books: new mexico train

books: new mexico train

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New mexico train

Images of Western Railroading
Steve Schmollinger

MBI, 2003

From dizzying mountain passes to verdant pine valleys and arid desert canyons, the regions spanning the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast have always presented the railroad industry with special difficulties, spurring the development of new equipment to surmount those challenges. This is an art book treatment showing North America's most ...

Meeting the Train
Hagerman Historical Society

Sunstone Press, 2007

When W. E. Utterback began compiling the history of Hagerman, New Mexico in 1968, he asked Mrs. B. W. Curry to help. The two of them were doing fine, but soon discovered that Hagerman had more history than they had bargained for. It had become such a tremendous undertaking the others in the community offered to aid the struggling historians--and ...

Respite comes by rail: new train linking Mexico City with State of Mexico expected to slash commute times, ...
Gary L. Deaton

American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico A.C., 2004

This digital document is an article from Business Mexico, published by American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico A.C. on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 505 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after ...

The Night Journal

Elizabeth Crook

Viking Adult, 2006

Mixed feelings on this one
An older woman, Claudia Bass, has made her mother's journals famous by publishing them - Dr. Bass is a noted historian and scholar. And she is mean as a snake...Her granddaughter, Meg Mabry, and she are at odds mostly, maybe they are too alike and don't acknowledge ...

Rotary Snowplows on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
Joseph P. Hereford

University of New Mexico Press, 1998

Winter in the mountains always poses a special challenge to trains-deep snow drifts, over ten feet high, make the track impassible. To remove snow blockades, the rotary snowplow was developed in the late 1880s. This wheel, over nine feet in diameter, cuts into the snow and throws it away from the track. Since it was formed in 1970, the ...

All Aboard for Santa Fe: Railway Promotion of the Southwest, 1890s to 1930s

Victoria E. Dye

University of New Mexico Press, 2007

Easy readin' . . . loaded with facts and persuasive conclusions
Author has extracted oodles of technical references into an overview that covers a vital sixty-year span of American Southwest history. Victoria Dye skillfully illuminates the intertwining of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company (AT&SF) with its more ...

The Train Stops Here: New Mexico's Railway Legacy

Marci L. Riskin

University of New Mexico Press, 2005

The architectural features of New Mexico's railroad building
In The Train Stops Here: New Mexico's Railway Legacy, Santa Fe architect Marci Riskin provides the reader with a brief but informative history of railroad development, and then precedes to focus upon the architectural features of New Mexico's railroad buildings to help ...