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Editore: Signature Press, 2010
Da: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Condizione: Fine. 496 pp., Hardcover, fine in very good dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
Editore: Pacific Fast Mail June 1991, 1991
ISBN 10: 0915713217ISBN 13: 9780915713219
Da: Firefly Bookstore, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Used Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Text is in English. The book dust jacket has been covered with a Mylar book cover. The cover is removeable. Size - H: 11.25', W: 9', D: 1' This item is Used and is listed as being in Good condition. The dust jacket for the item is listed as being in Good condition. Cover has some light edge wear and bumped corners. Pages are clean, unmarked with minimal tanning. Dust jacket has some light moisture stains, but no damage or rippling. Dust jacket is covered in removable, clear, mylar Brodart cover. Several small stains on the page edges. FF00000007872 Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. We try to add a detailed description to as many titles as possible. If you have questions regarding this title, please contact us. Photos available on request.
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Editore: Signature Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 1930013310ISBN 13: 9781930013315
Da: Arizona Hobbies LLC, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: New. Union Pacific was a latecomer to the Los Angeles Basin, not becoming part of the Southern California railroad picture until 1901, when E.H. Harriman and W.A. Clark agreed to share ownership of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, which had taken over the property of the Los Angeles Terminal Railway. Completion of the line between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles enabled UP mainline freight and passenger service to reach California. The history of the SPLA&SL, which became simply the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railway in 1916, and then disappeared into the UP, is complex, and the Los Angeles end of the railroad especially so. It is all here, from the many complications at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, to the suburban branches, and the complex passenger arrangements needed to serve the territory. The rivalries with Santa Fe, Pacific Electric and Southern Pacific were expressed in many conflicts and eventual agreements, through Depression, war and many postwar changes and adjustments. Historical information is included up to and beyond the merger of UP and SP, extending to recent years. The book contains a great wealth of photo illustrations, many from Union Pacific files, the majority never before published. It provides Union Pacific enthusiasts as well as those interested in Southern California railroading with much fascinating and valuable history and information. The company archives are B&W photographs. Color photographs are from recent history. The cover illustration by John R. Signor shows the City of Los Angeles arriving at Riverside, California in the 1940s. Contents: Acknowledgements, Preface, pp. 6-10, The Los Angeles Terminal Railway: St. Louis Comes to the Basin, pp. 11-56, The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, pp. 57-122, Promoting the Pedro, pp. 123-154, Federal Control Gives Way to the Roaring Twenties, pp. 155-210, Trouble at the Harbor and Everywhere Else, pp. 211-256, The Great Depression, pp. 257-316, World War II and the Post-War Adjustments, pp. 317-376, Passenger Trains and Line Abandonments, pp. 377-424, This Brand-New Railroad Industry, pp. 425-468, Forecast: Storms Everywhere, pp. 469-482, Bibliography, Endnotes, pp. 483-492, Index, pp. 493-496. Signature Press, hardcover with jacket, 496 pages, 9 x 11.25 x 2 in., 562 B&W and Color photographs and illustrations.
Editore: Pacific Fast Mail, Edmonds, 1991
ISBN 10: 0915713217ISBN 13: 9780915713219
Da: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, Regno Unito
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Libro Prima edizione
Maroon hardback cloth cover. Condizione: VG : in very good condition. First Edition. 280mm x 220mm (11" x 9"). 336pp. With dust jacket. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas.
Editore: Lockridge Press, 2018
ISBN 10: 0692183957ISBN 13: 9780692183953
Da: Arizona Hobbies LLC, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Libro Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: New. The Western Pacific was one of those underdog railroads that had a loyal following with railroad enthusiasts. The spectacular scenery, the California Zephyr, brightly painted locomotives and freight cars certainly caught many a fan's eye. This is a well-researched, high-quality book by author Jeff A. Asay. Jeff authored the Union Pacific in the Los Angeles Basin title for Signature Press. John Signor and Jonathan Signor helped with the maps and layout of this book. About 80 percent of the photographs are B&W as this is a history book using older photos with some later-day photographs in Color. You will not be disappointed in this book! The Western Pacific Railroad, from its inception in 1903 until the Union Pacific takeover in late 1982, was always fending off one crisis or another, managing to remain independent through luck and clever financial maneuvering. George J. Gould, eldest son of Wall Street speculator Jay Gould, formed the WP to break Edward H. Harriman's railroad stranglehold at Salt Lake City and also to create a true transcontinental rail line. George was not up to the task and he lost control of the WP to banker Alvin Krech in 1916. Gould's WP from Salt Lake City to San Francisco was well built but expensive. His chief engineer, Virgil G. Bogue, did a masterful job locating the route and laying rails, but the final cost was much higher than anyone anticipated. Gould bankrupted the WP and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in the process and Krech seized them both. Krech made many improvements and additions but nearly pushed the WP into another costly bankruptcy. Wealthy investor Arthur Curtiss James rode to the rescue by taking control of the WP in 1926. James made the costly decision to build the Inside Gateway line from Keddie to Bieber, meeting up with the Great Northern. That and other WP projects, some successful and some not, ran WP into its second reorganization in 1936. James was long gone by the time WP found its way out of bankruptcy at the very end of World War II. More conservative management over the next twenty years kept the railroad in the black but it was always touch and go. A costly and tiresome fight against Southern Pacific's takeover bid in the early 1960s, followed by a lengthy effort to cut off the money-losing California Zephyr passenger train, weakened the WP to the point it was acquired by takeover specialist Howard Newman in 1970. Newman, aided by legendary operating executive Al Perlman, bolstered WP's finances, took it into a holding company, and then spun it off to a group of executives in 1978 headed by Mike Flannery. It was too late to save the railroad by then, and Union Pacific gathered it into its Missouri Pacific merger proceedings a year later. UP quickly brought the WP into compliance with modern railroad standards and it has served the larger company well. Today, much of the WP has been abandoned and some has been sold, but the original Bogue main line from the Bay Area to Salt Lake City remains intact and in operation. This book also relates the parallel story of the Sacramento Northern Railway, an electric interurban that Alvin Krech acquired for the WP in the 1920's for its freight traffic base. SN suffered the same precarious ride as its parent company and was finally merged into Union Pacific along with the WP. Contents: The Western Pacific: Introduction, pp. 1-10, From Salt Lake to San Francisco, George Gould's Dream of Empire, pp. 11-48, The Inevitable Demise of the Western Pacific, pp. 49-84, Revival Show: Alvin Krech Builds a Better Western Pacific, pp. 85-112, Alvin Krech and the Growth of the Western Pacific, pp. 113-144, Finance in the Fast Lane: The Arthur Curtiss James Era, pp. 145-184, Reorganization and Hard Work: WP in Wartime, pp. 185-222, Exhaustion and Endurance: Fred Whitman's Decade, pp. 223-266, The Decade of Uncertainty: Western Pacific Falters Under Christy, pp. 267-308, Signed, Sealed and Delivered, pp. 309-348, The Road Ends in Omaha, pp. 349-380, The Sacramento Northern: The Sacramento Northern Railway: WP's Piecework Empire, pp. 381-410, Betting on the Wrong Horse, pp. 411-452, Rebuilding the Wreckage, pp. 453-484, The Reckoning, pp. 485-505, Bibliography and Index, pp. 506-512. Lockridge Press, hardcover with dust jacket, 512 pages, 9 x 12 x 2 in., B&W and Color photographs, maps and illustrations.
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Editore: Pacific Fast Mail/PFM, Edmonds, WA, 1991
ISBN 10: 0915713217ISBN 13: 9780915713219
Da: Robert Gavora, Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Talent, OR, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First edition. A history that offers fresh insight into the prominent part the Union Pacific Railroad and its predecessors had in the development of the Pacific Northwest. 336 pages with photographs, over 35 maps, and index. Map endpapers. Ffine in fine and bright dust jacket. Book.
Editore: Pacific Fast Mail/PFM, Edmonds, WA, 1991
ISBN 10: 0915713217ISBN 13: 9780915713219
Da: Robert Gavora, Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Talent, OR, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First edition. A history that offers fresh insight into the prominent part the Union Pacific Railroad and its predecessors had in the development of the Pacific Northwest. 336 pages with photographs, over 35 maps, and index. Map endpapers. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Book.
Editore: Union Pacific HS, 2014
ISBN 10: 1932704329ISBN 13: 9781932704327
Da: Arizona Hobbies LLC, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: New. A Revised and Expanded History of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company by Jeff Asay. Originally published in 1991, the first edition of this book has long been out of print. Now, Jeff Asay has significantly revised and expanded the book for this new edition, including an entirely new chapter that brings the history of the railroad into the new millennium. This new edition has nearly 500 pages and over 500 photographs. Over half of these photographs were not in the original edition and most have not been published anywhere before. Even if you have the original edition, this new and expanded edition will add to your collection and provide much new information and insight on UP operations in this far corner of the country. Most photographs are B&W with some Color photographs from the 1970s onward. Contents: Acknowledgements and Preface, pp. 6-8, Henry Villard and the Oregon, Railway & Navigation Company, pp. 9-42, Searching for Safe Harbor, pp. 43-66, Turmoil and Revival, pp. 67-102, Harriman the Builder, pp. 103-150, Strahorn's North Coast Railway, pp. 151-184, The Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company, pp. 185-214, Controversy and Cutbacks, pp. 215-252, Old Adversaries - New Wars, pp. 253-300, The Challenge to Change, pp. 301-354, New Lines, New Dams, New Rules, pp. 355-404, Deregulation, Hard Decisions and Renewal, pp. 405-481, Bibliography, pp. 482-496. Union Pacific HS, hardcover, 8.5 x 11 x 1.5 in., majority B&W photographs, maps.
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Editore: Lockridge Press, 2018
ISBN 10: 0692183957ISBN 13: 9780692183953
Da: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. As New in As New Jacket. 1st Printing. 512pp 4to.
Editore: Signature Press., Berkeley., 2010
Da: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). 496 pps.
Editore: Signature Press., Berkeley., 2010
Da: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). 496 pps.
Editore: Pacific Fast Mail, Edmonds, 1991
Da: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Edmonds, Pacific Fast Mail, 1991. Quarto, 336 pages with hundreds of illustrations (some in colour) and over 35 maps plus endpaper maps. Papered boards very slightly bumped at two corners; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper lightly rubbed and a little unevenly sunned about the spine.
Editore: Pacific Fast Mail, 1991
ISBN 10: 0915713217ISBN 13: 9780915713219
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Ed. First ed. Fine/Fine condition. Book.
Editore: J-B Publishing Company, Crete, Nebraska, 1983
Da: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
First edition. Volume XII of "The Railway History Monograph. Research Journal of American Railways". Quarto [2], iii, 112pp. plus 44 pages of reproductions of timetables, 7 maps, and 58 black & white photographs with descriptions. Stiff yellow wrappers printed in black. Wrappers lightly soiled. A fine copy. This entire volume is devoted to Asay's work. It is a major study and it appears this work might be the forerunner of the author's "Track and Time: An Operational History of the Western Pacific Railroad Through Timetables and Maps", published in 2006. In any case, a useful resource.