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Author: Robert Wendell Jackson Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252026805 Category : Bridges Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
"A tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion, Rails across the Mississippi is the first book-length history since 1881 to document the planning, financing, and construction of the first bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, a national engineering landmark completed in 1874 that is now known as the Eads Bridge. Robert W. Jackson takes a fresh look at this monumental project, dispersing the myths and filling in the gaps left by earlier scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Robert Wendell Jackson Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252026805 Category : Bridges Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
"A tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion, Rails across the Mississippi is the first book-length history since 1881 to document the planning, financing, and construction of the first bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, a national engineering landmark completed in 1874 that is now known as the Eads Bridge. Robert W. Jackson takes a fresh look at this monumental project, dispersing the myths and filling in the gaps left by earlier scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Jim Cox Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786461756 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 477
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Covering legendary and obscure intercity passenger trains in a dozen Southeastern states, this book details the golden age of train travel. The story begins with the inception of steam locomotives in 1830 in Charleston, South Carolina, continuing through the mid-1930s changeover to diesel and the debut of Amtrak in 1971 to the present. Throughout, the book explores the technological achievements, the romance and the economic impact of traveling on the tracks. Other topics include contemporary museums and excursion trains; the development of commuter rails, monorails, light rails, and other intracity transit trains; the social impact of train travel; and historical rail terminals and facilities. The book is supplemented with more than 160 images and 10 appendices.
Author: Rails-to-Trails-Conservancy Publisher: Wilderness Press ISBN: 0899977081 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 217
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The official guidebooks for the nationwide rail-trails system, the new Rail-Trails series books have an easy-to-use layout and design, clear maps, and precise trip descriptions. With 55 rural, suburban, and urban trails spanning 630 miles, Rail-Trails Southeast covers Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, and Tennessee. Visit historic battlefields, see the world's largest cast-iron statue, travel through a gorge, and watch beavers and herons along the Southeast's historic rail-trails. Includes two-color maps for each trip and succinct directions.
Author: R. Milton Winter Publisher: ISBN: 9780991404148 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Milton Winter is preparing a new book called Cotton Railroad Through Mississippi: The Mississippi Central and the Illinois Central. The line was begun in the 1850s by Holly Springs investors including H. W. Walter and Walter Goodman. It eventually extended to Cairo, IL and New Orleans and became part of the huge IC system. Much of it was built by slave labor, and this sad chapter in African American history is explored in depth here for the first time. The line brought much wealth to its owners. But because of its strategic routing it became one of the most fought over locations in the Civil War. The book includes much never-before-published Civil War material, including Thomas Edison's brief tenure as a telegrapher on the line. There is also a chapter telling how the line delivered refugees during the 1878 yellow fever, including a section on Water Valley, a true railroad town where the company shops were located. Milton tells the story of Casey Jones famous wreck on the line at Vaughan, MS and how the famous engineer began his career on the tracks that run by our historic depot. He narrates how the line fascinated William Faulkner and is depicted in many of his stories. A final chapter tells the story of the Oxford, MS depot, dear to the hearts of many Ole Miss students. The story of the southern portion of the line below Grenada which was incorporated into the IC mainline via Memphis is recorded, along with the present status and operations of the remaining trackage in the two remaining Grand Junction-Oxford and Grenada-Canton segments. With over 100 illustrations, the 125-page book will be available in the autumn of 2020.
Author: Paul Harncourt Publisher: ISBN: 9781598001723 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 264
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This is the history and biography of a little known railroad that had a number of 'firsts' in early railroad history, the most notable being that it was the first railroad to connect the east coast and the Mississippi River valley in 1857, a time when the Native Americans were still walking the trails soon to be carrying iron rails.
Author: Robert Wendell Jackson
Author: Robert Wendell Jackson
Author: Jim Cox
Author: Rails-to-Trails-Conservancy
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Author: Racine, Janesville, and Mississippi Railroad Company
Author: Mississippi and Atlantic Railroad
Author: R. Milton Winter
Author: Racine and Mississippi Railroad Company
Author: Paul Harncourt
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