White Rail
Author: William Lutz Ii
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 0557687861
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Lutz Ii
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 0557687861
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gary Krist
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2008-01-22
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1429905700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The never-before-told story of one of the worst rail disasters in U.S. history in which two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, are hit by a devastating avalanche In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records. The world stopped—but nowhere was the danger more terrifying than near a tiny town called Wellington, perched high in the Cascade Mountains, where a desperate situation evolved minute by minute: two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found themselves marooned without escape, their railcars gradually being buried in the rising drifts. For days, an army of the Great Northern Railroad's most dedicated men—led by the line's legendarily courageous superintendent, James O'Neill—worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains. But the storm was unrelenting, and to the passenger's great anxiety, the railcars—their only shelter—were parked precariously on the edge of a steep ravine. As the days passed, food and coal supplies dwindled. Panic and rage set in as snow accumulated deeper and deeper on the cliffs overhanging the trains. Finally, just when escape seemed possible, the unthinkable occurred: the earth shifted and a colossal avalanche tumbled from the high pinnacles, sweeping the trains and their sleeping passengers over the steep slope and down the mountainside. Centered on the astonishing spectacle of our nation's deadliest avalanche, Gary Krist's The White Cascade is the masterfully told story of a supremely dramatic and never-before-documented American tragedy. An adventure saga filled with colorful and engaging history, this is epic narrative storytelling at its finest.
Author: Tom Zoellner
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-01-30
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 0698151399
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner—coauthor of the New York Times–bestselling An Ordinary Man—travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world—and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A masterful narrative history, Train also explores the sleek elegance of railroads and their hypnotizing rhythms, and explains how locomotives became living symbols of sex, death, power, and romance.
Author: North Carolina Railroad Company
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John R. Wilson
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 638
ISBN-13: 9780754671848
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Following on from 2005's Rail Human Factors: Supporting the Integrated Railway, this book brings together an even broader range of academics and practitioners from around the world to share their expertise and experience on rail human factors.People an
Author: S.L. Grassie
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2012-12-02
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0444599770
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These proceedings demonstrate the increasing interest and importance of contact mechanics and wear to the railway industry. The 27 contributions succeed in sustaining a balance between mechanics and metallurgy, theory and practice, and will be of considerable interest to those engaged in research, as well as practising engineers.