The North American Railroad: Its Origin, Evolution, and Geography (Creating the North American Landscape) - Hardcover

Buch 12 von 74: Creating the North American Landscape

Vance, James E.

 
9780801845734: The North American Railroad: Its Origin, Evolution, and Geography (Creating the North American Landscape)

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A thoughtful history of U.S. and Canadian rail: motivation; borrowing from Britain (minor and brief); unique developments suitable to U.S. geology & population density; technical advances; economics; promotion; and operation. Vance (geography, emeritus, U. Cal. Berkeley) begins with the now obvious contrasting of flat British rails connecting developed places by means of costly light grades with the economically compelled steeper (cheaper) grades and powerful locomotives. A great work; it is from our greatest scholarly RR publisher. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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James E. Vance, Jr., is emeritus professor of geography at the University of California, Berkeley.

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