Railroads category: 1183 books
by Michael E. Hibblen
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
For nearly 80 years, the Rock Island was a major railroad in Arkansas providing passenger and freight services. A decline in rail travel after World War II and an increase in trucks hauling freight over government-subsidized interstates were among factors that left the railroad struggling. Efforts to...
St. Louis Gateway Rail
The 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Though the city of St. Louis is located on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River, for the railroads, the St. Louis Gateway extends into Illinois, north and south along both sides of the river. Two factors conspired against St. Louis�s aspiration to become the preeminent rail center of the 19th-century...
by Kenneth Springirth
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
The Toronto Beaches Lions Club Easter Parade of April 8, 2012 leading off with Toronto Transit Commission historic Presidents’ Conference Committee car No. 4500, vintage Peter Witt car No. 2766, and Canadian Light Rail Vehicle No. 4074 in this view on Queen Street at Woodbine Avenue was witnessed...
by Patrick H. Stakem
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
Located at the confluence of Will�s Creek and the Potomac River, Cumberland, Maryland, is known as the Queen City of the Alleghenies. Because of the unique geography of the mountain passes, Cumberland became a transportation nexus between the Eastern Seaboard and the inland bounty of the United States....
by Tony Reevy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
- Beebe’s publication High Iron: A Book of Trains, transformed the world of railroad photography.
- This book brings the best of the photographic work together in one book.
- Beebe and Clegg were gay in an age of discrimination.
- Beebe published over 40 books on railroads and railroading.
The American Railway
Its Construction, Development, Management, and Trains
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The early history of the American railroad by the man the New York Times calls one of the best-known civil engineers in America.”
The American Railway provides an exciting look at the railroad industry in the 1880s and how it developed as the business boomed. Originally published in 1889,...
Railway Security
Protecting Against Manmade and Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book provides an overview and assessment of the security risks, both manmade and natural, facing the railways and rail networks.
Railroads face significant threats from disasters, but with situational awareness and coordinated effort these can often be substantially minimized. Transportation...
Dundurn Railroad Bundle
In Search of the Grand Trunk / Rails Across Ontario / Rails Across the Prairies / The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Ron Brown is Canada’s leading literary authority on the history of Canada’s railroads, particularly those now-lost branches from the golden age of steam that once ran like veins and arteries throughout the country. This special four-book bundle collects several of his titles, including: the poignant...
by Dale W. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2019
The last half of the 19th century was typified by tycoons and shrewd railroad barons. A key figure in the development of the Spokane International Railway was James Jerome Hill, or simply Jim Hill. Spokane businessmen regarded Hill as a tyrant and considered his Great Northern and Northern Pacific...
Gulf To Rockies
The Heritage of the Fort Worth and Denver–Colorado and Southern Railways, 1861–1898
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Gulf to Rockies is a chapter in the business and economic history of the American West and the story of two of the most colorful railroad builders of the nineteenth century. Throughout the 1860s the mineral treasures of Colorado were virtually inaccessible for lack of railroads. Even after a hectic decade...
Rails Across North America
A Pictorial Journey Across the USA
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The Railways of the USA have a great following, both in the United States where there are large numbers of rail fans and increasingly in Britain/Europe, where there are enthusiasts who visit and model North American railroads.
by Stan Moore
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
For America, the twenties were boom times. New ideas and inventions cascaded almost daily. Anything was possible.
There were challenges. Running trains over the highest route in North America, Rollins Pass, was costly and difficult. The effort had bankrupted several railroads. ...
Joseph Locke
Civil Engineer and Railway Builder 1805 - 1860
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Most historians recognize the work of three engineers as being the men who developed the railways from slow, lumbering colliery lines into fast, inter-city routes. Two are very well known: Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The third was Joseph Locke, who should be recognized for having...
A Road Taken
My Journey from a CN Station House to the CN Boardroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Nineteen years ago, David McLean was appointed by the prime minister of Canada to the board of directors of CN, after which he was elected chairman. McLean has been reelected each year and will retire in April 2014. In A Road Taken, the longest-serving chairman of the board in CN history explains...