02487nam 2200589 a 450 991079041400332120230815220243.00-253-01069-1(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|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierJohn Frank Stevens civil engineer /Clifford FoustBloomington :Indiana University Press,2013.1 online resource (360 pages)Railroads past and present0-253-01061-6 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 engineeringHistoryRailroad engineersRailroad engineeringHistory.625.10092BFoust Clifford M.1928-1468849MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790414003321John Frank Stevens3680210UNINA