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Delaware and Hudson: The History of an Important Railroad Whose Antecedent Was a Canal Network to Transport Coal
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by Jim Shaughnessy
Sales Rank: 693530
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$8.99
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on 6-19-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 476 pages
Published by: Syracuse University Press February 1997
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0815604556
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0815604556
Book Dimensions:
11 x 8.4 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 2.9 pounds
From Library Journal
Train freaks will delight in Shaughnessy's volumes. First published in 1982 and 1981, respectively, these pictorial histories document the railroad lines that ran between Pennsylvania and New York and New York and Vermont.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Reader Reviews
Delaware & Hudson describes the company that ran the first steam locomotive in this country, and operated the first integrated transportation system in 1828, when it combined the use of a railroad and canal in an audacious scheme to transport Pennsylvania coal to New York City. The D&H first used Roebling's wire cable to operate its gravity railroad, and later used the same cables to build wire suspension aqueduct bridges to carry the canal over two rivers, and did all this years before Roebling would build the Brooklyn Bridge. The book is filled with photographs, maps and engravings, with images on virtually every page. Although it is a book for railroad fans, it also works as a history of American technology and the history an American company which rode its use of technical inonovations to become one of this country's largest corporations by the middle of the nineteenth century.
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