Name: Big Bend Railroads (en Inglés)
SKU: 56565744
Price: 39.71 USD
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Author: Bolyard, Dan
ISBN: 9781531677091

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Dan Bolyard

Editorial

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

130

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

24.4x17x1 cm

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9781531677091

Categorías

Ee. uu. noroeste del pacífico
Fotografía y fotógrafos
Historia de américa
Trenes y ferrocarriles: interés general
Historia local

Big Bend Railroads (en Inglés)

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The Big Bend area had its start with a land grant given by President Lincoln to the Northern Pacific Railway. As such, the railway company heavily promoted the area to encourage settlement and populate the station sites along the way. Towns began to develop in the late 1880s; prior to that time, the few settlers had a difficult time getting around. Despite snow, floods, fires, wrecks, human error, sabotage, and government regulation, the railroads continued and were able to serve the communities and help them survive. The earliest lines were built largely by man and beast with few large machines. The last transcontinental line in the Big Bend, the Milwaukee Road, featured groundbreaking technology in the form of electrically operated locomotives. The building of Grand Coulee Dam brought more railroad lines, with tracks that featured grades and locomotives normally seen on logging railroads, to bring in construction materials to the largest concrete structure in the world at the time.