Author: Graydon M. Meints
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781611860856
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this thoroughly researched history, Graydon Meints tells the fascinating story of the railroad's arrival and development in Michigan. The railroad would come to play a role in almost every critical event in Michigan's nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history, before beginning to wane following the arrival of the automobile. Looking ahead to the future of the railroad in the Great Lakes region, Meints assesses the strengths and shortcomings of this revolutionary invention.
Railroads for Michigan
Author: Graydon M. Meints
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781611860856
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this thoroughly researched history, Graydon Meints tells the fascinating story of the railroad's arrival and development in Michigan. The railroad would come to play a role in almost every critical event in Michigan's nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history, before beginning to wane following the arrival of the automobile. Looking ahead to the future of the railroad in the Great Lakes region, Meints assesses the strengths and shortcomings of this revolutionary invention.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781611860856
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this thoroughly researched history, Graydon Meints tells the fascinating story of the railroad's arrival and development in Michigan. The railroad would come to play a role in almost every critical event in Michigan's nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history, before beginning to wane following the arrival of the automobile. Looking ahead to the future of the railroad in the Great Lakes region, Meints assesses the strengths and shortcomings of this revolutionary invention.
The Haywire
Author: Hugh A. Hornstein
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"The Haywire" played a major role in the industrial development of Michigan's Manistique and Schoolcraft counties.
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"The Haywire" played a major role in the industrial development of Michigan's Manistique and Schoolcraft counties.
Ships and Shipwrecks
Author: Richard Gebhart
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1948314118
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
From the day that French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle launched the Griffin in 1679 to the 1975 sinking of the celebrated Edmund Fitzgerald, thousands of commercial ships have sailed on the vast and perilous waters of the Great Lakes. In a harbinger of things to come, on the return leg of its first trip in late summer 1679, the Griffin disappeared and has never been seen again. In the centuries since then, the records show that an alarming number of shipwrecks have occurred on the Great Lakes. If vessels that wrecked but were later repaired and returned to service are included, the number certainly swells into the thousands. Most did not mysteriously vanish like the Griffin. Instead, they suffered the occupational hazards of every lake boat: collisions, groundings, strands, fires, boiler explosions, and capsizes. Many of these disasters took the lives of crews and passengers. The fearsome wrath of the storms that brew over the Great Lakes has challenged and defeated some of the staunchest vessels constructed in the shipyards of port cities along the U.S. and Canadian lakeshores. Here Richard Gebhart tells the tales of some of these ships and their captains and crews, from their launches to their sad demises—or sometimes, their celebrated retirements. This volume is a must-read for anyone intrigued by the maritime history of the Great Lakes.
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1948314118
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
From the day that French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle launched the Griffin in 1679 to the 1975 sinking of the celebrated Edmund Fitzgerald, thousands of commercial ships have sailed on the vast and perilous waters of the Great Lakes. In a harbinger of things to come, on the return leg of its first trip in late summer 1679, the Griffin disappeared and has never been seen again. In the centuries since then, the records show that an alarming number of shipwrecks have occurred on the Great Lakes. If vessels that wrecked but were later repaired and returned to service are included, the number certainly swells into the thousands. Most did not mysteriously vanish like the Griffin. Instead, they suffered the occupational hazards of every lake boat: collisions, groundings, strands, fires, boiler explosions, and capsizes. Many of these disasters took the lives of crews and passengers. The fearsome wrath of the storms that brew over the Great Lakes has challenged and defeated some of the staunchest vessels constructed in the shipyards of port cities along the U.S. and Canadian lakeshores. Here Richard Gebhart tells the tales of some of these ships and their captains and crews, from their launches to their sad demises—or sometimes, their celebrated retirements. This volume is a must-read for anyone intrigued by the maritime history of the Great Lakes.
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2002
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Departments of Transportation and Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations for 2004
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Transportation and Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
The Official Railway Guide
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
Book Description
The Public Response to the Secretary of Transportation's Rail Services Report
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2003: Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
Book Description
Bus Transportation
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Public Response to the Secretary of Transportation's Rail Services Report, Rail Service in the Midwest and Northeast Region
Author: United States. Rail Services Planning Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description