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Railroad signatures across the Pacific Northwest
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- Creator
- Carlos A. Schwantes
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [1993]
- ©1993
- Physical Details
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- 359 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 0295972106, 9780295972107
- OCLC
- ocm27266208
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Preface -- Introduction: Railroad time and space in the new Northwest -- Pt. I. Signatures in steel: the first railway age, 1868-1893. Portages by rail ; Henry Villard and the empire of the Columbia ; Shapers of the new Northwest ; Traveling too fast: adjustments to railroad power ; The railway landscape -- Pt. II. Northwest passages: the second railway age, 1897-1917. New beginnings for a new century ; Fiefdom and baronies: Harriman and Hill redraw the railroad map ; The promise of electric motive power ; Twentieth-century empire builders ; Selling the great Northwest ; Wonderlands: railroad tourism ; The golden age of passenger train travel -- Pt. III. The age of competition, 1917 to 1990s. New competition ; An industry in trouble ; Response: the streamliner era ; Strange new world: war and a troubled peace ; A changing signature -- Epilogue: Pacific Northwest railroads in perspective