Author: Jim Kelly
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
ISBN: 9780890244234
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Photos capture prototype railroad features including yards, bridges, service facilities, and tunnels. Included are modeling ideas, suggested kits, recommended materials, and more.
Trackside Scenes You Can Model
Author: Jim Kelly
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
ISBN: 9780890244234
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Photos capture prototype railroad features including yards, bridges, service facilities, and tunnels. Included are modeling ideas, suggested kits, recommended materials, and more.
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
ISBN: 9780890244234
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Photos capture prototype railroad features including yards, bridges, service facilities, and tunnels. Included are modeling ideas, suggested kits, recommended materials, and more.
Railroads of Pennsylvania
Author: Lorett Treese
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811726221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Discover Pennsylvania's railroad past in this exploration of the industry. The book profiles the great railroads that crossed the Keystone State, tells the stories of the individuals and events that shaped railroad history, and locates the state's rail-culture relics-steam and diesel locomotives, routes, inclined planes, bridges, stations, and landmarks - as well as tourist railroad lines, museums, and Rails to Trails paths.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811726221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Discover Pennsylvania's railroad past in this exploration of the industry. The book profiles the great railroads that crossed the Keystone State, tells the stories of the individuals and events that shaped railroad history, and locates the state's rail-culture relics-steam and diesel locomotives, routes, inclined planes, bridges, stations, and landmarks - as well as tourist railroad lines, museums, and Rails to Trails paths.
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
The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1
Author: Albert J. Churella
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.
Crossroads of Commerce
Author: Dan Cupper
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811729036
Category : Calendar art
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Each year, starting in 1925, the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) commissioned a striking oil painting of a PRR engine in a dramatic setting, which was featured on a large wall calendar that the company distributed by the hundreds of thousands to customers and the public. Grif Teller painted 27 of the 33 scenes. This book reproduces Teller's calendar art and his other paintings in full color and recounts his life and career.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811729036
Category : Calendar art
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Each year, starting in 1925, the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) commissioned a striking oil painting of a PRR engine in a dramatic setting, which was featured on a large wall calendar that the company distributed by the hundreds of thousands to customers and the public. Grif Teller painted 27 of the 33 scenes. This book reproduces Teller's calendar art and his other paintings in full color and recounts his life and career.
Pennsylvania's Historic Bridges
Author: Fred J. Moll
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439634696
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Pennsylvanias Historic Bridges examines the development of different types of bridge structures across Pennsylvania through the world of postcards, many of which are from the early 1900s. The structures featured are constructed from various materials and in a multitude of styles. Also found within these pages are several postcards of pedestrian bridges, canal bridges, trolley bridges, railroad bridges, and an aqueduct.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439634696
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Pennsylvanias Historic Bridges examines the development of different types of bridge structures across Pennsylvania through the world of postcards, many of which are from the early 1900s. The structures featured are constructed from various materials and in a multitude of styles. Also found within these pages are several postcards of pedestrian bridges, canal bridges, trolley bridges, railroad bridges, and an aqueduct.
The Engineering Index
Author: John Butler Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
Proceedings
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Railroad Gazette
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 897
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 897
Book Description
Arbitration Board No. 192, N. M. B. Case A-4400
Author: United States. National Mediation Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description