Download or read book The Milwaukee Road Electrification written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Electric Way Across the Mountains written by Richard Steinheimer and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Milwaukee Road Electrification written by Rodney A. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Milwaukee Connection The Spokane to Butte written by Dale W. Jones and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1890s, the Union Pacific, Northern Pacific, and Great Northern Railways had a firm grip on all West Coast rail traffic. In 1905, Milwaukee Road officials voted to extend the line into Seattle, securing Pacific Coast markets. As the Milwaukee built into Montana, numerous obstacles emerged; frigid winter temperatures and steep mountain grades challenged steam-powered operations. In the early 1910s, electric locomotives became a viable alternative for steam engines in long-haul rail service; at the same time, waterpower for generating electricity was developing in the Northwest. The mines and smelters of Butte and Anaconda supplied the resources needed to electrify 440 miles of track in Montana and Idaho. The longevity of the Milwaukee Road electrification into the 1970s highlights the determination of faithful employees on what was known as America's Resourceful Railroad.
Download or read book The Milwaukee Electrics written by Noel T. Holley and published by N J International. This book was released on 1987 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sparks from the Milwaukee Road Electrification Exhibit a Century of Progress Chicago May 27 Nov 1 1933 written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fortieth Year of the Milwaukee Road Rocky Mountain Electrification written by Philip Cornwell Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Sparks from the Milwaukee Road Electrification Exhibit written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sparks from the Milwaukee Road Electrification Exhibit written by Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Puget Sound Electrified a History of the Milwaukee Road s Coast Division written by John T. Gaertner and published by . This book was released on 2023-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the Milwaukee Road's attempt to remain viable as a major carrier in the early 1900's by launching an extension to Puget Sound in Washington state. As well as the main line to Seattle-Tacoma, the book covers feeders such as the Hanford, Everett, Enumclaw, Grays Harbor and Olympic Peninsula branches, the Tacoma Eastern, Bellingham Bay & British Columbia, Puget Sound & Willapa Harbor and Milwaukee Terminal, which sought to provide sufficient tonnage to make the extension financially successful. Shortly after completing construction, the decision was made to electrify the main line, making it one of the major such projects in the United States. The traffic never seemed to warrant such an extravagance, and the Milwaukee Road went into receivership in 1925 and again during the Great Depression. World War II saw traffic reach new highs as traffic moved to the Pacific front, but the Milwaukee continued to experience difficulty in competing with its competitors, the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Union Pacific. This situation was exacerbated by the merger of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific in 1970. Although merger protections opened up new gateways such as Portland, Oregon to the Milwaukee, the road was still unable to sustain itself, and the Coast Division was abandoned in 1980 as part of a drastic economy move.
Download or read book The Electric Way Across the Mountains written by Richard Steinheimer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book The Milwaukee Road written by August William Derleth and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Itinerary written by Australian Welsh delegation 1929 and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unfulfilled Promise written by Adam T. Michalski and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century electricity made inroads into American life. Industry used electricity to power machines. Homemakers utilized electric appliances such as irons and washing machines to perform household chores. Electric lighting was used in homes, factories, railroad stations, advertising, and on city streets. The promise of electricity transformed everyday life. Electricity also held the promise of making it easier to transport freight and passengers on steam railroads. Despite electricity's superiority to steam, a few railroads decided to electrify because it was necessary. Only one railroad, the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul, electrified a major portion of its lines for economic reasons.
