Author | : Burke Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807868607 |
Southern Railway: Roads of the Innovators
Author | : Burke Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807868607 |
Southern Railway: Roads of the Innovators
Author | : Tom Murray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Southern Railway |
ISBN | : 9781610605090 |
Author | : Richard C. Borkowski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781616739553 |
With a quarter of a century behind it, Norfolk Southern is one of the oldest Class 1 railroads operating in North America. This illustrated history tells how Norfolk Southern came to be what it is today, from the merger of two of American railroadings most legendary roads-- Southern Railway and Norfolk and Western--through its rise to the heights of the worlds leading transportation companies. After a concise history of the roads that became Norfolk Southern, author Richard Borkowski explores the railroads corporate history and operating structure and details the specific operations that go into the lines customer-oriented approach, including its vast intermodal network. Along with each of Norfolk Southerns 11 operating divisions, this book offers a close look at NS motive power, a wealth of color photographs, and a specially commissioned system map.
Author | : Sallie Loy |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2004-04-13 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1439629536 |
Go inside the transition from steam to diesel, the pinnacle of rail travel and the development of the South through much of the 20th century. The Southern Railway was the pinnacle of rail service in the South for nearly 100 years. Its roots stretch back to 1827, when the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company was founded in Charleston to provide freight transportation and America's first regularly scheduled passenger service. Through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Great Depression, rail lines throughout the South continued to merge, connecting Washington, D.C. to Atlanta and Charleston to Memphis. The Southern Railway was born in 1893 at the height of these mergers. It came to an end in 1982, merging with Norfolk and Western Railway to become Norfolk Southern Railway. The history of the railway lives on, however, and Norfolk Southern continues to "serve the South." In 2003, the Southern Railway Historical Association selected the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History as the repository for its extensive archives. Included in this collection are hundreds of professional quality, black-and-white photographs taken by company photographers throughout the railway's history. While a few of these images have been seen by the public, the vast majority have not.
Author | : Peter Steer |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword Transport |
Total Pages | : 703 |
Release | : 2022-05-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1526778424 |
The Southern Railway between 1923 and 1939 was the only British company to carry out a sustained programme of electrification which became known as the Southern Electric. Unlike many recent projects, each incremental step was completed on time and within budget. This successful project was more impressive as it was achieved during a period of economic stagnation (including the ‘great depression’) and despite government disapproval of the method of electrification. The driving force behind this endeavor was the railway’s general manager, Sir Herbert Walker, but at his side was his electrical engineer, Alfred Raworth, the man one journalist described as an ‘electrification genius’. Alfred Raworth’s career began working with his father the eminent consulting engineer and entrepreneur, John Smith Raworth. Following the collapse of his father’s business Alfred joined the railway industry and devised an ambitious and innovative electrification design. This was discarded when the railways of southern England were ‘grouped’ into the Southern Railway after which he took responsibility for the implementation of the electrification schemes. With Walker’s retirement in 1937, those who continued to support steam traction took the policy lead. A marginalised Raworth retired but was later to witness the fruition of many of his discarded ideas.
Author | : Thad Hillis Carter |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738560014 |
Historical b&w photographs featuring Kansas City Southern Railway trains and train stations, a Kansas City-based railroad operating over 3,130 track miles in 10 central and southeastern states. Founded in 1887, the railroad provides the shortest route from Kansas City to the Gulf of Mexico.
Author | : Scott Reynolds Nelson |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2005-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807876100 |
During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War. In the process of linking Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia by rail, this alliance created one of the largest corporations in the world, engendered bitter political struggles, and transformed the South in lasting ways, says Scott Nelson. Iron Confederacies uses the history of southern railways to explore linkages among the themes of states' rights, racial violence, labor strife, and big business in the nineteenth-century South. By 1868, Ku Klux Klan leaders had begun mobilizing white resentment against rapid economic change by asserting that railroad consolidation led to political corruption and black economic success. As Nelson notes, some of the Klan's most violent activity was concentrated along the Richmond-Atlanta rail corridor. But conflicts over railroads were eventually resolved, he argues, in agreements between northern railroad barons and Klan leaders that allowed white terrorism against black voters while surrendering states' control over the southern economy.
Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2023-04-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368165658 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Author | : Fred D. Cheney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781878887146 |