Author: Jeffrey Alan CauthenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780986048777
Category : Railroad passenger cars
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Chicago & North Western, Milwaukee Road, Rock Island, and Union Pacific Interline Dining & Lounge Cars in Southern Pacific Passenger Trains
Author: Jeffrey Alan CauthenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780986048777
Category : Railroad passenger cars
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Union Pacific's Streamliners
Author: Joe WelshPublisher:
ISBN: 9781616731151
Category : Locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
An authoritative, lavishly illustrated history of Union Pacific's revolutionary passenger services from 1934 to the end of the railroad's passenger operations in 1971.
A Mighty Fine Road
Author: H. Roger GrantPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253052688
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
“Grant has once again hit a home run . . . a detailed but readable history of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, a major Midwestern railroad.” —Carlos A. Schwantes, St. Louis Mercantile Library Professor Emeritus The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad’s history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it became the first railroad to reach and then cross the Mississippi River in 1856, it emerged as a leading American railroad company. But after aggressive expansion and a subsequent change in management, the company struggled and eventually declared bankruptcy in 1915. What followed was a cycle of resurrections and bankruptcies; a grueling, ten-year, ultimately unsuccessful battle to merge with the Union Pacific; and the Rock Island’s final liquidation in 1981. But today, long after its glory days and eventual demise, the “Mighty Fine Road” has left behind a living legacy of major and feeder lines throughout the country. In his latest work, railroad historian H. Roger Grant offers an accessible, gorgeously illustrated, and comprehensive history of this iconic American railroad. “This handsome, well-illustrated book merits the attention of any reader interested in the history of Iowa. And just as important, the book reminds us of the importance of railroads to the history and vitality of American society. All aboard!” —Iowa City Press-Citizen “A Mighty Fine Road lays out the amazing, yet heartbreaking history of the railroad I loved. The historical opportunities and disappointments of the Rock Island is clearly explained in Grant’s book, with visionaries keeping the dream moving forward, yet damaged and constrained by greed and lack of vision with the next management regime.” —Dan Sabin, President, Iowa Northern Railway Company
The Railway and Engineering Review
Author: Railway Review
Author: Maps and Description, Overland Route
Author: Chicago and North Western Railway CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad travel
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
The Overland Route to the Road of a Thousand Wonders
Author: Union Pacific Railroad Company. Passenger DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad travel
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Company Abandonment, West Union and Linn Junction and Between Hopkinton and Jackson Junction, ETAS
Author: Dining Car to the Pacific
Author: William A. McKenziePublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 145290734X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
William A. McKenzie offers an illustrated and detailed account of hospitality on the Northern Pacific - a service that many considered the best in the industry - drawing on sources ranging from railroad records of the 1860s to anecdotal accounts from the people who were there. In addition, McKenzie includes more than 150 authentic recipes used on the line, such as the Great Big Baked Potato, Washington Apple Pan Cake, and Northern Pacific Fruit Cake. Dining Car to the Pacific will be a treasured addition to the libraries of historians, cooks, and any one with nostalgia for the dinning car experience.
Union Pacific's Challenger
Author: Patrick C. DorinPublisher: TLC Publishing (VA)
ISBN: 9781883089641
Category : Railroad passenger cars
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For the first time, detailed coverage of the Union Pacific/Chicago & Northwestern passenger trains tells the entire story of this innovative line. Complete with coaches and tourist sleepers, the UP and C&NW in 1935 inaugurated a transcontinental train tailored to middle-class passengers. On its new line, UP provided stewardess-nurses, special women's coaches, distinctive dining on special china, lounges, and other amenities normally associated with the best first-class trains. Read how the trains expanded into a fleet, despite the soft passenger market.