Mile-High Trolleys (1965) (E-1)

Rick Barton — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 23:54:57 +0000

This is a very good hardback book on the trolleys that served Denver beginning in the late 1800s or general interest for anyone interested in transportation and railroadiana. The book is an easy read and has stories and detailed information about the trolleys that once connected the Mile High City.

The book is in very good condition. There are no marks or writings in the book, the binding is strong. The dust jacket shows some minor tearing and shelf wear.

Also includes some great extras including a large timetable for the Denver & Intermountain Railroad from 1943.

Library of Congress #65-27723

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History of the Union Pacific: A Financial and Economic Survey – (1966) Reprint of 1923 book (E-2)

Rick Barton — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 19:30:48 +0000

Handsomely done 1966 reprint of this early history of the Union Pacific (originally published in 1923). Provides a clear description of the UP’s origins from the Pacific Railroad Acts through the annual report of 1921. Illustrated with black and white photos, maps and numerous charts.

412 pages

Hard Cover

Published 1966 REPRINT (first published 1923)

Table Of Contents

I The Pacific Railroad Acts 3

Ii The History Of The Construction Contracts 23

Iii The Work Of Construction 55

Iv Congressional Scandals: Credit Mobilier; The Mulligan Letters 71

V The Decade From I870 To I880 99

Vi Disputes And Litigation Over The Interest Question I23

Vii The Kansas Pacific Consolidation 147

Viii Auxiliary And Branch Lines 175

Ix The Administration Of Charles Francis Adams . . 198

X Receivership And Reorganization 24.I

Xi The Growth Of The Union Pacific From The Time Of The Reorganization Down To 1905 273

Xii The Harriman System 307

Xiii The Dissolution Of The Union Pacific-Southern Pacific Combination 352

Xiv Recent Operations 373

Xv General Considerations 389

Bibliography . . 40i

Index 405

PREFACE

The railroad situation today constitutes a problem of far greater moment than ever before. Permanent business prosperity cannot exist unless we have a healthy and permanent solution of the railroad problem. The story of the Union Pacific shows the vitality of a rightly located railroad, and its power, under competent management, of working free from the handicaps of financial exploitation, and becoming a source of profit to its stockholders and of service to the entire community.

The Union Pacific together with its western connection, the Central Pacific, was the first and for many years the only transcontinental railroad. The sixty years of its existence saw the opening up of the western half of the country, and in this vast development the Union Pacific bore a chief part. In later years, as a Harriman road, the Union Pacific has been identified with perhaps the greatest of American railway operators. Yet though the road has often been in the limelight, its dramatic story has never been assembled in its entirety. The present work gives a general account of the Union Pacific Railroad from its birth during the Civil War, in 1862, to the annual report of the directors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1921, after the return of the railroads to private control following the World War.

Many important lessons are to be learned from the successive stages of Union Pacific history : the launching of the road with fervid but hasty enthusiasm arid in a peculiar degree with national backing; the profligacy and chicanery of old-time railroad management, by which resources and good will were alike thrown away; the collapse and receivership; the speedy revival and expansion in the hands of a competent management; the final stage of close governmental supervision of private initiative culminating in the Railroad Administration and the Esch-Cummins Law of 1920.

The peculiar relations long subsisting between the United States government and the Union Pacific bring out the bungling, bureaucratic processes of government and the great dangers of uninformed public opinion, often demanding legislation the effect of which is to punish the men of today for the misdeeds of the former generation and, in the process, imposing a heavy handicap on legitimate business development.

The personal testimony of the early promoters, of the Credit Mobilier people, of Jay Gould, Russell Sage, and other speculators of the past generation, and in more recent times of E. A. Harriman, Otto H. Kahn, and their associates, is voluminous and readily accessible among the government publications. There exists also a mass of documentary evidence in the shape of reports, court records, and similar data. This abundant source material makes it possible to present the full financial and economic history of this great railroad company, the character of its relations with the federal government, and the account of the process by which the Union Pacific expanded from a single stretch of main line a thousand miles in length to the great system which the road controls and operates today.

NELSON TROTTMAN. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 25, 1923.

The book is in Very Good condition. There are no marks, writings or tears, the binding is strong. Almost no shelf wear.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0007DNMXM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ A.M. Kelley; First Edition (January 1, 1966)

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The Iron Horse How the Railroads Changed America by Richard Wormser (W 24)

Gene Harmon — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 15:25:09 +0000

The author describes the railroads during the 19th century from 1830 through the 1890s. Published in 1993 by Walker Publishing, this book is in like very good used condition with a paper jacket.

Locator box 24

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Rails West – George B Abdill (1960) (JD)

Rick Barton — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 22:24:16 +0000

This is the third of three books written by George Abdill covering the early history of American Railroading, from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s. Mr. Abdill worked as an engineer for the Southern Pacific, Portland Division.

From the dust jacket: “Abdill climaxes his work with Rails West which follows the same pattern of quaint and wondrous photographs with revealing incidents and biographies, many in the light of the Civil War and other historical guideposts.”

The book is in very good condition. The spine is tight and there are no loose pages. The dust jacket shows minor shelf wear and is wrapped in clear plastic. There are no writings or marks in the book; however, there is a sticker on the inside of the front cover “From the Library of Charles William Briggs, Jr.” See photos.

Publisher: Bonanza Books

Published: 1960

Pages: 191

ISBN 9780517060858

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Mile-High Trolleys (1965) (E-1)

History of the Union Pacific: A Financial and Economic Survey – (1966) Reprint of 1923 book (E-2)

The Iron Horse How the Railroads Changed America by Richard Wormser (W 24)

Rails West – George B Abdill (1960) (JD)