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Book Burlington Northern Adventures

Download or read book Burlington Northern Adventures written by William J. Brotherton and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Burlington Northern

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  • Author : Earl J Currie
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-11
  • ISBN : 9780996122573
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Burlington Northern written by Earl J Currie and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burlington Northern (BN) formed from the merger of four railways. Success required complex planning and implementation programs. Then the electric-power industry summoned BN to transport immense amounts of low-sulfur coal, and railroading as an adventure began for thousands hired to improve or increase the railroad's capacity, lines, tracks, and fleet size. Soon, BN's lines handled the highest tonnages of any railroad line in the world, past or present. This, the first in a two-volume series, covers this important decade.

Book Northern Adventures

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  • Author : James Houston
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1987-09
  • ISBN : 9780771042614
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Northern Adventures written by James Houston and published by . This book was released on 1987-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transformation of a Railroad Company

Download or read book Transformation of a Railroad Company written by Earl J Currie and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1980s, three major events--a Frisco Railroad merger, leadership changes, and deregulation--improved Burlington Northern's railway earnings and radically transformed corporate objectives, standards, work methods, and technology. This volume explores initiatives and strategies Burlington Northern employed to reach the era's ambitious goals, as well as the cost of such profound change.

Book The Well Dressed Hobo

Download or read book The Well Dressed Hobo written by Rush Loving and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “sweeping and grand epic on the renaissance of American railroading” from the Fortune journalist and author of The Men Who Loved Trains (The Baltimore Sun). After decades of covering the railroad industry for Fortune magazine, journalist Rush Loving Jr. offers his unique insider’s view into the many dramas, triumphs, failures, and adventures of the great American railroads. Loving has shared meals and journeys with everyone from the industry’s greatest leaders to conductors, brakemen and even a few hobos. Now, in this fascinating combination of history and memoir, he recalls the many colorful people he’s met on the rails. Loving shares stories he collected in locomotive cabs, business cars, executive suites and even the White House. They paint a compelling, intimate portrait of the railroad industry and its leaders, both inept and visionary. Above all, Loving tells stories of the dedicated men and women who truly love trains and know the industry from the rails up.

Book Backcountry Adventures Arizona

Download or read book Backcountry Adventures Arizona written by Peter Massey and published by Adler Publishing. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully crafted, high quality, sewn, 4 color guidebook. Part of a multiple book series of books on travel through America's beautiful and historic backcountry. Directions and maps to 2,671 miles of the state's most remote and scenic back roads ? from the lowlands of the Yuma Desert to the high plains of the Kaibab Plateau. Trail history is colorized through the accounts of Indian warriors like Cochise and Geronimo; trail blazers; and the famous lawman Wyatt Earp. Includes wildlife information and photographs to help readers identify the great variety of native birds, plants, and animal they are likely to see. Contains 157 trails, 576 pages, and 524 photos (both color and historic).

Book My Summer Adventure

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  • Author : Doris J. Brookes
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2010-02-11
  • ISBN : 1477174079
  • Pages : 77 pages

Download or read book My Summer Adventure written by Doris J. Brookes and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dusty the cat, a shy rescued kitty, takes a four-month journey with her human family from their home in Missouri to Alaska and back in a truck and travel trailer, and communicates her impressions of the experience to her human mom who documents the journey and captures it in photos. Dusty proves to be an astute observer with an ability to understand and share information about things they see and do along the way, such as an encounter with a campground dog named Blue, never-before-seen (for her) animals like moose, caribou, and bears, and including the story of the Alaska Highway, the wonder of the Northern Lights, and many interesting facts about places they visit on their 19,000-mile journey through thirteen states and Canada.

Book Great Lakes and Midwest Catalog

Download or read book Great Lakes and Midwest Catalog written by Partners Book Distributing and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Burlington s Highland Adventures

Download or read book Burlington s Highland Adventures written by Madeleine Hall and published by Burlington Bear Publications. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burlington Bear leaves London on an adventure to the Highlands of Scotland.

Book Bird Dream

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  • Author : Matt Higgins
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2014-07-31
  • ISBN : 0698163826
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book Bird Dream written by Matt Higgins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEN / ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing (2015 LONGLIST) “[P]erversely entertaining... In a truly intoxicating read that was hard to put down, Matt Higgins has managed to make real a world about as far removed from daily life as it gets.” --Daily Beast "Matt Higgins cracks open this astonishingly dangerous sport and captures the spectacular adrenaline surges it delivers."--The Wall Street Journal "[R]iveting... a must-read. A highflying, electrifying story." --Kirkus (STARRED) A heart-stopping narrative of risk and courage, Bird Dream tells the story of the remarkable men and women who pioneered the latest advances in aerial exploration—from skydiving to BASE jumping to wingsuit flying—and made history with their daring. By the end of the twentieth century BASE jumping was the most dangerous of all the extreme sports, with thrill-seeking jumpers parachuting from bridges, mountains, radio towers, and even skyscrapers. Despite numerous fatalities and legal skirmishes, BASE jumpers like Jeb Corliss of California thought they had discovered the ultimate rush. But all this changed for Corliss in 1999, when, high in the mountains of northern Italy, he and other jumpers watched in wonder as a stranger—wearing a cunning new jumpsuit featuring “wings” between the arms and legs—leaped from a ledge and then actually flew from the vertiginous cliffs. Drawing on intimate access to Corliss and other top pilots from around the globe,Bird Dream tracks the evolution of the wingsuit movement through the larger than life characters who, in an age of viral video, forced the sport onto the world stage. Their exploits—which entranced millions of fans along the way—defied imagination. They were flying; not like the Wright brothers, but the way we do in our dreams. Some dared to dream of going further yet, to a day when a wingsuit pilot might fly, and land, all without a parachute. A growing number of wingsuit pilots began plotting ways in which a human being might leap from the sky and land. A half dozen groups around the world were dedicated to this quest for a “wingsuit landing,” conjuring the pursuit of nations that once inspired the race to first summit Everest. Given his fame as a stuntman, the brash, publicity-hungry Corliss remained the popular favorite to claim the first landing. Yet Bird Dream also tracks the path of another man, Gary Connery—a forty-two-year-old Englishman—who was quietly plotting to beat Corliss at his own game. Accompanied by an international cast of wingsuit devotees—including a Finnish magician, a parachute tester from Brazil, an Australian computer programmer, a gruff hang-gliding champion-turned-aeronautical engineer, a French skydiving champion, and a South African costume designer—Corliss and Connery raced to leap into the unknown, a contest that would lead to triumph for one and nearly cost the other his life. Based on five years of firsthand reporting and original interviews, Bird Dream is the work of journalist Matt Higgins, who traveled the world alongside these extraordinary men and women as they jumped and flew in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Offering a behind-the-scenes take on some of the most spectacular and disastrous events of the wingsuit movement, Higgins’s Bird Dream is a riveting, adrenaline-fueled adventure at the very edge of human experience.

Book Rolling Nowhere

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9781301453290
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Rolling Nowhere written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hopping a freight in the St. Louis rail yards, Ted Conover0́4winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award0́4embarks on his dream trip, traveling the rails with "the knights of the road." Equipped with rummage store clothing, a bedroll, and his notebooks, Conover immerses himself in the peculiar culture of the hobo, where handshakes and intoductions are foreign, but where everyone knows where the Sally (Salvation Army) and the Willy (Goodwill) are. Along the way he encounters unexpected charity (a former cop goes out of his way to offer Conover a dollar) and indignities (what do you do when there are no public bathrooms?) and learns how to survive on the road.But above all, Conover gets to know the men and women who, for one reason or another, live this life. There's Lonny, who accepts that there are some towns he can't enter before dark because he's black, and Pistol Pete, a cowboy who claims his son is a doctor and his daughter a ballerina, and Sheba Sheila Sheils, who's built herself a house out of old tires. By turns resourceful and desperate, generous and mistrusting, independent and communal, philosophical and profoundly cynical, the tramps Conover meets show him a segment of humanity outside society, neither wholly romantic nor wholly tragic, and very much like the rest of us.

Book Montana Adventure Guide

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  • Author : Genevieve Rowles
  • Publisher : Hunter Publishing, Inc
  • Release : 2009-10-24
  • ISBN : 1588430596
  • Pages : 633 pages

Download or read book Montana Adventure Guide written by Genevieve Rowles and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2009-10-24 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montana offers a wealth of outdoor fun for the active traveler, from skiing and snowmobiling to fly fishing and horseback riding. With stunning scenery and colorful history, the state is one of the most appealing in the US. And the best part: it's rarely crowded!

Book Rocky s Rail

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  • Author : John E. Langlot
  • Publisher : Yakt Publishing
  • Release : 2020-09-30
  • ISBN : 9781735174105
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Rocky s Rail written by John E. Langlot and published by Yakt Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book recounts John Langlot’s career and experiences during the tumultuous period of railroad history between 1960 and 2005. John hired out on the Great Northern at Hillyard in July of 1960, was forced to the W-O in 1961, and worked the line in the early 1960’s. The first chapter is about John’s life as a boy in Hillyard. The next eight chapters describe John’s work on the lines of the Great Northern Railway’s Spokane Division as it was from July 12, 1903 to February 1, 1956 and from July 1, 1967 to March 2, 1970, arranged on a geographic basis."-- page xv.

Book The Rusty Dusty

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  • Author : Mac McCullough
  • Publisher : Yakt Publishing, Incorporated
  • Release : 2018-03
  • ISBN : 9780996122528
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book The Rusty Dusty written by Mac McCullough and published by Yakt Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two veteran railroaders begin their history with a review of the coming of railroad service to the Pacific Northwest, but quickly move into details of the construction, operation and economic impact of the former Great Northern Railway's "W-O (Wenatchee-Oroville) branch line, a line that became one of its highest revenue branches. Unlike many books on railroading, this book does not consist only of photos of trains and railroad station buildings. Instead, it is a serious study of what was required to support the movement of thousands of cars of apples, lumber, grain and minerals to market centers to the east. Readers will be impressed by the authors' focus on the strong ties the railroad company developed with the parties who had a stake in building the economy on this part of the GN's system. -- Back cover.

Book Hell on Wheels

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  • Author : Dick Kreck
  • Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
  • Release : 2016-03-23
  • ISBN : 1555919529
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Hell on Wheels written by Dick Kreck and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overnight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories along with the heroic individuals who managed, finally, to create permanent towns in the interior West.

Book Adventure Guide to the Pacific Northwest

Download or read book Adventure Guide to the Pacific Northwest written by Don Young and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 1999 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This region offers many opportunities for the adventurous traveller, and this book aims to list the best of them. It is part of a series focusing on outdoor activities such as hiking, biking, rock climbing, horseback riding, downhill skiing, parasailing, backpacking, waterskiing and scuba diving.

Book Burlington s Highland Adventures

Download or read book Burlington s Highland Adventures written by Madeleine Hall (Children's story writer) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: