1968, ISBN: 9781596298767

Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library. Paperback. New. Paperback. 24 pages. Dimensions: 8.9in. x 5.3in. x 0.1in. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book… Mehr…

Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library. Paperback. New. Paperback. 24 pages. Dimensions: 8.9in. x 5.3in. x 0.1in. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, London: George Newnes, Ltd, 1897. Book. VG. Unbound. 8vo. 9pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 15 photographs, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Strand Magazine, Volume XIV, No. 79, August, 1897. Illustrations include a house being towed on Humboldt Bay, California, the house after removal of the lighters, the house being pulled on rollers to its destination in Eureka, California, a brick house in Brooklyn, New York, moving on greased ways with horses and capstans, a scene of lifting the house by means of jack-screws, moving a bank 300-feet at Newton, Massachusetts, across an electric railway, a block of three buildings being turned from a south to a north front showing turn-table and old foundation in the foreground, an apartment of 8000 tons in Chicago, Illinois, being moved, preparing the site, a double-brick residence in Chicago, being turned from north to south, a 125-foot-high chimney being moved across a street in Chelsea, Massachusetts, raising a water-tower at Mount Vernon, New York, moving a railway station back 50 feet at Mott Haven, New York, and a scene of six locomotives pulling the Brighton Beach Hotel back from the ocean, April 3rd, 1888, with the entire building resting on 112 flat-trucks. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve. Scarce.., George Newnes, Ltd, 1897, Cincinnati: Eli Taylor, 1839. Book. Good. Unbound. 4to. 5pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 6 engravings, faded damp-stain noted at bottom fore corner, light foxing, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Family Magazine Or Monthly Abstract Of General Knowledge, Volume IV, 1839. Illustrations include a view of the Van Kleek House which was built in 1702, the Mansion House, the Poughkeepsie Locomotive Engine Factory, the Poughkeepsie Collegiate School, and the Poughkeepsie Female Academy. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve.., Eli Taylor, 1839, NY, 1861. Print. Illus. by John Sartain, engraver. VG. Unbound. Sized 6.5 x 9.5, engraved by Sartain, plus 6 pages of biographical text, printed in double columns, salvaged from a damaged issue of Eclectic Magazine, Volume LI, No. 2, February, 1861. The English civil engineer and locomotive designer, b. 1803, d. 1859. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve. Very scarce.., 1861, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. Book. Illus. by M. J. Burns, J. D. Woodward, V. Perard, W. C. Fitler, and S. S. Dustin. VG. Unbound. 8vo. 24pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 24 drawings, including one full-page plate, salvaged from a damaged issue of Scribner's Monthly Magazine, Volume VI, No. 3, September, 1889. Illustrations include Stephenson's steam driver - brake patented 1833, the driver - brake on a modern locomotive, the English screw brake on the Birmingham and Gloucester Road, about 1840, English foot-brake on the truck of a Great Western coach, about 1840, a plan and elevation of air-brake apparatus with reservoirs and piping and brake gear, Dwarf Semaphores and Split Switch, Semaphore Signal with indicators, section of Saxby & Farmer Interlocking Machine, diagram of a double-track junction with interlocked switches and signals, derailing switch, split switches with facing point locks and detector bars, a full page plate of an interlocking apparatus for operating switches and signals by compressed air, at the Pittsburgh Yards, Pennsylvania Railroad, a torpedo placer, the Old Signal Tower on the Philadelphia & Reading at Phoenixville, a view of telescoped baggage and passenger cars resulting from a butting collision, engines wrecked during the Great Wabash Striike, crossing gates worked by mechanical connection from a cabin, New South Norwalk Drawbridge, a scene of a wreck at a bridge, Janney Automatic Coupler attached to a freight car, a link and pin coupler. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve.., Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889, Detroit: University of Detroit, College of Engineering. Good with no dust jacket. 1968. Paperback. Stapled wraps. Previous owner's name on front cover. ; 20 x 27 cm.; pg. xi, 164; Technical Report No. 9917 (LL 118) , prepared for Land Locomotion Division, U. S. Army Tank Automotive Command, Warren, Michigan. Contract no. DA-20-113-AMC-09099(T). Abstract, foreword, introduction, references, illustrations. "The survey...covered 899 miles and involved 78 rivers. In addition to the river survey data, soil samples were collected for laboratory grain size analysis. An objective of the survey was to determine the frequency of rivers in Thailand in order to establish the magnitude of the water-crossing problem for the area. The river frequency for the entire survey was one river every 11.4 miles. The conclusion was, therefore, that the river frequency is high and would constitute a severe problem to cross-country movement." ., University of Detroit, College of Engineering, 1968, History Press (SC). Paperback. New. Paperback. 160 pages. Dimensions: 8.9in. x 5.9in. x 0.4in.With Fast Mail train No. 97 an hour behind schedule, locomotive engineer Steve Broady, according to legend, swore to put her in Spencer on time or put her in Hell. Through eyewitness reports and court testimonies, historian Larry Aaron expertly pieces together the events of September 27, 1903, at Danville, Virginia, when the Old 97 plummeted off a forty-five-foot trestle into the ravine below. With more twists and turns than the railroad tracks on which the Old 97 ran, this book chronicles the story of one of the most famous train wrecks in American history, as well as the controversy surrounding The Wreck of the Old 97, that most famous ballad, which secured the Old 97 a place within the annals of American folklore. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN, Momence,IL, Commerce,GA., History Press (SC)<

ISBN: 1596298766

With Fast Mail train No. 97 an hour behind schedule, locomotive engineer Steve Broady, according to legend, swore to "put her in Spencer on time" or "put her in Hell." Through eyewitness … Mehr…

With Fast Mail train No. 97 an hour behind schedule, locomotive engineer Steve Broady, according to legend, swore to "put her in Spencer on time" or "put her in Hell." Through eyewitness reports and court testimonies, historian Larry Aaron expertly pieces together the events of September 27, 1903, at Danville, Virginia, when the Old 97 plummeted off a forty-five-foot trestle into the ravine below. With more twists and turns than the railroad tracks on which the Old 97 ran, this book chronicles the story of one of the most famous train wrecks in American history, as well as the controversy surrounding "The Wreck of the Old 97," that most famous ballad, which secured the Old 97 a place within the annals of American folklore. science and math,social science,social sciences,transportation Science & Math, Arcadia Publishing<

ISBN: 9781596298767

With Fast Mail train No. 97 an hour behind schedule, locomotive engineer Steve Broady, according to legend, swore to "put her in Spencer on time" or "put her in Hell." Through eyewitness … Mehr…

With Fast Mail train No. 97 an hour behind schedule, locomotive engineer Steve Broady, according to legend, swore to "put her in Spencer on time" or "put her in Hell." Through eyewitness reports and court testimonies, historian Larry Aaron expertly pieces together the events of September 27, 1903, at Danville, Virginia, when the Old 97 plummeted off a forty-five-foot trestle into the ravine below. With more twists and turns than the railroad tracks on which the Old 97 ran, this book chronicles the story of one of the most famous train wrecks in American history, as well as the controversy surrounding "The Wreck of the Old 97," that most famous ballad, which secured the Old 97 a place within the annals of American folklore. Media > Book<