Author: Southern Pacific Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pacific railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Southern Pacific's First Century
Author: Southern Pacific Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pacific railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pacific railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Southern Pacific's Shasta Division
Author: John R. Signor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930013025
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930013025
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Sunset Limited
Author: Richard J. Orsi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520251644
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
The only major US railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific played a major role in the shaping of the West & the development of southern California in particular. 'Sunset Limited' explores the corporate strategy over time to reveal how the company saw its place in the world.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520251644
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
The only major US railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific played a major role in the shaping of the West & the development of southern California in particular. 'Sunset Limited' explores the corporate strategy over time to reveal how the company saw its place in the world.
North American Railroad Bridges
Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610604581
Category : Railroad bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610604581
Category : Railroad bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives
Author: Donald Duke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
From the little woodburner of 1864 to the Daylight.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
From the little woodburner of 1864 to the Daylight.
Rails in the Shadow of Mt. Shasta
Author: John R. Signor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985
Author: Donovan L. Hofsommer
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603441278
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Don Hofsommer chronicles the twentieth-century history of a transportation giant. Here is a story of divestiture and merger, Sunset Route, and Prosperity Special. " . . . a treasure house of information about the Southern Pacific Company . . . . This book is a joy to read."--Richard C. Overton, from the Foreword
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603441278
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Don Hofsommer chronicles the twentieth-century history of a transportation giant. Here is a story of divestiture and merger, Sunset Route, and Prosperity Special. " . . . a treasure house of information about the Southern Pacific Company . . . . This book is a joy to read."--Richard C. Overton, from the Foreword
Sunset Limited
Author: Richard J. Orsi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520940865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The only major U.S. railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific acquired a unique history and character. It also acquired a reputation, especially in California, as a railroad that people loved to hate. This magisterial history tells the full story of the Southern Pacific for the first time, shattering myths about the company that have prevailed to this day. A landmark account, Sunset Limited explores the railroad's development and influence—especially as it affected land settlement, agriculture, water policy, and the environment—and offers a new perspective on the tremendous, often surprising, role the company played in shaping the American West. Based on his unprecedented and extensive research into the company's historical archives, Richard Orsi finds that, contrary to conventional understanding, the Southern Pacific Company identified its corporate well-being with population growth and social and economic development in the railroad's hinterland. As he traces the complex and shifting intersections between corporate and public interest, Orsi documents the railroad's little-known promotion of land distribution, small-scale farming, scientific agriculture, and less wasteful environmental practices and policies—including water conservation and wilderness and recreational parklands preservation. Meticulously researched, lucidly written, and judiciously balanced, Sunset Limited opens a new window onto the American West in a crucial phase of its development and will forever change our perceptions of one of the largest and most important western corporations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520940865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The only major U.S. railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific acquired a unique history and character. It also acquired a reputation, especially in California, as a railroad that people loved to hate. This magisterial history tells the full story of the Southern Pacific for the first time, shattering myths about the company that have prevailed to this day. A landmark account, Sunset Limited explores the railroad's development and influence—especially as it affected land settlement, agriculture, water policy, and the environment—and offers a new perspective on the tremendous, often surprising, role the company played in shaping the American West. Based on his unprecedented and extensive research into the company's historical archives, Richard Orsi finds that, contrary to conventional understanding, the Southern Pacific Company identified its corporate well-being with population growth and social and economic development in the railroad's hinterland. As he traces the complex and shifting intersections between corporate and public interest, Orsi documents the railroad's little-known promotion of land distribution, small-scale farming, scientific agriculture, and less wasteful environmental practices and policies—including water conservation and wilderness and recreational parklands preservation. Meticulously researched, lucidly written, and judiciously balanced, Sunset Limited opens a new window onto the American West in a crucial phase of its development and will forever change our perceptions of one of the largest and most important western corporations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Nothing Like It In the World
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743203173
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743203173
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Pacific Electric Red Cars
Author: Jim Walker
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738546889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Of the rail lines created at the turn of the 20th century, in order to build interurban links through Southern California communities around metropolitan Los Angeles, the Pacific Electric grew to be the most prominent of all. The Pacific Electric Railway is synonymous with Henry Edwards Huntington, the capitalist with many decades of railroad experience, who formed the "P. E." and expanded it as principal owner for nearly its first decade. Huntington sold his PE holdings to the giant Southern Pacific Railroad in 1910, and the following year the SP absorbed nearly every electric line in the fourcounty area around Los Angeles in the "Great Merger" into a "new" Pacific Electric. Founded in 1901 and terminated in 1965, Pacific Electric was known as the "World's Great Interurban."
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738546889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Of the rail lines created at the turn of the 20th century, in order to build interurban links through Southern California communities around metropolitan Los Angeles, the Pacific Electric grew to be the most prominent of all. The Pacific Electric Railway is synonymous with Henry Edwards Huntington, the capitalist with many decades of railroad experience, who formed the "P. E." and expanded it as principal owner for nearly its first decade. Huntington sold his PE holdings to the giant Southern Pacific Railroad in 1910, and the following year the SP absorbed nearly every electric line in the fourcounty area around Los Angeles in the "Great Merger" into a "new" Pacific Electric. Founded in 1901 and terminated in 1965, Pacific Electric was known as the "World's Great Interurban."