San Antonio College Library

"The American Heritage History of Railroads in America explores the heart of that exciting revolution by rolling down the entire main line of the U.S.A.'s wonderful journey with trains -- from The Best Friend of Charleston in 1830 (which blew up) to Amtrak today. Railroads were arguably the most important phenomenon of the industrial revolution -- and certainly its most ubiquitous. Yet their economic and social importance was only part of their profound...

Colonel Morgan Jones played a major role in the promotion, development and construction of over 800 miles of rail lines in the North Central and Panhandle regions of Texas.

This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, is an essential contribution not only to railway history but also to the broader history of the development of the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. Its successful inauguration provided a spur to internal improvements throughout the United States. The railroad affected...

Includes material on John D. Rockefeller, J. Pierpoint Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E.H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Jay Cooke, Daniel Drew, Henry C. Frick, James J. Hill, Charles M. Schwab, Henry Villard, Standard Oil Company, trusts.

"The construction of the transcontinental railroad (1865-1869) marked a milestone in United States history, symbolizing both the joining of the country's two coasts and the taming of its frontier wilderness by modern technology. But it was through the power of images--and especially the photograph--that the railroad attained its iconic status. Iron Muse provides a unique look at the production, distribution, and publication of images of the transcontinental...