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Author: Steve McCarter
Publisher: Montana Historical Society
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780917298271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcross Montana and up and down the branch lines, this guide will take you where the Milwaukee dared to go.
Author: Pat Dorin
Publisher: TLC Publishing
Published: 2004-11-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781883089924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor Pat Dorin gives an excellent overview of The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific passenger trains starting with the streamlined, steam-hauled Hiawatha and following the story through to the introduction of Amtrak and beyond. Cars are covered in detail as well as motive power. Reproduced timetables and ads give a good feel for the passenger era. Modellers, Milwaukee Road fans, and passenger train devotees will all find material of interest in this general overview of the period and the great service of 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.
Author: John E. Gruber
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780760323953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative, illustrated history of the Milwaukee Road's Hiawathas from 1935 to 1971, examining motive power, distinctive rolling stock, services, and memorabilia.
Author: Thomas E. Burg
Publisher:
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780979575235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhotos of the steam locomotives that traveled the rail lines from Milwaukee to Puget Sound, during the first half of the twentieth century.
Author: Stanley W. Johnson
Publisher: Museum of North Idaho Publications
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780972335607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf interest to the casual hiker, bicyclist, historian and railroad enthusiast, Includes the Route of the Hiawatha. Greatly expanded.
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.
Author: Russell H. Holter
Publisher:
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9780977617609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis long anticipated book features: 552 pages of text--First person accounts of life on the Tacoma Eastern railroad--400 rare photos-- custom drawn maps--plus many other illustrations. Learn the origins of this little logging line that grew from obscurity, survived despite economic panic, wars, limited financing, and both hostile and friendly acquisitions to become a national tourist destination and one of the most profitable rail lines west of Chicago.
Author: Scott Lothes
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2018-01-26
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0253032253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the late 1940s onward, Wallace W. Abbey masterfully combined journalistic and artistic vision to transform everyday transportation moments into magical photographs. Abbey, a photographer, journalist, historian, and railroad industry executive, helped people from many different backgrounds understand and appreciate what was taken for granted: a world of locomotives, passenger trains, big-city terminals, small-town depots, and railroaders. During his lifetime he witnessed and photographed sweeping changes in the railroading industry from the steam era to the era of diesel locomotives and electronic communication. Wallace W. Abbey: A Life in Railroad Photography profiles the life and work of this legendary photographer and showcases the transformation of transportation and photography after World War II. Featuring more than 175 exquisite photographs in an oversized format, Wallace W. Abbey is an outstanding tribute to a gifted artist and the railroads he loved.
Author: Tom Murray
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781616731540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the time it was merged into the Union Pacific in 1995, the Chicago & North Western was one of the nations oldest surviving railroads, a testament to the Midwestern stoicism with which it had gone about its business since 1859. This illustrated history chronicles how C&NW emerged from a collection of regional carriers to become a strategic link between eastern railroads and the West. Author Tom Murray traces the railroads expansion as it extended secondary lines throughout the Midwest. He also explores C&NWs joint ownership of UP passenger trains and describes how the railroad answered challenges from regional rivals with the "400" series of passenger trains. As fascinating as the story are the hundreds of accompanying illustrations--historical photographs, archival images, route maps, and period print ads. The result is an entertaining and informative history of an iconic Midwestern railroad--a narrative that spans the decades from the 1850s to the 1990s and takes in steam and diesel motive power, freight and passenger operations, and all the key characters, events, and deals that figured in the Chicago & North Westerns rise and eventual demise.
