Burlington Route
Author | : Richard Cleghorn Overton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard Cleghorn Overton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Patrick C. Dorin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
"Fascinating pictorial history of the Burlington Route, from its start as the tiny Aurora Branch Railway through to its 1970 transformation into the Burlington Northern. Chapters cover its formation, the standard era of passenger service, gas-electric motor cars, Zephyrs, transcontinental streamliners, commuter trains, freight and mixed trains, coal trains, subsidiaries, and the merger. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With maps, station list, timetables and ads." -- Amazon.
Author | : William Wright Baldwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Cleghorn Overton |
Publisher | : New York : Russell & Russell |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard C. Kistler, Michael M. Bartels, and James J. Reisdorff |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467112976 |
Alliance has been a railroad center ever since the Burlington Railroad established the city in 1888 while pushing tracks into the vast, open regions of Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, and Montana. As a hub for trains carrying a variety of agricultural and mining products to market, Alliance became headquarters in 1902 for the large and geographically diverse area of Burlington train operations called the Alliance Division. For 86 years, the Alliance Division controlled much of the region's rail traffic. Despite the loss of its division point status in 1988, Alliance continues to have its fortunes closely tied to the railroad, now known as the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe. Today, the BNSF funnels large numbers of coal trains through the city while transporting Power River Basin coal to power plants across the nation.
Author | : Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Stylized, diagramatic strip map in three sections: Chicago to Omaha; Omaha; Omaha to Salt Lake and Ogden (via the Union Pacific); Ogden to San Francisco (via the Central Pacific).
Author | : Richard C. Overton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2014-05-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780674334687 |
Author | : James Reisdorff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-09-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780996696326 |
Railroads have a unique impact on the places we live. They stir commerce and profoundly impact business, but most importantly, railroads shape communities. The management of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), popularly known as the "Burlington Route," was acutely aware of the impact that their railroad had on the region it served. In 1948, the CB&Q commissioned professional photojournalists Russell Lee and Esther Bubley to document the influence of the Burlington Route on the communities it traversed.This title is a study of Granger Country: A Pictorial Social History of the Burlington Railroad, a company-sponsored publication from 1949 that originally included a small portion of the hundreds of images produced by Lee and Bubley for the CB&Q. This new book from The Garbely Publishing Company features some of their best black and white photography from that project. The entire Granger Country collection now resides at the Newberry Library in Chicago, which has graciously allowed authors Reisdorff and Bartels to take readers on a journey around the post-World War II Burlington system by telling the stories behind the images.The Lee and Bubley photographs illustrate the people, places and machines that were intrinsic to the CB&Q of the 1940s. They show an era when steam power still chuffed across the Plains, when "train time" was still the epoch of any community's day. See how new Zephyr streamliners and diesel-electric locomotives were then securing their foothold on the Burlington Route, and take a ride Everywhere West through Granger Country.