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| Author | : Brendon Judd |
| Publisher | : Penguin Books |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Military railroads |
| ISBN | : 9780143019152 |
This is the untold story of the hundreds of New Zealand railwaymen - shunters, builders, engine drivers, firemen, engineers - who answered the call to construct and operate a railway network in the Western Desert during the Second World War. Overlooked in other war histories, these men played a significant role in the Allied victory in North Africa. The desert railway became a crucial strategic operation, transporting soldiers, equipment and supplies to the front line, that the Germans were determined to destroy. The various challenges they faced, from relentless bombing, to the dreaded fifty-day-long khamseen winds, to the siege of Tobruk, culminated in the second Battle of El Alamein, during which Field Marshal Montgomery stated, 'Well, now it's the railway versus Rommel.' The Desert Railway is a tribute to the courage and enterprise of these railwaymen who kept the trains running no matter what.
| Author | : Patsy Adam-Smith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : James Nicholson |
| Publisher | : Stacey International Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Winding its way from Damascus through the vast desert wastes of Jordan and into the spectacular barren mountains of north-west Saudi Arabia, the Hejaz Railway was a testament to the fading, but still potent power of the Ottomans in Arabia.
| Author | : Donald B. Robertson |
| Publisher | : Caxton Press |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Reena Deutsch |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738581484 |
Surveyors called the San Diego and Arizona Railway (SD&A) "The Impossible Railroad" because of its jagged, mountainous, and brutal desert route. The financier and driving force behind building this binational 148-mile rail connection to the east from San Diego, California, was businessman John D. Spreckels. Because of his perseverance, the jinxed 1907-1919 construction overcame a series of disasters, including the Mexican Revolution, a prolonged lawsuit, floods, World War I, labor shortages, a tunnel cave-in, and a lethal pandemic. Once up and running, the line was intermittently in and out of service and later sold and renamed the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway. While "The Impossible Railroad" still faces constant challenges and partial closures, freight and trolley service currently operate on its right-of-way, and tourist excursions are offered at its Campo, California, depot.
| Author | : Steve Schmollinger |
| Publisher | : Boston Mills Press |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : |
A photographic and textual description of the heavily congested Tehachapi rail freight route in California.
| Author | : George Bradshaw |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 1858 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Michael Asher |
| Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2008-05-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
In 1880, the French government ordered a surveying expedition for arailway that would bring the fabulous wealth of Timbuktu, in French Sudan, to Paris. This trek should have heralded a new era of French prosperity.Instead, it was a deadly..
| Author | : Lyndon J. Lampert |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Murat Özyüksel |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2014-10-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0857725602 |
Railway expansion was symbolic of modernization in the late 19th century, and Britain, Germany and France built railways at enormous speed and reaped great commercial benefits. In the Middle East, railways were no less important and the Ottoman Empire's Hejaz Railway was the first great industrial project of the 20th century. A route running from Damascus to Mecca, it was longer than the line from Berlin to Baghdad and was designed to function as the artery of the Arab world - linking Constantinople to Arabia. Built by German engineers, and instituted by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the railway was financially crippling for the Ottoman state and the its eventual stoppage 250 miles short of Mecca (the railway ended in Medina) was symbolic of the Ottoman Empire's crumbling economic and diplomatic fortunes. This is the first book in English on the subject, and is essential reading for those interested in Industrial History, Ottoman Studies and the geopolitics of the Middle East before World War I.
