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Language: en
Pages: 523
Pages: 523
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-17 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Overregulated and displaced by barges, trucks, and jet aviation, railroads fell into decline. Their misfortune was measured in lost market share, abandoned trac
Language: en
Pages: 536
Pages: 536
Type: BOOK - Published: 1947 - Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers
The birth and development of our national railroad system, the men who built it in spite of weather, politicians, desert, and rivals; the ingenuity and inventiv
Language: en
Pages: 328
Pages: 328
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-17 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
“[A] wealth of vignettes and more than 100 black-and-white illustrations . . . Does a fine job of humanizing the iron horse” (The Wall Street Journal). In t
Language: en
Pages: 172
Pages: 172
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-09 - Publisher: Motorbooks International
This book picks up where the previous two Classic American titles left off, focusing on the golden age of American railroading from 1945 to the early 1970s. It
Language: en
Pages: 383
Pages: 383
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05-21 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
An award-winning account of a crisis in railroad history: “This absorbing book takes you on an entertaining ride.” —Chicago Tribune A saga about one of th