Landmarks on the Iron Road: Two Centuries of North American Railroad Engineering (Railroads Past and Present)

Landmarks on the Iron Road: Two Centuries of North American Railroad Engineering (Railroads Past and Present)
Author: William D. Middleton
Publisher: Indiana Univ Press
Description: Hardcover - (September 1999) 216 pages
ISBN: 0253335590

A lavishly illustrated engineering history of American railroads--bridges, mountain passes, tunnels, freight yards, docks and terminals--from pioneer times to the present. American civil engineers were unsurpassed in their ability to build railroads over great distances and across high mountain passes, to erect great bridges, or to bore tunnels of prodigious length. There is a remarkable story of the application of engineering to the building of a transportation system that civilized and settled America, and then supported an industrial revolution and created a world power.

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