David A. Guillaudeu

Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Revisited (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Washington & Old Dominion Railroad covered therailroad's corporate history, construction, and operation. Thissecond volume expands the coverage with a geographic focus on fourlocations: Rosslyn, Great Falls, Leesburg, and Purcellville. The imageswithin offer a look at the railroad's feed and grain business, railfan-typeviews of equipment, and a visual record of methods used to maintainthe right-of-way and place equipment back on the tracks. Additionally,this work offers a history of the conversion of the right-of-way into thevery popular Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park.Learn about the history of mills and their place in the local economy.See how the Burro crane was a jack of all trades. Look under the hoodand inside the cab to imagine what it was like to be an engineer onone of the railroad's Baldwin-Westinghouse electric freight locomotives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439656976
• Artikelnr.: 45434993