Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logging railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Rails in the North Woods
Author: Rail-Trails Southeast
Author: Rails-to-Trails-ConservancyPublisher: Wilderness Press
ISBN: 0899977081
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
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.
Prairie Rails
Author: Robert P. OlmstedPublisher: McMillan Publications, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Home on the Rails
Author: Amy G. RichterPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080787647X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Recognizing the railroad's importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there. For a time, Richter argues, nineteenth-century Americans imagined the public realm as a chaotic and dangerous place full of potential, where various groups came together, collided, and influenced one another, for better or worse. The example of the American railroad reveals how, by the beginning of the twentieth century, this image was replaced by one of a domesticated public realm--a public space in which both women and men increasingly strove to make themselves "at home." Through efforts that ranged from the homey touches of railroad car decor to advertising images celebrating female travelers and legal cases sanctioning gender-segregated spaces, travelers and railroad companies transformed the railroad from a place of risk and almost unlimited social mixing into one in which white men and women alleviated the stress of unpleasant social contact. Making themselves "at home" aboard the trains, white men and women domesticated the railroad for themselves and paved the way for a racially segregated and class-stratified public space that freed women from the home yet still preserved the railroad as a masculine domain.
Railroads of North Carolina
Author: Alan ColemanPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738553368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Since the opening of the first permanent railway in 1833, hundreds of railroad companies have operated in North Carolina. Rail transportation, faster and more efficient than other methods of the era, opened new markets for the products of North Carolina's farms, factories, and mines. Over the years, North Carolina rail companies have ranged in size from well-engineered giants like the Southern Railway to temporary logging railroads like the Hemlock. Cross ties and rails were laid across almost every conceivable terrain: tidal marshes, sand hills, rolling piedmont, and mountain grades. Vulnerable to the turbulent and unregulated economies of the day, few railroad companies escaped reorganizations and receiverships during their corporate lives, often leaving tangled and contradictory histories in their passing.
Rails to the North Star
Author: Richard S. ProsserPublisher: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Herit
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published by Dillon Press in 1966.
Engineering
Author: Annual Report
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Rails Across Dixie
Author: Jim CoxPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786461756
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
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.