The Great Railroad Revolution [Audiobook] download free by Christian Wolmar
- Listen audiobook: The Great Railroad Revolution
- Author: Christian Wolmar
- Release date: 2013/12/22
- Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9781610393478
- Rating: 8.99 of 10
- Votes: 81
- Review by: Clyde Holcomb
- Review rating: 7.57 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/17
- Duration: 5H34M57S in 256 kbps (89.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-05
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Vorbis, MPEG4, WMA, MP3, WAV, FLAC, ATRAC (compression XZ, Z, ARJ, ZIP, RAR, TAR.LZO, TBZ2)
- Total pages original book: 448
- Includes a PDF summary of 40 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 28M43S (8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line-the first American railroad-in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status. Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land.The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them. In The Great Railroad Revolution, renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.
- Other categories, genre or collection: History Of The Americas, Trains & Railways, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, 21st Century History: From C 2000 -, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 23.27 USD
- Dimensions: 140x206x32mm
- Weight: 439.99g
- Printed by: PublicAffairs,U.S.
- Published in: New York, United States
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