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Story of American Railroads, The By Stewart H Holbrook DJ 1981 edition
The Story of American Railroads By Stewart H Holbrook
468 Pages Hard cover with Dust Jacket FRONT PAGE has 3B298 stamped on it.
Copyright 1947 SIXTH printing
More than 100 illustrations from photographs and contemporary prints
Table of Contents:
1. Panorama 1
2. The Prophets 19
3. Primeval Railroading 29
4. Railroad Fever 40
5. "The Work Of The Age" 50
6. Forgotten Genius 70
7. The Pennsy And The Central 81
8. The Art Of Colonization 98
9. Hoosiers Start A Railroad-The Monon 112
10. War Comes To A "Neutral" Line 121
11. The Big Junction 131
12. The Rebel Route's Abraham Lincoln 143
13. Land-Uncle Sam's Alternate Sections 150
14. The First Transcontinental 163
15. Jim Hill's Empire 173
16. Locating The Route 189
17. The Saga Of Stampede Pass 199
18. Out In The Wild And Woolly 207
19. Up In The Cold And Icy 222
20. The Carriers Are Harassed 231
21. Times Of Trouble 244
22. Through The Dark Ages-And After 260
23. Moments Of Disaster 275
24. The Airbrake Fanatic 289
25. The Rise Of The Railway Express 301
26. The Fast Mail 311
27. The Story Of The Sleeping Car 317
28. The Life Of The Pullman Porter 329
29. Spotters 340
30. First Transcontinental Trip 347
31. Time And The Railroads 354
32. The Little Fellers 360
33. Robbing The Steam Cars 369
34. Riders Of The Rods And The Blinds 389
35. News Butchers 399
36. The Biography Of A Flagstop 413
37. The Railroad In The Drama 421
38. Ballads Of The Rails 429
39. The Second Century 443
A Railroad Almanac 452
Bibliography 453
Index 459
Never before has there been such a lull, comprehensive, rich, and absorbing history of American railroads as this new book. It is the only up-to-date history.
It is the story of the men, who in little more than a hundred years, built our railroads. It is a great dramatic story of struggles against snows and deserts, mountains and riven; against Indians and politicians and rivals. It is a story of ingenuity and inventiveness, of constant improvement in techniques, devices, and machines, like the locomotive, from the first wood burner that travelled on wooden rails to the modern streamliners and Diesel-powered giants. It is a story of ruthlessness and corruption, of infinite courage and resolve. It is the story of a colossal achievement-the American railroad system, backbone of American commerce and industry, in fact, of the entire American economy.
Railroads are so fascinating and colorful a subject that no account of them would be complete without a profusion of pictures. Holbrook has illustrated every section of this book lavishly with pictures chosen from thousands of photographs, documents, prints, etc., so that the reader may see as well as read about the earliest locomotives, the latest equipment, the giants and geniuses of the railroads.
In his research for this book, Holbrook has consulted hundreds of brakemen, conductors, engineers, superintendents, and other railroad men; he has used many hitherto unknown original sources and much new data, besides sifting through the documents and literature on the subject. Sound and authoritative, this major work is certain to take its place as a standard book on American railroads.
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