Rails Across the Tundra - 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 Rails Across the Tundra write by Stan Cohen. This book was released on 1984. Rails Across the Tundra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pictorial history of the railroad.
A Rat’s Nest of Rails
A Rat’s Nest of Rails - 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 A Rat’s Nest of Rails write by Steve Levi. This book was released on 2008-05-15. A Rat’s Nest of Rails available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. That the Alaska Railroad was ever built is astonishing. It was constructed over the most treacherous terrain in the world during the most violent political era in US history. The workforce included anarchists, Bolsheviks, socialists, syndicalists, and labor union organizers against the backdrops of the First World War, Spanish Influenza, the Russian Revolution, American troops in Siberia to keep Russian Socialism from our shore, Japan's relentless gobbling of colonies from Southeast Asia to Siberia, and the Great Red Scare. It was built by the United States military to supply the United States Navy with coal and, in the process, closed coal mining in the Territory of Alaska – to the great anger of the private sector. Then there were the scammers, land speculators, Natives and their land claims, blacks and discrimination, sedition, wages in scrip, permafrost, freezeup/breakup, ration stamps, and environmental damage. A Rate's Nest of Rails is an in-the-weeds look at what it took to construct the only government-funded railway in American history.
Siege
Siege - 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 Siege write by Russ Schneider. This book was released on 2004. Siege available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chilling and authentic historical novel.
Hero Projects
Hero Projects - 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 Hero Projects write by Paul R. Josephson. This book was released on 2024-01-31. Hero Projects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Hero Projects, Paul R. Josephson traces how, over the last one hundred years, the Russian tsars, commissars, and oligarchs embraced megaprojects to create the world's largest empire. Built by peasants, gulag prisoners, and Communist volunteers, the projects are wide-ranging and numerous--including nuclear power stations, pipelines across the tundra, railroads from Europe to the Pacific Ocean, and hydropower stations and canals. Sweeping in scope, Hero Projects establishes the strong continuities in political culture in Russian history; reshapes the meaning of empire, extending it to include internal colonization; and expands environmental and social history through the study of big technology.
Rails Across the Prairies
Rails Across the Prairies - 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 Rails Across the Prairies write by Ron Brown. This book was released on 2012-06-30. Rails Across the Prairies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Follow the evolution of the rail legacy of the Canadian Prairies from the arrival of the first engine on a barge to today’s realities. Rails Across the Prairies traces the evolution of Canada’s rail network, including the appearance of the first steam engine on the back of a barge. The book looks at the arrival of European settlers before the railway and examines how they coped by using ferry services on the Assiniboine and North Saskatchewan Rivers. The work then follows the building of the railways, the rivalries of their owners, and the unusual irrigation works of Canadian Pacific Railway. The towns were nearly all the creation of the railways from their layout to their often unusual names. Eventually, the rail lines declined, though many are experiencing a limited revival. Learn what the heritage lover can still see of the Prairies’ railway legacy, including existing rail operations and the stories the railways brought with them. Many landmarks lie vacant, including ghost towns and elevators, while many others survive as museums or interpretative sites.
