Author: Carter Goodrich
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Government and the Railroads
Author: Otto H. Kahn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Government Promotion of American Canals and Railroads, 1800-1890
Author: Carter Goodrich
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Government and the Railroads
Author: Otto Hermann Kahn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Great Railroad Revolution
Author: Christian Wolmar
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610391802
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status. Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them. In The Great Railroad Revolution, renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610391802
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status. Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them. In The Great Railroad Revolution, renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.
Regulation of Railways
Author: Samuel Orace Dunn
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Government Ownership of Railroads, and War Taxation
Author: Otto H. Kahn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
List of References to Publications Pertaining to the Government Ownership of Railways
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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The Government and the Railroads
Author: Frank Hix Fayant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Extension of Tenure of Government Control of Railroads
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 1860
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 1860
Book Description
Complete Handbook on Government Ownership of Railroads, by J. Weston Walch
Author: J. Weston Walch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Debates and debating
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Debates and debating
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description