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The American heritage history of railroads in America / by Oliver Jensen.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jensen, Oliver, 1914-2005.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads--United States--History.
- Railroads.
- United States.
- History.
- Genre:
- Endpapers (Binding)
- Physical Description:
- 320 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : American Heritage Pub. Co. : distribution by McGraw-Hill, [1975]
- Summary:
- Recounts the history of railroads in the United States through their heyday and the deterioration that followed World War II.
- Contents:
- A new breed of horse
- On to the western waters
- The first railroad war
- The race to promontory
- Building a new nation
- The age of bare knuckles
- The romantic image
- Down brakes!
- Boomers, hoggers, and brass-pounders
- Turrets, towers, and rain sheds
- Great days for the passenger element
- They went everywhere
- Days of the dinosaur
- The long haul
- Days of reckoning.
- Epilogue: Two railroads.
- Notes:
- Illustrated lining-papers.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: page [314]
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Dornsife/VSA.
- ISBN:
- 007032526X 0070325278
- OCLC:
- 1527578
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