Railroads And Steamships

Author : Suzanne Murdico
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823942787
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railroads and Steamships written by Suzanne Murdico and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of transportation in the United States, discussing the need for railroads and steamships and how they impacted the nation.

Author : John Disturnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railway and Steamship Guide written by John Disturnell and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dana William Ashdown
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railway Steamships of Ontario written by Dana William Ashdown and published by Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the railway and shipping interests of the Great Lakes' basin were regularly at odds with one another. Accusations of rate cutting and unfair trade practices were constantly being hurled back and forth, and at times they seemed to have little in common; but this was not always the case. Through joint traffic agreements railway and shipping lines found that they could aid and complement one another, each furthering the others' trade. This book examines how Ontario's railways faced the steamship question and in particular, why they saw a need to acquire their own vessels. By tracing almost 200 individual ships and dozens of corporate entities, the history of these waterborne railway enterprises is revealed. Not overlooked are the railway harbours and the facilities that made the crucial link between train and ship.

Author : William Leonhard Taylor
Publisher : Providence : Brown University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Productive Monopoly written by William Leonhard Taylor and published by Providence : Brown University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references (p.[239]-241)

Author : Sarah Searight
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steaming East written by Sarah Searight and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1991 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the 19th century, it took months to get from England to India, clear at the other end of the Empire. Better communications were imperative. This is the story of how it was done - laboriously, stubbornly, sometimes misguidedly - by several generations of entrepeneurs, engineers, inventors and military men, first with steamships and then by railway. It is a story full of colourful anecdotes and even more colourful characters, from Captain Charles Chesney (who tried - and failed - to establish a steamship route on the Euphrates River to the founder of the Orient Express (who rejoiced in the name of Georges Nagelmackers) to Major James Buster Browne, builder of a rail line across a Northwest Indian desert so inhospitable that 32 soldiers died there of heat stroke when their train broke down. The account spans roughly a century, from the first tentative use of steam engines in ships to the decline of the great age of railways following World War I.

Author : Gregg M. Turner
Publisher : Garrigues House
ISBN 13 : 9781931014038
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plant System of Railroads, Steamships and Hotels written by Gregg M. Turner and published by Garrigues House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fessenden Nott Otis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isthmus of Panama written by Fessenden Nott Otis and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Panama Railroad with a guide for travelers and businessmen about Central and South America containing timetables, shipping rates, commercial activity, and information about international connections.

Author : Kathleen Tracy
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612283624
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railroad Grows Into an Industry (1840-1850) written by Kathleen Tracy and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the 1820s, the main form of commercial transportation in America was steamboats, which were able to move large quantities of freight and passengers. When the first railroads were built, they were initially seen as a novelty. But a handful of visionaries believed that railroads could transform the way business was conducted and create new opportunities for both established companies and independent entrepreneurs. In the 1840s and the 1850s, the railroad industry would experience tremendous growth and become the primary means of moving goods throughout the United States. Expansion of the rail system stimulated the economy, promoted manufacturing, and turned railroads into one of the most valuable industries in the world, making their owners millionaires and industrial–age power brokers in the process. Railroads also helped make America one of the most dominant economic powers in the world.

Author : George Hutchinson Smyth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Henry Bradley Plant written by George Hutchinson Smyth and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David R.P. Guay
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459735579
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passenger and Merchant Ships of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways written by David R.P. Guay and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-07-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold history of the maritime branches of two giants of early-twentieth-century Canadian railroads. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and the Canadian Northern Railway, two giants of Canadian rail transportation, each operated maritime shipping ventures during the early twentieth century. Numerous vessels, including sidewheel, paddlewheel, and propeller steamers, tugboats, and barges, helped to build and serve these railways. Passenger and merchant ships sailed the West Coast, the Great Lakes, and St. Lawrence River, and served Canadian and European ports, in a time when groundings, shipwrecks, and sinkings often claimed lives. These same steamship lines played an important role in World War I, when Canadian vessels ferried men and war supplies. Many troopships and freighters were torpedoed, and Canadian Northern’s entire transatlantic fleet was virtually obliterated. Illustrated with contemporary photographs and drawings, this book pays tribute to the maritime enterprises of two trailblazing Canadian railway greats.