Railroads

Viewing Norfolk Southern Railway (Keates Beth Anne)

Viewing Norfolk Southern Railway covers the history of this railroad, beginning with the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company, which in 1830 operated the first regularly scheduled passenger train in the United States. Among the many railroads that became part of Norfolk Southern was the Pennsylv...

DIN 1575:1937-07 1.7.1937

Neplatná norma DIN 1575:1937-07 Tyres for narrow-gauge railroads - Fabrication dimensions.

Logging Railroads of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties (Tahja Katy M.)

Locomotive steam whistles echo no more in the forests of the north California coast. A century ago, Humboldt and Mendocino Counties had more than 40 railroads bringing logs out of the forest to mills at the waters edge. Only one single railroad ever connected to the outside world, and it too is gone...

DIN 57831:1980-02 1.2.1980

Neplatná norma DIN 57831:1980-02 VDE 0831. Electric signal systems for railroads.

Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World (Wolmar Christian)

The opening of the worlds first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, tracks were being laid as far afield as Australia and Cuba, and by the outbreak of World War I, the United States alone boasted over a quarter of a million miles. With...

Illinois Railroads (Danneman Mike)

Stunning original photographs of this great states railways, from Chicago to Chester, and from the tunnel at East Dubuque to the high bridge at Metropolis. The Midwestern state of Illinois, known as the Prairie State, is not known for its varied topography, but this mostly flat land was indeed ver...

Pend Oreille County (McClenny Faith Sheila)

Pend Oreille County is located in the beautiful, mountainous northeast corner of Washington State. It is approximately 67 miles long and 22 miles wide, with the Pend Oreille River flowing north through a trench valley and bounded on each side by the Selkirk Mountains. In 1911, it was the last county...

Wrecker (Cussler Clive)

Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroads new express line. The railroad hires the Van Dorn Detective Agency, who send their best man, Isaac Bell. He discovers that a saboteur calling himself the Wrecker is attacking the Southern Pacific with accomplices recruited f...

Your Guide to Modelling American Railroads ()

Texas Lithographs: A Century of History in Images (Tyler Ron)

Westward expansion in the United States was deeply intertwined with the technological revolutions of the nineteenth century, from telegraphy to railroads. Among the most important of these, if often forgotten, was the lithograph. Before photography became a dominant medium, lithography--and later, c...