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Author |
: Michael A. Landis |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0692990488 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780692990483 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Show-Me Katy by : Michael A. Landis
A comprehensive, colorful look at the Missouri-Kansas-Texas "Katy" Railroad's route linking Parsons, Kansas with Sedalia, Missouri and St. Louis, Missouri. Also included are lines to El Dorado Springs; Moberly; Columbia; and Kansas City. With a special emphasis on the 1970s and 1980s, the book features more than 350 train photographs; detailed maps; and interviews with former employees. A town-by-town rundown highlights points of interest along the corridor, most of which became the Katy Trail State Park.
Author |
: Fred W. Frailey |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2020-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253045270 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253045274 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Last Train to Texas by : Fred W. Frailey
Midnight train rides, head-on freight collisions—there is never a dull moment when it comes to trains. Take a look at America's biggest railroads and meet the thunderous personalities who operate them. In Last Train to Texas, author Fred W. Frailey examines the workings behind the railroad industry and captures incredible true stories along the way. Discover how men like William "Pisser Bill" F. Thompson swerve from financial ruin, bad merger deals, and cutthroat competition, all while racking up enough notoriety to inspire a poem titled "Ode to a Jerk." Bold, savvy, and ready for a friendly brawl, the only thing louder and more thrilling than these men are the trains that they handle. Come along with Frailey as he travels the world, one railroad at a time. Whether it's riding the Canadian Pacific Railway through a blizzard, witnessing a container train burglary in the Abo Canyon, or commemorating a poem to Limerick Junction in Dublin, Ireland, Frailey's journeys are rife with excitement and the occasional mishap. Filled with humorous anecdotes and thoughtful insights into the railroading industry, Last Train to Texas is an adventure in every sense of the word.
Author |
: Cormac McCarthy |
Publisher |
: Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 114 |
Release |
: 2011-02-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780330535755 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0330535757 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sunset Limited by : Cormac McCarthy
Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian. 'The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page' – Financial Times A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment the two men, known as 'Black' and 'White', begin a conversatino that leads each back through his own history. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con in recovery for drug addiction, is the more hopeful of the men. He is, however, desperate to convince White of the power of faith – while White is desperate to deny it. Between them, they hope to discover the meaning of life itself. Praise for Cormac McCarthy: ‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren 'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series '[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain
Author |
: Steve Goen |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2021-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1735337811 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781735337814 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Passenger Trains of Texas - Burlington Route by : Steve Goen
A historical and pictorial look at the Burlington Route's fleet of passenger trains that once served Texas. Trains include the Wichita Falls to Waurika mixed; the West Texas Express; the Wichita Falls to Abilene doodlebug; the Spur Spur's mixed train; the Childress to Lubbock motorcar; the Childress to Pampa mixed; the B-RI's Red Head; the Pioneer Zephyr; the Sam Houston Zephyr; mail trains No. 7 & 8; and the Texas Zephyr between Dallas-Fort Worth and Denver.
Author |
: Richard K. Troxell |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1556228813 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781556228810 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Texas Trains by : Richard K. Troxell
Texas is rich in railroad history starting with the Republic of Texa and railroading in Texas continues to thrive today. It's buried somewhere in Texas, a one of a kind 10 K missing train.
Author |
: Steve Goen |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2020-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1735337803 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781735337807 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Passenger Trains of Texas - Rock Island by : Steve Goen
Features photos and history of the Rock Island Railroad's passenger trains that once served the State of Texas. Included are chapters on the Graham branch, the Amarillo-Canadian River line, the Short Line Flyer, Arizona Limited, Texas Rocket, Choctaw Rocket, Memphis-Californian, Oklahoma Rocket, the Fort Worth to El Reno RDC cars, the Choctaw Rockette, Twin Star Rocket, the Imperial, Cherokee and the Golden State. Each train and chapter are arranged in the order that each train was discontinued beginning in the 1930s and ending in February 1968 when the Golden State was finally dropped. The book is 148 pages in length, hardback, and contains scores of rare black & white and color photographs, dining car menus, vintage timetables, and rare newspaper articles. A must have for any fan of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad or Texas railroad history. This is the second volume in a series of Texas passenger train books by Steve Allen Goen.
Author |
: Mike Cox |
Publisher |
: Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2019-08-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439667774 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1439667772 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Train Crash at Crush, Texas by : Mike Cox
On September 15, 1896, Crush boasted the highest population in Texas. Built near Waco, the town provided the staging ground for a publicity stunt ramming two trains together at top speed. Showrunner and Katy Railroad official William Crush thought he had planned for every contingency. But when elephant-sized chunks of steam locomotive began raining down into the packed stands, the extravaganza quickly unraveled into one of the Lone Star State's most confounding tragedies. The soon-to-be famous Scott Joplin commemorated the debacle in "The Great Crush Collision March," and entrepreneurs like "Head-On Joe" Connolly of Iowa continued the tradition of the staged locomotive duel for decades. But the stupefying incident still slipped into the back pages of Texas lore. In the first-ever book on the subject, writer-historian Mike Cox finally tells the full story of the Crash at Crush.
Author |
: Mark Wegman |
Publisher |
: Voyageur Press |
Total Pages |
: 162 |
Release |
: 2008-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781616731441 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1616731443 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated by : Mark Wegman
The period from the 1890s to the mid-1950s is generally considered the “golden era� of passenger rail travel in America. It was a time of celebrated locomotives and luxurious passenger service, a time when rail technology saw its greatest advances and railroads became the nation’s favored mode of transportation. These glory years come alive in American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated, 1889–1971. For this volume, author and illustrator Mark Wegman has researched original railroad drawings and in some cases even paint chips to render more than 160 profiles, front and top views, and interior layouts depicting the steam, diesel, and electric locomotives, along with passenger cars, of three dozen of the nation’s most celebrated trains of the golden age. Accompanying the author’s drawings are histories of each train, period photographs, postcards, menus, luggage stickers, vintage print ads, and detailed captions. The book is a lavishly appointed journey back in time to the bygone heyday of passenger-train travel.
Author |
: Charles Shirley Potts |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 1909 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044081910069 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Railroad Transportation in Texas by : Charles Shirley Potts
Author |
: David M. Bernstein |
Publisher |
: Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0738579947 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780738579948 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas by : David M. Bernstein
The Southern Pacific Railroad and its predecessors served Texas from 1853 to 1996. Stretching from El Paso to the Louisiana border and from the Rio Grande Valley to the Red River, Southern Pacific opened up vast areas of the state to settlement by transporting people, building materials, and livestock. The railroad fueled Texas's economy by moving oil, timber, agricultural commodities, coal, automobiles, petrochemicals, cement, steel, consumer goods, and myriad other products. It hauled the marble that built the state capitol in Austin and the materials to build the massive seawall in Galveston. Southern Pacific also played an important role in developing the ports of Beaumont, Galveston, Houston, and Corpus Christi. This book is a photographic record of Southern Pacific in eastern Texas during the 50-year period following World War II to the 1996 merger with the Union Pacific Railroad.