Extensive appendices provide data regarding weight, fuel, statistical trends, and more, as well as a list of 130 vital railroad books. Railfans will treasure this indispensable work.
The book is packed with evocative period and modern photography in color and black and white, as well as a treasure trove of classic timetable and advertising art and maps.
Leland Stanford is today a largely forgotten man. Yet he is the quintessence of the great American legend: the farm boy who makes good through hard work and struggle-the embodiment...
... Social Protest Thought in the African Methodist Episcopal Church 1862–1939. Knoxville, TN: Univer- sity of Tennessee Press, 2000. Examines the role of the AME ... African American churches and 66 AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH FOUNDED.
General William J. Palmer had supervised the construction of the Kansas Pacific line; he had also been a director of the Denver Pacific. He now began organizing a new road—the Denver and Rio Grande—designed to reach south to El Paso, ...
Important figures traveled across the route, including Ulysses S. Grant, Samuel Clemens, Territorial Governors Roop and Nye, Governor Blasdel, and lumber moguls D. L. Bliss and Henry Yerington. The road remained the primary route for ...
Central Mts.#49: South Coast Ridge Road 20 GORDA Willow Creek Campground Alder Creek Camp Alder Peak Viewpoint Willow Creek Trail ROAD TO BIG SUR Pacific Ocean SAN MARTIN TOP LOS PADRES N ATIONAL FOREST SILVER PEAK WILDERNESS W illo w C ...
This volume provides historical and bibliographical information on manufacturing industries and covers such areas as textiles, engines, household appliances and industrial chemicals.
GPS : N40 ° 41.87 ' W122 ° 38.25 ' STARTING POINT California 299 , 1 mile east of the Tower House Historic District FINISHING POINT Intersection of J. F. Kennedy Memorial Drive and North Coast # 26 ...
... Railroad. Cheyenne, WY: Union Pacific Historical Society, 2020. Riegger, Hal. The Camas Prairie: Idaho's Railroad on Stilts. Edmonds, WA: Pacific Fast Mail, 1986. Robertson, Donald B. Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History. Caldwell ...