Author: United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on interstate commercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Abandonment of Railroad Lines
Author: United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on interstate commercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Abandonment of Railroad Lines
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Abandoned Tracks
Author: W. Thomas MainwaringPublisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268103607
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
In Abandoned Tracks, W. Thomas Mainwaring bridges the gap between scholarly and popular perceptions of the Underground Railroad. Historians have long recognized that many aspects of the Underground Railroad have been mythologized by emotion, memory, time, and wishful thinking. Mainwaring’s book is a rich, in-depth attempt to separate fact from fiction in one local area, while also contributing to a scholarly discussion of the Underground Railroad by placing Washington County, Pennsylvania, in the national context. Just as the North was not consistent in its perspective on the Civil War and the slavery issue, the Underground Railroad had distinct regional variations. Washington County had a well-organized abolition movement, even though its members helped a comparatively small number of fugitive slaves escape, largely because of the small nearby slave population in what was then western Virginia. Its origins as a slave county make it an interesting case study of the transition from slavery to freedom and of the origins of black and white abolitionism. Abandoned Tracks lends much to the ongoing scholarly debate about the extent, scope, and nature of the Underground Railroad. This book is written both for scholars of abolitionism and the Underground Railroad and for an audience interested in local history.
Right-of-way
Author: Waldo NielsenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lost Railroads of New England
Author: Ronald Dale KarrPublisher:
ISBN: 9780942147117
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The 3rd edition of a railroad classic, Lost Railroads of New England comprises a summary of the rise and fall of New England's railroads and a fully annotated directory of all abandoned segments of every common carrier railroad in New England, updated through January 1, 2010. This edition features all new maps showing rail trails as well as abandonments, with detailed city maps for areas of dense railroad activity; new sections on rail trails and lines that have been reinstated; many more photographs of trails and rail artifacts on abandoned lines; and many directory entries rewritten for better clarity and expanded with new information.
Burlington Northern, Inc. Application to Abandon Railroad Line at Coeur D'Alene
Author: Interstate Commerce Commission Notice
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Storage and moving trade
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Abandoned Railroads of Delmarva
Author: Douglas PoorePublisher: America Through Time
ISBN: 9781634992855
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
For over 100 years, the railroads of America were the king of transportation. But more than that, they were truly what drove the Industrial Revolution, and along with that, the growth of the country. Railroads made communities from nothing, grew sleepy crossroad towns into major hubs of commerce, and opened areas of Delmarva to goods they once could only read about in magazines and newspapers. By the 1960s, all of this had changed. Passenger service had fallen off to the point that most railroads had ended this once vital travel method. Trucks now hauled the goods that once filled the boxcars of the railroad. Many old rail lines closed. The rails and stations were abandoned to the state governments. Most were just left in place to rust and rot away. This book resurrects those abandoned rails and railroad companies. Photos of the stations, once the center of their town's growth, are preserved in these pages. Memories of the companies that crisscrossed Delmarva are brought back to life.
A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946
Author: Richard C. CarpenterPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801873317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Little now remains of the vast network of passenger and freight railroad lines that once crisscrossed much of eastern and midwestern America, but in 1946, the steam locomotive was king. This is a record of a time when traveling out of town meant, for most Americans, taking the train.
The Wreck of the Penn Central
Author: Joseph R. DaughenPublisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781893122086
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
It took ten years of laborious planning and exhaustive negotiations to create the mammoth Penn Central Railroad, the largest railroad in United States history. When the leviathan was finally born of a merger between the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads on February 1, 1968, the event was hailed as a great day for railroading. But the baby giant survived only 367 days. The crash of the Penn Central set a new record, this time for the largest bankruptcy the United States had ever seen. "The Wreck of the Penn Central" provides a close-up view of the events that brought the Big Train to bankruptcy court--over-regulation, subsidized competition, big labor featherbedding, greed, corporate back-stabbing, stunning incompetence, and, yes, even a little sex.