Modern societies rely upon prodigious amounts of oil for transport activity. The impacts over the near term of increasing oil scarcity and higher prices on t......
Britain’s leading train expert tells the epic story of how the world’s railroads shaped commerce, cultures, and countries, and created the modern......
The only major U.S. railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific acquired a unique history and c......
Efforts to create and mould new technologies have been a central, recurrent feature of the American experience since at least the time of the Revolution. In ......
comparative work of business history and the history of technology, the book is not a complete history of any locomotive builder, nor does it explore the ori......
?I declare the subway open,? said Mayor George B. McClelland at about 2 p.m. on October 27, 1904. His hand on the switch, McClelland drove the new electric-p......
"The ICL World Link" report (bi-lingual, English-Russian) outlines proposals for an intercontinental transport and energy corridor between Eurasia and Americ......
Gateway to the Clouds is a story of the Scranton, Dunmore, Moosic Lake Railroad. From narrow and standard gauge steam railroading to the electric trolley, re......
The dawn of the 20th Century saw a new form of transportation evolve in the United States: the interurban electric railway. These enterprises were natural of......
by Neil Woodley ISBN 13: 9781846930065 Published: Jan 2006 Pages: 42 Description The contents of this book comes from two years research in going to Franc......
The dramatic 100-year history of how trains became weapons, and transformed forever the nature of war
Author: Wolmar, Christian
Publisher: PublicAffairs
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This work chronicles the miraculous development made in the field of transportation in the United States. Hulbert has elucidated upon the hurdles and opposit......
The year 1827 marked the completion of the United States' first railroad--and the beginning of a transformation of American life. This book, spanning nearly ......
From the first steam-powered locomotives of the early nineteenth century to the high-speed commuter trains of today, the American railroad has been a great e......
Once the second-largest steam locomotive builder in the U.S., American Locomotive Company (Alco) produced 75,000 locomotives, among them such famous examples......
From the first, U.S. railroads have carried coal from mines to docks, steel mills, and power plants across the country. In this authoritative book spanning t......
The 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 lo......
This richly illustrated encyclopedia of classic and contemporary American railroads features consise histories of 101 U.S. and Canadian railroads past and pr......
One of America's greatest business enterprises, the Pullman Company provided outstanding service aboard a vast fleet of railroad passenger cars that could be......
