Author: Tom MurrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610605090
Category : Southern Railway
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Southern Railway
Author: Tom MurrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610605090
Category : Southern Railway
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Norfolk Southern Railway
Author: Richard C. BorkowskiPublisher:
ISBN: 9781616739553
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Southern Railway in Color
Author: Fred D. CheneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781878887146
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Illinois Central Railroad
Author: Tom MurrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610600071
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Chicago & North Western Railway
Author: Tom MurrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781616731540
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
By the time it was merged into the Union Pacific in 1995, the Chicago & North Western was one of the nations oldest surviving railroads, a testament to the Midwestern stoicism with which it had gone about its business since 1859. This illustrated history chronicles how C&NW emerged from a collection of regional carriers to become a strategic link between eastern railroads and the West. Author Tom Murray traces the railroads expansion as it extended secondary lines throughout the Midwest. He also explores C&NWs joint ownership of UP passenger trains and describes how the railroad answered challenges from regional rivals with the "400" series of passenger trains. As fascinating as the story are the hundreds of accompanying illustrations--historical photographs, archival images, route maps, and period print ads. The result is an entertaining and informative history of an iconic Midwestern railroad--a narrative that spans the decades from the 1850s to the 1990s and takes in steam and diesel motive power, freight and passenger operations, and all the key characters, events, and deals that figured in the Chicago & North Westerns rise and eventual demise.
A Railroad for the "Southern End"
Author: Mike RothPublisher:
ISBN: 9781495100062
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Union Pacific Railroad
Author: Brian SolomonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610605595
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
History and description of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Southern Railway
Author: David MaidmentPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526732149
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Southern Maunsell Moguls and Tank Engines is a volume in the series of Locomotive Profiles being published by Pen & Sword. It describes the conception, design and construction of the two- and three-cylinder 2-6-0s initially the Ns constructed at the end of the First World War, many at government initiative by the Woolwich Arsenal and their three-cylinder variants, the N1s. It also describes in similar fashion the class K River 2-6-4 tank engines, their riding problems and the decision to convert them as class U two-cylinder moguls after the disastrous Sevenoaks derailment in 1927. The solitary K1 three-cylinder 2-6-4T was similarly converted as the prototype three-cylinder U1 with new build Us and U1s following in the early 1930s.The moguls, originally built by Richard Maunsell for the South Eastern & Chatham Railway, became the standard mixed traffic locomotives throughout the Southern Railway for virtually the whole of its existence and many remained until near the end of BR Southern Regions steam stock in 1965/6.After the experience with the passenger 2-6-4 tank engines, Maunsell restricted his larger tank engine designs to freight work the class W for heavy cross-London interchange freight traffic and the Z0-8-0T for heavy shunting and banking work. Maunsell also redesigned some elderly LB&SCR E1 0-6-0Ts for branch line work in rural Devon and North Cornwall, providing a radial axle as 0-6-2T class E1/R.The book covers the allocation, operation and performance of these classes and includes some personal reminiscences of the author who experienced the moguls at first hand. It also covers the sale of some of the Woolwich moguls to the CIE in Ireland and the conversion of a number to 2-6-4 freight tank engines for the Metropolitan Railway. The book is lavishly illustrated with over 300 black and white and thirty colour photographs.
The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway
Author: David McLellanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Csx
Author: Brian SolomonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610603751
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Formed in 1980 as a holding company for the Chessie and Seaboard Systems and several other eastern railroads, CSX in 1986 merged these several companies into CSX Transportation, staking its claim as one of the nation's dominant merger roads. This illustrated history provides a background of CSX's 25 years on the American railroad scene, describing how the company came to swallow several legendary regional lines and merger roads. The book also examines CSX hardware, facilities, and operations on more than 20,000 miles of trackage throughout the eastern half of the United States, from 1980 through today. Included is an explanation of the 1999 agreement by which CSX and Norfolk Southern purchased and effectively split the operations of their northern rival Conrail. Marvelous color photography, of course, depicts CSX diesel-electric powered freight operations in eastern and Midwestern U.S. urban centers and rural areas.