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Author : William B. Sipes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : New Jersey
ISBN : OXFORD:N10619416
Book describing and referencing the published literature on the nutritional properties, the botanical characteristics and the ethnic uses of traditional food plants of Indigenous Canadian Peoples.
Author : Albert J. Churella
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812207620
"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.
Author : William D. Middleton
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 0890246173
Follow the PRR's remarkable effort to engineer a powerful, efficient, and clean means of moving people and products -- at a time when steam and diesel were the norm. Features vintage photographs of electrified equipment in action. Includes route maps and depictions of operations.
Author : William J. Watt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253337089
Photographs, advertising and promotional materials, and detailed maps resurrect its speedy passenger trains and heavy-tonnage freights, and show how it earned its slogan: "The Standard Railroad of the World.""--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Edwin P. Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Railroads
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033790101
Author : William Herman Rau
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780812236255
This volume reproduces almost 100 remarkably detailed and texturally rich photographs. Essays by noted historians John Stilgoe, Mary Panzer, and Kenneth Finkel place Rau and his work in the context of the history of American advertising and landscape photography.
Author : Michael Bezilla
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015023186359
The first comprehensive case study of railroad electrification in the United States, this pioneering book highlights a subject of current government and industry studies and a target of billions of dollars of Amtrak rehabilitation funds. Both energy conservation and environmental quality remain at stake together with transportation efficiency. Electric traction on the Pennsylvania Railroad was a technological success handicapped by an economic factor: the onetime relatively low cost of petroleum, which gave diesel locomotives and highway vehicles a temporary advantage. Today the growing cost advantage of electricity--generated with coal; atomic energy; water, wind, and solar power--prefigures a revival of electric railroad traction. Drawing upon previously untapped records of the PRR and its suppliers, notably General Electric, the author traces stages in cooperative risk management. First came challenges of limited scope which steam locomotives were unable to meet: the New York City tunnel extension of 1910 and the Philadelphia suburban modernization begun in 1913. Next came a decade of mainline electrification, 1928-38: first New York to Washington and then passenger and freight extensions to Harrisburg. These projects were preceded by large-scale research and experimentation, followed by constant improvement in equipment and operations. Electric traction is depicted as a program involving not only the railroad but also its consultants, equipment and energy suppliers, and (to a lesser degree) governmental bodies. Locomotive and power transmission design is described in detail--with copious illustrations--as are the creative achievements of managers, engineers, and workers. And the presentation will be clear to readers without specialized technical or business backgrounds.
Author : Robert S. McGonigal
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing Company
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000031531863
Explores the Pennsy main line from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and the three divisions that operated it. Photos and explanations trace the line's electric, steam, and diesel locomotives in all their glory.
Author : Don Ball
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780393023572
Traces the history of the railroad during the height of its success, looks at its locomotive and rolling stock, and shares employee anecdotes.
Author : Mike Schafer,Brian Solomon
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-18
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0760329303
From humble beginnings in the 1800s, the Pennsylvania Railroad grew to be one of the most powerful, influential railroads in American history--a railroad that Fortune Magazine called “a nation unto itself.” It owned its own shops, coal mines, hotels, communications system, and power plants, not to mention hundreds of depots (including the famous Penn Station in Manhattan), thousands of passenger cars, tens of thousands of freight cars, and a vast fleet of steam, electric, and diesel locomotives. The Pennsy’s 10,000 route-miles served thirteen of the most populous and most industrialized states in the United States. Pennsylvania Railroad examines the mighty railroad’s evolution from a disparate group of early horse car lines into a twentieth-century transportation giant. Color and black-and-white photographs and period ads illustrate the railroad’s many facets, including both its passenger and freight operations, as well its motive power through the decades. Though the Pennsy was merged out of existence in 1968, an epilogue details the PRR legacies that survive on today’s modern railroad scene.
Author : William Bender Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Railroads
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026500301
Author : Lorett Treese
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0811726223
Regional histories of the great railroads Rail stories of the people and events that shaped history Rails to Trails paths, tourist attractions, and more Divides the state into regions and explores the major railroads, recounts the lore, profiles the individuals involved, and identifies places one can go to experience the relics of rail culture.
Author : Eugene Weiser
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781300640783
The History of the American Railroads takes you from the beginning to the current history of the railroads and the people that forged America as we know it today. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was one of the first pioneers in the founding of the industrial age of America and was one of the longest running railroads in history until being absorbed by the CSX Railroad. The first in the series, many people have come together to help put this book into print.
Author : Edwin P. Alexander
Publisher : New York : C.N. Potter
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015049101473
Author : Dan Cupper,Grif Teller
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Calendar art
ISBN : 9780811729031
Each year, starting in 1925, the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) commissioned a striking oil painting of a PRR engine in a dramatic setting, which was featured on a large wall calendar that the company distributed by the hundreds of thousands to customers and the public. Grif Teller painted 27 of the 33 scenes. This book reproduces Teller's calendar art and his other paintings in full color and recounts his life and career.
