Author: Charles Travis
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Author: Charles Ely Rose Sherrington
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Author: Douglas J. Puffert
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226685098
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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A standard track gauge—the distance between the two rails—enables connecting railway lines to exchange traffic. But despite the benefits of standardization, early North American railways used six different gauges extensively, and even today breaks of gauge at national borders and within such countries as India and Australia are expensive burdens on commerce. In Tracks across Continents, Paths through History, Douglas J. Puffert offers a global history of railway track gauge, examining early choices and the dynamic process of diversity and standardization that resulted. Drawing on the economic theory of path dependence, and grounded in economic, technical, and institutional realities, this innovative volume traces how early historical events, and even idiosyncratic personalities, have affected choices of gauge ever since, despite changing technology and understandings of what gauge is optimal. Puffert also uses this history to develop new insights in the theory of path dependence. Tracks across Continents, Paths through History will be essential reading for anyone interested in how history and economics inform each other.

Author: K.G. Fenelon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351794094
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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This book, first published in 1932, provides a survey of the subject of railway economics as a whole, including the theory and practice of railway charging; State regulation and ownership; railway amalgamation; railway capital; railway organization and labour problems. In addition a critical examination is made of the economic questions involved in electrification, train speeds, railway-owned road transport and other problems.

Author: International Railway Congress Association
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1336

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Category : Railroad companies
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Category : Locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 664

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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 936

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Author: South Africa. Railways and Harbours Board
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Author: Charles Travis
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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