Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad: An Empire in the Making, 1862-1879

ISBN-13: 9780875802527 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 186 str.

Augustus J. Veenendaal; A. J. Veenendaal

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Veenendaal (Institute of Netherlands History, the Hague) traces the company from its beginnings as a small carrier connecting St. Paul and Minneapolis with outlying towns, to when it was bought by railroad tycoon James J. Hill under whom, as the Great Northern Railway, it reached the Pacific Ocean. He describes such aspects as laying track, meeting the schedule, making payroll, injury and ruin, and the general shortage of everything on the frontier. Of course he includes the many old photographs without which a railroad history would not get off the dime.