Milwaukee Road Remembered

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scribbins, Jim (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company.
Railroads.
TRANSPORTATION > Railroads > History.
Railroads > United States.
United States.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 prove the feasibility of long distance movement of heavy trains by electricity. All-welded freight and passenger cars were pioneered in its shops, and Milwaukee Road mechanical engineers planned the first streamlined steam locomotives intended for sustained 100 mph speeds. In Milwaukee Road Remembered e.
Physical Description:1 online resource (168 pages).
ISBN:9780816666621

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