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Bedlam on the West Virginia Rails:
9781626198937
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9781467137775
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Railroads are central in the history of Georgia. Explore 200 years of railroad expansion and consolidation in this must-read for railroad and Georgia history fans.
Before the start of the Civil War, Georgia had ten railroads, five of which figured significantly in General William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea.
The number of rail lines in the state ballooned after the war. Many were founded by individual entrepreneurs like Henry Plant and Thomas Clyde, while the biggest railroad of them all (Southern Railway) was created out of whole cloth by New York financier J.P. Morgan. At the close of the nineteenth century, consolidation was already in process, and by the end of the next century, only three significant railroads remained in Georgia.
Author and historian Robert C. Jones examines Georgia's rail history over the past two centuries and today.
New York's Original Penn Station
9781467139403
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%In early twentieth-century New York, few could have imagined a train terminal as grandiose as Pennsylvania Station.
Sandhogs would battle the fiercest of nature to build tunnels linking Manhattan to New Jersey and Long Island. For decades, Penn Station was a center of elegance and pride. But the ensuing rise of the airplane and automobile began to diminish train travel. By the mid-1960s, the station was tragically destroyed. The loss inspired the birth of preservation laws in the city and the nation that would save other landmarks like Grand Central. Author Paul Kaplan recounts the trials and triumphs of New York's Penn Station.
Pennsylvania Railroad to the Columbian Exposition
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9781467147026
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9781467151795
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9781467141949
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9781467144599
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The history of the Western North Carolina Railroad is a tale like no other, filled with tragedy, heroism, brains, blood, sweat, tears, nitroglycerin and humor.
Now a tourist mecca, the Great Smoky Mountains were a remote and inaccessible place until well after the Civil War. Using first enslaved and later convict labor the Western North Carolina Railroad and Murphy Branch connected the mountains with the remainder of the state by rail for the first time in 1891. The railroad brought commerce and tourism. Though its vital role was eventually eclipsed by the automobile, tourists and rail buffs continue to come to Bryson City to experience travel by steam train on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad.
Local authors Jacob Morgan Plott and Bob Plott tell the story of a line that refused to die.
The Blue Ridge Tunnel
9781626194212
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Told through the eyes of three Irish immigrant families who helped build it, discover the groundbreaking story of the construction of the Blue Ridge Tunnel.
In one of the greatest engineering feats of his time, Claudius Crozet led the completion of Virginia's Blue Ridge Tunnel in 1858. Two centuries later, the National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark still proudly stands, but the stories and lives of those who built it are the true lasting triumph. Irish immigrants fleeing the Great Hunger poured into America resolute for something to call their own. They would persevere through life in overcrowded shanties and years of blasting through rock to see the tunnel to completion. Prolific author Mary E. Lyons follows three Irish families in their struggle to build Crozet's famed tunnel and their American dream.
The Economic History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
9780738594576
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Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The Wilmington, Brunswick & Southern Railroad
9781467150378
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%At the turn of the twentieth century, railroads meant progress, growth and development.
In the 1890s Southport, North Carolina became the target destination for a major coaling terminal for ships sailing the Atlantic coast. A new terminal would require a railroad to bring in coal and other supplies. More than twenty companies were formed to pursue this idea over the years, with a few actual accomplishments, but most were purely speculative. Wearying the expectant town for more than twenty-five years, the vision for a great port was whittled down until local entrepreneurs finally built a 30-mile rail line to connect the town to Wilmington.
Local author and railroad historian Mark Koenig chronicles the short life of a short line and the long process of making it a reality.