Download or read book Big Bend Railroads written by Dan Bolyard and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Bend area had its start with a land grant given by President Lincoln to the Northern Pacific Railway. As such, the railway company heavily promoted the area to encourage settlement and populate the station sites along the way. Towns began to develop in the late 1880s; prior to that time, the few settlers had a difficult time getting around. Despite snow, floods, fires, wrecks, human error, sabotage, and government regulation, the railroads continued and were able to serve the communities and help them survive. The earliest lines were built largely by man and beast with few large machines. The last transcontinental line in the Big Bend, the Milwaukee Road, featured groundbreaking technology in the form of electrically operated locomotives. The building of Grand Coulee Dam brought more railroad lines, with tracks that featured grades and locomotives normally seen on logging railroads, to bring in construction materials to the largest concrete structure in the world at the time.
Download or read book The Big Bend written by Tyler and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long needed account of the human invasion of this rugged Texas desert land.
Download or read book Railroads of Fort Bend County written by Jim Vollmar and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fort Bend County was formed in the early 1820s by members of Stephen F. Austins Old 300. Traders utilized barges and steamboats running along the Brazos River to transport cotton and other products from the lower Brazos Valley to the port at Galveston. In 1853, railroads began to play a larger role in the countys transportation system. Transportation facilities were greatly improved when the first railroad in Texas, the Buffalo, Brazos, and Colorado Railroad Company, completed its first 20-mile segment to Staffords Point in Fort Bend County from Harrisburg (Houston). As many as eight separate railroads were chartered and operated in Fort Bend County by 1900. Today some of the names have changed but most of the original rail lines remain in operation. The Union Pacific, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, and Kansas City Southern rail companies have picked up where their predecessors left off and are keeping Fort Bend County one of the busiest and fastest-growing counties in the United States.
Download or read book An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country written by Richard F. Steele and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroads of Western Texas written by Douglas Lee Braudaway and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Pacific Railroad was the second transcontinental line built in America, and the first that was open year-round. Railroads of Western Texas brings to life the days of frontier towns, the open range, and the building of the state of Texas. This part of the state's railroad history includes politicians and movie stars, train wrecks and robberies, shoot-outs and gun-running. Railroads of Western Texas reveals engaging stories of San Antonio and El Paso during their boomtown years. It tells of the creation of communities out of whole cloth including Hondo, Sanderson, Marfa, and Sierra Blanca. Other towns-villages really-blossomed when the iron rails came through: Uvalde, Del Rio, Alpine, Valentine, and Judge Roy Bean's town Langtry (the man known as "The Law West of the Pecos"). The railroad featured the third highest bridge in the world (the High Bridge over the Pecos River), and the fourth largest man-made lake in the United States (Medina Lake). These rails carried men and munitions during the Spanish American War and the Punitive Expedition, and many more\ during the First and Second World Wars.
Download or read book BIG BEND DAM LAKE SHARPE SOUTH DAKOTA DESIGN MEMORANDUM NO MB 37 CHICAGO AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY RELOCATION written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Omaha District and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An illustrated history of the Big Bend country written by R.F. Steele and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trains of Discovery written by Alfred Runte and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated look at railroads and the national parks includes practical information about touring the parks by train, offering an alternate solution to the growing traffic congestion in the parks. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Portland Terminal Railroad Company written by Alfred Mullett and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Bend area had its start with a land grant given by President Lincoln to the Northern Pacific Railway. As such, the railway company heavily promoted the area to encourage settlement and populate the station sites along the way. Towns began to develop in the late 1880s; prior to that time, the few settlers had a difficult time getting around. Despite snow, floods, fires, wrecks, human error, sabotage, and government regulation, the railroads continued and were able to serve the communities and help them survive. The earliest lines were built largely by man and beast with few large machines. The last transcontinental line in the Big Bend, the Milwaukee Road, featured groundbreaking technology in the form of electrically operated locomotives. The building of Grand Coulee Dam brought more railroad lines, with tracks that featured grades and locomotives normally seen on logging railroads, to bring in construction materials to the largest concrete structure in the world at the time.
Download or read book Valley Plain and Peak written by Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Big Bend National Park and Vicinity written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moody s Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 3822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Way I Heard It written by Walter Fulcher and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The folklore of Texas' Big Bend region was still in the making during Walter Fulcher's lifetime. Born in Lampasas County in 1887, he worked on the Martin Ranch near Sheffield when a young man. There he witnessed events in the last outlaw activities of the Black Jack Ketchum gang. He also listened to legends told almost as gossip, and some of the legendary figures were still alive—or said to be alive, usually in hiding. In every village there was sure to be some ancient with a good memory and a better imagination, and Walter Fulcher heard many versions of many tales. He has set them down as he heard them, as simple folk tales that reflect the color of a wild and vivid country in 400 years of its settlement. The book has been edited, with introduction and notes, by Elton Miles, Professor of English at Sul Ross State College.
Download or read book Railroad Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railway Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moodys Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities Government State and Municipal Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 2348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dream Dancers Vol Two 2018 written by Spencer Jourdain and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In writing (vol. 2), Journey to the Promised Land, Jourdain discovered that, like oral histories and stories, the black Negro spirituals, country blues, and worksongs sung by Tommy McLennon, Blind Willie McTell, Misssippi John Hurt, Huddie Ledbetter and others, lent much deeper understanding of the history-changing post/Civil War era.
