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Your search for: transcontinental AND railway


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Books on: transcontinental railway

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Journal Articles on: transcontinental railway

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Magazine Articles on: transcontinental railway

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Newspaper Articles on: transcontinental railway

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  • China Reawakens Trans-Asian Railway Ambitions
    Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 20, 2010
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    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...dpa) - Plans to link mainland Asia by railway have been around for decades.In 1960...ESCAP) initiated the Trans-Asian Railway project to establish a 114,000-kilometre...One foreseeable obstacle is the State Railways of Thailand (SRT), which runs the...under discussion.In August, senior railway officials from China visited Vientiane...
     
  • Trans-Asian Railway Planned
    Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 24, 2010
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    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...dpa) - Plans to link mainland Asia by railway have been around for decades. In 1960...ESCAP) initiated the Trans-Asian Railway project to establish a 114,000-kilometer...One foreseeable obstacle is the State Railways of Thailand (SRT), which runs the...under discussion.In August, senior railway officials from China visited Vientiane...
     
  • Rail King Dodge a Spy Chief in Vicksburg Fight
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 29, 2003
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    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...way for completion of the transcontinental railway to the West Coast. Despite...effective route for the transcontinental railroad. Dodge traveled...celebrates the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. Abraham...
     
  • How the Railroad Changed a Nation
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), June 22, 2011
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    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...companies involved in the first transcontinental railway insisted that the Associates...the eastern half of the first transcontinental railroad westward from Omaha...Topeka, and the Santa Fe Railway, and the list goes on. Even...
     
  • Cruising Rockies: Looking Down on the World
    Newspaper article by Fred J. Eckert; The Washington Times, October 6, 1996
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...blowing on their faces. The railway across western Canada, we...for a firm guarantee of a transcontinental railway linking it with the eastern...build one of the worlds great railways. This handy publication...surprising. International Railway Traveler magazine rates this...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: transcontinental railway

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  • Transcontinental Railroad
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...spike joined the two railways, thus completing the first transcontinental railroad. Others...not infrequent. The transcontinental railroads immeasurably...See J. Grodinsky, Transcontinental Railway Strategy, 1869 1893...
     
  • Canadian Pacific Railway
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY transcontinental transportation system in Canada and extending into the United States, privately owned and operated. The construction of a railroad...
     
  • Railroad
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England. American Railroads...locomotives suited to the American railway were produced domestically...in 1836 on the Cumberland Railways run between Philadelphia...iron proved too brittle in railway construction and was gradually...the building of the first transcontinental railroad: the Union Pacific...
     
  • Union Pacific Railroad
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...part of the nations first transcontinental railroad line. Under terms...completing the nations first transcontinental railroad. The joining of...Davis, The Union Pacific Railway (1894, repr. 1973...Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad (1999...
     
  • Canada
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...by the Pacific Ocean and Alaska. A transcontinental border, formed in part by the Great...who sponsored the Canadian Pacific Railway . In the west, religious tension and...of the newly constructed continental railway. In the same period, mining operations...
     

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