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From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry
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From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry
by Albert Churella

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comparative work of business history and the history of technology, the book is not a complete history of any locomotive builder, nor does it explore the origins of the diesel engine in great detail. What it does is to demonstrate how managers addressed...
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Great Fortunes From Railroads
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Great Fortunes From Railroads
by Gustavus Myers

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The juggling of railroads and the virtual seizure of coal mines were by no means the only accomplishments of the Vanderbilt family in the years under consideration. Colorless as was the third generation, undistinguished by any marked characteristic...
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Regulating Railroad Innovation
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Regulating Railroad Innovation
by Steven W. Usselman

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Efforts to create and mold new technologies have been a central, recurrent feature of the American experience since at least the time of the Revolution. Many of the most tumultuous events in the nation's history have involved disputes over the...
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
by Stephen E. Ambrose

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The Union had won the Civil War; slavery was abolished. Lincoln, an early champion of railroads, would not live to see the next great achievement. It took brains, muscle, and sweat in quantities and scope never before ventured and required engineers and...
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ICL WORLD LINK Intercontinental Energy and Transport Corridor for the 21st century
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ICL WORLD LINK Intercontinental Energy and Transport Corridor for the 21st century
by James, A. Oliver

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The ICL World Link report (bi-lingual, English-Russian) outlines proposals for an intercontinental transport and energy corridor between Eurasia and Americas via the Bering Strait. The 60-page A4 colour report also provides an overview of the historic...
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From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry
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From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry
by Albert Churella

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comparative work of business history and the history of technology, the book is not a complete history of any locomotive builder, nor does it explore the origins of the diesel engine in great detail. What it does is to demonstrate how managers addressed...
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A Journey in Time
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A Journey in Time
by James Barry

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Author James Barry was clearing an old desk before sending it for wood proofing. As the drawers were removed his old mottled reporter's notebook fell from within. It described a journey he made in June 1961 on the footplate of an express between Bristol...
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Gateway to the Clouds: The Story of a Short Line Railroad, The Scranton, Dunmore, Moosic Lake Railroad, 1902-1926
by Alan Sweeney



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Laurel Line: An Anthracite Region Railway
by James Henwood



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