Pennsy Power III
Author | : Alvin F. Staufer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1993-12 |
Genre | : Locomotives |
ISBN | : 9780944513101 |
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Author | : Alvin F. Staufer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1993-12 |
Genre | : Locomotives |
ISBN | : 9780944513101 |
Author | : Alvin F. Staufer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Locomotives |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alvin Staufer |
Publisher | : Echo Point Books & Media |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2019-09-17 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781635610178 |
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 | : Alvin F. Staufer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Locomotives |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alvin Staufer |
Publisher | : Echo Point Books & Media |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2019-09-17 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781635610185 |
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 | : Michael Bezilla |
Publisher | : Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The first comprehensive case study of railroad electrification in the United States, this pioneering book highlights a subject of current government and industry studies and a target of billions of dollars of Amtrak rehabilitation funds. Both energy conservation and environmental quality remain at stake together with transportation efficiency. Electric traction on the Pennsylvania Railroad was a technological success handicapped by an economic factor: the onetime relatively low cost of petroleum, which gave diesel locomotives and highway vehicles a temporary advantage. Today the growing cost advantage of electricity--generated with coal; atomic energy; water, wind, and solar power--prefigures a revival of electric railroad traction. Drawing upon previously untapped records of the PRR and its suppliers, notably General Electric, the author traces stages in cooperative risk management. First came challenges of limited scope which steam locomotives were unable to meet: the New York City tunnel extension of 1910 and the Philadelphia suburban modernization begun in 1913. Next came a decade of mainline electrification, 1928-38: first New York to Washington and then passenger and freight extensions to Harrisburg. These projects were preceded by large-scale research and experimentation, followed by constant improvement in equipment and operations. Electric traction is depicted as a program involving not only the railroad but also its consultants, equipment and energy suppliers, and (to a lesser degree) governmental bodies. Locomotive and power transmission design is described in detail--with copious illustrations--as are the creative achievements of managers, engineers, and workers. And the presentation will be clear to readers without specialized technical or business backgrounds.
Author | : Don Ball |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 0393023575 |
Traces the history of the railroad during the height of its success, looks at its locomotive and rolling stock, and shares employee anecdotes.
Author | : William D. Middleton |
Publisher | : Kalmbach Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9780890246177 |
Follow the PRR's remarkable effort to engineer a powerful, efficient, and clean means of moving people and products -- at a time when steam and diesel were the norm. Features vintage photographs of electrified equipment in action. Includes route maps and depictions of operations.
Author | : Mike Schafer |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2009-03-18 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780760329306 |
From humble beginnings in the 1800s, the Pennsylvania Railroad grew to be one of the most powerful, influential railroads in American history--a railroad that Fortune Magazine called “a nation unto itself.” It owned its own shops, coal mines, hotels, communications system, and power plants, not to mention hundreds of depots (including the famous Penn Station in Manhattan), thousands of passenger cars, tens of thousands of freight cars, and a vast fleet of steam, electric, and diesel locomotives. The Pennsy’s 10,000 route-miles served thirteen of the most populous and most industrialized states in the United States. Pennsylvania Railroad examines the mighty railroad’s evolution from a disparate group of early horse car lines into a twentieth-century transportation giant. Color and black-and-white photographs and period ads illustrate the railroad’s many facets, including both its passenger and freight operations, as well its motive power through the decades. Though the Pennsy was merged out of existence in 1968, an epilogue details the PRR legacies that survive on today’s modern railroad scene.
Author | : Robert J. Yanosey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Diesel locomotives |
ISBN | : 9781878887542 |