Railroads Across America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Railroads Across America write by Mike Del Vecchio. This book was released on 1998. Railroads Across America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Railroads across America
Railroads Across North America
Railroads Across North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Railroads Across North America write by Claude Wiatrowski. This book was released on 2007-09-15. Railroads Across North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the first steam-powered locomotives of the early nineteenth century to the high-speed commuter trains of today, the American railroad has been a great engine powering the nations growth and industry. This book celebrates the glory and grandeur of that legacy with a lavish tour of the history of the American railroad and the culture surrounding it. Generously illustrated with vintage photographs, modern images, maps, timetables, tickets, brochures, and all manner of memorabilia, this volume offers a fascinating look at the rail industrys beginnings and development, as well as its place in American history. From the might of the major rail companies and their empires to the romance of rail travel, this is the full and fabulously colorful story of the industry that moved a nation--and stirs our imaginations to this day.
Waiting on a Train
Waiting on a Train - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Waiting on a Train write by James McCommons. This book was released on 2009-11-06. Waiting on a Train available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.
Nothing Like It In the World
Nothing Like It In the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nothing Like It In the World write by Stephen E. Ambrose. This book was released on 2001-11-06. Nothing Like It In the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
The Great Railroad Revolution
The Great Railroad Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Railroad Revolution write by Christian Wolmar. This book was released on 2012-09-25. The Great Railroad Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status. Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them. In The Great Railroad Revolution, renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.
