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Union Pacific : the reconfiguration : America's greatest railroad from 1969 to the present
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ISBN: 0190254637 1283160218 9786613160218 0199708584 9780199708581 9781283160216 9780190254636 9780195369892 0195369890 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Praised by the Chicago Tribune as ""thoroughly and compellingly detailed history,"" Volumes I and II of Maury Klein's monumental history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969. Now the third and final volume brings the story of the Union Pacific--the oldest, largest, and most successful railroad of modern times--fully up to date. The book follows the trajectory of an icon of the industrial age trying to negotiate its way in a post-railway world, plagued by setbacks such as labor disputes, aging infrastructure, government de-regulation, ill-fated mergers, and more. By 19


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Over the Range : A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad
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ISBN: 0874217059 9786613250155 0874217067 1283250152 9780874217063 9781283250153 9780874217056 6613250155 1607327783 Year: 2008 Publisher: Logan : Utah State University Press,

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Francaviglia looks anew at the geographical-historical context of the driving of the golden spike in May 1869. He gazes outward from the site of the transcontinental railroad's completion-the summit of a remote mountain range that extends south into the Great Salt Lake. The transportation corridor that for the first time linked America's coasts gave this distinctive region significance, but it anchored two centuries of human activity linked to the area's landscape.Francaviglia brings to that larger story a geographer's perspective on place and society, a railroad enthusia

Sunset limited : the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930
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ISBN: 0520200195 0520940865 1598755404 9780520940864 1423700074 9781423700074 9780520200197 9781598755404 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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The only major U.S. railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific acquired a unique history and character. It also acquired a reputation, especially in California, as a railroad that people loved to hate.


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Across the continent : the Union Pacific photographs of Andrew J. Russell
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ISBN: 1607816385 9781607816386 9781607816379 1607816377 Year: 2018 Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press,

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"Andrew J. Russell is primarily known as the man who photographed the famous "East and West Shaking Hands" image of the Golden Spike ceremony on May 10, 1869. He also took nearly one thousand other images that document almost every aspect of the construction of the Union PacificRailroad. Across the Continent is the most detailed study to date of the life and work of an often-overlooked but prolific artist who contributed immensely not only to documentation of the railroad but also to the nation's visualization of the American West and, earlier, the Civil War. The central focus in the book is on the large body of work Russell produced primarily to satisfy the needs of the Union Pacific. Daniel Davis posits that this set of Russell's photos is best understood not through one or a handful of individual images, but as a photographic archive. Taken as a whole, that archive shows that Russell intended for viewers never to forget who built the Union Pacific. His images celebrate working people, masons working on bridge foundations, freighters and their wagons, surveyors with their transits, engine crews posed on their engines, as well as tracklayers, laborers, cooks, machinists, carpenters, graders, teamsters, and clerks pushing paper. Russell contributed to a golden age of Western photography that visually introduced the American West to the nation, changing its public image from that of a Great American Desert to a place of apparently unlimited economic potential."--Provided by publisher.

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