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Book Synopsis Where Rails Meet the Sea by : Michael Krieger
Download or read book Where Rails Meet the Sea written by Michael Krieger and published by Friedman-Fairfax. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Rails Meet the Sea chronicles the American railroads' fascinating maritime history through vividly detailed descriptions and 230 beautiful color and black-and-white photographs depicting the railroads' waterfront operations, buildings and facilities, trains, and majestic sea-faring fleets. Written with keen insight by historian Michael Krieger, this wonderful book portrays the lively character and activities of America's seaports from 1830 to 1960.
Book Synopsis All the Men in the Sea by : Michael Krieger
Download or read book All the Men in the Sea written by Michael Krieger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995, Hurricane Roxanne ravaged the Gulf of Mexico, trapping 245 workers manning barge 269 on a pipeline in the Yucatan Peninsula. Here, Krieger tells the harrowing true story of one of the greatest sea rescues in history.
Book Synopsis Tugboats of New York by : George Matteson
Download or read book Tugboats of New York written by George Matteson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich with first-person anecdotes of life on the New York waterways and 150 black-and-white photographs, this volume will fascinate readers interested in New York history, boating and maritime history.
Book Synopsis Rails Around Houston by : Douglas L. Weiskopf
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.
Book Synopsis The Port of Los Angeles by : Michael D. White
Download or read book The Port of Los Angeles written by Michael D. White and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic of the Port of Los Angeles was initiated more than 150 years ago by a handful of visionaries and entrepreneurs who exploited both fortunate and outrageous circumstances to transform a tidal mudflat into the world's largest man-made harbor. Phineas Banning and archrival Augustus Timms were among the first to realize the potential of the coastal dent on the map called San Pedro Bay in the 1850s. The bay's namesake village expanded from a backwater loading point for raw cattle hides to a deepwater harbor rivaling and eventually surpassing San Francisco as the busiest port on the U.S. Pacific coast, and would later become the nation's largest container port. Political battles in far-off Washington, D.C., economic booms and depressions, world wars, and billions of tons of cargo and material later, the Port of Los Angeles remains America's premier revolving door for trade with markets around the world.
Book Synopsis The Port of Long Beach by : Michael D. White
Download or read book The Port of Long Beach written by Michael D. White and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising from a tidal mudflat at the mouth of the Los Angeles River, the Port of Long Beach has grown through the 20th century into the one of the busiest deepwater ports. The ultramodern Port of Long Beach, the second-largest active harbor in the United States in the first decade of the 21st century, progressed steadily through a difficult adolescence fueled by the ambitions of a visionary few local community leaders who overcame political opposition to create a port separate and distinct from its neighboring Port of Los Angeles. Fueled by oil, Southern Californias unprecedented postWorld War II growth, and the container revolution, the Port of Long Beach surmounted numerous natural and man-made hurdles to position itself, in its own right, as a critical link in the nations global supply chain.
Book Synopsis Art and Artisans of Meriden by : Justin Piccirillo
Download or read book Art and Artisans of Meriden written by Justin Piccirillo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located between the urban centers of New York City and Boston, the city of Meriden, Connecticut, has been an important hub for art and artisans for over a century. The city's rich tradition of innovative design has long been acknowledged as an outstanding contribution to the larger development of American art. Many of America's leading artists have come from or lived in Meriden, including 19th-century sculptor Chauncey B. Ives, early-20th-century painter Ethel Easton Paxson, and, in more recent years, children's book author/ illustrator Tomie dePaola. Meriden's art scene blossomed with an abundance of artistic talent at the beginning of the 20th century. This convergence of artists and designers ultimately led to the creation of an artist colony. In late 1907, the Arts and Crafts Association of Meriden was formed and, to its acclaim, remains the second-oldest continuously active arts organization in the state. Today, Meriden's tradition as a center for art, design, and aesthetics continues.
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Book Synopsis Where Rails Meet the Sea by : Michael J. Krieger
Download or read book Where Rails Meet the Sea written by Michael J. Krieger and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shipwrecks of the California Coast by : Michael D. White
Download or read book Shipwrecks of the California Coast written by Michael D. White and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two thousand ships have been lost along California's 840 miles of coastline--Spanish galleons, passenger liners, freighters, schooners. Some tragedies are marking points in U.S. maritime history. The "City of Rio de Janeiro," bound from Hong Kong to San Francisco in 1901, sliced the fog only to strike a rock and sink in twenty minutes, sending 128 passengers to watery graves. Seven U.S. Navy destroyers, bound on a fateful 1923 night from San Francisco to San Diego, crashed into the rocks at Honda Point on the treacherous Santa Barbara County coast, killing 23 sailors in one of the military's worst peacetime losses. Join author Michael D. White as he navigates the shoals of shipping mishaps with both salvage stories and elegies to the departed.
Download or read book Railroad History written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railsea written by China Miéville and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Other names besides [Herman] Melville’s will surely come to mind as you read this thrilling tale—there’s Dune’s Frank Herbert. . . . But in this, as in all of his works, Miéville has that special knack for evoking other writers even while making the story wholly his own.”—Los Angeles Times On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one’s death & the other’s glory. Spectacular as it is, Sham can’t shake the sense that there is more to life than the endless rails of the railsea—even if his captain thinks only of hunting the ivory-colored mole that took her arm years ago. But when they come across a wrecked train, Sham finds something—a series of pictures hinting at something, somewhere, that should be impossible—that leads to considerably more than he’d bargained for. Soon he’s hunted on all sides, by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters & salvage-scrabblers. & it might not be just Sham’s life that’s about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “[Miéville] gives all readers a lot to dig into here, be it emotional drama, Godzilla-esque monster carnage, or the high adventure that comes only with riding the rails.”—USA Today “Superb . . . massively imaginative.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Riveting . . . a great adventure.”—NPR “Wildly inventive . . . Every sentence is packed with wit.”—The Guardian (London)
Book Synopsis New York History by : Alexander Clarence Flick
Download or read book New York History written by Alexander Clarence Flick and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nicknames and Sobriquets of U.S. Cities, States, and Counties by : Joseph Nathan Kane
Download or read book Nicknames and Sobriquets of U.S. Cities, States, and Counties written by Joseph Nathan Kane and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists geographic nicknames by city, county, state, and nickname.
Book Synopsis When the Railroad Leaves Town by : Joseph P. Schwieterman
Download or read book When the Railroad Leaves Town written by Joseph P. Schwieterman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sea written by Frederick Whymper and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Union Pacific Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employee magazine of the Union Pacific System.
