Florida's Great Ocean Railway
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Florida's Great Ocean Railway by Dan Gallagher
The building of Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway extension over water to Key West from 1905 to 1916 was s triumph of engineering and logistics. The Keys were remote and with little means of communication. The massive amounts of materials had to be moved with steam power. This book tells the story of the planners and their plan and its execution. It has 250 old photos, most of which have never been published before.
Dan Gallagher has twenty years of leadership and organizational development experience within leading corporate and academic institutions.Since 2000, Dan has worked at Comcast, with 13 of those years at Comcast University in several leadership roles in high potential development and training across the company. He is now the Senior Vice President, Strategic Growth Initiatives at Comcast-Spectacor, where he manages training, information technology and change management tied to OneComcast-Spectacor. Dan has a bachelor's degree in sociology and a master's degree in organizational development and leadership from Saint Joseph's University. Dan served as president of the Philadelphia Society for Human Resource Management, has lectured at Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania and is an active leader in his community. In 2012 he published The Self-Aware Leader of which all proceeds will go to City Year. Dan currently sits on Advisory Boards with City Year and the National League of Cities. Dan lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and four sons. Joe Costal teaches English at Stockton College and Oakcrest High School in Southern New Jersey, where he was named Teacher of the Year in 2010. He lives down the shore in Cape May County, New Jersey, with his wife and four children.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781561642694 |
| ISBN 10 | 156164269X |
| Title | Florida's Great Ocean Railway |
| Author | Dan Gallagher |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Year published | 2003-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 197 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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