History of Railroads
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Williams

Chapter Nine Goodbye to the toy train Who could forget the delightful little Lynton & Barnstaple narrow-gauge railway which once traversed Exmoor through the Switzerland of England? Certainly not the ...
( Category: History January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-07 | Author:Michelle Arnosky Sherburne

The Morrises were selfless people, always willing to help someone in need. George S. Morris, Sylvester’s son, shared with college friend John L. Brewster about his father’s Norwich Underground Railroad ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism July 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Walter R. Borneman [Borneman, Walter R.]

Of the major towns along the Atlantic and Pacific route through Arizona, all except Flagstaff and Williams were named for men somehow associated with the railroad. Edward Winslow was president ...
( Category: United States May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-10-15 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose [Ambrose, Stephen E.]

Chapter Eleven THE CENTRAL PACIFIC PENETRATES THE SUMMIT 1867 IN 1867, the UP was coming on, a mile a day, two miles a day, sometimes three miles in a day, ...
( Category: History of Railroads May 29,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

Building the Tower subway, 1860s (illustration credit Ill.24) The younger Brunel took over the work only to discover that the tunnel was coming close to the bed of the Thames. ...
( Category: England March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:Russell S. Bonds

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Heaven or Cincinnati Atlanta Boys, tell them at home, if any of you escape, that I died for my country and did not regret it. —Sergeant Major Marion ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
epub |eng, eng | 2007-03-24 | Author:Jill Jonnes

EIGHTEEN “DISTURBED ABOUT NORTH RIVER TUNNELS” On Monday April 2, 1906, an anguished Samuel Rea sat at a wooden desk in his spacious Bryn Mawr home and considered how best ...
( Category: History of Railroads March 25,2014 )