Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
National Railway Bulletin
Author: The Bulletin
Author: National Railway Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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
Steam Over Scranton
Author: Gordon S. ChappellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
From Small Town to Downtown
Author: Lawrence A. BroughPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253343697
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Jewett Car Company was born in the heyday of the electric railway boom in the 1890s. The company gained an excellent reputation for its elegant, well-built wooden cars for street railway companies, interurban lines, and rapid transit service. Cities large and small used Jewett cars, including New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Many Jewett cars found their way to Indiana and many of the interurban lines employed the graceful, arch-windowed wood interurban that Jewett was famous for.Automobile competition and the problems of competing with much larger car builders, such as J.G. Brill and the St. Louis Car Company, signaled the beginning of the end. The company was offered the opportunity to produce munitions for World War I, but refused. The reason: the major source of finance for Jewett was a German nationalist banker from Wheeling, West Virginia, who refused to have the company do anything to harm Germany. As a direct result of that action, the Jewett Car Company failed.
Trains and Technology: Cars
Author: Anthony J. BianculliPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 0874137306
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Volume 2 of 'Trains and Technology' is devoted to railroad cars of nineteenth-century America. Since the variety of cars used during the nineteenth century was huge, the book is divided into three sections- passenger, freight, and non-revenue cars. The easily understood, jargon-free discussions and explanations throughout the book are accompanied by over 225 illustrations and accurate scale drawings of the various equipment.
NRHS Bulletin
Author: Bulletin
Author: National Railway Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Steam & Cinders
Author: Axel LorenzsonnPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 087020470X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Based on the author’s extensive research into the early history of Wisconsin’s rails, Steam and Cinders chronicles the boom and bust of the first railroads in the state, from the charters of the 1830s to the farm mortgages of the 1850s and consolidation of the railroads on the eve of the Civil War. Featuring more than 75 period photographs, historic maps, and drawings, Steam and Cinders preserves the legacy of early Wisconsin railroading for railroad buffs and armchair historians alike.
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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