The Great Northern Railway: A History

My book arrived in perfect condition and as described by the seller, like new opened once maybe. While much of the volume revolves around the financial story surrounding the Great Northern, all of that matters when it comes to understand the building of that road. Overall I am very happy to add it to my library.

Although too scholarly for many readers this work has a definite place in the hands of any United States railroad devotee who is seeking specific history; economic, equipment and management of one of the most important railroads in the overall railroad development in the United States. The difficulties in constructing this line were probably exceeded only by the Denver and Rio Grande in constructing its line from Denver to Salt Lake City over and through the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Originally three separate companies constructed lines through the most northern tier of States from the northern mid west to the Pacific Northwest with the ultimate goal of connecting Chicago to Seattle's Pacific Ocean seaport with its access to the Orient. Now all of these are consolidated into one.

Nice

Very detailed history of the gradual process of creating a successful long lasting railroad. Covers many detailed descriptions of financial, material, employee and terrain problems mile by mile from Mpls-St. Paul to Seattle and to Chicago. Stories of many financial leaders.

A meticulous and scholarly history of the Great Northern, from its Minnesota origins in the 1850s, to the turn-of-the-century Empire Building decades under James. J. Hill, to the 1970 merger with the Northern Pacific that created the Burlington Northern. Well illustrated with vintage black and white photos, this book--at 360 pages--is nonetheless more of a business case study than a pretty coffee table book, reflecting the Harvard Business School connections of its authors and publisher.

Great Book

The quality of printing(360 pages, hardcover) is very high with very good picture resolution, and good choice of high quality historic photography. It's hard for one book to get into much detail on all topics, but this one did well in overview, covering the entire railroad over it's long history and wide geographic expanse. I wanted more pictures of iron mining, and ore docks, but not much was covered there. Still a nice book, well worth owning, and one of not many on The Great Northern.Heilung

Wonderful history of the Great Northern Railroad and JD Hill the owner and builder.

This is a well written and comprehensive history of the Great Northern. The authors are well know academics. While comprehensive, this is actually an abbreviated version of a larger, more academic version of the book by the same authors.

この本、自分が買ったときは400円程度でした。元価格は28ドル。なんでこんなに安いのか？（プライムに入ってなかったら送料のほうが高いだろ！）判型が横長だし一瞬写真集っぽいですが、実はテキストが圧倒的に主体なので特に英語が得意でも何でもない自分にはなかなか読むのは大変。ただグレートノーザンの歴史本としてはたぶんトップクラスの本だと思います。アメリカの鉄道史に関心があるなら、400円とかだったらお買い得すぎるので買っとくべし。

アメリカのグレートノーザン鉄道の歴史を詳細に紹介している本です。グレートノーザン鉄道はミネソタ州セントポールからシアトルまでを結ぶ大陸横断鉄道です。飛行機がない時代には、日本からアメリカ東部へ行くには、船で横浜からシアトルへ向い、このグレートノーザン鉄道で東部の町へ向うのが最短のルートでした。この本では、1800年代の開通当初から、カスケード峠を越える難工事や1940～50年代の鉄道黄金時代等の話が満載です。グレートノーザン鉄道研究者、鉄道ファンには欠かせない1冊といえましょう。