Download or read book The Story of the Old Colony Railroad written by Charles Eben Fisher and published by Taunton, Mass. : C.A. Hack & Son, Incorporated, printers. This book was released on 1919 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Directors of the Old Colony Railroad Company to the Stockholders written by Old Colony Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Colony Railroad Rehabilitation Project Boston to Lakeville Plymouth and Scituate written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cape Cod Railroads written by Robert H. Farson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a loving look at a special place and its railroads that carried people from small town to town, and sometimes to Boston. And from there on the Dude Train. The islands has railroads and they are here with the island steamers, the ferries. People came to New England on the famous night boats of the Fall River Line and on direct trains from New York. The Cape Codders and the Neptune. Hundreds of anectodes help the story. This heavily illustrated volume includes trains, locomotives, stations, bridges, wrecks, snow and storm damage, maps, railroad workers, broadsides and steamboats. A major book on trains that was thirteen years of research and writing,. Three paintings reproduced in color by Ted Rose America's finest railroad artist. Cape Cod Historical Publications Address: Winter: November-May, 3200 Binnacle Drive, C-1, Naples, Fl. 34103. Phone: 239-403-8224. Summer: May-November: P.O. Box 281, Yarmouth Port, MA 02675. Phone: 508-362-4761. Pay by check or money order. No credit cards accepted. Please add $4.75 for shipping/handling.
Download or read book Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands written by Andrew T. Eldredge and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1848, the railroad extended to Cape Cod to serve the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company. By 1887, fourteen of the fifteen towns on Cape Cod were connected by the railroad. For a short time, even the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard had railroad lines. As the highways expanded in the years following World War II, the automobile became the primary mode of transportation. By 1959, year-round Cape Cod passenger service had been discontinued. Today, many miles of track have been removed to accommodate recreational bike paths.Using hundreds of historic images, Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands illustrates the rich heritage of passenger and freight rail transportation on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. Mainland connections once involved transfer between ship and rail at wharves in Provincetown, Hyannis, and Woods Hole. Since 1935, trains have crossed the Cape Cod Canal on the world's second longest vertical-lift bridge.
Download or read book The Old Colony Railroad Its Connections Popular Resorts and Fashionable Watering Places written by Matthew Hale Smith and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Forest of No Joy The Congo Oc an Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism written by J. P. Daughton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an ostensibly democratic nation whose motto read “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” but liberal ideals were savaged by a cruelly indifferent administrative state. African workers were forcibly conscripted and separated from their families, and subjected to hellish conditions as they hacked their way through dense tropical foliage—a “forest of no joy”; excavated by hand thousands of tons of earth in order to lay down track; blasted their way through rock to construct tunnels; or risked their lives building bridges over otherwise impassable rivers. In the process, they suffered disease, malnutrition, and rampant physical abuse, likely resulting in at least 20,000 deaths. In the Forest of No Joy captures in vivid detail the experiences of the men, women, and children who toiled on the railroad, and forces a reassessment of the moral relationship between modern industrialized empires and what could be called global humanitarian impulses—the desire to improve the lives of people outside of Europe. Drawing on exhaustive research in French and Congolese archives, a chilling documentary record, and heartbreaking photographic evidence, J.P. Daughton tells the epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad, and in doing so reveals the human costs and contradictions of modern empire.
Download or read book The Train on the Beach written by William Lieberman and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2017-08-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of railroads in the Town of Winthrop, Massachusetts and its neighboring communities is recounted. Details are provided about the railroads' routes, equipment, service, and corporate structures. Included is a description of how these railroads fostered the development of Boston's Inner North Shore.
Download or read book Working for the Railroad written by Walter Licht and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Licht chronicles the working and personal lives of the first two generations of American railwaymen, the first workers in America to enter large-scale, bureaucratically managed, corporately owned work organizations. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Design of Modern Steel Railway Bridges written by John F. Unsworth and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the first book on this topic in more than 50 years, Design of Modern Steel Railway Bridges focuses not only on new steel superstructures but also outlines principles and methods that are useful for the maintenance and rehabilitation of existing steel railway bridges. It complements the recommended practices of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-way Association (AREMA), in particular Chapter 15-Steel Structures in AREMA’s Manual for Railway Engineering (MRE). The book has been carefully designed to remain valid through many editions of the MRE. After covering the basics, the author examines the methods for analysis and design of modern steel railway bridges. He details the history of steel railway bridges in the development of transportation systems, discusses modern materials, and presents an extensive treatment of railway bridge loads and moving load analysis. He then outlines the design of steel structural members and connections in accordance with AREMA recommended practice, demonstrating the concepts with worked examples. Topics include: A history of iron and steel railway bridges Engineering properties of structural steel typically used in modern steel railway bridge design and fabrication Planning and preliminary design Loads and forces on railway superstructures Criteria for the maximum effects from moving loads and their use in developing design live loads Design of axial and flexural members Combinations of forces on steel railway superstructures Copiously illustrated with more than 300 figures and charts, the book presents a clear picture of the importance of railway bridges in the national transportation system. A practical reference and learning tool, it provides a fundamental understanding of AREMA recommended practice that enables more effective design.
Download or read book History of the Colony of New Haven Before and After the Union with Connecticut written by Edward Rodolphus Lambert and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Reports of the Railroad Corporations in the State of Massachusetts written by Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1851-1856 include: Abstract of the returns of railroad corporations.
Download or read book American Railroad Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on Transportation by Water in the United States Water terminals Control of water carriers by railroads and by shipping consolidations written by United States. Bureau of Corporations and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroad Reorganization written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Special Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and Reorganization and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 6. Considers legislation to enable debtor railroad corporations to reorganize their financial structure without any or further procedures under the Bankruptcy Act.
Download or read book Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on Transportation by Water in the United States written by United States. Bureau of Corporations and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on Transportation by Water in the United States Water terminals 1910 written by United States. Bureau of Corporations and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
