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Milwaukee Road Remembered

The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific was a railroad with a big personality. For a time it offered the world?s fastest steam-powered passenger trains. Extending from Indiana to Puget Sound, it crossed five mountain ranges in Montana, Idaho, and Washington. It was also the first railroad to...

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Autor principal: Scribbins, Jim (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a CONTENTS; WHY REMEMBER THE MILWAUKEE ROAD?; A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MILWAUKEE ROAD; THE HIAWATHAS; OTHER NAME TRAINS OF THE MILWAUKEE ROAD; MOTOR CARS; THE COLORFUL MILWAUKEE ROAD; CITY TICKET OFFICES; DINING CARS; OBSERVATION CARS; WINTER; STEAM FREIGHT TRAINS; ELECTRIC FREIGHT TRAINS; DIESEL FREIGHT TRAINS; GLOSSARY AND GAZETTEER; INDEX. 
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