Union Pacific Salt Lake Route

Union Pacific Salt Lake Route
Author: Mark W. Hemphill
Publisher: Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Railroads
ISBN: 9781550461381

This story of UP's Salt Lake Route contains information never before published in a railroad history. Illustrated with color photographs taken between 1948 and 1994.

Utah History Encyclopedia

Utah History Encyclopedia
Author: Allan Kent Powell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 696
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN:

The first complete history of Utah in encyclopedic form, with entries from Anasazi to ZCMI!

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.

Track Planning for Realistic Operation

Track Planning for Realistic Operation
Author: John H. Armstrong
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1998
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780890242278

Covers freight and passenger operations, route design, and contemporary railroading operations. The step-by-step design techniques and operation-oriented track plans also make it easy to create your own realistic model railroad.

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.

Hell on Wheels

Hell on Wheels
Author: Dick Kreck
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2016-03-23
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1555919529

Overnight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories along with the heroic individuals who managed, finally, to create permanent towns in the interior West.