LEADER 02567nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910452895103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-253-01069-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000001113571 035 $a(EBL)1365239 035 $a(OCoLC)857365433 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000983300 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11546247 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000983300 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11005014 035 $a(PQKB)11480224 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1365239 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse31526 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1365239 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10753567 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL513427 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001113571 100 $a20130424d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJohn Frank Stevens$b[electronic resource] $ecivil engineer /$fClifford Foust 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (360 p.) 225 0$aRailroads past and present 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-01061-6 311 $a1-299-82176-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA boy of West Gardiner -- Beginnings -- The Great Northern -- The Panama Canal : in -- The Panama Canal : out -- Interlude -- Railroading in Russia -- The final decades. 330 $aOne of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt as chief engineer of the Panama Canal, creating a technical achievement far ahead of its time. Stevens also served for more than five years as the head of the US Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia and as a consultant who contributed to many engineering feats, including the contro 410 0$aRailroads Past and Present 606 $aRailroad engineers$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aRailroad engineering$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRailroad engineers 615 0$aRailroad engineering$xHistory. 676 $a625.10092 676 $aB 700 $aFoust$b Clifford M.$f1928-$0893984 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452895103321 996 $aJohn Frank Stevens$91997044 997 $aUNINA