The Big Legacy Of The Union Pacific Big Boy

Author : James J. Reisdorff
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ISBN 13 : 9780942035735
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Legacy of the Union Pacific Big Boy written by James J. Reisdorff and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Union Pacific Railroad "Big Boys" are often credited as having been the largest steam locomotives in the world. Although these 25 steam giants last operated in 1959, their contribution to transportation history has not been forgotten. There are now eight Big Boys preserved at various museums and parks across the United States. This book, with text and more than 70 illustrations, describes the post-steam era story of Big Boy. It looks at not only what has become of the eight surviving locomotives, but also how human interest in these huge machines manifests itself in both the railroad hobby and popular culture. It also examines the question that has often been asked by railroad buffs everywhere: Will a Big Boy ever return to the rails?

Author : Brian Solomon
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ISBN 13 : 9781610605595
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Union Pacific Railroad written by Brian Solomon and published by . This book was released on with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and description of the Union Pacific Railroad.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NRHS Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Starley Talbott
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439673845
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History Lover's Guide to Cheyenne written by Starley Talbott and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating at their encampment near Crow Creek on July 4, 1867, railroad surveyors named the settlement after the local Cheyenne tribe. By the time the Union Pacific Railroad arrived in November, the town had grown from a tent city to a "Hell on Wheels" town of ten thousand souls. Cattle barons brought herds to graze the open range, while they reposed in mansions on Millionaires Row. By 1890, the gleaming dome of the new capitol building was visible all the way down Capitol Avenue to the majestic Union Pacific Railroad Depot. Authors Starley Talbott and Michael Kassel explore a rich past, including the origins of the F.E. Warren Air Force Base, the foundation of the world's largest outdoor rodeo and the unheralded history of early aviation that eclipsed Denver.

Author : Thomas Gerbracht
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ISBN 13 : 9780578712925
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Know Thy Late Mohawks written by Thomas Gerbracht and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 320 page hard cover book,, printed on archival stock, and containing a technical narrative, profusely illustrated with photographs including a 32 page color section, and engineering drawings of the last series of Mohawk type steam locomotives owned and operated by the New York Central railroad. The book describes and illustrates the original Late Mohawk design of 1940, and documents the evolution of the design and the introduction of the last Mohawks, the L-4B class, in 1942. The design is compared with other steam locomotive designs used in the railroad's service area, and documents the final Mohawk operation in early 1957.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lexington Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Timothy Egan
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547416865
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Burn written by Timothy Egan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men to fight the fires, but no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan recreates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force, and the larger story of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot, that follows is equally resonant. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by every citizen. Even as TR's national forests were smoldering they were saved: The heroism shown by his rangers turned public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service in ways we can still witness today. This e-book includes a sample chapter of SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER.

Author : Thomas R. Gerbracht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692081877
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Know Thy Niagaras written by Thomas R. Gerbracht and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete story of the New York Central railroad's famous Niagara type steam locomotives

Author : William W. Warner
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140069679
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant Water written by William W. Warner and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1984 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account tells of the last days of the factory trawlers that fished for cod and herring in the North Atlantic.

Author : Ron Ziel
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twilight of Steam Locomotives written by Ron Ziel and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story and illustrations of the demise of the steam locomotive.