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Author : John Westwood
Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Railroad trains
ISBN :
The story of the railroads parallels the history of the United States and Canada. This pictorial history explores the early days of steam, the first transcontinental tracks, the robber barons, the luxury trains, and the decline of the railroads in recent years. 140 photos, 120 in color.
Author : Don DeNevi
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Military railroads
ISBN : 9781575100012
This magnificent memoir is filled with photographs of various types of locomotives hauling military movements and wartime freight in the US, plus passenger trains turned troop carriers. Highly recommended.
Author : Edwin P. Alexander
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
Here is the story of America's greatest transportation system told principally in pictures. Some 330 reproductions show rare prints and photographs of early locomotives, equipment and bridges, old posters, broadsides and tickets, as well as later developments.
Author : Roy Meredith
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780486230214
This book tells of Mathew B. Brady, a Civil War photographer, with over 300 reproductions of his work.
Author : Jim Harter
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Engraving
ISBN : 0801880890
With its gallery of over 360 striking and unfamiliar images and extensive historical text World Railways of the Nineteenth Century invites readers to experience an unparalleled glimpse into the world of nineteenth-century railroading.Peter Skinner, Foreword
Author : Frank Alexander King
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780816640843
During the heyday of lumberjacks and sawmills, railroads such as the Duluth and Northern Minnesota and the Alger-Smith enabled logging companies to break away from the traditional mode of transportation (floating logs downriver) and its shortfalls (logjams and winter freezes). Frank King traces this rich history from its beginnings in 1886 to the railroads' disappearance around 1937 when the last of the giant sawmills closed down. King profiles every logging railroad in Minnesota and examines all aspects of their operations, including locomotives such as the geared Shays and Heislers, McGiffert log loaders, Russel log cars, dump trestles, hot ponds, logging camp life, railroad finances, and the impact on communities as timber supplies ran out and lumbering and sawmill operations shut down, causing thousands to lose their jobs. Heavily illustrated throughout, Minnesota Logging Railroads contains maps, photographs, postcards, engineering drawings, and railroad memorabilia such as timetables, passes, fare receipts, and freight tariffs. The appendixes comprehensively list the state's logging railroads, locomotive rosters, and railroad and lumber company names.
Author : Sheelagh Kelly
Publisher : Canelo
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1911591959
In the first of an extraordinary trilogy of love, tragedy, and hope, there’s a high price to pay for happiness, from the author of the Feeney Family Saga. While her brothers and sisters resign themselves to a life of drudgery, Katherine “Kit” Kilmaster yearns for better things. When she is tempted into dangerous situations with young men above her station, the family are scandalized. Kit revels in London Society, until an unexpected consequence of her free-and-easy lifestyle stops her in her tracks. Thrust back into village life, Kit falls prey to malicious gossip. Overwhelmed, she finally heeds her family’s advice and is almost destroyed. But then a chance encounter promises to deliver the husband and children she has always wanted—provided her shameful secret is not revealed . . . Praise for the writing of Sheelagh Kelly “Sheelagh Kelly surely can write.” —Sunderland Echo “Genuinely perceptive portrayals of human relationships.” —Irish Independent
Author : Michael J. Del Vecchio
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,90 MB
Release : 1999-08
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780760308295
If you love the shrill of a steam whistle, the rumble of a diesel locomotive, or the smooth profile of a streamlined passenger train, you're sure to want Pictorial History of America's Railroads. This lavishly illustrated volume captures all the excitement of the railroad industry in America. Mike Del Vecchio recounts, region by region, railroading's colorful past and present, and looks ahead to its bright future.
Author : J. Parker Lamb
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0253005922
This generously illustrated narrative follows the evolution of dozens of separate railroads in the Meridian, Mississippi, area from the destruction of the town's rail facilities in the 1850s through the current era of large-scale consolidation. Presently, there are only seven mega-size rail systems in the United States, three of which serve Meridian, making it an important junction on one of the nation's four major transcontinental routes. The recent creation of a nationally prominent high-speed freight line between Meridian and Shreveport, the "Meridian Speedway," has allowed the Union Pacific, Kansas City Southern, and Norfolk Southern railroads to offer the shortest rail route across the continent for Asia-US-Europe transportation.
Author : Fred Kerr
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 147389994X
Built at Doncaster works in 1923 the Nigel Gresley designed then-A1 class Pacific (4-6-2) first entered service as No 1472. The new locomotive did not receive a name until it was sent for display at a Wembley exhibition in 1924, and then the name Fying Scotsman was chosen. The Legend was born. In 1928 the London North Eastern Railway (LNER) express steam locomotive hauled the first nonstop service from London to Edinburgh and in 1934 went on to break through the 100mph barrier.In addition to regularly hauling express trains for the LNER and later British Railways (BR), the Gresley steam icon has also traveled to, and worked passenger trains in, North America and Australia. Withdrawn by BR in January 1963 as BR No 60103, the locomotive was bought for preservation and soon became a regular sight on mainline specials and at preserved railways. The locomotives history in preservation is an interesting if not chequered one, however stability is now assured as Flying Scotsman has rightly become a part of the national collection administered by the National Railway Museum (NRM). The excitement which surrounded the return to steam of Flying Scotsman in 2016, and the ongoing celebrity status afforded to the famous Gresley designed engine, are perchance confirmation of the fact that it is The Worlds Most Famous Steam Locomotive. The most famous phrase entered into locomotive preservation folklore when first broadcast by John Noakes, a BBC TV Blue Peter presenter. A great many words have been written about the engineering specification and in service performance of Flying Scotsman. Accordingly, this keepsake publication simply uses carefully selected images, dating from the BR steam era to the present day, to celebrate the Return of the Legend. This publication includes a selection of QR Codes with links to items of film footage.