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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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268,10 zł |
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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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257,59 zł |
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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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220,78 zł |
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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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178,73 zł |
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German Armored Trains Vol.I
ISBN: 9780887401985 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book gives a detailed account of the types and employment of German armored trains during WWII.
This book gives a detailed account of the types and employment of German armored trains during WWII.
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66,35 zł |
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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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87,53 zł |
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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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83,19 zł |
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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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63,70 zł |
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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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91,18 zł |
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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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242,24 zł |
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History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
ISBN: 9781557530660 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author of six earlier books about United States railroads, John F. Stover packs this narrative history with careful scholarship and colorful description which will appeal to the railroad buff and the professional historian, as well as to any reader who wishes to travel with the Mother of Railroads through an exciting period in United States history.
Author of six earlier books about United States railroads, John F. Stover packs this narrative history with careful scholarship and colorful descripti...
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131,13 zł |
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The Streetcars of New Orleans
ISBN: 9781565545687 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This extensively illustrated, This reprint of a 1965 volume,
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137,93 zł |
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Two Generations on the Allegheny Portage Railroad
ISBN: 9781572492578 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the early to mid-1800s, the railroad changed the transportation industry and dramatically impacted the nature of the American economy. Entire families, such as the Humphreys from Cambria County in western Pennsylvania, saw their fortunes rise and fall with this new technology. This remove mountain county was at the forefront of railroading technology and interstate competition during the mid-19th century. The Pennsylvania Main Line Canal System sought a way to cross the Alleghenies. The Main Line had to compete with the Erie and the Chesapeake & Ohio Canals to secure the lucrative...
During the early to mid-1800s, the railroad changed the transportation industry and dramatically impacted the nature of the American economy. Entire f...
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87,35 zł |
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The Quanah Route: A History of the Quanah, Acme & Pacific Railway
ISBN: 9781585440467 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Iron Horse forever changed the American West, from a wild frontier to a network of scattered settlements tied together by steel rails. Behind the romantic image of the galloping Iron Horse, however, lies a rich history of American business activity. Railway giants have dominated this history, but small companies such as the Quanah, Acme & Pacific Railway Company (QA&P), a short line that operated in four counties of northwestern Texas from near the turn of the century into the 1980s, had just as great an impact in their areas of operation as the giants did on the national scene.
The... The Iron Horse forever changed the American West, from a wild frontier to a network of scattered settlements tied together by steel rails. Behind the ...
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122,38 zł |
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The Rebirth of the Missouri Pacific, 1956-1983
ISBN: 9781585440481 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1956, the era of tail-finned cars and nineteen-cents-a-gallon gasoline, the Missouri Pacific Railroad emerged on the corporate scene as a private company after twenty-three years in a receivership. In its past lay a collapsed rail empire, a sensational bankruptcy struggle that shattered dreams and betrayed trusts, an emotional battle over stockholders' interests, and the flamboyant maneuvers of the railroad's overseers. In its future lay two computerized, merger-dominated decades in which the railroad business would serve as a classic example of a tradition-bound industry forced to adapt...
In 1956, the era of tail-finned cars and nineteen-cents-a-gallon gasoline, the Missouri Pacific Railroad emerged on the corporate scene as a private c...
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153,03 zł |
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Railroad Reorganization
ISBN: 9781893122109 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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182,10 zł |
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The Fallen Colossus
ISBN: 9781893122888 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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182,10 zł |
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Railroad Wars of New York State
ISBN: 9781540207425 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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140,07 zł |
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Built to Move Millions: Streetcar Building in Ohio
ISBN: 9780253349859 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the beginning of the 20th century, the street railway industry was one of the largest in the nation. Once ubiquitously visible on the city streets, by mid-century the streetcar was nothing more than a distant memory. Ohio was home to several large streetcar systems, especially in Cleveland and Cincinnati, and had more interurban tracks than any other state in the union. Thus, Ohio served as one of the street railway industry's greatest centers of manufacturing. Built to Move Millions examines the manufacture of streetcars and interurbans within the state of Ohio between 1900 and... At the beginning of the 20th century, the street railway industry was one of the largest in the nation. Once ubiquitously visible on the city stree... |
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205,01 zł |
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The 400 Story: Chicago & North Western's Premier Passenger Trains
ISBN: 9780816654499 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Three midwestern railroads introduced luxury passenger service in 1935, competing for Chicago-Twin Cities business and leisure travelers. Chicago and North Western's modern, sleek, and fast rail line began with a conventional steam-powered train dubbed the "400" and named after its ambitious schedule: "400 miles in 400 minutes." In 1939, it evolved into an even faster diesel-powered streamlined train, eventually expanding into a fleet of streamliners that served Wisconsin, Minnesota, and upper Michigan.
The 400 Story captures the excitement of this era, tracing the rise... Three midwestern railroads introduced luxury passenger service in 1935, competing for Chicago-Twin Cities business and leisure travelers. Chicago a... |
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126,12 zł |
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