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Author : Karl Zimmermann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Picture books for children
ISBN : 1590788591
Provides a history of the Stourbridge Lion, the first commercial locomotive in America, which made its historic run in 1829, marking the birth of the American railroad.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Wayne County (Pa.)
ISBN : PSU:000011126331
Author : Vernon Leslie
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503106853
This book relates the stories of two antique locomotives, both named the Stourbridge Lion. Part I tells of the Stourbridge Lion made in Stourbridge, England, in 1828 and brought to Honesdale, Pennsylvania, where it was the first steam locomotive to run on a commercial track in 1829. Part II relates commemorative celebrations of the 1829 event and tells of the building of an almost exact replica of the first Lion in America in 1933 and its career afterwards. The present volume has been enlarged and made available as a second printing by Karlyn Leslie Shedlowski, daughter of the author. Dr. Vernon Leslie was the County Historian of Wayne County during 1994. Part I was first published in 1979 by the Stourbridge Lion Sesquicentennial Corporation of Honesdale.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Honesdale (Pa.)
ISBN : NYPL:33433087270124
Author : William Henry Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105046906504
Author : Richard Reinhardt
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0806135255
“The mighty railroad occupied the undisputed center of American public life. The railroad founded cities, populated states, created governments, destroyed the wilderness. It was the great speculator, the political tyrant, the recruiter of immigrants, the opener of new lands, the cynosure of poets and pioneers, the symbol of adventure, opportunity, escape, and power. . . . Yet, the railroad man, for all his historic importance, his archetypal stature, and his economic power, has achieved only a minor position in American literature.”--from Workin’ on the Railroad In Workin’ on the Railroad, Richard Reinhardt presents firsthand accounts from engineers, brakemen, porters, conductors, section men, roundhouse workers, switchmen, telegraphers, surveyors, and other neglected pioneers who worked the railroad during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Age of Steam.
Author : John H. White
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0486238180
Important and beautifully illustrated volume chronicles the explosive growth of the American locomotive from British imports to grand ten-wheelers of the 1870s. Over 240 vintage photographs, drawings, and diagrams tell the exciting tale. Introduction. Appendices. Index.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Cooking, American
ISBN : NYPL:33433045133471
Author : Karen Gibson
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612283616
When the railroad first came to America, mine owners used it to haul coal and rocks to towns and to canals and rivers for transportation. Train cars were moved by horses, gravity, and even the wind. Then the steam locomotive came to town, announcing its presences with a loud chuffing and smoke winding from the chimney. Life in the newly independent country of America was changed forever. Inventors and businessmen saw infinite possibilities. America adopted the train and rails from Great Britain and made them an American way of life. New railroads and new trains competed with each other to be the best. Soon they would cross the vast nation, and it all started when the railroad came to America.
Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780253011879
Among the grand antebellum plans to build railroads to interconnect the vast American republic, perhaps none was more ambitious than the Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston. The route was intended to link the cotton-producing South and the grain and livestock growers of the Old Northwest with traders and markets in the East, creating economic opportunities along its 700-mile length. But then came the Panic of 1837, and the project came to a halt. H. Roger Grant tells the incredible story of this singular example of "railroad fever" and the remarkable visionaries whose hopes for connecting North and South would require more than half a century—and one Civil War—to reach fruition.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:42533113
Author : Robert Kuhn McGregor
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476665917
The re-established forests of the Upper Delaware exist as a living reminder of centuries of both exploitation and good intentions. Emerging after the last glaciation, they were first modified by Native Americans to promote hunting and limited agriculture. The forests began to disappear as Europeans clear-cut farmland and fed sawmills and tanneries. The advent of the railroad accelerated demand and within 30 years industry had consumed virtually every mature tree in the valley, leaving barren hillsides subject to erosion and flooding. Even as unchecked cutting continued, conservation efforts began to save what little remained. A century and a half later, a forest for the 21st century has emerged--an ecological patchwork protected by a web of governmental agencies, yet still subject to danger from humans.
Author : Jim Boyd
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780760308332
Photohistory examines the use of trains as freight haulers over the course of one and a half centuries. Depicts and explains the evolution of boxcars, flatcars, hoppers, refrigerator cars, tanks cars, ore jennies, auto-rack transports and more.
Author : Jim Shaughnessy
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997-03-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0815604556
Here, in a pictorial history, Jim Shaughnessy turns an eloquent photographer's eye to the Delaware & Hudson, the line that began in 1823 as a canal system to transport Pennsylvania coal to New York State. The D&H extended from Montreal to the coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania. It was active for 170 years, when the route was sold in 1993 to the Canadian Pacific Railway Corporation. The line made early railroad fame by importing from England the famous Stourbridge Lion, the first steam locomotive in America. This occurred during a great expansion into gravity, an interesting phase which took advantage of the mountainous terrain. The nineteenth century saw a period of economic growth and amalgamation, which was shaped by extremely able and ambitiou company presidents. Eventually the D&H advertised itself as "the Bridge Line to New England and Canada." Mountainous terrain around the coal mines challenged the line with heavy grades, so it was natural for one of its presidents, L. F. Loree, to be fascinated with experimental traction power. The many Loree locomotives, leaders in progressive design, are pictured and described herein. Because a good railroad history is always an economic history of a region, this book will surely please historian, too. Delaware & Hudson is a definitive work, encompassing the mining of the region and detailing the steamboat operations on Lakes George and Champlain. Syracuse University Press is pleased to reissue this exemplary study of a railroad. Delaware & Hudson has—and will—continue to raise the standards for all future railroad books.
Author : Bruce LaFontaine,Coloring Books
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486423786
Forty-four Illustrations of historic railroad engines range from the groundbreaking steam-powered locomotives of the early 1800s to the modern Acela Express, America's first high-speed train. Models include Trevithick's Locomotive (1803-04); the English "Stourbridge Lion" (1829); the "Broadway Limited" (1914); "The Super Chief" (1946); the "Bullet" train (1964); and many others.
