Clinchfield Country
Author | : Steve King |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 1988 |
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ISBN | : 9781879314016 |
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Author | : Steve King |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 1988 |
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ISBN | : 9781879314016 |
Author | : James A. Goforth |
Publisher | : The Overmountain Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2004-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781570722912 |
Following one of the most scenic routes in the country, the Clinchfield Railroad penetrates the most rugged mountain barriers in the eastern United States. Much has been written about the Clinchfield, but this volume by a retired chief engineer of the railroad fills a unique niche. He places a special emphasis on what was built, when it was built, and who did the building, including a brief biography of George L. Carter, the driving force that put it all together. Filled with photographs, maps, schedules. copies of letters, diagrams and other documents, this is a valuable source of information for researchers and rail enthusiasts.
Author | : Cary Franklin Poole |
Publisher | : The Overmountain Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780932807878 |
In this work, the most comprehensive of its kind, the author examines in engaging narrative and wonderful photography the development of the area’s complete railroading industry—Class 1 railroads, short lines, industrial and mining roads, and logging lines. Added to the textual histories are more than three hundred photographs and illustrations, including timetables and maps for most of the lines discussed.
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Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1916 |
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Total Pages | : 846 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Industrial location |
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Author | : James A. Goforth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780932807359 |
Following one of the most scenic routes in the country, the Clinchfield Railroad penetrates the most rugged mountain barriers in the eastern United States. Much has been written about the Clinchfield, but this volume by a retired chief engineer of the railroad fills a unique niche. He places a special emphasis on what was built, when it was built, and who did the building, including a brief biography of George L. Carter, the driving force that put it all together. Filled with photographs, maps, schedules. copies of letters, diagrams and other documents, this is a valuable source of information for researchers and rail enthusiasts.
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Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Total Pages | : 2420 |
Release | : 1923-10 |
Genre | : Industries |
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Author | : Mike Schafer |
Publisher | : Motorbooks International |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2003-09 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 076031649X |
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 extends to the present day where applicable, providing a colorful look at locomotives, passenger and freight operations, development, and, in some cases, demise. Full color.
Author | : Brian Solomon |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2009-07-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1616731370 |
From the first, U.S. railroads have carried coal from mines to docks, steel mills, and power plants across the country. In this authoritative book spanning the whole of that history, from the mid-nineteenth century to present, noted rail author Brian Solomon explores the railroads and hardware that have transported the fossil fuels that made America work. Brilliant period and contemporary photographs convey the drama of the enterprise: the very long—and very heavy—trains powering up mountain grades and thundering across barren prairies. At sites from the eastern and western U.S., past and present, readers see giant double-headed Norfolk and Western steam locomotives moving Appalachian coal in Virginia; modern CSX diesels dragging unit coal trains over the well-groomed former Chesapeake & Ohio main line; BNSF’s SD70MACs with more than 100 hoppers in tow; Rio Grande locomotives snaking through the Rocky Mountains; and coal trains working full-throttle up Colorado’s Tennessee Pass, cresting the Continental Divide at 10,000 feet above sea level. Taking up topics ranging from the colorful but now-defunct “anthracite roads” of eastern Pennsylvania to today’s AC-traction diesels that work Wyoming’s thriving Powder River Basin, Solomon reveals how for 150 years the unique demands of coal—and America’s demand for coal—have prompted new railroad technologies.