The Milwaukee Road
The Milwaukee Road

Author: Tom Murray

Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)

Published: 2005-10-29

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 0760320721

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The true grit and glory days of one of America's greatest railroads come to dramatic life in this full-scale illustrated history by industry veteran Tom Murray. Words and pictures carry readers across the vast tracts of land and time traversed by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific-better known to history as the Milwaukee Road. Ranging from the railroad's late-nineteenth-century beginnings to its purchase by onetime rival Soo Line in 1985, the book looks at The Milwaukee Road's famed streamlined Hiawatha passenger trains, the "Little Joe" electric locomotives, and the sprawling fabrication and repair facilities in its namesake city. Whether surveying the railroad's routes and the trains that plied them, and the people who worked behind the scenes, or focusing on the line's motive power, rolling stock, passenger and freight operations, The Milwaukee Road provides a broad-scale, brilliantly detailed portrait of a great railroad, an industry, and a bygone era.

The Soo Line
The Soo Line

Author: Patrick C. Dorin

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Discusses the history, services, and equipment of the Soo Line Railroad, which is known throughout the Midwest for its dependability.

From Telegrapher to Titan
From Telegrapher to Titan

Author: Valerie Knowles

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2004-03-01

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 177070163X

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Winner of the 2005 Ottawa Book Award for Non-fiction , the 2005 University of British Columbia Award for Best Canadian Biography, and the Canadian Railroad Historical Association Award for Best Railway Book of the Year. William Van Horne was one of North America’s most accomplished men. Born in Illinois in 1843, he became a prominent railway figure in the United States before coming to Canada in 1881 to become general manager of the fledgling Canadian Pacific Railway. Van Horne pushed through construction of the CPR’s transcontinental line and went on to become company president. He also became one of Canada’s foremost financiers and art collectors, capping his career by opening Cuba’s interior with a railway.

Fashion in Steel: Streamlined Steam Locomotives in North America
Fashion in Steel: Streamlined Steam Locomotives in North America

Author: Jan Young

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-11-30

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1387408615

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"This book collects and describes every known North American streamlined - or semi-streamlined - steam locomotive with photographs of every class and every significant design variation and it packages those descriptions with information about the locomotives' origins, service lives and ultimate destinies."--Book