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  • Branch Line Empires

    The Pennsylvania and the New York Central Railroads

    de Michael Bezilla, Luther Gette ...
    Series series Railroads Past and Present
    The saga of a fierce business rivalry: "Absorbing, well-written . . . will appeal to American history scholars and railroad enthusiasts." — ChoiceThe Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroads helped to develop central Pennsylvania as the largest source of bituminous coal for the nation. By the late nineteenth century, the two lines were among America's largest businesses and would soon ... Leer más

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  • Rails to Penn State

    de Michael Bezilla, Jack Rudnicki ...
    More than five hundred short line railroads existed in the United States at the industry's height, and Pennsylvania had more than any other state. The history of the Bellefonte Central, which operated in central Pennsylvania from the 1880s until 1982, is a classic story of the rise and decline of short line railroads nationwide. Connecting with the Pennsylvania Railroad--a company that proved to ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • Coal Trains

    The History of Railroading and Coal in the United States

    de Brian Solomon, Patrick Yough ...
    From the first, U.S. railroads have carried coal from mines to docks, steel mills, and power plants across the country. In this authoritative book spanning the whole of that history, from the mid-nineteenth century to present, noted rail author Brian Solomon explores the railroads and hardware that have transported the fossil fuels that made America work. Brilliant period and contemporary ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Railroads and the American People

    de H. Roger Grant ...
    Series series Railroads Past and Present
    "[A] wealth of vignettes and more than 100 black-and-white illustrations . . . Does a fine job of humanizing the iron horse" ( The Wall Street Journal).In this social history of the impact of railroads on American life, H. Roger Grant concentrates on the railroad's "golden age," from 1830 to 1930. He explores four fundamental topics—trains and travel, train stations, railroads and community life, ... Leer más

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  • The Company Town

    The Industrial Eden's and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

    de Hardy Green ...
    Company town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spam -- each is the signature product of a company town in which one business, for better or worse, exercises a grip over the population. In The Company Town, Hardy Green, who has covered American business for over a decade, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Grand Central's Engineer

    William J. Wilgus and the Planning of Modern Manhattan

    de Kurt C. Schlichting ...
    Series Libro 130 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Few people have had as profound an impact on the history of New York City as William J. Wilgus. As chief engineer of the New York Central Railroad, Wilgus conceived the Grand Central Terminal, the city’s magnificent monument to America’s Railway Age. Kurt C. Schlichting here examines the remarkable career of this innovator, revealing how his tireless work moving people and goods over and under ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • A Mighty Fine Road

    A History of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company

    de H. Roger Grant ...
    "Grant has once again hit a home run . . . a detailed but readable history of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, a major Midwestern railroad." —Carlos A. Schwantes, St. Louis Mercantile Library Professor EmeritusThe Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it became the first railroad to reach and then cross the Mississippi River in 1856, it ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1

    Building an Empire, 1846-1917

    de Albert J. Churella ...
    Series series American Business, Politics, and Society
    "Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United ... Leer más

    $103.99 USD

  • The Big Four Railroad Barons and Other Railroad Stories

    de Alton Pryor ...
    The Big Four—Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker—ruled California government, both state and local, for thirty years. The Southern Pacific Railroad, which they owned, was the single largest corporation in California and controlled 85 percent of the state's railroad tracks.Huntington handed out bribes to state legislators, federal congressmen, local police and ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Encyclopedia of North American Railroads

    Edición de William D Middleton, George M. Smerk, Roberta L. Diehl ...
    Lavishly illustrated and a joy to read, this authoritative reference work on the North American continent's railroads covers the U.S., Canadian, Mexican, Central American, and Cuban systems. The encyclopedia's over-arching theme is the evolution of the railroad industry and the historical impact of its progress on the North American continent. This thoroughly researched work examines the various ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Monongah

    The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster

    de DAVITT MCATEER ...
    Series Libro 6 - WEST VIRGINIA & APPALACHIA
    New paperback edition with an introduction by Robert B. ReichMonongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster documents the events and conditions that led to the worst industrial accident in the history of the United States. This mining accident claimed hundreds of lives on the morning of December 6, 1907 and McAteer, an expert on mine and workplace health and safety, delves deeply ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Lustron Home

    The History of a Postwar Prefabricated Housing Experiment

    de Thomas T. Fetters ...
    Advertised as "a new standard for living," the Lustron Home was introduced in 1948 in response to the urgent need for housing for veterans returning from World War II and their rapidly growing families. These enameled steel, prefabricated houses became very popular, and were heavily promoted from 1948 to 1950. Approximately 2,500 went up all over the United States and even South America.This work ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD