Author: William Lutz IiPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557687861
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
White Rail
Author: William Lutz IiPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557687861
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The White Cascade
Author: Gary KristPublisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1429905700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The never-before-told story of one of the worst rail disasters in U.S. history in which two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, are hit by a devastating avalanche In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records. The world stopped—but nowhere was the danger more terrifying than near a tiny town called Wellington, perched high in the Cascade Mountains, where a desperate situation evolved minute by minute: two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found themselves marooned without escape, their railcars gradually being buried in the rising drifts. For days, an army of the Great Northern Railroad's most dedicated men—led by the line's legendarily courageous superintendent, James O'Neill—worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains. But the storm was unrelenting, and to the passenger's great anxiety, the railcars—their only shelter—were parked precariously on the edge of a steep ravine. As the days passed, food and coal supplies dwindled. Panic and rage set in as snow accumulated deeper and deeper on the cliffs overhanging the trains. Finally, just when escape seemed possible, the unthinkable occurred: the earth shifted and a colossal avalanche tumbled from the high pinnacles, sweeping the trains and their sleeping passengers over the steep slope and down the mountainside. Centered on the astonishing spectacle of our nation's deadliest avalanche, Gary Krist's The White Cascade is the masterfully told story of a supremely dramatic and never-before-documented American tragedy. An adventure saga filled with colorful and engaging history, this is epic narrative storytelling at its finest.
The Official Railway Equipment Register
Author: Report of the President of the North Carolina Rail Road to the Governor of the State, January 20, 1859
Author: North Carolina Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
People and Rail Systems
Author: John R. WilsonPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754671848
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Following on from 2005's Rail Human Factors: Supporting the Integrated Railway, this book brings together an even broader range of academics and practitioners from around the world to share their expertise and experience on rail human factors.People an
An Act to Amend the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 to Authorize Appropriations for the United States Railway Association for Fiscal Year 1979
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Colonial
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Mechanics and Fatigue in Wheel/Rail Contact
Author: S.L. GrassiePublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0444599770
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
These proceedings demonstrate the increasing interest and importance of contact mechanics and wear to the railway industry. The 27 contributions succeed in sustaining a balance between mechanics and metallurgy, theory and practice, and will be of considerable interest to those engaged in research, as well as practising engineers.
North Central Corridor Light Rail Transit (LRT) Extension, Dallas County, Collin County
Author: British Rail 1974-1997
Author: Terence Richard GourvishPublisher:
ISBN: 0199250057
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 739
Book Description
Based on privileged access to the British Railway Board's rich archives, this book provides and authoritative account of the progress made by the British Railway System prior to its privatization. It offers a unique account of the last fifteen years of nationalized railways in Britain, and it sheds light on the current problems of privatized railway systems. This volume is divided into four complete and concise sections for complete study: 'Railways Under Labour (1974-1979)', 'The Thatcher Revolution (British Rail in the 1980's)', 'On The Threshold of Privatization: Running the Railways (1990-1994)', and 'Responding to Privatization (1981-1997)'. Author Terry Gourvish is considered Britain's leading railway historian.
The White Pass
Author: Roy MinterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780912006338
Category : Klondike River Valley (Yukon)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
By the thousands they came, the gold-seekers of 1897, pouring through Alaska's White and Chilkoot passes on their way to the Klondike and to fortune. Fast behind them came the entrepreneurs, the bunco artists, and before long, the engineers and financiers whose driving ambition was to build a railway through the White Pass's rocky precipices. This is the epic northern adventure of the men who rushed for gold, the workers who toiled in winter storms and thaw-time muck, carving the grade and laying rail, and the ingenious characters who dreamed, schemed, promoted, and finally built the White Pass and Yukon Railway.