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Railroad Shutterbug: Jim Fredrickson's Northern Pacific
ISBN: 9780874221954 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fredrickson, an amateur photographer, began his 39-year career with the Northern Pacific in 1943. He took exceptional photographs throughout that time depicting the last glories of the steam era as coal-fired locomotives were replaced by diesel engines in the 1940s and 1950s. His photos and yarns tell of the NP's engines, depots, diners, cabooses, sidings, yards, shops, bridges, and tunnels.
Fredrickson, an amateur photographer, began his 39-year career with the Northern Pacific in 1943. He took exceptional photographs throughout that time...
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175,60 |
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Railroad Shutterbug: Jim Fredrickson's Northern Pacific
ISBN: 9780874221978 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fredrickson, an amateur photographer, began his 39-year career with the Northern Pacific in 1943. He took exceptional photographs throughout that time depicting the last glories of the steam era as coal-fired locomotives were replaced by diesel engines in the 1940s and 1950s. His photos and yarns tell of the NP's engines, depots, diners, cabooses, sidings, yards, shops, bridges, and tunnels.
Fredrickson, an amateur photographer, began his 39-year career with the Northern Pacific in 1943. He took exceptional photographs throughout that time...
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112,14 |
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Steam to Diesel: Jim Fredrickson's Railroading Journal
ISBN: 9780874222456 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fredrickson's career with the Northern Pacific spanned a period of far-reaching technological change, which he thoroughly documented through photography. Steam to Diesel presents some of his best photos of the NP and its competing lines. Insightful essays also give fascinating behind-the-scenes information about everyday working men and women.
Fredrickson's career with the Northern Pacific spanned a period of far-reaching technological change, which he thoroughly documented through photograp...
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175,60 |
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Steam to Diesel: Jim Fredrickson's Railroading Journal
ISBN: 9780874222463 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fredrickson's career with the Northern Pacific spanned a period of far-reaching technological change, which he thoroughly documented through photography. Steam to Diesel presents some of his best photos of the NP and its competing lines. Insightful essays also give fascinating behind-the-scenes information about everyday working men and women.
Fredrickson's career with the Northern Pacific spanned a period of far-reaching technological change, which he thoroughly documented through photograp...
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112,14 |
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Wired for Success: The Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway, 1892-1985
ISBN: 9780874222524 / Angielski / Miękka / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This lavishly illustrated story of technology, people, and commerce describes the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway's hauling of vast amounts of copper ore from Butte Hill, Montana, to smelter operations 26 miles west. Wired for Success also delineates the BA&P's essential role in the development of electric railroads in the United States.
This lavishly illustrated story of technology, people, and commerce describes the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway's hauling of vast amounts of coppe...
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117,02 |
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Railscapes: A Northern Pacfic Brasspounder's Album
ISBN: 9780874222722 / Angielski / Twarda / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Packed with spectacular photographs and a trainman's vivid memories, Railscapes reflects the author's unbounded enthusiasm, love, and respect for the whole world of trains. Once again, Jim Fredrickson opens the shutter wide on more than six decades of American railroading, and offers an insider's insights on the business of moving men and materials via the great steel ribbons that connected the Pacific Northwest with the rest of the world. For 39 years, the author worked for the Northern Pacific Railway in Washington state as a telegraph operator--a brasspounder--and dispatcher. He had the...
Packed with spectacular photographs and a trainman's vivid memories, Railscapes reflects the author's unbounded enthusiasm, love, and respect for the ...
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136,53 |
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We Took the Train
ISBN: 9780875801568 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this illustrated collection, H. Roger Grant, one of America's leading railroad historians, brings together a rich assortment of personal accounts of train travel in the United States since the dawn of railroading. The twenty-one accounts included here tell of the excitement, the romance, the difficulties, and sometimes the danger of traveling by train. Together they present a lively picture of the great changes that have taken place since the 1830s. Some describe wild rides on high-speed raceways, while others recount arduous trips on rickety branch lines. Rail travel at its most luxurious...
In this illustrated collection, H. Roger Grant, one of America's leading railroad historians, brings together a rich assortment of personal accounts o...
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102,39 |
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The North Western
ISBN: 9780875802145 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive history of the Chicago and North Western Railway chronicles the developments of one of America's great railroads.
This comprehensive history of the Chicago and North Western Railway chronicles the developments of one of America's great railroads.
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263,40 |
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Louisiana and Arkansas Railway: The Story of a Regional Line
ISBN: 9780875802190 / Angielski / Twarda / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway, largely a biography of William Edenborn, William Buchanan, and Harvey Couch - the men who built and extended it by shrewd acquisitions. It traces the L&A's development from the early boom days of railroading to its dissolution.
The story of the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway, largely a biography of William Edenborn, William Buchanan, and Harvey Couch - the men who built and e...
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190,23 |
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Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad: An Empire in the Making, 1862-1879
ISBN: 9780875802527 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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.
Veenendaal (Institute of Netherlands History, the Hague) traces the company from its beginnings as a small carrier connecting St. Paul and Minneapolis...
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151,21 |
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The Chicago & Alton Railroad: The Only Way
ISBN: 9780875802879 / Angielski / Twarda / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From its beginnings in 1847, the Chicago and Alton Railroad set the standard of luxurious passenger travel and efficient service to the farms and factories of America's heartland. This is a complete history of the railroad well-illustrated with over 100 photographs.
From its beginnings in 1847, the Chicago and Alton Railroad set the standard of luxurious passenger travel and efficient service to the farms and fact...
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263,40 |
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Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970-2002
ISBN: 9780875803166 / Angielski / Twarda / 457 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author looks at how a combination of creatively structured aid from the public sector and talented private management brought new life to railroads. By 2002, American railroads carried five times the tonnage they hauled in their former heyday, with one-tenth of the number of employees.
The author looks at how a combination of creatively structured aid from the public sector and talented private management brought new life to railroad...
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214,62 |
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Follow the Flag: A History of the Wabash Railroad Company
ISBN: 9780875803289 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Follow the Flag offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital inter-regional carrier. The corporate saga of the Wabash involved the efforts of strong-willed and creative leaders, but this book provides more than a traditional business history. Noted transportation historian H. Roger Grant captures the human side of the Wabash, ranging from the medical doctors who created an effective hospital department to the worker-sponsored social events. And Grant has not ignored the impact the Wabash had in the Heart of America. Like most major American carriers, the...
Follow the Flag offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital inter-regional carrier. The corporate saga of the ...
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214,62 |
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The Iron Horse and the Windy City
ISBN: 9780875803340 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did Chicago become America's main transportation hub? A former transportation editor for the chicago Tribune, David M. Young argues that as railroads fundamentally structured the city's landscape and economic development, they earned a lasting and substantial influence on public policy.
How did Chicago become America's main transportation hub? A former transportation editor for the chicago Tribune, David M. Young argues that as railro...
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175,60 |
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Rails through the Wiregrass
ISBN: 9780875803654 / Angielski / Twarda / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Georgia and Florida Railroad began with bright promise, but like many other enterprises in the early 20th-century South, it experienced mostly times of struggle. This book offers insights on social and economic conditions in the South from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century.
The Georgia and Florida Railroad began with bright promise, but like many other enterprises in the early 20th-century South, it experienced mostly tim...
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180,47 |
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Iowa Interstate Railroad: History Through the Miles
ISBN: 9780984986675 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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74,93 |
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Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
ISBN: 9781400049479 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford s fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the Labor Day hurricane of 1935. Brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler s dream fulfilled, the Key West Railroad stood as a magnificent achievement for more than twenty-two years, heralded as the Eighth Wonder of the World. Standiford brings the full force and fury of 1935 s deadly Storm of the Century and...
Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford s fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and...
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71,22 |
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How We Built the Union Pacific Railway, and Other Railway Papers and Addresses
ISBN: 9781410222107 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The major recollections of Major-General Grenville M. Dodge as chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railway. In addition to the main section, the book prints various speeches of Dodge about railway matters, his speech before Congress in 1868 upon the Union Pacific, his recollections of Harriman, and the problems of the civil engineer during the Civil War and upon the frontier.
The major recollections of Major-General Grenville M. Dodge as chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railway. In addition to the main section, the book ...
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54,54 |
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The Early Steam Locomotive
ISBN: 9781418453237 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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78,07 |
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The Gainesville Midland and Her Sister Short Lines
ISBN: 9781420877663 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Gainesville Midland is but a remnant of a system of railroads that covered the northeastern Georgia landscape. Her predecessor the Gainesville, Jefferson & Southern tried valiantly to forge a living in the area between Gainesville and Macon. The Gainesville, Jefferson & Southern merged with the Walton Railroad. The empire unraveled in bankruptcy. This book also covers the Gainesville & Northwestern which was built to tap the timber stands in and around the Robertstown-Helen area. G. J. Baldwin Jr, a mine owner, built the Chestatee Railroad and a rail connection with the Gainesville & Noth...
The Gainesville Midland is but a remnant of a system of railroads that covered the northeastern Georgia landscape. Her predecessor the Gainesville, Je...
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207,38 |
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