The Milwaukee Road S Western Extension
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The Milwaukee Road S Western Extension
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Author : Stanley W. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Museum of North Idaho Publications
Release Date : 2007
The Milwaukee Road S Western Extension written by Stanley W. Johnson and has been published by Museum of North Idaho Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Transportation categories.
The Milwaukee Road's Western Extension is a fascinating story of the 1905-1915 building of the first through rail line between Chicago and Puget Sound. It was a daring decision that resulted in a remarkable accomplishment. It is a tale of unusual human interaction at all levels - full of details about the people and events involved. It tells of the face-to-face personal and corporate struggle for power by America's railroad barons; the courage and fortitude of pioneering civil engineer surveyors who pushed their way through literally thousands of miles of virgin wilderness in search of a workable route. It looks over the shoulders of hundreds of planners who attacked the unbelievably difficult problems of supplying 10,000 workers strung out over 1800 miles of planned right-of-way, devoid of roads or towns. The reader is taken along and offered the opportunity to observe these laborers as they erect steel trestles three-hundred feet above the forest floor; bore tunnels through almost 20 miles of mountain rock; build new bridges across the Missouri, the Yellowstone, the Columbia and a hundred other rivers and streams while they struggled to stay alive in the face of stifling heat, devastating floods, life-threatening snow and cold, winds of hurricane strength and the presence of typhus that frequented their new route across the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho and Washington. The reader learns why and how new construction machines came to virgin wilderness for the first time; discovers how the work crews lived; where they played and slept, what they ate, and sometimes how they died. Reading the book is like taking a trip into the beginning of the 20th century when men like Teddy Roosevelt, the Rockefellers, Alva Edison and John Westinghouse were introducing the country to new ways of living and doing business - better medical care, electricity in every day life, and a new freedom - the freedom to travel without pause or discomfort all the way from the beaches of Lake Michigan to the clear waters of Puget Sound. Based upon details and broad documentation gleaned from the records of the time, the story is one of fact rather than supposition - a broad tribute to the men who built the railroad. It is a saga of great accomplishment and remarkable people.
The Milwaukee Road
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Author : Tom Murray
language : en
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
Release Date : 2005-10-29
The Milwaukee Road written by Tom Murray and has been published by Voyageur Press (MN) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-29 with Transportation categories.
The true grit and glory days of one of America's greatest railroads come to dramatic life in this full-scale illustrated history by industry veteran Tom Murray. Words and pictures carry readers across the vast tracts of land and time traversed by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific-better known to history as the Milwaukee Road. Ranging from the railroad's late-nineteenth-century beginnings to its purchase by onetime rival Soo Line in 1985, the book looks at The Milwaukee Road's famed streamlined Hiawatha passenger trains, the "Little Joe" electric locomotives, and the sprawling fabrication and repair facilities in its namesake city. Whether surveying the railroad's routes and the trains that plied them, and the people who worked behind the scenes, or focusing on the line's motive power, rolling stock, passenger and freight operations, The Milwaukee Road provides a broad-scale, brilliantly detailed portrait of a great railroad, an industry, and a bygone era.
National Railroad Policy
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Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economic Growth and Stabilization
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
National Railroad Policy written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economic Growth and Stabilization and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with categories.
Milwaukee Road West
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Author : Charles Raymond Wood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
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The Milwaukee Road Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
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The Railway Age Monthly And Railway Service Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
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The Grand Western Railroad Game
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Author : Robert S. Farnsworth
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Release Date : 2017-12-11
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The Grand Western Railroad Game By: Robert S. Farnsworth The Grand Western Railroad Game by Robert S. Farnsworth is a fascinatingly detailed story of the historical importance of Western railroads. It has been meticulously written to educate the reader on the intricacies involved in the creation and growth of the Rock Island System over the “Empire Years.” The railroad’s premium passenger train service even inspired the popular song “The Rock Island Line is a Mighty Fine Line.” To quote the author, “I wrote this book, not from just the viewpoint of a rail fan, hundreds of whom have diligently photographically documented the railroad’s passage through time, but from the viewpoint of a former employee and from the insights gained from a broad education in both the university and in the experience of a practiced transportation planner. I hope that the reader will learn from the stories told here that the workers tried valiantly to do their jobs, that the line’s managers were forced to play with the hand that was dealt to them from a less than full deck, and that investors expected to get a reasonable return on the often gigantic sums paid into the corporation. “I hope that the information contained within these covers leads others toward more detailed studies of the railroads and of the conditions in which they survived, if not prospered.”
A Railroad Atlas Of The United States In 1946
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Author : Richard C. Carpenter
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2003
A Railroad Atlas Of The United States In 1946 written by Richard C. Carpenter and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Containing 202 hand-drawn color maps of every railroad line in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, this book provides a unique record of a time when passenger trains still made stops in every town and freight trains carried the bulk of the nation's cargo. Drawn at a scale of 1 inch to 4 miles, the maps include main and branch passenger and freight lines, former steam locomotive and manual signal tower stations, towns that functioned as crew change points, track pans, coaling stations, and a variety of indexes of railroad features. Carpenter is a longtime observer and collector of railroad history. This is the first volume in a series that eventually will provide the first comprehensive atlas of the U.S. post-World War II railroad system. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Railroad Gazette
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874
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Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
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Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Interstate commerce categories.
