Western Transcontinental Railway Passenger Service

Western Transcontinental Railway Passenger Service
Author: Mark Bunting
Publisher: Calgary : Everett Johnston and Associates
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1984
Genre: Railroads
ISBN:

The study's main objectives were to determine the most efficientand economical means of modernizing the transcontinentalpassenger rail services passing through Alberta; to prepareservice designs which would satisfy the long-term requirements ofAlbertans and others; to determine the marketing and managementrequirements necessary to achieve modernization; and, in generalterms, to estimate the economic spin-off benefits of suchservices for Alberta and Canada.

Ten Mile Day

Ten Mile Day
Author: Mary Ann Fraser
Publisher: Square Fish
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1250131243

On May 10, 1869, the final spike in North America's first transcontinental railroad was driven home at Promontory Summit, Utah. Illustrated with the author's carefully researched, evocative paintings, here is a great adventure story in the history of the American West--the day Charles Crocker staked $10,000 on the crews' ability to lay a world record ten miles of track in a single, Ten Mile Day.

Passenger Train Service

Passenger Train Service
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics
Publisher:
Total Pages: 572
Release: 1970
Genre: Railroads
ISBN:

VIA Rail

VIA Rail
Author: Chris Greenlaw, Christopher C. N. Greenlaw
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2007
Genre: Railroads
ISBN: 9781610605625

Nothing Like It In the World

Nothing Like It In the World
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2001-11-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780743203173

The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

Union Pacific's Streamliners

Union Pacific's Streamliners
Author: Joe Welsh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release:
Genre: Locomotives
ISBN: 9781616731151

An authoritative, lavishly illustrated history of Union Pacific's revolutionary passenger services from 1934 to the end of the railroad's passenger operations in 1971.