The Pennsy in the 1950s
Author: Christopher T. Baer
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780966319156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christopher T. Baer
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780966319156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Don Ball
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0393023575
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the history of the railroad during the height of its success, looks at its locomotive and rolling stock, and shares employee anecdotes.
Author: Rick Sheffer
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2020-01-18
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781660702374
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gary Ashbaugh - I just finished reading your book. Boy, did that ever turn the clock back. I think that described life in those small towns to a tee. Congratulations on getting it published. TOWN and TIME ... My cycle of life began January 12, 1945, seven months before the end of WWII, in Emlenton, Pennsylvania, a borough of some 800 souls, where generations of my father's family had lived and died. Emlenton, which lies partially isolated in the hills of northwestern Pennsylvania, offered few outside distractions, so we relied heavily on our imaginations and the natural resources that surrounded us. The swimming holes along Richey Run Creek, the Indian cave below the town cemetery, and long hikes along the railroad tracks that followed alongside the majestic Allegheny River offered plenty of adventure and diversion. Our lives revolved around paper routes, baseball, pin ball machines, hotdogs, French fries, 5&10 stores, dances, and dating. The freezing cold winters involved basketball, deer hunting and fur trapping. A youthful fertile mind, interested in science, led to rocketry, homemade motors, crystal radios, moonshine, and motor scooters that provided a lifetime of memories. The stories shared are sometimes funny, poignant, and often laced with mischief. Emlenton seemed to be magical, and those times now seem idyllic. This is where I grew up, and this book is about the time, the place, the people, and the events that formed my coming of age in the 1950s.
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Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 0890247188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Re-create the fantastic '50s in your model railroad setup! This book, compiled from articles published in Modern Railroader magazine, provides historical information and photos covering steam and diesel locomotives, passenger equipment, freight cars, and trackside details.
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Publisher:
Published: 2017-06-12
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781910401125
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes previously unpublished photographs of Pittsburgh by acclaimed photographer Elliot Erwitt taken between 1949 and 1950. These photographs, capturing the humanity and spirit of the architecture and people of the city of Pittsburgh, were thought lost until the negatives were recently located in the Pittsburgh Photographic Library.
Author: Alvin Staufer
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media
Published: 2019-09-17
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781635610185
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rail and train enthusiasts will treasure this indispensable guide to the Pennsylvania Railroad's late, great steam locomotives from the first half of the last century. From 1900-1957, a brilliant and dedicated engineering team brought the most powerfully efficient locomotives in the nation, and made "The Standard Railway of the World."
Author: Joe Welsh
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Company
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780890242933
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most in-depth treatment of the Pennsy story you can find! Covers every detail a railfan could want, from passenger car rosters to interviews with former Pennsy employees. Includes rare color photos of passenger fleet exteriors.
Author: Albert J. Churella
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2012-10-29
Total Pages: 970
ISBN-13: 0812207629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.
Author: Dave Frary
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Company
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780890242766
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shows how to construct on 11 x 16-foot HO scale replica of the famous Pennsylvania Railroad Middle Division. Includes easy-to-follow plans for benchwork, wiring, and track.
Author: Charles H. Bogart
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2018-07-24
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1387972006
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kentucky claims to be the birthplace of railroading west of the Appalachian Mountains. In 1832, the Lexington & Ohio Railroad (L&O) began to build track from Lexington to Louisville. Unfortunately the L&O got no further than Frankfort on the Kentucky River when it ran out of money. Railroad construction in Kentucky would stagnate until the 1850s when four companies started to build track, three were north-south and one east-west. An amalgamation of railroads using the name Kentucky Central would push south from Covington opposite Cincinnati OH, toward Chattanooga TN, but stalled at Nicholasville due to the Civil War. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N) would build southward from Louisville for Nashville TN, and Memphis TN, reaching both cities as the Civil War started. The Mobile & Ohio Railroad (M&O) during the same period completed a railroad from Mobile AL, to Columbus KY, on the Mississippi River. The east-west track reached from Louisville eastward to a junction at Frankfort KY.