Download or read book Seventy Years of America s Greatest Railroad Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Seventy Years of America's Greatest Railroad The railroads in this country carry their freight at a cheaper rate, they pay higher wages to their labor, they pay out a greater percentage of their earnings in the form of taxes, than the railroads of any other country in the world. In magnitude of Operations the Pennsylvania surpasses all other railroad corporations in the world. When it is realized that to this magnitude of Operations are joined a wonderful organization, extraordinary efficiency and economy in management, and adherence to the highest ideals of public service - it will be seen that in this Company there is visualized, dramatized and expressed to the world one of the really fine achievements of American life. 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.
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Download or read book Health and Pleasure on America s Greatest Railroad Classic Reprint written by New York Central and Hudson Riv Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Health and Pleasure on America's Greatest Railroad At Albany the line turns almost due west, and follows the natural route of communication between the Hudson and Lake Erie. The only heavy grade, and that insignificant when compared with those on other trunk lines, occurs between Albany and Schenectady, where the Mohawk and Hudson found it necessary to commence operations with inclined planes, but this is soon over come, and the valley of the Mohawk is reached at Schenectady. This beautiful river is followed for 92 miles to near Rome, and there it is deserted for the waters of Oneida Lake, and 'at Syracuse, 38 miles further, Onondaga Lake is touched. Both of these lakes are drained into Lake Ontario by the Oswego River. Skirting the Seneca River and its tributaries, which drain Seneca, Cayuga, 'owasco and Skaneateles Lakes into the Oswego River, the line reaches Rochester, on the Genesee River, near Lake Ontario, 81 miles from Syracuse. The mountain range, which bars the continent from near the Canadian border down to the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and which is such a serious barrier to every other line of railroad connecting the Atlantic seaboard with the Mississippi Valley, is imperceptibly passed at little'falls Station, midway between Albany and Syracuse, where the Mohawk flows through a natural break in the chain. 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 CHRONOLOGY OF AMERICAN RAILROADS written by ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN. RAILROADS and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Railway The Trains Railroads and People Who Ran the Rails written by Thomas Curtis Clarke and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1800s the railroads changed America and America changed the world. Celebrate the men and women who ran the rails, built the trains and commanded an empire of steel. Originally printed in 1893, this stunning reprinting of the rare classic, The American Railway, is filled with more than 200 gorgeous period illustration of locomotives, brakemen, engineers, rail service, managers and tycoons from the era. Learn how the 19th-century American railroad was constructed, managed and run to become the greatest railway in the world. This stunning reprint is edited and designed by Mark Bussler, director of Expo: Magic of the White City and writer of Tome of Infinity, The World's Fair of 1893 Ultra Massive Photographic Adventure, World War 1: A Dramatic Collection of Images, the Ultra Massive Video Game Console Guide series and Westinghouse.
Download or read book War History of American Railroads Classic Reprint written by Walker D. Hines and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from War History of American Railroads The nomination of these boards by the General Editor was the first step taken in every country where the work has begun. And if any justification was needed for the plan of the Endowment, it at once may be found in the lists of those, distinguished in scholarship or in public affairs, who have accepted the responsibility of editor ship. This responsibility is by no means light, involving as it does, the adaptation of the general editorial plan to the varying demands of national circumstances or methods of work; and the measure of success attained is due to the generous and earnest cooperation of those in charge in each country. Once the editorial organization was established there could be little doubt as to the first step which should be taken in each instance to ward the actual preparation of the history. Without documents there can be no history. The essential records of the war, local as well as central, have therefore to be preserved and to be made avail able for research in so far as is compatible with public interest. But this archival task is a very great one, belonging of right to the gov ernments and other owners of historical sources and not to the his torian or economist who proposes to use them. It is an Obligation of ownership for all such documents are public trust. The collaborators on this section Of the war history, therefore, working within their own field as researchers, could only survey the situation as they found it and report their findings in the form of guides or manuals; and per haps, by stimulating a comparison of methods, help to further the adoption of those found to be most practical. In every country, therefore, this was the point of departure for actual work; although special monographs have not been written in every instance. 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 The Great Railroad Revolution written by Christian Wolmar and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status. Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them. In The Great Railroad Revolution, renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.
Download or read book Stories of the Great Railroads Classic Reprint written by Charles Edward Russell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories of the Great Railroads In 1862, there was a reorganization and all the rights and properties of the Minnesota Pacific passed to a new com pany called the St. Paul Pacific, which proceeded to do many things, including the building of some real and much imitation track, and the issuing of many bonds, all of which were sold to the lowly and ignorant European, and chiefly to him of Holland. 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 Our Railroads To Morrow Classic Reprint written by Edward Hungerford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Railroads to-Morrow We were promised a complete solution of our transport troubles with the hurried passage two years ago of the Esch Cummins Bill, now known officially as the Transportation Act. Have we reached that solution, or anything like unto a solution? You do not have to ask the average man twice for an answer to that question. He knows. If he is a business man he knows doubly well. He knows that for the last ten years our American railroad system has been in something of a decline. A decade ago it was at the zenith of its efficiency. For eighty years it had been climbing upward; for the last ten it has been Slipping backward. Oh, yes, I do know its war record. It was a fine record and one of which every American should be duly proud. There is hardly a physician, however, who has not seen a patient, terribly sick, under the stress of great emergency rise magnificently to a definite sit nation of supreme importance. So four years ago rose our Sick man of American business. And now he has gone to bed more ill than ever before while many doctors quarrel about his case. And still he functions. The sick-abed man of our Amer ican business still renders the all-necessary service that none but him really can render. Fortunately perhaps American business itself at this moment is not in the very best of health. One shudders to think what would happen if industry all the way across the land were again in its top notches of production. It is not the least of the perplexing phases of this all-perplex ing railroad problem of ours - the question, when traffic shall again rise (as it certainly will) to normal volume, to say noth ing of any abnormal volume, of how our weakened railroad structure will meet it. 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 American Railroads written by George Henry Daniels and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Railroads: Their Relation to Commercial, Industrial and Agricultural Interests I congratulate the United States, and every com mercial country on the globe, upon the interest which this Congress has inspired, and which has se cured the attendance oi the representatives of commercial bodies from practically every country of the world. I also congratulate the City of Philadelphia, the greatest manufacturing city in the United States, upon the public spirited character of its citizens, who have organized and carried to a successful issue the National Export Exposition. 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 The Great Railway Bazaar written by Paul Theroux and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: “Compulsive reading” (Graham Greene). In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental tour. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express—are the stars of a journey that takes Theroux on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.
Download or read book Daring and Suffering written by William Pittenger and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure While our absent brothers are battling on the field, it is becoming that the friends at home should be eager for the minutest particulars of the camp-life, courage and endurance of the dear boys far away; for to the loyal lover of his country every soldier is a brother. The narrative related on the following pages is one of extraordinary daring and suffering, and will excite an interest in the public mind such as has rarely, if ever, arisen from any per sonal adventures recorded on the page of history. 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 The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857 Classic Reprint written by Wm Prescott Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857 The author of this record of the Great Railroad Celebrations of 1857, formed one Of the army of participants in the celebration of the Opening of' The American Central Railroad Line, from Baltimore, Maryland, continuously to St. Louis, Missouri, in June, 1857, and through his Official connection with one of the Railroad Companies, was cognizant of the interesting proceedings attending the return Visit of the Western guests from St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chillicothe, and other cities, to Baltimore and its vicinity in the following month of July, 1857. By the Great National Route. Looking upon these events - which marked the completion of the shortest and most direct line Of communication between the Atlantic seaboard and the great centres Of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys - as Of transcending importance, whilst the inter change of social courtesies between the people Of a widely extended section-of country was of a marked and impressive character, he proposes to put upon record a detailed account of these celebrations, and a brief general history of the several enterprises which together constitute the line in question. In ful filling this agreeable task it has been his constant effort to make the book an agreeable as well as a useful addition to the Railroad literature of the day - to present to those who took part in these celebrative ceremonies an interesting daguerreotype, recalling to their memories scenes in which all participated with so much pleasure, and at the same time to preserve in appropriate con nection therewith the important facts belonging to the inception, progress, com pletion and operation of the links of the great chain of railroads which, running nearly on one parallel Of latitude, reach from the 76th to the 9otb degree of longitude, - constituting the back bone of our railroad system, and vertebrated with an infinity Of connections which penetrate and unite to it, and with one another, the congeries of States lying West of the Atlantic and East of the Rocky Mountains. 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 Historical Memoir of the Western Railroad Classic Reprint written by George Bliss and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical Memoir of the Western Railroad The attention of the early friends of Internal Improvement in Massachusetts, was directed exclusively to the subject of Canals. Railroads were not introduced generally, even in England, as means of public travel and transportation, until a comparatively recent date. The first movement for a communication from Boston westward, was by Gen. Henry Knox, in 1791, for a Canal. He caused extensive surveys to be made in that year by John Hills, Esq., both upon a southern route through Worcester, and upon a more northern one. He and his associates were incorporated March 10 th, 1792, by the name of "The Proprietors of the Massachusetts Canal," with authority to make a Canal from Boston to the Connecticut River. It does not appear that active measures were taken under that charter. Their maps and estimates were preserved, and placed in the hands of the State Commissioners for Canal Surveys in 1825. Though charters were granted for local Canals, no general movement was attempted from Boston to the interior of the State, until 1825. At the opening of the January session of the Legislature of that year, Gov. Eustis called attention to the subject, as follows: -" A water communication from Boston, to, and through the western parts of the State, would tend greatly to advance the interests of Agriculture, and of the numerous Manufactures established in the interior. The present state of the Treasury will not, I am sensible, admit the application of funds, to any considerable amount, to objects of this nature. 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 Lincoln on the New Haven and the Boston and Albany Railroads Classic Reprint written by Railway and Locomotive Historical Soc and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lincoln on the New Haven and the Boston and Albany Railroads From out of the Middle West, seventy years ago, there came one of the greatest men this country has ever produced - Abraham Lincoln. A man who was destined to play the role of the Savior of this Nation and whose life should be a constant inspiration to old and young to this very day. There have been many books written on the subject of Abraham Lincoln and we know today that he was a far greater man than he was believed to have been during his life time. 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 An American Railroad Builder written by Henry Greenleaf Pearson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An American Railroad Builder: John Murray Forbes HE present volume differs from the Let ters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, published in 1899, not only in being an abridged biography, but in having been written to tell the story, merely outlined there, of. 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 The American Pressman written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
