Libro Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Revisited De Paul E. Guillaudeu David A./ Mccray

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Libro Físico

Editorial

ARCADIA PUB (SC)

Autor

Paul E. Guillaudeu David A./ Mccray

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

128

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781467116381

Categorías

Ee. uu. región del sur
Historia de américa
Historia local

Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Revisited

Paul E. Guillaudeu David A./ Mccray (Autor) · ARCADIA PUB (SC) · Tapa Blanda

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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.