Author: Isreal Hicks, Jr.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781420866384
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Railroad Joe
Author: Isreal Hicks, Jr.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781420866384
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781420866384
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Union Pacific's Streamliners
Author: Joe Welsh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616731151
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616731151
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Trains Coming Through!
Author: Stephanie Morgan
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1646119762
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
All aboard this fun and colorful train book for kids ages 0 to 3 Take your train-loving toddler on a ride through the world of locomotives. From subways to steam engines to a cargo-carrying diesel train, this train book covers all the coolest trains from early days to modern times and shows you what makes them special. Go beyond other train books for toddlers with: A rhyming refrain—Memorable verses will introduce kids to a variety of trains, including helper, long-distance, switcher, high and low, and electric trains like subways. Fun train trivia—Read about what different trains look like, where they travel, how they work, and even learn about old-fashioned trains. Eye-catching images—Find images of every train and its moving parts, rendered accurately and in detail. You and your little one will discover hours of educational fun with this big book of trains.
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1646119762
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
All aboard this fun and colorful train book for kids ages 0 to 3 Take your train-loving toddler on a ride through the world of locomotives. From subways to steam engines to a cargo-carrying diesel train, this train book covers all the coolest trains from early days to modern times and shows you what makes them special. Go beyond other train books for toddlers with: A rhyming refrain—Memorable verses will introduce kids to a variety of trains, including helper, long-distance, switcher, high and low, and electric trains like subways. Fun train trivia—Read about what different trains look like, where they travel, how they work, and even learn about old-fashioned trains. Eye-catching images—Find images of every train and its moving parts, rendered accurately and in detail. You and your little one will discover hours of educational fun with this big book of trains.
Railroad Unemployment-insurance System
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance, Unemployment
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance, Unemployment
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Cotton Belt Locomotives
Author: Joseph A. Strapac
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253336019
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The first and only complete study of the Southwest's most successful railway is back in print! This book documents a proud history with diagrams, maps, and over 300 photographs. Includes a roster of every steam and diesel locomotive owned by the Cotton Belt and its predecessors up to 1977. A must-have for any locomotive enthusiast.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253336019
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The first and only complete study of the Southwest's most successful railway is back in print! This book documents a proud history with diagrams, maps, and over 300 photographs. Includes a roster of every steam and diesel locomotive owned by the Cotton Belt and its predecessors up to 1977. A must-have for any locomotive enthusiast.
Baltimore & Ohio's Capitol Limited and National Limited
Author: Joe Welsh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610603522
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
In 1923 the Baltimore & Ohio's Capitol Limited started its travels between Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Two years later the B&O's National Limited linked the nations capital to St. Louis. Almost at once the two lines became household names, famous for the outstanding service and cuisine offered in their Pullman sleepers and renowned dining cars. This authoritative, illustrated history takes readers back to the B&O's glory years, with a wealth of images, route information, details of the trains passenger motive power, and the inside story on the frugal railroads means of streamlining its equipment with innovative and aesthetically striking results. Against a backdrop of dozens of black-and-white archival images and period color photos depicting uniforms, dinnerware, stations, period ads and route maps, and interior views of passenger cars, award-winning rail author Joe Welsh discusses how B&O passenger operations led to the demise of at least one of its rival Pennsylvania Railroads passenger trains; and how, ultimately, market forces did in the B&O's passenger trains as well. Here is the whole story, with the National Limited's failure under Amtrak's auspices--and the 1981 rebirth of the Capitol Limited as one of Amtrak's most popular trains, keeping a legend alive.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610603522
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
In 1923 the Baltimore & Ohio's Capitol Limited started its travels between Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Two years later the B&O's National Limited linked the nations capital to St. Louis. Almost at once the two lines became household names, famous for the outstanding service and cuisine offered in their Pullman sleepers and renowned dining cars. This authoritative, illustrated history takes readers back to the B&O's glory years, with a wealth of images, route information, details of the trains passenger motive power, and the inside story on the frugal railroads means of streamlining its equipment with innovative and aesthetically striking results. Against a backdrop of dozens of black-and-white archival images and period color photos depicting uniforms, dinnerware, stations, period ads and route maps, and interior views of passenger cars, award-winning rail author Joe Welsh discusses how B&O passenger operations led to the demise of at least one of its rival Pennsylvania Railroads passenger trains; and how, ultimately, market forces did in the B&O's passenger trains as well. Here is the whole story, with the National Limited's failure under Amtrak's auspices--and the 1981 rebirth of the Capitol Limited as one of Amtrak's most popular trains, keeping a legend alive.
Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited
Author: Joe Welsh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610600101
Category : Broadway Limited (Express train)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610600101
Category : Broadway Limited (Express train)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Railroad Unemployment - Insurance System. Hearings Before a Subcommittee ... on H.R. 10127 ... May 26, 27, 31; June 1, 2, and 3, 1938
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The American Passenger Train
Author: Mike Schafer
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 9780760308967
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
From the Santa Fe "Super Chief" to modern Amtrak high-speed intercity services, this sprawling photographic history rambles through two centuries of passenger trains and presents a wealth of archival imagery and period color photos. 200 illustrations, 150 in color.
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 9780760308967
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
From the Santa Fe "Super Chief" to modern Amtrak high-speed intercity services, this sprawling photographic history rambles through two centuries of passenger trains and presents a wealth of archival imagery and period color photos. 200 illustrations, 150 in color.
The Mountain
Author: Gary Ackison
Publisher: Publish America
ISBN: 1413772226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Joe takes his family and moves to St. Louis to acquire an education for his son. Joe encounters trials and tribulations of starting and running a business. White Feather followed what he thought was the young trapper back to the mountain cabin, but found to his amazement the other trapper was not a man at all but a young beautiful girl. Even though The Mountain is fiction, it depicts powerful drama, love, humor, suspense, justice, and understanding of people trying to survive in two worlds.
Publisher: Publish America
ISBN: 1413772226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Joe takes his family and moves to St. Louis to acquire an education for his son. Joe encounters trials and tribulations of starting and running a business. White Feather followed what he thought was the young trapper back to the mountain cabin, but found to his amazement the other trapper was not a man at all but a young beautiful girl. Even though The Mountain is fiction, it depicts powerful drama, love, humor, suspense, justice, and understanding of people trying to survive in two worlds.