Download or read book The North and South Railroad of Georgia and Its Connections written by North and South Railroad of Georgia and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rails Through the Wiregrass written by H. Roger Grant and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Georgia & Florida Railroad began with bright promise, but like many other enterprises in the early twentieth-century South, it experienced hard times. The story begins in 1906, when--responding to a perceived need for better connections to northern markets--a group of entrepreneurs led by prominent Virginia banker John Skelton Williams began to cobble together logging short lines to create more than 350 miles of railroad connecting Augusta, Georgia, with Madison, Florida. At first the G&F triggered growth in its region as several new towns sprang up or expanded along its lines. By 1915, however, the economic dislocations caused by World War I threw the G&F into receivership, and a few years later the G&F came close to dismemberment. Fortunately, shippers and investors rallied to the railroad's cause, and business conditions improved. In 1926 the road was reorganized and, under pressure to "expand or die," built to Greenwood, South Carolina. The Great Depression forced the G&F into bankruptcy, and after its record-length receivership, it was acquired by the Southern Railway in 1963. When the Southern Railway dissolved the corporation and abandoned much of the former trackage, the G&F became the "Gone & Forgotten." Yet in its 57-year lifespan the G&F did much to bring about agricultural diversification and relative prosperity in the wiregrass region of southern Georgia and northern Florida. Offering insights on social and economic conditions in the South from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, Grant's study of this obscure yet noteworthy railroad will appeal to those interested in transportation, business, railroad, and Southern regional history.
Download or read book Central of Georgia Railway written by Jackson McQuigg and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized in 1833 by Savannah businessmen, the Central of Georgia Railway was chartered by the Georgia Legislature as the Central Rail Road & Canal Company. The line, connecting Savannah to the interior of the state, boosted the coastal city's seaport, which had lost business to Charleston because of the South Carolina Rail Road's inland reach. In 1843, the Central was extended from Savannah to the outskirts of Macon, and after nearly 120 years of successful operation, the Central of Georgia Railway was purchased by Southern Railway. By 1982, it became merely an accounting entry in the books of Norfolk Southern, a major transportation company.
Download or read book An Exhibit of the Great Southern Railway Company Its Route Connections and Resources written by Great Southern Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Southern Railway written by C. Pat Cates and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on the heels of Images of Rail: The Southern Railway, this volume takes a more detailed look at a historic railroad that has served the South for over 100 years and continues to serve as the Norfolk Southern Railway. Included in these pages are stories of bravery in war and ingenuity in peace. From 1942 to 1945, the 727th Railway Operating BattalionA[a¬asponsored by the Southern RailwayA[a¬aserved in North Africa and up the spine of Italy into Germany. The courageous unit received a citation from Gen. George S. Patton for its involvement in the Sicily Campaign.
Download or read book Great Southern Railway written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Railroad Manual for the United States and the Dominion written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States Porto Rico Canada Mexico and Cuba written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Legal Development of the Railroad System of Southern Railway Company written by Fairfax Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railway and River Systems of the City of St Louis written by L. U. Reavis and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Southern Railway a Trunk Line Between the North and the Tropics to Within Ninety Miles of Havana Connecting at the Nearest Possible Point With the West Indies Central America and South America Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Great Southern Railway, a Trunk Line, Between the North and the Tropics, to Within Ninety Miles of Havana, Connecting at the Nearest Possible Point With the West Indies, Central America and South America Key West is within ninety miles of Havana. Thus the water communication with Cuba is reduced to a ferry across the Strait of Florida and that to Hayti, San Domingo, and Jamaica and the other West India Islands, Southern Mexico, Central America and South America is miles less than the now usual routes from New York. 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 Underground Railroad written by Colson Whitehead and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!
Download or read book The Official Railway Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prospectus of a Combined System of Railways written by James W. Lapsley and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Railway World written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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