Years ago, before planes and cars connected dots on the American landscape, before highways and interstates, there was an era when transportation meant the people and goods of America moved by horses, wagons, boats and barges.
Then in the 1800s came the railroads, which pushed our imaginations and potential beyond the primitive canals and waterways that up to that time determined where Americans lived and worked. Rails of steel opened previously unimaginable links between undiscovered parts of our country, created new cities and industries, and connected thousands of isolated towns and communities from coast to coast. It was a time of rapid economic growth, especially in the Northern and Western United States. But growth involves people, and the people who made it possible were those who built, operated, and used the railroads.
Would you like to get to know these people? In these pages, you'll experience people and places around the country where the railroad impacted their lives in very different ways.
Come inside and experience railroad life in a way you've never seen before.
This volume is one of a collection of historically inspired works describing people, places and events of several specific major American industries of the 1850's through 1950's.
Each volume of this collection is lavishly illustrated with archival photos and drawings, and includes glossary of industrial terms and an extensive reading list along with author commentary on the sources for the stories.
Readers will enjoy individual volumes containing original short stories about Automobiles, Communications, Construction, Electricity, Iron and Steel, Logging and Lumber, Manufacturing, Material Handling, Meatpacking,
Mining, Motor Trucks, Oil and Gas, Railroads, Textiles, Transportation, Trolleys and Inter-urbans, and a special selection about America's "Western Expansion" during this era.
