William D Middleton

When the Steam Railroads Electrified

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Middleton begins his ambitious chronicle of the ups and downs of railway electrification with the history of its early days, and brings it right up to the present-which is surely not the end of this complex and mercurial story.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• 2nd Revised Second edition
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 289mm x 220mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1801g
• ISBN-13: 9780253339799
• ISBN-10: 0253339790
• Artikelnr.: 26245390

Autorenporträt

William D. Middleton

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
1: Electricity challenges steam
2: Electrics into Grand Central
3: New Haven's bold venture
4: Under the rivers to Manhattan
5: Taming the tunnels
6: Conquering the Cascades
7: Big motors in the Appalachians
8: Montana copper carrier
9: Catenary over the mountains
10: Electrifying the 5:15
11: The great Pennsy electrification
12: Mine haul and miscellaneous
13: Traction in Latin America
14: What future for electrification?
Appendixes
A: The technology of electrification
B: The motive power of electrification
C: The what, where, and when of electrification
Bibliography
Index