 Ghost Railroads of Nebraska: A Pictorial
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| By : Michael M. Bartels, James Reisdorff |
Ghost Railroads of Nebraska recounts the decline of many of the steel roads that once tied Nebraska cities and villages together in ceonomic prosperity. Using historic and contemporary photos, railroad historians Bartels and Reisdorff examine both the history and impact of railroad abandonments on rural Nebraska. An inventory is made of the corporate giants, short lines, interurbans and industrial spurs that were all part of the state's rail network, which once spanned 6,250 miles. The book also illustrates the historial artifacts that have been preserved -- and lost -- along the abandonded grades of Nebraska's "ghost" railroads.
Publisher: J & L Lee Company
Sales Rank: 1,414,319
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Goin' Railroading: Two Generations of Colorado Stories
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| By : Sam Speas, Margaret Coel |
Sam Speas tells the story of his father, Sam Speas Sr., who left Missouri in 1883 to become an engineer in Colorado, and recounts his own experiences and those of his brothers and fellow railroaders on the Colorado and Southern Railway, from the golden era of the narrow-gauge lines in South Park to the final days of steam power on the Front Range and the coming of the diesel engine...
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Sales Rank: 533,379
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Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers
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| By : Herbert H., Jr. Harwood |
One of the most dazzling business phenomena of the 1920s, Cleveland's two bachelor Van Sweringen brothers seemingly came out of nowhere to control the country's largest railroad network—while simultaneously creating the model upper-class suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, Cleveland's landmark Terminal Tower building, and an innovative "city within a city" complex unduplicated in 20th-century urban design. Personally, though, they were enigmas to almost everyone—quiet, conservative, self-effacing, and reclusive, they were also formidably aggressive, expansive and highly creative.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Sales Rank: 329,682
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John Norwood's Railroads
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| By : John Norwood |
Recounting his experiences and the historical background of numerous standard and narrow gauge lines in the U.S. Norwood has packed this book with hundreds of photographs and vivid text. In remarkable detail he unfolds such railroads as RGS, Colorado and Southern, White Pass & Yukon, Uintah, DSP&P, D&RGW (standard gauge), GM&O, UP, SF, KCS, RI, Frisco, CG&Q and NP in this 192-page, hardcover book.
Publisher: Heimburger House Publishing Company
Sales Rank: 2,587,401
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Merging Lines : American Railroads, 1900-1970
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| By : Jr. Richard Saunders |
Merging Lines explores the impact of shifting political control of railroads as no history has done before. The fates of both workers and railroad companies were dictated by the rise and fall of business and governmental leaders. Encyclopedic in its scope, Merging Lines includes sixty-eight maps, a list of court cases involving railroad mergers, and a wealth of information on American railroads from coast to coast.
Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ Pr
Sales Rank: 354,902
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Metropolitan Corridor
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| By : John R. Stilgoe |
Metropolitan Corridor designates the portion of the American built environment that evolved along railroads rights-of-way in the years between 1880 an d1935. An engaging and delightfully illustrated accoount of the impact of railroad on the Ameircan built environmnet and American culture.
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Sales Rank: 252,349
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.88 / 5.0
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