Author: American Society of Civil EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cascade Tunnel (Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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The Eight-mile Cascade Tunnel, Great Northern Railway
Author: American Society of Civil EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cascade Tunnel (Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Great Northern Railway
Author: Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452907102
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Written by historians at Harvard Business School, Mississippi State U., and St. Cloud State U. (Minn.), this history details the development and day- to-day affairs of this powerful business, and the careers of the main figures instrumental in its operation. This definitive work, first published by
The White Cascade
Author: Gary KristPublisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1429905700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The never-before-told story of one of the worst rail disasters in U.S. history in which two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, are hit by a devastating avalanche In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records. The world stopped—but nowhere was the danger more terrifying than near a tiny town called Wellington, perched high in the Cascade Mountains, where a desperate situation evolved minute by minute: two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found themselves marooned without escape, their railcars gradually being buried in the rising drifts. For days, an army of the Great Northern Railroad's most dedicated men—led by the line's legendarily courageous superintendent, James O'Neill—worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains. But the storm was unrelenting, and to the passenger's great anxiety, the railcars—their only shelter—were parked precariously on the edge of a steep ravine. As the days passed, food and coal supplies dwindled. Panic and rage set in as snow accumulated deeper and deeper on the cliffs overhanging the trains. Finally, just when escape seemed possible, the unthinkable occurred: the earth shifted and a colossal avalanche tumbled from the high pinnacles, sweeping the trains and their sleeping passengers over the steep slope and down the mountainside. Centered on the astonishing spectacle of our nation's deadliest avalanche, Gary Krist's The White Cascade is the masterfully told story of a supremely dramatic and never-before-documented American tragedy. An adventure saga filled with colorful and engaging history, this is epic narrative storytelling at its finest.
Information Circular
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
Using Precast Reinforced-concrete Sets in the Pioneer Tunnel of Great Northern Railway's Cascade Tunnel, King County, Wash
Author: Edward W. ParsonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Precast concrete
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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St. Nicholas
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Trains and Technology: Track and structures
Author: Anthony J. BianculliPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138023
Category : Locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Railway and Locomotive Engineering
Author: The New International Encyclopaedia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
The New International Encyclopædia
Author: Daniel Coit GilmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1181
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