Railroads in the United States

Reducere. Maine is populated with intriguing characters who set in motion a fascinating, compelling story of railroads and the unique communities they helped...

Reducere. This lavishly illustrated story of technology, people, and commerce describes the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway's hauling of vast amounts of co...

Reducere. The narrow gauge railroad arrived in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Based on the Welsh two-foot gauge, the American narrow gauge...

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which journalist Lucius Beebe once called the "Mother of Railroads, " was the brainchild of Baltimore city planner...

Reducere. This book is written for those who want to know more about the historic Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad. Published 70 years after the railroad's...

Reducere. When Robert D. Krebs joined the ranks of Southern Pacific Railroad in 1966, the industry had been in decline for decades, and the future of trains ...

During their heyday in the mid- to late 1800s, more than 150 covered bridges dotted the landscape of Connecticut and Rhode Island. Since that time,...

Founded by Quakers from North Carolina more than 200 years ago, Richmond boasts a rich and colorful history. White and black migrants from older pa...

Reducere. James P. Woodard's history of consumer capitalism in Brazil, today the world's fifth most populous country, is at once magisterial, intimate, and p...

Reducere. Since the first appearance of oranges at the Franciscan missions in the early 19th century, citrus agriculture has been an inextricable part of Cal...

Reducere. Conroe, largely a product of intersecting railroads and timber, was founded in 1881 and, by 1889, was the county seat of Montgomery County, Texas. ...

Jack Howland is an engineer from Chicago who is sent to build the rail route in the remote and unforgiving terrains of the Canadian wilderness. But...

Reducere. It took ten years of laborious planning and exhaustive negotiations to create the mammoth Penn Central Railroad, the largest railroad in United Sta...

Reducere. America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line--the first American railroad--in the 1830s sparked a national revolutio...

Reducere. The Railroad Photography of J. Parker Lamb showcases the black-and-white imagery of a master of the craft. Parker Lamb came of age in the South and...

Reducere. Description Renowned Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg considered the German railway system that delivered European Jews to ghettos and death camps in...

Reducere. Railroads were the first big business enterprises of America and made possible many other industries. They knitted our expansive nation together an...

Reducere. Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was a Scottish immigrant to the United States. He arrived as a poor child, but--as the epitome of the "rags to riches" ...

Reducere. DescriptionOne Hundred Proofs that the Earth is not a Globe by William Carpenter. William Carpenter (25 February 1830 - 1 September 1896) was an En...

Reducere. Did you know that the California Gold Rush was the largest mass migration event in the history of the United States of America?More than 300, 000 p...

Reducere. Did you know that the California Gold Rush was the largest mass migration event in the history of the United States of America?More than 300, 000 p...

Reducere. The Fairmont Motor Car owes its existence to a tired railway section hand named Fred Mahlman Sr. Exhausted by daily trips using a handcar, Mahlman ...

Reducere. Called the "Last Frontier, " the "Land of the Last Pioneers" and the "Place that Time Forgot, " Routt County was among the last places settled in t...

DescriptionThe American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the collective consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodie...

Reducere. Wall Street is is a universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of economic prosperity and the basest impulses of greed and deception. Charles...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Christian WolmarThe opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. With...

Reducere. In this volume, Michael P. Malone provides a succinct interpretive biography of James J. Hill, the "Empire Builder"-so called for his work in devel...

Reducere. When the Strasburg Rail Road was chartered in 1832, no one anticipated the myriad of obstacles the short line would encounter. What began as an aft...

Reducere. Located at the confluence of Will s Creek and the Potomac River, Cumberland, Maryland, is known as the Queen City of the Alleghenies. Because of th...

Reducere. DescriptionLost Coal Country of Northeastern Pennsylvania documents the region's disappearing anthracite history, which shaped the legacy of the Un...

DescriptionA richly illustrated, foldout graphic history of the United States, Mexico, and the islands of the Caribbean.North American history unfo...

Reducere. The Railroad Photography of Donald W. Furler showcases the black-and-white imagery of a master of the craft. Furler (1917-1994) grew up in New Jers...

Reducere. Carnegie emigrated to the United States with his very poor parents in 1848. Carnegie started as a telegrapher and by the 1860s had investments in r...

Reducere. Nations are made and unmade at their borders, and the forty-ninth parallel separating Montana and Alberta in the late nineteenth century was a pivo...

Reducere. One of the first towns settled in the lands once known as Connecticut's Western Reserve, Mentor continues to thrive more than two centuries later. ...

Reducere. From the earliest days of European settlement, Americans have cherished the sight of a windmill--an instantly recognizable feature of the American ...

The vast lingering remnant of an ice age that came to a close more than 10, 000 years ago, Lake Michigan has shaped the history of the settlements ...

Reducere. DescriptionCleveland Then and Now matches archive images with contemporary views of the same scenes to reveal the past and present of this fascinat...

Reducere. On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.S. enslaved population exceeded $3 billion--triple that of investments nationwide in fact...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"By the mid-1850s a few businessm...

Reducere. Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically ...

Reducere. DescriptionRails of the Northwest Through Time is a tour of Montana, North Dakota, Idaho, and Washington. One hundred eighty-four photographs demon...

DescriptionThis ninth edition of Bradt's USA by Rail guidebook has been fully revised and expanded to take account of changes to Amtrak routes and ...

Reducere. Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and TeensThomas B. Allen's expertise in military history and strategy is combined with Roger MacBrid...