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Book Rebuilding the Milwaukee Road

Download or read book Rebuilding the Milwaukee Road written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Milwaukee Road

Download or read book The Milwaukee Road written by Tom Murray and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2005-10-29 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true grit and glory days of one of America's greatest railroads come to dramatic life in this full-scale illustrated history by industry veteran Tom Murray. Words and pictures carry readers across the vast tracts of land and time traversed by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific-better known to history as the Milwaukee Road. Ranging from the railroad's late-nineteenth-century beginnings to its purchase by onetime rival Soo Line in 1985, the book looks at The Milwaukee Road's famed streamlined Hiawatha passenger trains, the "Little Joe" electric locomotives, and the sprawling fabrication and repair facilities in its namesake city. Whether surveying the railroad's routes and the trains that plied them, and the people who worked behind the scenes, or focusing on the line's motive power, rolling stock, passenger and freight operations, The Milwaukee Road provides a broad-scale, brilliantly detailed portrait of a great railroad, an industry, and a bygone era.

Book The Milwaukee Road s Western Extension

Download or read book The Milwaukee Road s Western Extension written by Stanley W. Johnson and published by Museum of North Idaho Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Milwaukee Road's Western Extension is a fascinating story of the 1905-1915 building of the first through rail line between Chicago and Puget Sound. It was a daring decision that resulted in a remarkable accomplishment. It is a tale of unusual human interaction at all levels - full of details about the people and events involved. It tells of the face-to-face personal and corporate struggle for power by America's railroad barons; the courage and fortitude of pioneering civil engineer surveyors who pushed their way through literally thousands of miles of virgin wilderness in search of a workable route. It looks over the shoulders of hundreds of planners who attacked the unbelievably difficult problems of supplying 10,000 workers strung out over 1800 miles of planned right-of-way, devoid of roads or towns. The reader is taken along and offered the opportunity to observe these laborers as they erect steel trestles three-hundred feet above the forest floor; bore tunnels through almost 20 miles of mountain rock; build new bridges across the Missouri, the Yellowstone, the Columbia and a hundred other rivers and streams while they struggled to stay alive in the face of stifling heat, devastating floods, life-threatening snow and cold, winds of hurricane strength and the presence of typhus that frequented their new route across the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho and Washington. The reader learns why and how new construction machines came to virgin wilderness for the first time; discovers how the work crews lived; where they played and slept, what they ate, and sometimes how they died. Reading the book is like taking a trip into the beginning of the 20th century when men like Teddy Roosevelt, the Rockefellers, Alva Edison and John Westinghouse were introducing the country to new ways of living and doing business - better medical care, electricity in every day life, and a new freedom - the freedom to travel without pause or discomfort all the way from the beaches of Lake Michigan to the clear waters of Puget Sound. Based upon details and broad documentation gleaned from the records of the time, the story is one of fact rather than supposition - a broad tribute to the men who built the railroad. It is a saga of great accomplishment and remarkable people.

Book Milwaukee Road Remembered

Download or read book Milwaukee Road Remembered written by Jim Scribbins and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eminent railway historian furnishes a detailed history of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific railroad, its groundbreaking service from Indiana to the Puget Sound, its pioneering use of electricity to move heavy trains over a long distance, and other technological advances. Reprint.

Book The Milwaukee Road

    Book Details:
  • Author : August Derleth
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1948
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book The Milwaukee Road written by August Derleth and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nation Pays Again

Download or read book The Nation Pays Again written by Thomas H. Ploss and published by Thomas M. Ploss. This book was released on 1986 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NATION PAYS AGAIN (3rd Ed., 1991) is a sequel to Lowenthal's classic THE INVESTIGATOR PAYS (1933) in that it carries forward the history of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company from the end of its first bankruputcy in 1928, Lowenthal's subject, to the end of its third & the annihilation in 1986. The author, formerly a staff attorney for the railroad, gives personal witness to events from the day he joins the firm in 1966 through twenty years of drama. He reports the momentous discoveries made in the headquarters of the railroad's bitter rival proving illegal conspiracy to "Kill MILW," & the government's failure to protect its investment in the Milwaukee Road's ability to compete. The story records the sad repetition of all Lowenthal inveighed against in wasteful bankruptcy practices as the system is broken up & sold off, huge profits going to the trustee & his friends. The Lexington Newsletter, a historian's guide, recommended "should be read by all seriously interested in the history of U.S. railroads since World War II."

Book Milwaukee Road Remembered

Download or read book Milwaukee Road Remembered written by Jim Scribbins and published by Kalmbach Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rebuilding the Brand

Download or read book Rebuilding the Brand written by Clyde Fessler and published by Triple Nickel Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at how branding and the employees of Harley-Davidson helped in rebuilding its image.

Book Brief Record of the Development of the Milwaukee Road from the Chartering of Its First Predecessor Company in 1847 to Date  July 1935

Download or read book Brief Record of the Development of the Milwaukee Road from the Chartering of Its First Predecessor Company in 1847 to Date July 1935 written by Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Brief History

Download or read book A Brief History written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Milwaukee Road  west

Download or read book Milwaukee Road west written by Charles Raymond Wood and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Milwaukee Road Revisited

Download or read book The Milwaukee Road Revisited written by Stanley W. Johnson and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press The Milwaukee Road's route from Three Forks, Montana, to Spokane, Washington, touched many lives. Johnson reminisces about the way the railroad affected his youth. Johnson takes the reader on various train rides, some during the vibrant springtime and others during the deadly winter.

Book The Milwaukee Road Magazine

Download or read book The Milwaukee Road Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Milwaukee Road Passenger Service

Download or read book Milwaukee Road Passenger Service written by Pat Dorin and published by TLC Publishing. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Pat Dorin gives an excellent overview of The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific passenger trains starting with the streamlined, steam-hauled Hiawatha and following the story through to the introduction of Amtrak and beyond. Cars are covered in detail as well as motive power. Reproduced timetables and ads give a good feel for the passenger era. Modellers, Milwaukee Road fans, and passenger train devotees will all find material of interest in this general overview of the period and the great service of the Milwaukee Road.

Book The Milwaukee Road

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1943
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 43 pages

Download or read book The Milwaukee Road written by Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Brief History     the Milwaukee Road

Download or read book A Brief History the Milwaukee Road written by Milwaukee Road News Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Milwaukee Road

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frederick W. Hyde
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780962869907
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book The Milwaukee Road written by Frederick W. Hyde and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: