Author: John Kelly
Publisher: Enthusiast Books
ISBN: 9781583881866
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
“All aboard the streamlined, Vista-Dome North Coast Limited leaving on Track 1 for Minnesota’s Lake Region, the vast prairies of North Dakota, Montana’s magnificent Rockies, Idaho’s lakes and forests, the Inland Empire of Spokane to Puget Sound country, and the great seaports of Seattle-Tacoma and Portland.” The Northern Pacific was always a progressive leader in railroading, and was the first to offer sleeping and dining car service from St. Paul to the Pacific Northwest. Covering the 30s through the '60s, this book's outstanding vintage photography highlights the North Coast Limited (the finest passenger train in North America), the faster Vista-Dome passenger trains, NP's team and diesel locomotives, and NP's Freight cars, Maintenance-of-way and Cabooses.
Northern Pacific Railway Photo Archive
Author: John Kelly
Publisher: Enthusiast Books
ISBN: 9781583881866
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
“All aboard the streamlined, Vista-Dome North Coast Limited leaving on Track 1 for Minnesota’s Lake Region, the vast prairies of North Dakota, Montana’s magnificent Rockies, Idaho’s lakes and forests, the Inland Empire of Spokane to Puget Sound country, and the great seaports of Seattle-Tacoma and Portland.” The Northern Pacific was always a progressive leader in railroading, and was the first to offer sleeping and dining car service from St. Paul to the Pacific Northwest. Covering the 30s through the '60s, this book's outstanding vintage photography highlights the North Coast Limited (the finest passenger train in North America), the faster Vista-Dome passenger trains, NP's team and diesel locomotives, and NP's Freight cars, Maintenance-of-way and Cabooses.
Publisher: Enthusiast Books
ISBN: 9781583881866
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
“All aboard the streamlined, Vista-Dome North Coast Limited leaving on Track 1 for Minnesota’s Lake Region, the vast prairies of North Dakota, Montana’s magnificent Rockies, Idaho’s lakes and forests, the Inland Empire of Spokane to Puget Sound country, and the great seaports of Seattle-Tacoma and Portland.” The Northern Pacific was always a progressive leader in railroading, and was the first to offer sleeping and dining car service from St. Paul to the Pacific Northwest. Covering the 30s through the '60s, this book's outstanding vintage photography highlights the North Coast Limited (the finest passenger train in North America), the faster Vista-Dome passenger trains, NP's team and diesel locomotives, and NP's Freight cars, Maintenance-of-way and Cabooses.
Northern Pacific Railway: Supersteam era, 1925-1945
Author: Robert L. Frey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870950926
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870950926
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Jay Cooke's Gamble
Author: M. John Lubetkin
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 080614503X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
In 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, Minnesota, to Seattle. M. John Lubetkin tells how Cooke’s gamble reignited war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity, created Yellowstone Park, pushed frontier settlement four hundred miles westward, and triggered the Panic of 1873. Staking his reputation and wealth on the Northern Pacific, Cooke was soon whipsawed by the railroad’s mismanagement, questionable contracts, and construction problems. Financier J. P. Morgan undermined him, and the Crédit Mobilier scandal ended congressional support. When railroad surveyors and army escorts ignored Sioux chief Sitting Bull’s warning not to enter the Yellowstone Valley, Indian attacks—combined with alcoholic commanders—led to embarrassing setbacks on the field, in the nation’s press, and among investors. Lubetkin’s suspenseful narrative describes events played out from Wall Street to the Yellowstone and vividly portrays the soldiers, engineers, businessmen, politicians, and Native Americans who tried to build or block the Northern Pacific.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 080614503X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
In 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, Minnesota, to Seattle. M. John Lubetkin tells how Cooke’s gamble reignited war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity, created Yellowstone Park, pushed frontier settlement four hundred miles westward, and triggered the Panic of 1873. Staking his reputation and wealth on the Northern Pacific, Cooke was soon whipsawed by the railroad’s mismanagement, questionable contracts, and construction problems. Financier J. P. Morgan undermined him, and the Crédit Mobilier scandal ended congressional support. When railroad surveyors and army escorts ignored Sioux chief Sitting Bull’s warning not to enter the Yellowstone Valley, Indian attacks—combined with alcoholic commanders—led to embarrassing setbacks on the field, in the nation’s press, and among investors. Lubetkin’s suspenseful narrative describes events played out from Wall Street to the Yellowstone and vividly portrays the soldiers, engineers, businessmen, politicians, and Native Americans who tried to build or block the Northern Pacific.
Guide to Photographic Collections at the Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of American History
Author: Smithsonian Institution
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Great Lakes Ore Docks and Ore Cars
Author: Patrick Dorin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Iron Mining Industry was quite extensive throughout the area known as the Lake Superior Iron Ore District. All of the iron ore was transported by rail to a wide number of lake ports on Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. This book lists all of the ore docks constructed on The Great Lakes. Includes photos of the ore docks and ore cars, ore car schematics and pertinent data.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Iron Mining Industry was quite extensive throughout the area known as the Lake Superior Iron Ore District. All of the iron ore was transported by rail to a wide number of lake ports on Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. This book lists all of the ore docks constructed on The Great Lakes. Includes photos of the ore docks and ore cars, ore car schematics and pertinent data.
The Picture Collection
Author: John Cotton Dana
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Pacific Northwest Railroads of McGee and Nixon
Author: Richard Green
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780915370078
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
McGee & Nixon's lens & anecdotes captured more than the NORTHERN PACIFIC in the 'great' years of railroading. This volume, companion to THE NORTHERN PACIFIC of McGee & Nixon, also gives the reader a view into the Great Northern Railway; Union Pacific; more of the Northern Pacific Ry.; Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry., as well as the Milwaukee Road, as they served the Pacific Northwest states in the 1940's & 1950's - steam, diesel & electric! Historic photographs of the majestic trains that built the Pacific Northwest & then were gone, never to return. With 38 color plates showing the pride & glamour of those days for a total of 321 large photographs.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780915370078
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
McGee & Nixon's lens & anecdotes captured more than the NORTHERN PACIFIC in the 'great' years of railroading. This volume, companion to THE NORTHERN PACIFIC of McGee & Nixon, also gives the reader a view into the Great Northern Railway; Union Pacific; more of the Northern Pacific Ry.; Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry., as well as the Milwaukee Road, as they served the Pacific Northwest states in the 1940's & 1950's - steam, diesel & electric! Historic photographs of the majestic trains that built the Pacific Northwest & then were gone, never to return. With 38 color plates showing the pride & glamour of those days for a total of 321 large photographs.
After Promontory
Author: Center for Railroad Photography and Art
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253039614
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Celebrating the sesquicentennial anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States , After Promontory: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading profiles the history and heritage of this historic event. Starting with the original Union Pacific—Central Pacific lines that met at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869, the book expands the narrative by considering all of the transcontinental routes in the United States and examining their impact on building this great nation. Exquisitely illustrated with full color photographs, After Promontory divides the western United States into three regions—central, southern, and northern—and offers a deep look at the transcontinental routes of each one. Renowned railroad historians Maury Klein, Keith Bryant, and Don Hofsommer offer their perspectives on these regions along with contributors H. Roger Grant and Rob Krebs.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253039614
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Celebrating the sesquicentennial anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States , After Promontory: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading profiles the history and heritage of this historic event. Starting with the original Union Pacific—Central Pacific lines that met at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869, the book expands the narrative by considering all of the transcontinental routes in the United States and examining their impact on building this great nation. Exquisitely illustrated with full color photographs, After Promontory divides the western United States into three regions—central, southern, and northern—and offers a deep look at the transcontinental routes of each one. Renowned railroad historians Maury Klein, Keith Bryant, and Don Hofsommer offer their perspectives on these regions along with contributors H. Roger Grant and Rob Krebs.
Photo Archives and the Idea of Nation
Author: Costanza Caraffa
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110331837
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Das "lange 19. Jahrhundert" der Nationalstaatenbildung ist auch das Jahrhundert der "Erfindung" der Fotografie wie auch der Geburt der modernen Archivwissenschaften. Die Fotografie wurde bald von den Nationalstaaten in ihrem Bedürfnis nach bildlicher Visualisierung in den Dienst genommen. Nach dem II. Weltkrieg, dem Zerfall der kolonialistischen Systeme und schließlich dem Fall der Berliner Mauer erlangten nationale Fragen erneut Aktualität - nun in einem globalen Rahmen. Die Beiträge in diesem Band untersuchen den Zusammenhang zwischen Fotografie/Fotoarchiven und der Idee der Nation, wobei das Objektiv sich nicht auf einzelne Ikonen, sondern auf die weitreichende Dimension des Archivs richtet.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110331837
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Das "lange 19. Jahrhundert" der Nationalstaatenbildung ist auch das Jahrhundert der "Erfindung" der Fotografie wie auch der Geburt der modernen Archivwissenschaften. Die Fotografie wurde bald von den Nationalstaaten in ihrem Bedürfnis nach bildlicher Visualisierung in den Dienst genommen. Nach dem II. Weltkrieg, dem Zerfall der kolonialistischen Systeme und schließlich dem Fall der Berliner Mauer erlangten nationale Fragen erneut Aktualität - nun in einem globalen Rahmen. Die Beiträge in diesem Band untersuchen den Zusammenhang zwischen Fotografie/Fotoarchiven und der Idee der Nation, wobei das Objektiv sich nicht auf einzelne Ikonen, sondern auf die weitreichende Dimension des Archivs richtet.
The Great Trains
Author:
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
ISBN: 9780517528075
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
ISBN: 9780517528075
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description