arms in World War II, 43,500 were assigned to various units of the Military Railway Service. This impressive record of their achievements covers history, organization, training and operations in Alaska, England, North Africa, Sicily and Italy, Northern France and Belgium, Southern France, Germany and Austria, Iran, India, the Philippines, New Caledonia, Australia, Japan and Korea. A notable feature of this handsome volume is the wealth of fine photographs of operations in all areas, for the most part photographs not seen before.

Railroading in the Eighties

Author : L. E. Roxbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Railroading in the Eighties written by L. E. Roxbury and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

RailRoaded

Author : J.L. Crafts
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1645408949
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book RailRoaded written by J.L. Crafts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Toal has seen a lot of the world in his twenty-three years, including war, the death of his family, and the loss of everything he owns. The gold his father left him, buried in the family graveyard, provides hope for a new future. He is determined to leave Georgia and the past behind him, and start fresh in Carson Valley, at the base of the mountainous Sierra Nevada bowl cradling Lake Tahoe. But here, Will comes up against a Goliath he never expected—Washington’s support of San Francisco capital and influence to finish the transcontinental railroad as soon as possible. Big business is backed by national pride and unbelievable monetary gain, and this means driving the railroad construction through the upper reaches of Carson Valley—no matter whose land stands in their way. Untenable right-of-way issues lead to a fierce gun battle between the railroad’s hired guns and the Carson Valley ranchers based on the real-life 1880 events of Mussel Slough, California, just outside the city of Hanford. Will and his fellow ranchers must try to survive the indomitable forces and insurmountable odds against them, fueled by more greed for power and money than they could ever have imagined. Can a compromise be reached in the completion of the grandest engineering effort the country has ever undertaken in its history, or will the ranchers and Will find themselves RAILROADED?