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Complete History of North American Railways, The DJ
The Complete History of North American Railways
352 Pages
Hard Cover with dust jacket OVERSIZE
Copyright 1989, 1996
Table of Contents
First rails and false starts
New horizons
War and the westward tide
PAcific Railroad
Western Railroads
Regulating the railroads
Private enterprise and public service
Canadian Railways
Building the railways
Steam Locomotives
Diesel and electric power
Passenger Services
Freight transport
Great steam locomotives
Major railroads
New age of US railroading
Index
Within a few decades of their arrival in North America, the railways had transformed the continent. Spreading out from their foothold on the eastern seaboard they crossed the Mississippi, linked the Atlantic and the Pacific and opened up the west to an eager tide of settlers. Towns and cities grew up in their wake, industry thrived on the raw materials they carried; they became a great industry in themselves, employing hundreds of thousands of men and making fortunes for some; they were the basis for the wealth and power of modern America. More recent years have seen a sad decline, with many famous lines facing bankruptcy, but through reorganization and government intervention they are adapting to a changing world.
North American Railways covers the whole 150-year history of the world's most formidable transport system, from the pioneering days of the last century to the age of Amtrak and Conrail, with special chapters covering the individual railroads and the major steam locomotives. The heroic feats of the builders and machinations of the 'robber barons', the glamour of the great passenger trains and the workaday grind of the mighty freights are described and illustrated in a fascinating record of human enterprise and technological progress.
First rails and false starts, new horizons, war and the westward tide, the Pacific Railroad, the western railroads, regulating the railroads, private enterprise and public service, Canadian railways, building the railroads, steam locomotives, diesel & Electric power, passenger services, freight transport, the great steam locomotives, the major railroads, the new age of US railroading.
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