02567nam 2200613 a 450 991045289510332120200520144314.00-253-01069-1(CKB)2550000001113571(EBL)1365239(OCoLC)857365433(SSID)ssj0000983300(PQKBManifestationID)11546247(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000983300(PQKBWorkID)11005014(PQKB)11480224(MiAaPQ)EBC1365239(MdBmJHUP)muse31526(Au-PeEL)EBL1365239(CaPaEBR)ebr10753567(CaONFJC)MIL513427(EXLCZ)99255000000111357120130424d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJohn Frank Stevens[electronic resource] civil engineer /Clifford FoustBloomington Indiana University Press20131 online resource (360 p.)Railroads past and presentDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-01061-6 1-299-82176-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.A boy of West Gardiner -- Beginnings -- The Great Northern -- The Panama Canal : in -- The Panama Canal : out -- Interlude -- Railroading in Russia -- The final decades.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 Roosevelt as chief engineer of the Panama Canal, creating a technical achievement far ahead of its time. Stevens also served for more than five years as the head of the US Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia and as a consultant who contributed to many engineering feats, including the controRailroads Past and PresentRailroad engineersUnited StatesBiographyRailroad engineeringHistoryElectronic books.Railroad engineersRailroad engineeringHistory.625.10092BFoust Clifford M.1928-893984MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452895103321John Frank Stevens1997044UNINA