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The Wreck of the Penn Central Author: Joseph R. Daughen, Peter Binzen Publisher: Beard Group/Beard Books; ISBN: 1893122085
It took ten years of laborious planning and extensive negotiations to create the mammoth Penn Central Railroad, the largest railroad in United States history. When the leviathan was finally born of a merger between the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads on February 1, 1968, the event was hailed as a great day for railroading. But the baby giant survived only 867 days. The crash of the Penn Central set a new record, this time for the largest bankruptcy the United States had yet seen.
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In the 1890s Philadelphia's preeminent photographer, William H. Rau, was commissioned to take more than 450 photographs along the routes of the Pennsylvania Railroad in order to promote travel on the railway to the general public. Known as the standard railroad of the world, the PRR was the largest rail system in the East and linked metropolitan New York and Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and such industrial cities of the Midwest as Chicago and St. Louis.
This oversize volume reproduces almost 100 of the photographs, carefully selected for their historical and artistic significance, as full-page quadtone images, capturing the impact of the originals as closely as possible. The photographs are arranged in geographical order along the various branches of the PRR, and each photograph is accompanied by a descriptive caption provided by PRR expert James J. D. Lynch, Jr. In the three essays that complement the photographs, Kenneth Finkel details Rau's career and early commercial photography, Mary Panzer places Rau and his PRR photographs in the context of the history of American landscape photography, and John R. Stilgoe discusses the advent of railroad advertising photography and its role in shaping perceptions of the American landscape.
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Famous for its role in the Transcontinental Railroad, Union Pacific is Americas oldest- and the worlds largest- railway, serving two-thirds of the United States for a century and a half. This retrospective spans the UPs entire history from 1862 to present, detailing key personalities, depots and terminals, locomotives, trains, rolling stock, and memoriabilia. Modern and period color photography, along with archival photos, make this an ideal reference for UP enthusiasts and modelers alike.
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This illustrated history of Union Pacific Railroad's South-Central District uses 260 color photographs, original cartography, and a detailed text researched from archival materials to accurately and comprehensively trace the development of the Union Pacific Railroad in Utah, Nevada, and California, and its relationship to the geography, economy, environment, natural resources, and social history of the American Southwest.
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An illustrated account of the construction and first years of operation of the Canadian Pacific transcontinental railway. For those such as students, historians, professional and armchair railroaders who seek facts about this great Canadian achievement, Omar Lavallee's account embodies more than 460 photographs, illustrations and historian documents in a lucid manner.
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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, westward to smelter operations at Anaconda?a distance of twenty-six miles. Charles V. Mutschler puts the saga in context, whether discussing the labor violence of the 1890s, the role of steam during America?s Gilded Age, or the expansion of highway competition since the 1920s.
Founded in 1892 and owned by Anaconda Copper, the BA&P led the way in early twentieth century electrified railroading. In 1912, General Electric was contracted to convert the short line?s operations from steam to electric. The BA&P became a proving ground for railroad electrification and the center of attention for electric-power advocates. In particular, the Milwaukee Road?soon to be a leader in main line electrification?took a very keen interest in the BA&P.
For the first time in book-length treatment, Wired for Success delineates the BA&P?s essential role in the development of electric railroads in the United States.
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In only ten years, the Wisconsin Central Limited grew from a ragtag collection of castoff engines and railcars operating along former Soo Line routes, to become one of the most successful, aggressive, and exciting regional railroads in the United States. This is a photo history of the equipment and operations that have served this railroad through its first decade.
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