The Louisiana & Arkansas Railway, known as "The Better Way," ran its first trains at the turn of the century and expanded over the years to connect New Orleans to Dallas. Well-maintained and enduringly profitable, this regional railroad succeeded because of the tenacity of three men who consecutively oversaw all aspects of operations. The story of the L&A is largely a collective biography of William Edenborn, William Buchanan, and Harvey Couch—the men who built and extended the line by shrewd a...
Hatfield, Luton and Dunstable Railway (Oakwood Library of Railway History, #44) (Library of Railway History)
by Geoff Woodward and Julian Woodward
Southern Pacific Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment
by Anthony W Thompson
National Rail Network Planning Diary April 2017 - April 2018
by Nick Andrews
British Railways Steaming Through the Sixties
by P.B. Hands and Colin Richards
An illustrated account of the development of electric transport in the capital of the Tirol (Austria) to the present day, including the rural Stubaitalbahn (to Fulpmes and Igls). Although the book is primarily devoted to tranways, special chapters cover steam operations on the two country lines, which ended in 1936 when these were electrified and integrated into the town system, and also trolleybuses, which came and went and came again in 1988.
Carolina and North-Western Ry. Home Enterprise Developed by Home Talent and Home Money
Eckhart Mines, The National Road, & the Eckhart Railroad
by Patrick Stakem
Der Plan Freycinet Und Die Provinzen (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, #318)
by Robert Beck
Welche Konsequenzen konnte der Bau einer Eisenbahnlinie des Plans Freycinet auf seine Zielgruppe, die landliche franzosische Gesellschaft des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts besitzen? Unter diesem Aspekt wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit eines der neben Schul- und Kolonialpolitik wichtigsten Unternehmen der fruhen Dritten Republik, das zur Modernisierung und Republikanisierung des Landes beitragen sollte, untersucht. Die Auswirkungen der infrastrukturellen Erschliessung werden in ihren politischen, d...
British Railways Past and Present (British Railways Past & Present S.) (British Railways Past & Present)
by Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse
British Railways Past and Present is a natio nwide series of books featuring photos of railway locations taken several decades ago and comparing them with the same s cene today. This volume covers Avon, Cotswolds and the Malve rns. '
The Oxford Companion to British Railway History
Of all the products of the Industrial Revolution, none left its mark on the landscape of Britain, or changed the lives of the British people, more than the railway. The encyclopedic Oxford Companion to British Railway History reveals, for the first time, the full story of this remarkable achievement: the inspired pioneers, the unprecedented feats of engineering, the romance, and the reality. From the primitive wagonways of the seventeenth century, through the eras of horse, steam, diesel, and el...
A Practical Treatise on Street or Horsepower Railways, Their Location, Construction and Management [electronic Resource] with General Plans and Rules for Their Organization and Operation; Together with Examinations as to Their Comparative Advantages
by Alexander Easton
From Steam to Diesel (Princeton Studies in Business and Technology)
by Albert Churella