Author: John R. HildebrandPublisher:
ISBN: 9781572492325
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Twenty-three color photos offer a pictured history of railroading in the Shenandoah Valley.
Iron Horses in the Valley
Author: John R. HildebrandPublisher:
ISBN: 9781572492325
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Twenty-three color photos offer a pictured history of railroading in the Shenandoah Valley.
Iron Horses
Author: Walter R. BornemanPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316371793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
A "masterly" account of the origins of the transcontinental railroad (Douglas Brinkley) by the author of the bestselling The Admirals. After the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for grabs, and the race was on. The prize: a better, shorter, less snowy route through the American Southwest, linking Los Angeles to Chicago. In Iron Horses, Borneman recounts the rivalries, contested routes, political posturing, and business dealings that unfolded as an increasing number of lines pushed their way across the country. Borneman brings to life the legendary robber barons behind it all and also captures the herculean efforts required to construct these roads -- the laborers who did the back-breaking work, the brakemen who ran atop moving cars, the tracklayers crushed and killed by runaway trains. From backroom deals in Washington, DC, to armed robberies of trains in the wild deserts, from cattle cars to streamliners and Super Chiefs, all the great incidents and innovations of a mighty American era are made vivid in Iron Horses.
Iron Horses
Author: Verla KayPublisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Welcome aboard! Travel back in time to join the workers of the Union Pacific Railroad as they pounded west and those from the Central Pacific Railroad as they charged east to build the first transcontinental rail line in the United States. They were racing to meet in Utah, and it was high drama all the way. Workers had to burst through rocky outcrops while hanging in baskets and sleep in tents on top of railroad cars or in barracks buried in snow. Bouncy, short verse highlights the steps it took to finally bring the tracks together, and powerful illustrations capture the landscape and the labor.
Iron Horses to Promontory
Author: Gerald M. BestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In picture and text this book tells of the locomotives involved in the building of the first transcontinental railroad and its completion with the driving of a golden spike into a laurel tie at Promontory Utah, May 10, 1869. The rolling stock is described; the locomotive builders too long neglected, are presented and the writer brings to the reader interested in the Pioneer West, many "happenings" along the line which have hitherto not been published. This book also includes many rare and unpublished photographs of construction times, locomotives, and scenes along the route by such acknowledged cameramen of the time as Andrew J. Russell, S. ). Sedgwick, Charles 11. Savage, and Alfred A. Hart. There are maps, timetables and documentary reproductions, a complete roster of motive power of the Central Pacific to 1891 mid the Union Pacific to 1885 and scale model drawings of Central Pacific No. 60 Jupiter and Union Pacific No. 119.
Post Roads & Iron Horses
Author: Richard DeLucaPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819571733
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The fascinating history of turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys in Connecticut Post Roads & Iron Horses is the first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New England. Advances in transportation technology during the nineteenth century transformed the Constitution State from a rough network of colonial towns to an industrial powerhouse of the Gilded Age. From the race to build the Farmington Canal to the shift from water to rail transport, historian and transportation engineer Richard DeLuca gives us engaging stories and traces the significant themes that emerge as American innovators and financiers, lawyers and legislators, struggle to control the movement of passengers and goods in southern New England. The book contains over fifty historical images and maps, and provides an excellent point of view from which to interpret the history of New England as a whole. This is an indispensable reference book for those interested in Connecticut history and a great gift for transportation buffs of all kinds.
On Chariots with Horses of Fire and Iron
Author: Anthony S. TravisPublisher: Hebrew University Magnes Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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Proceedings
Author: Albany InstituteA River and Its City
Author: Ari KelmanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520234321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Using an interdisciplinary approach, Kelman underscores the role that common people have played in shaping the city and portrays the Mississippi as an active participant in New Orlean's history."--BOOK JACKET.
Death of the Iron Horse
Author: Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
In an act of bravery and defiance against the white men encroaching on their territory in 1867, a group of young Cheyenne braves derail and raid a freight train. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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