Author: Maury Klein
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Union Pacific: The rebirth, 1984-1969
Author: Maury Klein
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Union Pacific: The rebirth, 1894-1969
Author: Maury Klein
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Union Pacific Railroad is renowned as America's first transcontinental railroad and is one of the strongest companies in the railroad industry, today. The driving of the golden spike in Promontory, Utah, in 1869 marked not only the opening of the continent to settlement but also the transformation of the United States from an agricultural nation to an industrial one.
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The Union Pacific Railroad is renowned as America's first transcontinental railroad and is one of the strongest companies in the railroad industry, today. The driving of the golden spike in Promontory, Utah, in 1869 marked not only the opening of the continent to settlement but also the transformation of the United States from an agricultural nation to an industrial one.
Union Pacific: The rebirth, 1894-1969
Author: Maury Klein
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Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Union Pacific
Author: Maury Klein
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452908745
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452908745
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987.
Union Pacific
Author: Maury Klein
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195369890
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
The book shows how Union Pacific continues to succeed even as passenger trains have all but disappeared, proving that we still live in a Railroad Age.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195369890
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
The book shows how Union Pacific continues to succeed even as passenger trains have all but disappeared, proving that we still live in a Railroad Age.
1869-1969 Union Pacific Centennial
Author: Union Pacific Railroad Company
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages :
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Unfinished Business
Author: Maury Klein
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874516913
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A lively survey of the railroad industry by the field's leading historian.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874516913
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A lively survey of the railroad industry by the field's leading historian.
A Thousand Blunders
Author: Frank Leonard
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774842598
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In A Thousand Blunders, Frank Leonard looks at why the 'Road of a Thousand Wonders' failed to live up to the expectations forecast by company president Charles M. Hays and other senior managers. Not only was the railway built through a sparsely settled region, which generated little immediate traffic, but its economic difficulties were also compounded by the numerous mistakes made by managers at all levels: for example, their failure to respond adequately to labour shortages caused serious delays and prevented the company from proving Prince Rupert as an effective alternative harbour before World War I broke out. For this book, Frank Leonard had access to a wealth of original documents, among them the GTP legal department files, providing him with insights into the decisions that formed the basis for policies in townsites and on Indian reserves. A Thousand Blunders is a provocative account of one of the greatest failures in Canadian entrepreneurial history. Richly detailed and thoroughly documented, it makes an important contribution to the fields of railway and business history, as well as to the study of the history of northern British Columbia.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774842598
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In A Thousand Blunders, Frank Leonard looks at why the 'Road of a Thousand Wonders' failed to live up to the expectations forecast by company president Charles M. Hays and other senior managers. Not only was the railway built through a sparsely settled region, which generated little immediate traffic, but its economic difficulties were also compounded by the numerous mistakes made by managers at all levels: for example, their failure to respond adequately to labour shortages caused serious delays and prevented the company from proving Prince Rupert as an effective alternative harbour before World War I broke out. For this book, Frank Leonard had access to a wealth of original documents, among them the GTP legal department files, providing him with insights into the decisions that formed the basis for policies in townsites and on Indian reserves. A Thousand Blunders is a provocative account of one of the greatest failures in Canadian entrepreneurial history. Richly detailed and thoroughly documented, it makes an important contribution to the fields of railway and business history, as well as to the study of the history of northern British Columbia.
The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads
Author: John F. Stover
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415921343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
First published in 1999
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415921343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
First published in 1999
The American Steam Locomotive in the Twentieth Century
Author: Tom Morrison
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476627932
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
Between 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all time--enormous engines that powered a colossal industry. They were deceptively simple machines, yet, the more their technology was studied, the more obscure it became. Despite immense and sustained engineering efforts, steam locomotives remained grossly inefficient in their use of increasingly costly fuel and labor. In the end, they baffled their masters and, as soon as diesel-electric technology provided an alternative, steam locomotives disappeared from American railroads. Drawing on the work of eminent engineers and railroad managers of the day, this lavishly illustrated history chronicles the challenges, triumphs and failures of American steam locomotive development and operation.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476627932
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
Between 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all time--enormous engines that powered a colossal industry. They were deceptively simple machines, yet, the more their technology was studied, the more obscure it became. Despite immense and sustained engineering efforts, steam locomotives remained grossly inefficient in their use of increasingly costly fuel and labor. In the end, they baffled their masters and, as soon as diesel-electric technology provided an alternative, steam locomotives disappeared from American railroads. Drawing on the work of eminent engineers and railroad managers of the day, this lavishly illustrated history chronicles the challenges, triumphs and failures of American steam locomotive development and operation.