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"Follow the Flag" offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. The corporate saga of the Wabash involved the efforts of strong-willed and creative leaders, but this book provides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467155540Author Gregg M TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467128223Author David H. SteinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 613gDimensions(mm)...

"The Great Northern Railway, in the eventful year of 1941, met every requirement made of it as the Nation hurriedly prepared for war." So Great Northern's president spoke of the Minnesota railroad that transported the tanks and airplanes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897190272Author John M. MillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint DC Books,CanadaPublisher DC Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 850g

Brian Cudahy offers a fascinating tribute to the world the subway created. Taking a fresh look at one of the marvels of the 20th century, Cudahy creates a vivid sense of this extraordinary achievement-how the city was transformed once New Yorkers started...

This long-awaited study, the magnum opus of a leading railroad historian, describes the conception, construction, and early operation of the first narrow gauge railroads in northern California. It is lavishly illustrated by some 600 photographs and...

After almost a quarter of a century, Monon: The Hoosier Line is back in print in a revised second edition featuring an updated Epilogue, additional photographs, and a new Afterword by Frank Van Bree, President of the Monon Railroad Historical-Technical...

In the late 19th century, railroads played a crucial role in the development of Montana's economy. Robert A. Schalla examines early efforts to bring rail transport to the New World Mining District near the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park...

Florida's size and shape meant a largely remote interior until shortly before the Civil War. The catalysts for blasting through that anonymity built railroads linking east to west and north to south: Their iron horses transported people-rich Northern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467144902Author Mary E LyonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 18g

Beginning in 1862 as a small carrier connecting St. Paul and Minneapolis with outlying towns, the Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad became the foundation of the vast rail system that would open the entire Northwest. As a pioneering line in virgin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479812776Author Julia H LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams) 6g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783782212953Author International Maritime MuseumFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Koehlers VerlagsgsellschaftPublisher Koehlers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894759434Author Bernice Medbury MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 324g

The Louisiana & Arkansas Railway, known as "The Better Way," ran its first trains at the turn of the century and expanded over the years to connect New Orleans to Dallas. Well-maintained and enduringly profitable, this regional railroad...

The quest for greater speed on the rails is almost as old as the railroad itself. In the 19th and in the first half of the 20th centuries, notable things were being done under the slogan "Speed is the key:" the famous Rainhill Trials of 1829;...

Through Dennis A. Livesey's camera lens, readers will experience the thrill of the steam railroad, a transportation system that dominated the USA for over 100 years and helped build a nation. In 131 photographs of Steamtown-a heritage railroad-see the...

In 1948, the 'big four' railway companies were nationalized to form British Railways. This collection of photographs captures the last two decades of steam power as steam gave way to diesel electrification, including many vintage locomotives of...

The Atlantic locomotive is often described as the 'Queen' of locomotives and the image of it steaming full-blast for Chicago, Edinburgh or Paris represents a bygone age. Created in an era of great technical development at the beginning of the twentieth...

Chicago's South Shore Line is a photographic essay of the last interurban electric railroad operating in the United States. Completed as the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Railway (CLS&SBR) connecting South Bend, Indiana, with Pullman, Illinois, in...

For train enthusiasts, model railroaders, and history buffs, hop aboard this tour of North American railroads, both great and obscure. Few images speak as clearly of a time and a place as a dramatic black-and-white photograph of an American steam...

First published in 1985, this Atlas uses over 50 specially drawn maps to trace the rise and fall of the railways' fortunes, and is supported by an interesting and authoritative text. Financial and operating statistics are clearly presented in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984986668Author Barton JenningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Techscribes, Inc.Publisher Techscribes, Inc.Weight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467145299Author Major Bill Kenny Usaf (Ret )Format PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 20g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596293601Author Bruce D., Ph.D. HealdFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

The first street railway opened in New Orleans in 1835. Over the years various methods of powering the streetcars including horses, stream locomotives, overhead cable system, and fireless locomotives were tried. In 1893, electric streetcar operation...

In this engaging social history of the impact of railroads on American life, H. Roger Grant explores the railroad's "golden age" of 1830-1930. To capture the essence of the nation's railroad experience, Grant looks at four fundamental topics-trains and...

A saga about one of the oldest and most romantic enterprises in the land-America's railroads-The Men Who Loved Trains introduces some of the most dynamic businessmen in America. Here are the chieftains who have run the railroads, including those who set...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467144599Author Jacob Morgan PlottFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467147026Author Loretta TreeseFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798637621163Author Paul R WonningFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634992855Author Douglas PooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479812752Author Julia H LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams) 6g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634994507Author Mike ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 20g

A joint publication of Trans Pacific Press and Kyoto University Press, this economic history of the early development of Thailand's railways details the rail policies of the royal government, from the end of 19th century to 1932, when the Constitutional...

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...

A standard track gauge - the distance between the two rails - enables connecting railway lines to exchange traffic. But despite the benefits of standardization, early North American railways used six different gauges extensively, and even today breaks of...

First published in 1985, this Atlas uses over 50 specially drawn maps to trace the rise and fall of the railways' fortunes, and is supported by an interesting and authoritative text. Financial and operating statistics are clearly presented in...

Aaron W. Marrs challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America with this original study of the history of the railroad in the Old South. Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal...