Download or read book Hard Coal and Coal Cars written by Martin Robert Karig and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1880 through the 1950s, the New York, Ontario & Western Railway hauled coal from the rich anthracite deposits of eastern Pennsylvania to homes throughout the eastern United States and Canada. In Hard Coal and Coal Cars, Martin Robert Karig chronicles the rise and fall of the O & W's coal hauling operation in a richly illustrated work that interweaves economic, industrial, and technological history. Karig opens his history with the intense competition for the rights to eastern Pennsylvania's lucrative coal-hauling business. He then details the technological developments that transformed coal cars from wooden carts carrying just a few hundred pounds to steel hoppers hauling several tons. Bringing the story into the twentieth century, Karig explains how the O & W's ownership ultimately abandoned the coal-hauling business in the 1950s as coal was supplanted by more reliable and convenient home heating fuels. Rich with the romance of the railroad and crucial to any understanding of Pennsylvania history, Hard Coal and Coal Cars will be the definitive book on a fascinating chapter of American life.
Download or read book Coal Cars written by Martin Robert Karig and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railroads--and the efficient, cheap transport they offered between developing cities--were one of the primary catalysts of the Industrial Revolution in both England and the United States. But it was the coal carried by those trains that allowed these cities to grow, expand, and flourish. Martin Robert Karig's landmark book, Coal Cars, is the story of the wide variety of railroad cars that transported that most essential of commodities to new markets. Coal Cars is the comprehensive study of the freight cars that conveyed coal across broad swaths of land that had been impassible before the invention of the steam engine. This groundbreaking volume traces the history and evolution of coal cars from their earliest use in England to the construction of major railways for the purpose of coal hauling and the end of the steam era on American railroads. In addition to contextualizing coal cars in the annals of industrial history, the book features extensive design specifications and drawings as well as a complete history of the various safety and mechanical innovations employed on these freight cars. It concludes with a photographic essay illustrating the development of the coal car over its first 300 years of use. Crucial to any understanding of American and European history, Coal Cars will be the definitive book on a fascinating chapter of railroad life.
Download or read book My Little Square Book of Railroad Coal Cars written by Bob Shepherd and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to the 8-1/2" square format, My Little Square Book of Railroad Coal Cars is simple to read and factually educational in its content. This full-color, 32-page, children's book presents a fascinating look at coal cars in the nonfiction genre. Entertaining and informative, children learn how to identify the parts of a coal car; the definition of a coal car; how coal cars are used for specialized purposes, such as hopper cars, covered hopper cars, and gondola cars; how coal cars are loaded and loaded; the purpose of coal processing facilities like tipples, truck dumps, and flood loaders; the history of the coal car; how the three major types of coal are formed in the ground; and a glossary of coal car and railroading terms. Children who love trains will love this little book not only because of the knowledge it imparts to them, but because they can take pride in disseminating the knowledge gained to their friends, schoolmates, and even to older acquaintances who know little about railroad coal cars. This book about railroad coal cars is the fourth volume in a complete set of My Little Square Book titles listed below. By collecting the entire set, children will possess a mini-library that's all about trains. Recommended for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. Volume 1: Steam Locomotives Volume 2: Steam Locomotive Tender Cars Volume 3: Railroad Box Cars Volume 4: Railroad Coal Cars Volume 5: Railroad Tank Cars Volume 6: Cabooses
Download or read book The Coal Trade written by Frederick Edward Saward and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sawards Coal Freight Circular written by Frederick Edward Saward and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Black Rock that Built America written by Gerald L. McKerns and published by GERALD MCKERNS. This book was released on 2007 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Rock That Built America explains how, on the backs of thousands of European immigrants, America was transformed from a mostly rural nation into the world's greatest industrial power. As the nation expanded in the nineteenth century, anthracite coal fueled the making of steel, the building of railroads, the operation of factories, and the heating of homes. This book tells of the struggles these immigrant miners endured while performing the grueling and dangerous work of extracting anthracite coal from the earth in order to earn their place in America.
Download or read book Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region written by John Stuart Richards and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002-02-13 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four distinct anthracite coal fields encompass an area of 1,700 square miles in the northeastern portion of Pennsylvania. Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region is a journey into a world that was once very familiar. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, underground coal mining was at its zenith and the work of miners was more grueling and dangerous than it is today. Faces blackened by coal and helmet lamps lit by fire are no longer parts of the everyday lives of miners in the region. These vintage photographs of collieries, breakers, miners, drivers, and breaker boys illuminate the dark of the anthracite mines. The pictures of miners, roof falls, mules, and equipment deep underground tell the story of the hard lives lived around the hard coal. Above ground, breaker boys toiled in unbearable conditions inside the noisy, vibrating, soot-filled monsters known as coal breakers.
Download or read book Norfolk and Western Coal Cars 1881 1997 written by Andrew Dow and published by TLC Publishing (VA). This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because Norfolk & Western's existence was predicated on coal, its coal-hauling cars represented its most important rolling stock. In fact, with the exception of the Chesapeake & Ohio, no other railway concentrated its business on coal mining as heavily as N&W.This fully illustrated history of N&W's hoppers and high-side gondolas begins in 1881 and continues through the present Norfolk & Southern operations. Not only is this study a superb technological history, it's also an ideal data file for modellers. The drawings are taken from a number of trade publications and company archives. Photographs from all eras show the cars being both built and used.
Download or read book Coal and Coal Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Partners of the Past written by Anthony R. Pann and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saward s Journal written by Frederick William Saward and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coal Supply of the District of Columbia written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coal Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coal Trade written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coal Cars of the L V R R Co written by Philip H. De Witt and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soft Coal Hard Choices written by Price Van Meter Fishback and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making use of economic theory and statistics, this study examines the economic lives of American coal miners in the early part of the 20th century. It emphasizes the competition among employers for labour, legal rights, the state of the labour market and the impact of trade unions.
Download or read book The Black Diamond written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
