The American Railroad Network 1861 1890

This book PDF is perfect for those who love Business & Economics genre, written by George Rogers Taylor and published by University of Illinois Press which was released on 17 May 2024 with total hardcover pages 140. You could read this book directly on your devices with pdf, epub and kindle format, check detail and related The American Railroad Network 1861 1890 books below.

The American Railroad Network 1861 1890

Author	: George Rogers Taylor
File Size	: 50,9 Mb
Publisher	: University of Illinois Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 17 May 2024
ISBN	: 025207114X
Pages	: 140 pages

Get Book

The American Railroad Network 1861 1890 by George Rogers Taylor Book PDF Summary

Rapid population growth in the Great Plains and the American West after the Civil War was the result not only of railroad expansion but of a collaboration among competing railroads to adopt a uniform width for track. This title shows how the consolidation of smaller railroads and the growth of capitalism worked to unify the railroad industry.

The American Railroad Network 1861 1890 by George Rogers Taylor,Irene D. Neu

Get Book

Railroads in the Civil War by John E. Clark, Jr.

By the time of the Civil War, the railroads had advanced to allow the movement of large numbers of troops even though railways had not yet matured into a truly integrated transportation system. Gaps between lines, incompatible track gauges, and other vexing impediments remained in both the North and South.

Get Book

The Great Railroad Revolution by Christian Wolmar

America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the

Get Book

American Railroads by John F. Stover

Few scenes capture the American experience so eloquently as that of a lonely train chugging across the vastness of the Great Plains, or snaking through tortuous high mountain passes. Although this vision was eclipsed for a time by the rise of air travel and trucking, railroads have enjoyed a rebirth

Get Book

Linking Networks The Formation of Common Standards and Visions for Infrastructure Development by Hans-Liudger Dienel

Presenting recent research on the international integration of infrastructures in Europe, this book combines general and methodological chapters and examples from different a variety of sectors such as transport, electricity and communication networks. Particular focus is on the contrast between the 'Europe of nation states' of the nineteenth century (up

Get Book

The Globalization of American Infrastructure by Matthew Heins

This book gives an account of how the U.S. freight transportation system has been impacted and “globalized,” since the 1950s, by the presence of the shipping container. A globally standardized object, the container carries cargo moving in international trade, and it utilizes and fits within the existing transportation infrastructures

Get Book

States at War by Richard F Miller

Unlike most books about the Civil War, which address individual battles or the war at the national level, States at War: A Reference Guide for Michigan in the Civil War chronicles the actions of an individual state government and its citizenry coping with the War and its ramifications, from transformed

Get Book

The Louisville Cincinnati Charleston Rail Road by H. Roger Grant

Among the grand antebellum plans to build railroads to interconnect the vast American republic, perhaps none was more ambitious than the Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston. The route was intended to link the cotton-producing South and the grain and livestock growers of the Old Northwest with traders and markets in the East,

Get Book