Author | : Linda G. Niemann |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
ISBN 10 | : 9780253001542 |
ISBN 13 | : 0253001544 |
Language | : EN, FR, DE, ES & NL |
Language: en
Pages: 168
Pages: 168
Culled from the 20 years she spent traveling the American West as a freight brakeman and conductor, Linda Grant Niemann's Railroad Noir delves into the darker s
Language: en
Pages: 204
Pages: 204
Born in the Ukraine, photographer Jack Delano moved to the United States in 1923. After graduating from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1937, Delano worked
Language: en
Pages: 279
Pages: 279
The Indiana Rail Road Company is a story of extraordinary success among the scores of independent short line and regional railroads spawned in the wake of railr
Language: en
Pages: 185
Pages: 185
For over one hundred years, Navajos have gone to work in significant numbers on Southwestern railroads. As they took on the arduous work of laying and anchoring
Language: en
Pages: 201
Pages: 201
“Lively, well-written and informative . . . It will be of great interest to fans of railroads in the deep South and their motive power and operations.” —R
Language: en
Pages: 209
Pages: 209
Among the grand antebellum plans to build railroads to interconnect the vast American republic, perhaps none was more ambitious than the Louisville, Cincinnati
Language: en
Pages: 328
Pages: 328
“[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: 153
Pages: 153
What happened when the US government stopped investing in railroads and started investing in highways and air travel? By the late 1970s, six major eastern railr
Language: en
Pages: 190
Pages: 190
“A well-written social history of the shortest-lived major US transportation mode” from the railway historian and author of A Mighty Fine Road (Choice). One
Language: en
Pages: 160
Pages: 160
Entering an already crowded and established industry, the Niles Car & Manufacturing Company in Ohio began business with surprising success, producing well over