Railroaded

Author : Richard White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393082609

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Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White Pdf

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize: "A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations." —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book Review This original, deeply researched history shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike, robber barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age, often darkly funny, that shows history to be rooted in failure as well as success.

Author : Richard White
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393342376

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Railroaded by Richard White Pdf

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations." —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book Review The transcontinental railroads were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating economic panics. Their dependence on public largesse drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations rearranged space and time, remade the landscape of the West, and opened new ways of life and work. Their discriminatory rates sparked a new antimonopoly politics. The transcontinentals were pivotal actors in the making of modern America, but the triumphal myths of the golden spike, Robber Barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age, often darkly funny, that shows history to be rooted in failure as well as success.

Author : Kevin EuDaly,Steve Jessup,Mike Schafer,Jim Boyd,Andrew McBride,Steve Glischinski
Publisher : Crestline Books
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780785833895

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The Complete Book of North American Railroading by Kevin EuDaly,Steve Jessup,Mike Schafer,Jim Boyd,Andrew McBride,Steve Glischinski Pdf

Celebrate over 150 years of the North American railroad with this visual history. You'll be amazed by over 400 modern and vintages photographs of these trains!

Author : George B. Abdill
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787208278

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This Was Railroading by George B. Abdill Pdf

This is Part 1 of a historical collection of rare photos and true stories about the tracks, trains and trainmen of the Pacific Northwest...including Northern California. Railroading is the massive Mallet and the caboose hop. It is the lonely track walker, the roundhouse rumors, the water tender, the engineer’s long-spouted oil can. It is the age of steam centered in the most romantic field of industry and commerce ever to intrigue Mr. America. And here in this book of beauty and memory is the graphic story of railroading as the “New West” saw it and rode with it. Railroading to author George B. Abdill is the sound and picture of black bulk streaking and shrieking through the night with a jet of steam trailing back along the boiler. He saw and heard this as a boy on an Oregon farm and has carried it in his heart ever since. Now as a Southern Pacific engineer—“hoghead” to you—and a dedicated collector of railroadiana, he raises the lid of his personal locker to all other railroaders, active and armchair. Get into the cab and as Engineer Abdill steams up the grade he’ll spin you tales of the rails and illustrate them with a part of his precious collection, many of these photographs museum pieces of the first water, most of them never before published, all are rare.

Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1616731141

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Intermodal Railroading by Brian Solomon Pdf

This richly illustrated history chronicles one of the most revolutionary developments in freight railroading during the twentieth century: intermodal shipping, or the use of containers to move cargo between trains, trucks, and oceangoing vessels. It was a development that transformed the movement of freight around the world, with an almost incalculable impact on American industry. Intermodal railroading in North America begins tentatively, with attempts at piggybacking in the 1930s, before moving on to more serious developments in the period from World War II through the 1960s, notably by Canadian Pacific and the New Haven and Southern Pacific railroads. After looking at early intermodal technology and traffic, particularly the formation of pioneering equipment manufacturer and provider TTX, author Brian Solomon turns to the contemporary period. His account of mighty changes in North American shipping ranges from the implications of deregulation and various railroad mergers, to the emergence of partnerships between railroads and trucking and shipping firms. In addition to railroads like Conrail, BNSF, and CSX, this comprehensive history features trucking, freight delivery, and forwarding firms such as J. B. Hunt, Sea-Land, Maersk, and K-Line. It also considers the importance of specialized modern rolling stock, motive power, loading equipment, and intermodal hubs including South Kearney, Seattle, Long Beach, Oakland, and Houston.

Author : Simon Bain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0571139094

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Railroaded! by Simon Bain Pdf

Author : Michael Perelman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781583671351

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Railroading Economics by Michael Perelman Pdf

Most economic theory assumes a pure capitalism of perfect competition. This book is a penetrating critique of the rhetoric and practice of conventional economic theory. It explores how even in the United States—the most capitalist of countries—the market has always been subject to numerous constraints. Perelman examines the way in which these constraints have been defended by such figures as Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, and Herbert Hoover, and were indeed essential to the expansion of U.S. capitalism. In the process, he rediscovers the critical element in conservative thought—the “forgotten traditions of railroad economics”—that has been lost in the neoliberal present. This important and original historical reconstruction points the way to a discipline of economics freed from the mythology of the market.

Author : Maj.-Gen. Carl R. Gray
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789122879

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Railroading in Eighteen Countries by Maj.-Gen. Carl R. Gray Pdf

This is the story of the Military Railway Service of the United States Army from its beginning in 1862 and including a brief account of the Service in World War I. It is specifically the story of the military use of railroads in World War II and in Korea. General Gray has focused his comprehensive account on the performance of the personnel of the Service, and on outstanding individuals wherever possible. Out of more than 351,000 men and women employees of American railroads serving in all arms in World War II, 43,500 were assigned to various units of the Military Railway Service. This impressive record of their achievements covers history, organization, training and operations in Alaska, England, North Africa, Sicily and Italy, Northern France and Belgium, Southern France, Germany and Austria, Iran, India, the Philippines, New Caledonia, Australia, Japan and Korea. A notable feature of this handsome volume is the wealth of fine photographs of operations in all areas, for the most part photographs not seen before.

Author : Gary Donaldson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442209572

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The Making of Modern America by Gary Donaldson Pdf

The second edition of Dr. Gary A. Donaldson's highly successful textbook The Making of Modern America, introduces students to the cultural, social and political paths the United States has traveled from the end of WWII to the present day. While deftly cataloguing the sweeping changes and major events in America from "Dewey Defeats Truman" through the election of our first black President, this newly updated edition never loses touch with that American history taking place at the level of the people. This edition details not just the United States' rich cultural history, but elegantly repositions it as integral to our understanding of any portion of this country's past. Donaldson provides a factual foundation for students and then pushes them to interpret those facts, framing the discussions essential to any complete study of American history. The Making of Modern America, Second Edition is updated to include: --An expanded chapter titled "America After the New Millenium" which more retrospectively and completely details the 21st century's first decade. --A new chapter titled "The Second Bush and Obama: From the War on Terrorism to the Audacity of Hope" updating readers on the calamitous end to President George W. Bush's second term, the Obama administration's first term challenges and the Great Recession. --Newly revised readings each profiling an historical event, speech or figure--Lee Harvey Oswald to Bill Gates to Condoleeza Rice-- at the conclusion of each chapter.

Author : Phillip Crawford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1718940386

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Railroaded by Phillip Crawford Pdf

In October 2005 19-year-old Brandon Woodruff was charged with murdering his parents in a rural northeast Texas town in the heart of the Bible belt. There was no direct evidence tying him to the gruesome crime -- no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, no bloody prints -- but investigators were convinced the teen boy was living a double life who killed when his two worlds supposedly collided. Brandon was a horse wrangler and attending Abilene Christian Univeristy, and he also was a porn actor and dancing at Dallas gay clubs. There was no double life; just a boy coming out. At trial in March 2009 the prosecution took a coming out story, and turned Brandon into The Talented Mr. Ripley. Eight of the jurors believed "that being homosexual or gay is morally wrong," and the jury convicted him after deliberating only five hours. Brandon Woodruff was railroaded with a homophobic narrative, and is serving a life sentence without parole.

Author : Lance Mindheim
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12
Category : Railroad stations in art
ISBN : 1726325407

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Model Railroading As Art by Lance Mindheim Pdf

Model railroading offers the exciting opportunity to be approached in the same way as any other branch of the art world. As such, the same principles can be applied to elevate your modeling efforts to new levels. Follow along as we delve into scene composition, color treatment theory, weathering, backdrops, layout room preparation, photography, and more!

Author : John H. Armstrong
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0890242275

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Track Planning for Realistic Operation by John H. Armstrong Pdf

Covers freight and passenger operations, route design, and contemporary railroading operations. The step-by-step design techniques and operation-oriented track plans also make it easy to create your own realistic model railroad.

Author : Brenda Cossman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479802746

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The New Sex Wars by Brenda Cossman Pdf

Revisits the sex wars of the 1970s and ’80s and examines their influence on how we think about sexual harm in the #MeToo era #MeToo’s stunning explosion on social media in October 2017 radically changed—and amplified—conversations about sexual violence as it revealed how widespread the issue is and toppled prominent celebrities and politicians. But, as the movement spread, a conflict emerged among feminist supporters and detractors about how punishment should be doled out and how justice should be served. The New Sex Wars reveals that these clashes are nothing new. Delving into the contentious debates from the ’70s and ‘80s, Brenda Cossman traces the striking echoes in the feminist divisions of this earlier period. In exploring the history of past conflicts—the resistance to finding common ground, the media’s pleasure in portraying the debates as polarized cat fights, the simplification of viewpoints as pro- and anti-sex—she shows how they have come to shape the #MeToo era. From the ’70s to today, Cossman examines tensions between the need for recognition and protection under the law, and the colossal and ongoing failure of that law to redress historic injustice. By circumventing law altogether, #MeToo has led us to question whether justice can be served outside of the courtroom. Cossman argues for a different way forward—one based on reparative models that focus on shared desired outcomes and the willingness to understand the other side. Thoughtful and compelling, The New Sex Wars explores what can been learned from these stories, what traps we repeatedly fall into, how we have been denied our anger, and where to begin to make law work.

Author : Jane Warren
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-29
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780719843358

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The Complete Guide to Making Lampshades by Jane Warren Pdf

This practical handbook teaches you all the methods needed to make your own lampshades in a wide range of styles — from the simple drum hard lampshade to the more complex hand-sewn traditional gathered and pleated designs. As well as clear demonstrations, it gives information on frames and fittings, how to work with different fabrics and papers, and showcases how using your own designs offers a truly bespoke approach. Here you will learn everything you need to make wonderful lampshades to feature in your home, or to offer professionally.

Author : Kent J. Johnson
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0890243697

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Garden Railroading by Kent J. Johnson Pdf

This comprehensive collection of informative articles from Garden Railways magazine addresses the main topics of the hobby such as site considerations, developing a plan, landscaping, trackwork, power, and gardening.