Author: William D. Kalt
Publisher: Vtd Rail Pub.
ISBN: 9780971991545
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
A history of the railroad in Tucson, Arizona, covers the years of expansion in the late 19th century through the profitable early 20th until the decline of the 1950s, exploring both the passenger and freight industries, the men and women who worked for the railroads in Tucson, and how the railway affected the community.
Tucson was a Railroad Town
Author: William D. Kalt
Publisher: Vtd Rail Pub.
ISBN: 9780971991545
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
A history of the railroad in Tucson, Arizona, covers the years of expansion in the late 19th century through the profitable early 20th until the decline of the 1950s, exploring both the passenger and freight industries, the men and women who worked for the railroads in Tucson, and how the railway affected the community.
Publisher: Vtd Rail Pub.
ISBN: 9780971991545
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
A history of the railroad in Tucson, Arizona, covers the years of expansion in the late 19th century through the profitable early 20th until the decline of the 1950s, exploring both the passenger and freight industries, the men and women who worked for the railroads in Tucson, and how the railway affected the community.
Locomotive Engineers Journal
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 972
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 972
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The Economics of Railroad Safety
Author: Ian Savage
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 146155571X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The American public has a fascination with railroad wrecks that goes back a long way. One hundred years ago, staged railroad accidents were popular events. At the Iowa State fair in 1896, 89,000 people paid $20 each, at current prices, to see two trains, throttles wide open, collide with each other. "Head-on Joe" Connolly made a business out of "cornfield meets" holding seventy-three events in thirty-six years. Picture books of train wrecks do good business presumably because a train wreck can guarantee a spectacular destruction of property without the messy loss of life associated with aircraft accidents. A "train wreck" has also entered the popular vocabulary in a most unusual way. When political manoeuvering leads to failure to pass the federal budget, and a shutdown is likely of government services, this is widely called a "train wreck. " In business and team sports, bumbling and lack of coordination leading to a spectacular and public failure to perform is also called "causing a train wreck. " A person or organization who is disorganized may be labelled a "train wreck. " It is therefore not surprising that the public perception of the safety of railroads centers on images of twisted metal and burning tank cars, and a general feeling that these events occur quite often. After a series of railroad accidents, such as occurred in the winter of 1996 or the summer of 1997, there are inevitable calls that government "should do something.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 146155571X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The American public has a fascination with railroad wrecks that goes back a long way. One hundred years ago, staged railroad accidents were popular events. At the Iowa State fair in 1896, 89,000 people paid $20 each, at current prices, to see two trains, throttles wide open, collide with each other. "Head-on Joe" Connolly made a business out of "cornfield meets" holding seventy-three events in thirty-six years. Picture books of train wrecks do good business presumably because a train wreck can guarantee a spectacular destruction of property without the messy loss of life associated with aircraft accidents. A "train wreck" has also entered the popular vocabulary in a most unusual way. When political manoeuvering leads to failure to pass the federal budget, and a shutdown is likely of government services, this is widely called a "train wreck. " In business and team sports, bumbling and lack of coordination leading to a spectacular and public failure to perform is also called "causing a train wreck. " A person or organization who is disorganized may be labelled a "train wreck. " It is therefore not surprising that the public perception of the safety of railroads centers on images of twisted metal and burning tank cars, and a general feeling that these events occur quite often. After a series of railroad accidents, such as occurred in the winter of 1996 or the summer of 1997, there are inevitable calls that government "should do something.
I Saw an Ant on the Railroad Track
Author: Joshua Prince
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 1402721838
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Jack, a railroad switchman, frantically tries to save an ant who is heading east on a westbound track, straight into the path of an oncoming freight train.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 1402721838
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Jack, a railroad switchman, frantically tries to save an ant who is heading east on a westbound track, straight into the path of an oncoming freight train.
Amending the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Value of Railroad Securities
Author: Dana, William B., and co., pub
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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American Railroad Journal
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Railways in the United States in 1902
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
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Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Agricultural Statistics
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Report of the Presidential Railroad Commission
Author: United States. Commission to Inquire into a Controversy between Certain Carriers and Certain of their Employees
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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