Railroads category: 1183 books
Last Train to Paradise
Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores.
In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur...
Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux
The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux
Three quintessential works from the legendary Paul Theroux are collected here for the first time.
Let the master take you by train through Asia in 1975’s The Great Railway Bazaar, then cross the Americas in 1979’s The Old Patagonian Express, and round...
The White Cascade
The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
The never-before-told story of one of the worst rail disasters in U.S. history in which two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, are hit by a devastating avalanche
In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records....
Drinking with Men
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
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A vivid, funny, and poignant memoir that celebrates the distinct lure of the camaraderie and community one finds drinking in bars.
Rosie Schaap...
London Under
The Secret History Beneath the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In this vividly descriptive short study, Peter Ackroyd tunnels down through the geological layers of London, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness and excavating the lore and mythology beneath the surface.
There is a Bronze Age trackway below the Isle of Dogs, Anglo-Saxon graves rest...
Trains, Culture, and Mobility
Riding the Rails
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to...
Hell on Wheels
Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Overnight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories along...
by John Christopher
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
In addition to his high-profile railway lines, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was engineer to a number of minor and branch lines including those from Slough to Windsor, Didcot to Oxford and from there via the OWWW - generally known as the 'Old Worse & Worse' - across to Moreton, Evesham, Pershore and...
Bradshaw's Guide London to Birmingham
On Stephenson's Tracks - Volume 9
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The London & Birmingham Railway was the first major line in Britain and it was the greatest achievement of its engineer, Robert Stephenson, the man who, together with his father George, had set the age of the railway in motion with their pioneering achievements. The route presented a number of...
by George W. Hilton
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2011
There was a time in the United States when railroad tunnels and bridges were only dreams in the minds of designers, when the best way to move railroad cars across bodies of water was to load them on specialized ships designed specifically for this purpose.
With this utilitarian principle in...
by Matt Starman, Tim Stricker
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
The city of Yreka was determined to have a railroad. When the Southern Pacific Railroad decided in 1883 to bypass Yreka, the citizens constructed their own railroad known as the Yreka Railroad Company. This railroad managed to eke out a living over the next few decades. In the 1930s, the railroad was...
by John Taibi
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2003
The New York & Oswego Midland Railroad-reorganized in 1879 as the New York, Ontario & Western Railway-was born out of necessity and a desire to populate and industrialize the interior regions of New York State. The railroad meandered down from Oswego, traversed the north shore of Oneida Lake, and then...
by James E. Casto
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
In the late 1860s, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) pushed its first tracks westward from Virginia's Tidewater region across the mountains into what was then the new state of West Virginia. Ultimately its tracks stretched across a half-dozen states and even into Canada. Appalachian coal was the...
by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Daniel Drew was a robber baron in every sense of the term. He loved to be hated. He was into money for the game. Making money was great, but making it while stabbing someone in the back was better, and if the victim was his partner, electrifying. Yet, he could defraud someone one day and somehow wheedle...