The Hiawatha Story
Author: Jim Scribbins
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1452912963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published: Milwaukee: Kalmbach, 1970.
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Milwaukee Road Remembered
Author: Jim Scribbins
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1452914257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn eminent railway historian furnishes a detailed history of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific railroad, its groundbreaking service from Indiana to the Puget Sound, its pioneering use of electricity to move heavy trains over a long distance, and other technological advances. Reprint.
The Milwaukee Road
Author: Tom Murray
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
Published: 2005-10-29
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 0760320721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated
Author: Mark Wegman
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Published: 2008-11-15
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1616731443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe period from the 1890s to the mid-1950s is generally considered the “golden era� of passenger rail travel in America. It was a time of celebrated locomotives and luxurious passenger service, a time when rail technology saw its greatest advances and railroads became the nation’s favored mode of transportation. These glory years come alive in American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated, 1889–1971. For this volume, author and illustrator Mark Wegman has researched original railroad drawings and in some cases even paint chips to render more than 160 profiles, front and top views, and interior layouts depicting the steam, diesel, and electric locomotives, along with passenger cars, of three dozen of the nation’s most celebrated trains of the golden age. Accompanying the author’s drawings are histories of each train, period photographs, postcards, menus, luggage stickers, vintage print ads, and detailed captions. The book is a lavishly appointed journey back in time to the bygone heyday of passenger-train travel.
Awards ... Third Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board
Author: United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board
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Published:
Total Pages: 1008
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Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher:
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 876
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFashion in Steel: Streamlined Steam Locomotives in North America
Author: Jan Young
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1387408615
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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
The Gloved Hand
Author: M.C. ?MIKE? WIKMAN
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2012-08-02
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1477216898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a compilation of my 55 years in the railroad industry. From my beginning to the year 2008, a lot has happened since 2008 until now. My dear wife of 56 years passed away on March 2, 2011 and I'm now going it alone. I still work as a railroad consultant at a mine in New Mexico and the Border Pacific Railroad on the Mexican border here in Texas, at 77 years old but not steady. Life has been good to me as I still do a lot of photography in this area, hot San Antonio. Next on my agenda to write a railroad novel as a child I used to read all the novels about railroading in man's imagination which I could not get enough of. So I'm going to try to see what I can do as my mind seems to be working pretty well at this time. I spend at a maximum of four hours a day on the computer Internet writing friends all over the country, some of the people I communicate with, I used to work for them when I started my career in the railroad industry. E-mailing friends is one of the greatest things that I do. Learning never ends I try to learn the locomotive inside and out as I can't get enough of that either. Living here in San Antonio isn't what it was 23 years ago; today it's crowded with people coming from all over every day to live here. I would like to move back east where I came from in Eastern Pennsylvania as I love the mountains and fewer people.
