Northwestern Pacific Railroad - 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 Northwestern Pacific Railroad write by Fred Codoni. This book was released on 2006. Northwestern Pacific Railroad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Northwestern Pacific Railroad--the Redwood Empire Route--once stretched its shining track from Humboldt Bay to San Francisco Bay. Created by the amalgamation of 42 different companies, the North Coast railroad network ranged from the Sonoma Prismoidal, an early wooden monorail, to broad-gauge logging lines built to be hauled by horses. In between were the two-foot Sonoma Magnesite Railroad, the narrow-gauge North Pacific Coast, and standard-gauge lines. Determining the route of major highways, this versatile transportation system also incorporated electric interurbans, ferry steamboats, sternwheel riverboats, tugs, car f loats, and unusual connectors like funiculars and scenic tourist railways. From the time of its formation in 1907 until the 1970s, Northwestern Pacific trains and boats were loaded with passengers and freight.
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad - 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 Northwestern Pacific Railroad write by Angelo Figone. This book was released on 2017. The Northwestern Pacific Railroad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the beginning "boom years" of Northern California's lumber traffic to the demise of the Redwood Empire's "Lifeline", this is the 50-year story of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad from 1951 to 2001. The 416-page book documents the challenges and rewards of the Southern Pacific Railroad's unique subsidiary including excerpts from former NWPRR employees "who were there."
Interurban Railways of the Bay Area
Interurban Railways of the Bay Area - 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 Interurban Railways of the Bay Area write by Paul Castelhun Trimble. This book was released on 1977. Interurban Railways of the Bay Area available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fascinating history of the numerous electric street railways (interurbans) that once criss-crossed northern California and the San Francisco Bay area. Covers the Interurban Electric Railway (the Big Red Cars), the Key System, the Market Street Railway, the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, the Peninsular Railway, the Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railroad, the Sacramento Northern, and the San Francisco, Napa & Calistoga Railway. There is a roster and map for each railroad line. The book also discusses the Bay area ferry lines (with rosters), smaller streetcar lines, and the "what ifs?" represented by BART. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With list of car builders and ferryboat builders. 199 pages with index.
Oregon & Northwestern Railroad
Oregon & Northwestern Railroad - 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 Oregon & Northwestern Railroad write by Jeff Moore. This book was released on 2013-11-04. Oregon & Northwestern Railroad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1922, the US Forest Service offered one of the largest timber sales in the agencys history, encompassing 890 million board feet of mostly Ponderosa pine timber in the mountains north of Burns, Oregon. Among other requirements, the sale terms required the successful bidder to build and operate 80 miles of common carrier railroad through some of the most remote and undeveloped country in the state. The Fred Herrick Lumber Company and its Malheur Railroad initially won the bidding, only to lose it when a crash in the lumber market forced the company into insolvency. The Edward Hines Lumber Company of Chicago picked up the pieces, and from 1929 until 1984, its subsidiary Oregon & Northwestern Railroad made a living hauling logs, lumber, and occasional livestock between Burns and Seneca, Oregon.
Jay Cooke's Gamble
Jay Cooke's Gamble - 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 Jay Cooke's Gamble write by M. John Lubetkin. This book was released on 2014-04-23. Jay Cooke's Gamble available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, Minnesota, to Seattle. M. John Lubetkin tells how Cooke’s gamble reignited war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity, created Yellowstone Park, pushed frontier settlement four hundred miles westward, and triggered the Panic of 1873. Staking his reputation and wealth on the Northern Pacific, Cooke was soon whipsawed by the railroad’s mismanagement, questionable contracts, and construction problems. Financier J. P. Morgan undermined him, and the Crédit Mobilier scandal ended congressional support. When railroad surveyors and army escorts ignored Sioux chief Sitting Bull’s warning not to enter the Yellowstone Valley, Indian attacks—combined with alcoholic commanders—led to embarrassing setbacks on the field, in the nation’s press, and among investors. Lubetkin’s suspenseful narrative describes events played out from Wall Street to the Yellowstone and vividly portrays the soldiers, engineers, businessmen, politicians, and Native Americans who tried to build or block the Northern Pacific.
