John Frank Stevens : Civil Engineer.

One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Ro...

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Main Author: Foust, Clifford
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
Series:Railroads past and present.
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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A Boy of West Gardiner; 2 Beginnings; 3 The Great Northern; 4 The Panama Canal: In; 5 The Panama Canal: Out; 6 Interlude; 7 Railroading in Russia; 8 The Final Decades; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. 
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