Author: Thornton Waite
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Maury Klein
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452908745
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987.

Author: Alfred Runte
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1570984417
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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"A thoroughly revised and expanded successor to Runte's Trains of Discovery: Western Railroads and the National Parks, the new edition now includes eastern historic sites and parks made possible or influenced by railroads. This book is a sight to behold as well as a wonderful, nostalgic armchair read"--

Author: John W. Lundin
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467143936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Union Pacific Railroad's Averell Harriman had a bold vision to restore rail passenger traffic decimated by the Great Depression: create ski tourism in Idaho's remote Wood River Valley. A $1.5 million investment opened Sun Valley in December 1936 with a lavish lodge, luxury shopping, Austrian ski instructors and extensive backcountry skiing. Prestigious tournaments featured the world's best skiers. Chairlifts invented by Union Pacific engineers serviced skiers quickly and comfortably. Ski instructor and filmmaker Otto Lang recalled that seemingly overnight, it became "a magnet for the 'beautiful people,' a meeting place for movie stars and moguls, chairmen and captains of industry, Greek shipping tycoons, and peripatetic playboys--and playgirls--of the international social set." After World War II and Harriman's departure, Union Pacific's willingness to pay the $500,000 yearly subsidy waned. Bill Janss purchased it in 1964 and reimagined it as a year-round resort but lacked the capital for growth. Sinclair Oil owners Earl and Carol Holding acquired it in 1977, revitalizing it into a premier resort with international status. Award-winning ski historian John W. Lundin celebrates America's first destination ski resort using unpublished Union Pacific documents, oral histories, contemporaneous accounts and more than 150 historic images.

Author:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Employee magazine of the Union Pacific System.

Author: Union Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher:
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Category : Overland Trails
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Frank Ferris
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439653666
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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The fastest way to travel long distances in the beginning of the 20th century was by railroad. Railroad companies competed to attract business and vacationing travellers by advertising in brochures and issuing postcards. The postcards included railroad logos and descriptions of Western adventures that travellers would experience by booking with a particular rail line. The Northern Pacific Railroad and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad have provided some of the most captivating images of the unique Yellowstone National Park (YNP) hydrologic, geologic, and geothermal features. The Union Pacific Railroad built the full-scale Old Faithful Lodge at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915; the National Park Service data show the YNP attendance more than doubled in that year. Both the Union Pacific Railroad and Burlington Route provided high-quality postcards to promote their routes to visit YNP. The Burlington Route and Northern Pacific Railroad included American Indian-related postcards for diversity.

Author: Thornton Waite
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738576174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Pocatello was founded as a station on the narrow-gauge Utah and Northern Railway in 1878, and it has been a railroad town ever since. Passenger and freight trains arrived and departed in all four directions of the compass, 24 hours a day. The Union Pacific also built extensive shops at Pocatello, where railroad equipment was serviced, maintained, and repaired. In addition, refrigerator cars were iced from a large icehouse, and railroad ties were treated with preservative at a tie plant. The advent of the automobile, improved roads, new technologies, and the introduction of the diesel-electric locomotives all combined to change the railroad industry, affecting Pocatello in many ways. Passenger trains were discontinued, the steam-locomotive-servicing facilities were closed, and shop buildings were torn down. However, the railroad in Pocatello remains a vital part of the local scene today, with freight trains continuing to run through the city day and night.

Author: Henry Jacob Winser
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385340624
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author: Montana. State Board of Equalization
Publisher:
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Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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