Across the Columbia Plain

Railroad Expansion in the Interior Northwest, 1885-1893

Peter J. Lewty (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

344 Seiten

1995
Washington State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-87422-114-5 (ISBN)

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In just a few years of prosperity, between 1886 and 1891, a wave of railroad construction broke across the sparsely populated inland plain of the Pacific Northwest. Racing to secure strategic routes and sources of traffic, the railway promoters built an extensive and bewildering network of competing lines.Continuing the saga he started in To the Columbia Gateway: The Oregon Railway and the Northern Pacific, 1879-1884, author Peter J. Lewty describes the relationships between rival railroad companies and traces the expansion of the Northern Pacific and Union Pacific railway systems in the interior Northwest between 1885 and 1893. Recreating the prevailing atmosphere of optimism and excitement, he chronicles the construction of the Pacific extension of the Great Northern Railway and provides a lively portrait of railway operations on the last frontier of American settlement.

Extensively documented and fast moving, Across the Columbia Plain is required reading for railroad enthusiasts and Northwest historians.

Peter J. Lewty, a retired mining engineer who was trained in England as a railway mechanical engineer during the last years of steam locomotives, resides in Powassan, Ontario. He is the author of the 1987 WSU Press book, To the Columbia Gateway: The Oregon Railway and the Northern Pacific, 1879-1884.

Preface
Prologue
1 Lease and Joint Lease
2 To Moscow, Pomeroy, and Weston
3 Rivals in the Palouse
4 The Cascade Branch
5 The Stampede Tunnel
6 The Columbia River Bridge
7 The Hunt System
8 Lexington, Heppner, and the Coal Mines
9 Coeur d'Alene
10 Oregon Railway Extensions
11 In the Big Bend
12 The Great Northern Railway
13 Down to Juliaetta
14 To Keep the Wheels Turning
15 The Road to Ruin
Appendix A: Railways in the Columbia Interior, 1879-1893: Distances and Elevations
Appendix B: Glossary of Railroad Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.8.1995
Verlagsort	Pullman, WA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	581 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-87422-114-5 / 0874221145
ISBN-13	978-0-87422-114-5 / 9780874221145
Zustand	Neuware