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Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Railroad Research Bulletin
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Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Research Bulletin
Author: Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Test Train Program
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Category : Railroad tracks
Languages : en
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Category : Railroad tracks
Languages : en
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Long Steel Rail
Author: Norm Cohen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068812
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068812
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition.
The Panama Railroad
Author: Peter Pyne
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253052092
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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In 1848, a group of ambitious American entrepreneurs decided to embark upon a remarkable engineering feat—they would build a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The creation of the Panama Railroad ranks as one the boldest capitalist ventures in the 19th century, and would require battling climate, disease, and geography before it was completed. On a human level, it would transform the destiny of thousands of lives in America, Panama, the West Indies, and Asia, as well as in Ireland. The Panama Railroad provides the first comprehensive account of the railroad's construction, going well beyond the known stories of the titans of industry involved with its construction, such as William Aspinwall, George Law, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. It seeks to correct false claims and address numerous gaps in past histories, and in particular showcases the stories of the ordinary Irish workers willing to travel halfway around the globe to pursue an uncertain future and a perilous undertaking in the hopes of escaping the devastating aftermath of the Great Famine of 1845–49.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253052092
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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In 1848, a group of ambitious American entrepreneurs decided to embark upon a remarkable engineering feat—they would build a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The creation of the Panama Railroad ranks as one the boldest capitalist ventures in the 19th century, and would require battling climate, disease, and geography before it was completed. On a human level, it would transform the destiny of thousands of lives in America, Panama, the West Indies, and Asia, as well as in Ireland. The Panama Railroad provides the first comprehensive account of the railroad's construction, going well beyond the known stories of the titans of industry involved with its construction, such as William Aspinwall, George Law, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. It seeks to correct false claims and address numerous gaps in past histories, and in particular showcases the stories of the ordinary Irish workers willing to travel halfway around the globe to pursue an uncertain future and a perilous undertaking in the hopes of escaping the devastating aftermath of the Great Famine of 1845–49.
Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad
Author: Eber M. Pettit
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Bibliography of FRA Office of Research and Development Technical Reports, 1974-1980
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Technology Sharing
Author: United States. Department of Transportation. Office of Intergovernmental Affairs
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Category : Technology transfer
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Category : Technology transfer
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Technology Sharing
Author: Technology Sharing Program (U.S.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Railroads and American Economic Growth
Author: Robert William Fogel
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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