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Author: James J. Reisdorff Publisher: ISBN: 9780942035735 Category : Railroads Languages : en Pages : 64
Book Description
The Union Pacific Railroad "Big Boys" are often credited as having been the largest steam locomotives in the world. Although these 25 steam giants last operated in 1959, their contribution to transportation history has not been forgotten. There are now eight Big Boys preserved at various museums and parks across the United States. This book, with text and more than 70 illustrations, describes the post-steam era story of Big Boy. It looks at not only what has become of the eight surviving locomotives, but also how human interest in these huge machines manifests itself in both the railroad hobby and popular culture. It also examines the question that has often been asked by railroad buffs everywhere: Will a Big Boy ever return to the rails?
Author: James J. Reisdorff Publisher: ISBN: 9780942035735 Category : Railroads Languages : en Pages : 64
Book Description
The Union Pacific Railroad "Big Boys" are often credited as having been the largest steam locomotives in the world. Although these 25 steam giants last operated in 1959, their contribution to transportation history has not been forgotten. There are now eight Big Boys preserved at various museums and parks across the United States. This book, with text and more than 70 illustrations, describes the post-steam era story of Big Boy. It looks at not only what has become of the eight surviving locomotives, but also how human interest in these huge machines manifests itself in both the railroad hobby and popular culture. It also examines the question that has often been asked by railroad buffs everywhere: Will a Big Boy ever return to the rails?
Author: William T. Harvey Publisher: ISBN: 9781734026665 Category : Railroads Languages : en Pages : 0
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"High Iron & Big Boys is a true story about those men who once regularly climbed into the cabs of huge steam locomotives and operated them during the golden age of steam-powered train travel along the Union Pacific Railroad. The author, William T. Harvey, allows the reader to peer into both the engine cab and household residence of a UP employee and his family living in Wyoming during the 1920-1960 era. ... This is ultimately the story of one railroad family, their choice to follow a railroader's way of life, and the many personalities they encountered along the tracks of American history."--Back cover.
Author: George Drury Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Company ISBN: 0890245703 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 128
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Features the hardworking Big Boys and Challengers of the UP against the backdrop of Sherman Hill, Wyoming, in the 1940's and 50's. Includes vintage photos and map.
Author: Thomas Gerbracht Publisher: ISBN: 9780578712925 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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A 320 page hard cover book,, printed on archival stock, and containing a technical narrative, profusely illustrated with photographs including a 32 page color section, and engineering drawings of the last series of Mohawk type steam locomotives owned and operated by the New York Central railroad. The book describes and illustrates the original Late Mohawk design of 1940, and documents the evolution of the design and the introduction of the last Mohawks, the L-4B class, in 1942. The design is compared with other steam locomotive designs used in the railroad's service area, and documents the final Mohawk operation in early 1957.
Author: John Hersey Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0593082362 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize–winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.
Author: James J. Reisdorff
Author: James J. Reisdorff
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Author: John Hersey