Southern Pacific Bulletin
Title | Southern Pacific Bulletin PDF eBook |
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Pages | 724 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Railroads |
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Southern Pacific Bulletin
Title | Southern Pacific Bulletin PDF eBook |
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Pages | 794 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Railroads |
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The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985
Title | The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985 PDF eBook |
Author | Donovan L. Hofsommer |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781603441278 |
Don Hofsommer chronicles the twentieth-century history of a transportation giant. Here is a story of divestiture and merger, Sunset Route, and Prosperity Special. " . . . a treasure house of information about the Southern Pacific Company . . . . This book is a joy to read."--Richard C. Overton, from the Foreword
South Pacific Bulletin
Title | South Pacific Bulletin PDF eBook |
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Pages | 276 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Oceania |
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Southern Pacific Bulletin, Texas and Louisiana Lines
Title | Southern Pacific Bulletin, Texas and Louisiana Lines PDF eBook |
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Pages | 1264 |
Release | 1953 |
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Sunset Limited
Title | Sunset Limited PDF eBook |
Author | Richard J. Orsi |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 640 |
Release | 2005-05-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520940865 |
The only major U.S. railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific acquired a unique history and character. It also acquired a reputation, especially in California, as a railroad that people loved to hate. This magisterial history tells the full story of the Southern Pacific for the first time, shattering myths about the company that have prevailed to this day. A landmark account, Sunset Limited explores the railroad's development and influence—especially as it affected land settlement, agriculture, water policy, and the environment—and offers a new perspective on the tremendous, often surprising, role the company played in shaping the American West. Based on his unprecedented and extensive research into the company's historical archives, Richard Orsi finds that, contrary to conventional understanding, the Southern Pacific Company identified its corporate well-being with population growth and social and economic development in the railroad's hinterland. As he traces the complex and shifting intersections between corporate and public interest, Orsi documents the railroad's little-known promotion of land distribution, small-scale farming, scientific agriculture, and less wasteful environmental practices and policies—including water conservation and wilderness and recreational parklands preservation. Meticulously researched, lucidly written, and judiciously balanced, Sunset Limited opens a new window onto the American West in a crucial phase of its development and will forever change our perceptions of one of the largest and most important western corporations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Sacramento's Southern Pacific Shops
Title | Sacramento's Southern Pacific Shops PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin W. Hecteman |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2010-05-10 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1439640157 |
In 1862, the Central Pacific Railroad was founded and began building eastward from Sacramento as part of the transcontinental railroad. This required a shop capable of keeping the railroads equipment in running order. So in 1867, in the swamps just north of town, the Sacramento shops were born. For well more than a century, this massive complex kept the Central Pacific and its corporate successor, the Southern Pacific, operating smoothly. For many decades, the shops were the largest employer in the Sacramento area, employing carpenters, painters, draftsmen, boilermakers, electricians, clerks, upholsterers, and others. The shops forces designed, built, and maintained locomotives, freight and passenger cars, and other railroading equipment. The complex closed in 1999. Most of the area, popularly known as the Railyards, is set for redevelopment. The California State Railroad Museum handles maintenance and restoration of its collection in two of the shops buildings and plans to develop a Railroad Technology Museum on the site.