Author: Outlet
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780517020760
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Trains in Transition
Author: Outlet
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780517020760
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780517020760
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Red Trains in the East Bay
Author: Robert S. Ford
Publisher: Interurban Press
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher: Interurban Press
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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High Iron
Author: Lucius Morris Beebe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Waiting on a Train
Author: James McCommons
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603582592
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603582592
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.
The Caboose who Got Loose
Author: Bill Peet
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395287156
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Tired of being last on the smoky, noisy train, Katy wishes for some way to escape the endless track.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395287156
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Tired of being last on the smoky, noisy train, Katy wishes for some way to escape the endless track.
Trains in Transition
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Transition on the Western Railways
Author: Tim Squires
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398102768
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Terrific photos looking at a time of great change on the West of England's railways as we exit the HST 125 era.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398102768
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Terrific photos looking at a time of great change on the West of England's railways as we exit the HST 125 era.
The Railway Transition Spiral
Author: Arthur N Talbot
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781018271699
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Shelf2Life Trains & Railroads Collection provides a unique opportunity for researchers and railroad enthusiasts to easily access and explore pre-1923 titles focusing on the history, culture and experience of railroading. From the revolution of the steam engine to the thrill of early travel by rail, railroads opened up new opportunities for commerce, American westward expansion and travel. These books provide a unique view of the impact of this type of transportation on our urban and rural societies and cultures, while allowing the reader to share the experience of early railroading in a new and unique way. The Trains & Railroads Collection offers a valuable perspective on this important and fascinating aspect of modern industrialization.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781018271699
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Shelf2Life Trains & Railroads Collection provides a unique opportunity for researchers and railroad enthusiasts to easily access and explore pre-1923 titles focusing on the history, culture and experience of railroading. From the revolution of the steam engine to the thrill of early travel by rail, railroads opened up new opportunities for commerce, American westward expansion and travel. These books provide a unique view of the impact of this type of transportation on our urban and rural societies and cultures, while allowing the reader to share the experience of early railroading in a new and unique way. The Trains & Railroads Collection offers a valuable perspective on this important and fascinating aspect of modern industrialization.
Southern Pacific in Transition
Author: Bill Shippen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diesel locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Examines the many paint schemes 1939-1996.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diesel locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Examines the many paint schemes 1939-1996.
The Railway Transition Spiral
Author: Arthur Newell Talbot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description