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Iron Horse, The How the railroads changed America by Richard Wormser w/ DJ
The Iron Horse How the railroads changed America by Richard Wormser Dust Jacket 1993 182 pages Indexed
In 1830 in the city of Baltimore five thousand people gathered to watch a race between a gray mare named Lightning and a crazy new invention by Mr. Peter Cooper of New York-a steam locomotive called Tom Thumb. The starting gun went off: at the half-mile mark it was neck and neck, then the steam engine began to pull ahead lightning was winded and about to give up when a band slipped from the pulley of Tom Thumb's boiler and the engine wheezed to a stop allowing the horse to finish first. Lightning was the winner that day but from then on the real victor was Cooper's Iron Horse.
Stories about the railroad's real-life legends are some of the most colorful in American history. Filled with anecdotes about the men and women of the railroad's golden age. The Iron Horse will Introduce train enthusiasts and history buffs to the first frustrated inventors of the locomotive. Immigrants who toiled to lay the transcontinental track, corrupt "robber barons" who made huge fortunes on railroads, infamous bandits and train hijackers, workers who struggled for fair labor practices and safety measures and foolhardy engineers responsible for huge wrecks and disasters.
The railroad changed American society forever; this new technology created a unified nation from a vast country of scattered outposts, cities and towns. With over fifty archival photographs and illustrations. 'Me Iron Horse captures all the adventure, romance, and tragedy of the greatest development of the nineteenth century-the railroad.
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