Download or read book History of the Connecticut Air Line Railroad written by Connecticut Air Line Railroad and published by . This book was released on 1935* with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Along the Valley Line written by Max R. Miller and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Connecticut Valley Railroad once carried both passengers and freight along the west bank of the Connecticut River between Hartford and Old Saybrook. Completed in 1871, today the railroad is known throughout New England for the nostalgic steam-powered excursion trains that run on a portion of the line between Essex and Chester. Until now the history of this popular tourist attraction has been the stuff of local lore and legend. This book, written by railroad historian and former vice president and director of Valley Railroad, Max R. Miller, provides the first comprehensive history of the Connecticut Valley Railroad through maps, ephemera, and archival photographs of the trains, bridges, and scenery surrounding the line. Offering tales of train wrecks, ghost sightings, booms and busts, Along the Valley Line will be treasured by railroad enthusiasts and historians alike.
Download or read book Viaducts Bridges and Ghost Trains written by Julie Horn and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New York and New England Railroad written by Gregg M Turner and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railroads were the first big business enterprises of America and made possible many other industries. They knitted our expansive nation together and ably transported people, materials, supplies, goods, and mail. Literally hundreds, if not thousands, of railroads were built in the United States during the nineteenth century. Among the more colorful was the New York and New England Railroad, which connected Boston with the Hudson River via the uplands of Connecticut. If ever a company had its share of trials and tribulations it was this firm. Yet its fascinating, topsy-turvy past is today largely forgotten. This work brings to life how the New York and New England Railroad evolved from humble beginnings to becoming a potent transportation force. Meticulously researched with many period images and a lively text, our journey begins in the 1840s and lasts until the late 1890s. Climb aboard for a special trip into this unique chapter of American railroad history!
Download or read book The Trolley Air Line written by O. Richard Cummings and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William and Henry Walters written by Gregg M. Turner and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railroads were the first big business enterprises in America, and they made possible many other industries. They knitted our expansive nation together and have ably transported people, goods, materials, supplies, express items, and mail. Literally, hundreds of railroads, if not more, were built in the United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among the more important was the fabled Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, which, by 1931, owned, controlled, or operated over 14,000 miles of transportation lines. The founders of this extraordinary firm were William and Henry Walters, father and son. Both are today largely remembered for their achievements in collecting works of art and establishing a world-class museum in Baltimore. But equally significant were their extraordinary efforts in founding and building up one of the great railway systems in America. Climb aboard for a special journey into this unique chapter of American railroad history!
Download or read book History of Transportation in Connecticut written by Connecticut. State Planning Board and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Connecticut Whistle Stops written by Lennie Grimaldi and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated, Connecticut Whistle Stops: Greenwich to New Haven tells the fascinating history of a rail line and the communities it serves. The motto of the state of Connecticut is Qui Transtulit Sustenet, which translates loosely from the Latin as "He who commutes thrives." The state was founded by commuters of a sort: itinerant preachers looking for congregations. Much later, when the railroads finally came along, the state bloomed. Today, Connecticut's rail line from Greenwich to New Haven is a thriving transportation network for Manhattan-bound commuters. Each workday, roughly 85,000 commuters ride the New Haven Line into Grand Central Terminal in New York. Profiled in Connecticut Whistle Stops are ten rail communities along the coast. Full of eye-catching photographs, the chapters highlight the impact that the rail line has had on Greenwich, Stamford, Darien, South Norwalk, Westport, Fairfield, Bridgeport, Stratford, Milford, and New Haven. The history offers all the elements of an award-winning movie: laborers building the railroad, America's best-known tycoons financing a rail monopoly and then running it into the ground, bankruptcy, and rebirth.
Download or read book The Rise of Railroads in the Connecticut River Valley written by Thelma Maddie Kistler and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Middlesex county Connecticut with biographical sketches of its prominent men written by and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1884-01-01 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Western Connecticut Trolleys written by Connecticut Motor Coach Museum and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, Americans have embraced technology with a special enthusiasm, and the innovation of the trolley car is no exception. This industry fueled the growth of many towns and cities in Connecticut, and Western Connecticut was able to keep pace with other parts of the state because of it. Although short lived, the trolley changed the landscape of the state and spurred progress in ways never imagined just a few years before. Marking an important milestone in the documentation of Connecticut's street railway heritage, Western Connecticut Trolleys is the sixth Arcadia Publishing book chronicling the history of all the streetcar lines and companies in the state.
Download or read book Origins of the New South 1877 1913 written by C. Vann Woodward and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1981-08-01 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?
Download or read book Connecticut Railroads written by Gregg M. Turner and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Connecticut s Deadliest Tornadoes written by Robert Hubbard and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wallingford tornado of 1878 took less than two minutes, but it killed at the rate of one person per second. Twisters in Connecticut are incredibly rare, but they're often disastrous and sometimes deadly. The Windsor tornado of 1979 destroyed a field of aircraft that had survived World War II. The 1787 Wethersfield tornado ripped off a barn roof in New Britain, traveled on to Newington and finally subsided in Wethersfield after destroying a family farm. Locals remember the 1989 cyclone that ripped through Hamden and cost the state millions of dollars in repairs. Join local author Robert Hubbard as he shares the tales of these natural disasters and those who witnessed them.
Download or read book A Journey into Florida Railroad History written by Gregg M. Turner and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-03-25 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is safe to say that without railroads, Florida wouldn't be what it is today. Railroads connected the state's important cities and towns, conquered the peninsula's vast and seemingly impenetrable interior, ushered in untold numbers of settlers and tourists, and conveyed to market--faster than any previous means of transportation--the myriad products of Florida's mines, forests, factories, farms, and groves. Gregg Turner traces the long, slow development of Florida railroads, from the first tentative lines in the 1830s, through the boom of the 1880s, to the maturity of the railroad system in the 1920s. At the end of that decade nearly 6,000 miles of labyrinthine track covered the state. Turner also examines the decline of the industry, as the automobile rose to prominence in American culture and lines were abandoned or sold for hiking trails and green spaces. Meticulously researched and richly illustrated--including many never-before-published images--A Journey into Florida Railroad History is a comprehensive, authoritative history of the subject. Written by one of the nation's foremost authorities on Florida railroads, it explores all the key players and companies, and every significant period of development. This engaging and lively story will be savored and enjoyed by generations to come.
Download or read book Twenty Fourth Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of Connecticut written by Connecticut Railroad Commissioners and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of Connecticut: For 1877, to Which Are Added Statistical Tables Compiled From the Annual Returns for 1876 of the Railroad Companies in This State The only work Of railroad construction in this State the past season, including the completion of the Rockville Branch of the Connecticut Central, which was authorized to be open ed for travel October 5th, was of one of these little branches. The Colchester Railway Company, incorporated by the last General Assembly, has nearly constructed its road from the Borough of Colchester, in the Town of Colchester, to Turner ville Station, on the Boston New York Air Line Railroad, in Town of Hebron. The road is miles long, with the feet per mile maximum grade; longest maximum grade feet; shortest radius of curve feet; length of longest curve feet total per cent. Of curve 80 ties 8 feet long, six inches face, and six inches thick, placed two and one-half feet from center to center. The road is to be ironed with fifty-six pound iron, fish plate joints, and run by the Boston New York Air Line Company with their own equip ment. Two highways are crossed by it, both at grade. This road is not included in the returns for the year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Post Roads Iron Horses written by Richard DeLuca and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys in Connecticut
