Download or read book A Project for a Railroad to the Pacific written by Asa Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Project for a Railroad to the Pacific written by Asa Whitney and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book A Project for a Railroad to the Pacific with reports of Committees of Congress etc With a map written by Asa WHITNEY (Railway Engineer.) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Project For A Railroad To The Pacific By Asa Whitney of New York With Reports of Committees of Congress Resolutions of State Legislatures Etc with Other Facts Relating Thereto New York Printed by George W Wood No 15 Spruce Street 1849 written by Asa Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Project of a Railroad to the Pacific written by Zadock Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Asa Whitney His Pacific Railway Project written by Vera Wrigglesworth and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nothing Like It In the World written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

Download or read book The Pacific Telegraph and Railway an Examination of All the Projects for the Construction of These Works Etc written by J. LOUGHBOROUGH and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Iron Muse written by Glenn Willumson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The construction of the transcontinental railroad (1865–1869) marked a milestone in United States history, symbolizing both the joining of the country’s two coasts and the taming of its frontier wilderness by modern technology. But it was through the power of images—and especially the photograph—that the railroad attained its iconic status. Iron Muse provides a unique look at the production, distribution, and publication of images of the transcontinental railroad: from their use as an official record by the railroad corporations, to their reproduction in the illustrated press and travel guides, and finally to their adaptation to direct sales and albums in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Tracing the complex relationships and occasional conflicts between photographer, publisher, and curator as they crafted the photographs’ different meanings over time, Willumson provides a comprehensive portrayal of the creation and evolution of an important slice of American visual culture.

Download or read book Riding the Rails written by Robert D. Krebs and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway CEO tells the behind-the-scenes story of the transformation and resurgence of America’s ailing railroads. When Robert D. Krebs joined the ranks of Southern Pacific Railroad in 1966, the industry had been in decline for decades, and the future of trains was in peril. Despite these obstacles, Krebs fell in love with the rugged, competitive business of railroads and was determined to overcome its resistance to change and put rail transportation back on track. By the age of forty, Krebs was president of the Southern Pacific Railroad and had also served as chief executive of both the Santa Fe Railway and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway companies. Riding the Rails: Inside the Business of America’s Railroads details Krebs’s rise to a position of influence in the recovery of America’s railroads—and offers a unique insider’s view into the boardrooms where executives and businessmen reimagined transportation in the United States.

Download or read book Project of a National Railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean for the purpose of obtaining a short route to Oregon and the Indies Second edition Republished from The History of Oregon etc written by George Wilkes and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Project of a National Railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean written by George Wilkes and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific written by Stuart Daggett and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work by Stuart Daggett presents with great detail and precision the business and political activities with respect to the history of the Southern Pacific Railroad lines. The study has been concluded after years of research and consultation from three collections of Bancroft Library of the University of California; the Hopkins' Railway Library of Stanford University; the State Library at Sacramento. The data present at the office of the Secretary of State of California and of the State Railroad Commission was also used for the production of this work. Content includes: Inception of the Project Resources for Construction—State and Local Aid Federal Land Grants and Subsidies Progress of Construction—Construction Companies The Search for a Terminal Acquisition of the California Pacific Building of the Southern Pacific Organization of the Central Pacific-Southern Pacific System From 1870 To 1893 The Case of David D. Colton Financial Difficulties from 1870 To 1879 The Railroad Commission of 1880 To 1883 The Southern Pacific and Politics Water Competition The Rate System of the Central Pacific Local Rates in California The Transcontinental Tariff The Traffic Association of California The San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Operating Characteristics of the Southern Pacific Lines The Thurman Act Final Settlement of the Central Pacific Indebtedness to the Government The Southern Pacific Merger Cases Oil and Timber Land Litigation

Download or read book Over the Range written by Richard V. Francaviglia and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 1869 meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads at Promontory Summit (not Promontory Point, where it often is mistakenly placed) was, both literally and symbolically, a historical event of indisputable significance in American history." "Richard Francaviglia reviews May 10, 1869, and what led to that day, but from there his narrative launches into space and time to consider the geographic history of the event and where it occurred, on the spine of the lonely Promontory Range at the northern end of the Great Salt Lake. What we consequently learn is the stories of the transportation corridor that developed across Promontory and of the society of people who settled that remote, and frontier, many of them connected to the railroad. Francaviglia reaches back farther than 1869 and carries his story forward to the present, including the development of Golden Spike National Historic Site. At the center of his narrative is the conjunction of a unique area (the Promontory Mountains and the Great Salt Lake) and the impact and legacy, particularly regionally, of a special event. The growth of geographical knowledge linked these historical dimensions, as maps best show. A cartographic history of the Promontory Range, northern Utah, the railroad, and other transportation lines has an integral part in Francaviglia's account, and the book is copiously illustrated with color maps as well as historical and scenic photos."--BOOK JACKET.