The North American railroad : its origin, evolution, and geography /
In The North American Railroad, James Vance offers a sweeping account of where and why rail lines were built in various regions and at different times across the continent. He tells why the United States and Canada developed distinctive forms of rail technology - surprisingly different from those of...
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
c1995.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Creating the North American landscape.
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Table of Contents:
- The North American railroad : a relative in little more than spirit
- ch. 1.
- The North American railroad rises in the East : an instrument of national development
- ch. 2.
- The drive for ubiquity : the middle-Western railroad
- ch. 3.
- The geography of the North American Railroad Company
- ch. 4.
- A Canadian postscript : the essence of the developmental railroad.