Two Generations On The Allegheny Portage Railroad
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Two Generations On The Allegheny Portage Railroad
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Author : Christopher Jon Lewie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Two Generations On The Allegheny Portage Railroad written by Christopher Jon Lewie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Transportation categories.
During the early to mid-1800s, the railroad changed the transportation industry and dramatically impacted the nature of the American economy. Entire families, such as the Humphreys from Cambria County in western Pennsylvania, saw their fortunes rise and fall with this new technology. This remove mountain county was at the forefront of railroading technology and interstate competition during the mid-19th century. The Pennsylvania Main Line Canal System sought a way to cross the Alleghenies. The Main Line had to compete with the Erie and the Chesapeake & Ohio Canals to secure the lucrative western freight traffic. The Allegheny Portage Railroad, one of the first in the country, was not just part of the industrial age--it was the start of the industrial and transportation age in America.
Engineering America
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Author : Richard Haw
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-12
Engineering America written by Richard Haw and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
John Roebling was one of the nineteenth century's most brilliant engineers, ingenious inventors, successful manufacturers, and fascinating personalities. Raised in a German backwater amid the war-torn chaos of the Napoleonic Wars, he immigrated to the US in 1831, where he became wealthy and acclaimed, eventually receiving a carte-blanche contract to build one of the nineteenth century's most stupendous and daring works of engineering: a gigantic suspension bridge to span the East River between New York and Brooklyn. In between, he thought, wrote, and worked tirelessly. He dug canals and surveyed railroads; he planned communities and founded new industries. Horace Greeley called him "a model immigrant"; generations later, F. Scott Fitzgerald worked on a script for the movie version of his life. Like his finest creations, Roebling was held together by the delicate balance of countervailing forces. On the surface, his life was exemplary and his accomplishments legion. As an immigrant and employer, he was respected throughout the world. As an engineer, his works profoundly altered the physical landscape of America. He was a voracious reader, a fervent abolitionist, and an engaged social commentator. His understanding of the natural world, however, bordered on the occult and his opinions about medicine are best described as medieval. For a man of science and great self-certainty, he was also remarkably quick to seize on a whole host of fads and foolish trends. Yet Roebling held these strands together. Throughout his life, he believed in the moral application of science and technology, that bridges--along with other great works of connection, the Atlantic Cable, the Transcontinental Railroad--could help bring people together, erase divisions, and heal wounds. Like Walt Whitman, Roebling was deeply committed to the creation of a more perfect union, forged from the raw materials of the continent. John Roebling was a complex, deeply divided yet undoubtedly influential figure, and this biography illuminates not only his works but also the world of nineteenth-century America. Roebling's engineering feats are well known, but the man himself is not; for alongside the drama of large scale construction lies an equally rich drama of intellectual and social development and crisis, one that mirrored and reflected the great forces, trials, and failures of nineteenth century America.
The Old And New Allegheny Portage Railroad
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Author : Paul Bleyden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
The Old And New Allegheny Portage Railroad written by Paul Bleyden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Allegheny portage railroad categories.
Writing Home
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Author : Emma Alderson
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-16
Writing Home written by Emma Alderson and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-16 with Literary Collections categories.
Writing Home offers readers a firsthand account of the life of Emma Alderson, an otherwise unexceptional English immigrant on the Ohio frontier in mid-nineteenth-century America, who documented the five years preceding her death with astonishing detail and insight. Her convictions as a Quaker offer unique perspectives on racism, slavery, and abolition; the impending war with Mexico; presidential elections; various religious and utopian movements; and the practices of everyday life in a young country. Introductions and notes situate the letters in relation to their critical, biographical, literary, and historical contexts. Editor Donald Ulin discusses the relationship between Alderson’s letters and her sister Mary Howitt’s Our Cousins in Ohio (1849), a remarkable instance of transatlantic literary collaboration. Writing Home offers an unparalleled opportunity for studying immigrant correspondence due to Alderson’s unusually well-documented literary and religious affiliations. The notes and introductions provide background on nearly all the places, individuals, and events mentioned in the letters. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site And Johnston Flood National Memorial Draft General Management And Development Plan B1 Draft General Management And Development Plan Environmental Assessment Ea
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site And Johnston Flood National Memorial Draft General Management And Development Plan B1 Draft General Management And Development Plan Environmental Assessment Ea written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.
Report Of Francis R West Superintendent On The Allegheny Portage Railroad
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Author : Allegheny Portage Railroad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851*
Report Of Francis R West Superintendent On The Allegheny Portage Railroad written by Allegheny Portage Railroad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851* with Railroads categories.
Coal Trains
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Author : Brian Solomon
language : en
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Release Date : 2009-07-15
Coal Trains written by Brian Solomon and has been published by Voyageur Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-15 with Transportation categories.
From the first, U.S. railroads have carried coal from mines to docks, steel mills, and power plants across the country. In this authoritative book spanning the whole of that history, from the mid-nineteenth century to present, noted rail author Brian Solomon explores the railroads and hardware that have transported the fossil fuels that made America work. Brilliant period and contemporary photographs convey the drama of the enterprise: the very long—and very heavy—trains powering up mountain grades and thundering across barren prairies. At sites from the eastern and western U.S., past and present, readers see giant double-headed Norfolk and Western steam locomotives moving Appalachian coal in Virginia; modern CSX diesels dragging unit coal trains over the well-groomed former Chesapeake & Ohio main line; BNSF’s SD70MACs with more than 100 hoppers in tow; Rio Grande locomotives snaking through the Rocky Mountains; and coal trains working full-throttle up Colorado’s Tennessee Pass, cresting the Continental Divide at 10,000 feet above sea level. Taking up topics ranging from the colorful but now-defunct “anthracite roads” of eastern Pennsylvania to today’s AC-traction diesels that work Wyoming’s thriving Powder River Basin, Solomon reveals how for 150 years the unique demands of coal—and America’s demand for coal—have prompted new railroad technologies.
Railroad History
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Railroad History written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Railroads categories.
The Railway Locomotive Historical Society Newsletter
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Railway Locomotive Historical Society Newsletter written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Railroads categories.
Pennsylvania Caves Other Rocky Roadside Wonders
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Author : Kevin Patrick
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2004-09-13
Pennsylvania Caves Other Rocky Roadside Wonders written by Kevin Patrick and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-13 with Travel categories.
Features Last River Caverns, Crystal Cave, Indian Echo Caverns, Woodward Cave, Penn's Cave, Indian Caverns, Lincoln Caverns, Coral Caverns, and Laurel Caverns and includes ice mines, coal mines, boulder fields, and rock cities. Detailed history of each cave. Legends and local lore of many features and sites.