Author: Stephen J. Salamon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781879314078
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Brian Paulus
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452057826
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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This book is a pictorial history looking back at the Western Maryland Railway through black and white photos during its glory years of operations in the 1950s, to its final years of pre-consolidation in the 1970s through color photography. It also takes a look at the railroad more than a decade after its merger into the Chessie System. We will also review a brief history on the "Queen City" (Cumberland, Maryland), as well as the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal.

Author: Gerald M. Futej
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976804420
Category : Shay locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: TLC Publishing
Publisher: TLC Publishing
ISBN: 9781883089245
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Complete roster data, official diagrams and background material on the development of the Western Marylands fleet, and its use on this very popular line. Filled with FAs, BL2s, as well as the more common units and paint schemes, from the elegant and well respected fireball to the three-color Circus scheme on into the Chessie System paint.

Author: Patrick Stakem
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781520216225
Category : Allegany County (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 57

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This is a work about the Georges Creek Valley in Allegany County, Western Maryland. The Georges Creek Valley is defined by Dan's Mountain to the east, and Savage Mountain to the West, part of the Appalachian range. Portions of Savage Mountain form the Eastern Continental Divide, separating watersheds draining to the Ohio River and those draining to the Potomac River. The history of the settlement of the Georges Creek Valley is the history of coal. George Washington was familiar with the area from his various trips in the wilderness. Once populated entirely by Native Americans, the region was settled by the English, with families from Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Besides coal, a pioneering iron furnace was built at Lonaconing, which drove the introduction of rail transportation in the region. Where George's Creek meets the Potomac, the C&O Canal was slated to pass by.

Author: Herbert H. Harwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Anthony Puzzilla
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467134589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Take a nonstop journey through 131 years of the Western Maryland Railway's history in this photographic tale. The Western Maryland Railway was never a large Class 1 rail carrier, but during its 131 colorful years of existence, it provided extremely fast, efficient, and reliable freight; coal-hauling; and passenger service in the states it served. This book contains images from the history of this remarkable railroad and also provides the reader the opportunity to see how the legacy of the Western Maryland Railway is being maintained and remembered even today at some of its well-known train stations, such as in Cumberland and Union Bridge, Maryland, now home to the Western Maryland Railway Historical Society (WMRHS). The Western Maryland is now gone, but through the wonderful images captured and preserved by the WMRHS and private archival photograph collections, the dream of the railway will live on.

Author: Jennifer B. Bodine
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764354939
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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A. Aubrey Bodine, newspaper photographer, pictorialist, modernist, and documentarian, was a Baltimore Sun feature photographer from 1924 to 1970. This book is his archive of train photographs chronicling mid-20th-century rail transportation and the people working on the railroad. Bodine's images of steam and diesel locomotives document an era passed. Herein are contained award-winning pictures, currently popular pictures, historically interesting pictures, and pictures unseen until this volume. These images demonstrate Bodine's pictorialist and modernist photographic eye for trains and railroads in motion and at rest. Bodine published four books, wrote articles, judged photographic Salons, won awards from all over the world, lectured across northeast America, and held down a full-time job at a major metropolitan newspaper. This is the fourth Bodine picture book assembled by his daughter, Jennifer. Their previous collaborations are Bodine's Chesapeake Bay Country, Bodine's City, and Bodine's Industry.

Author: Michael Leavy
Publisher: Westholme Pub Llc
ISBN: 9781594161193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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The "iron horse" became a major weapon in the first war fully dependent on railroads. Moreover railroads would escalate and prolong the war. Leavy provides a study of trains in the Civil War through photographs and a rich narrative.

Author: United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on interstate commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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