Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 1616738979
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
From the 1830s to today, the railroad industry has developed myriad complex mechanisms to help keep North America’s railroad rights-of-ways safe, efficient, and relatively accident-free. In this paperback rerelease of the successful 2003 title, the otherwise-arcane world of railroad signaling is explained in concise language and brought to life with nearly 200 fantastic photographs that depict signaling history and all aspects of modern operations. Author and photographer Brian Solomon brings his wealth of knowledge and photographic talent to a subject that has not often been tackled in book form, yet is integral to the American railroad experience.
Railroad Signaling
Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 1616738979
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
From the 1830s to today, the railroad industry has developed myriad complex mechanisms to help keep North America’s railroad rights-of-ways safe, efficient, and relatively accident-free. In this paperback rerelease of the successful 2003 title, the otherwise-arcane world of railroad signaling is explained in concise language and brought to life with nearly 200 fantastic photographs that depict signaling history and all aspects of modern operations. Author and photographer Brian Solomon brings his wealth of knowledge and photographic talent to a subject that has not often been tackled in book form, yet is integral to the American railroad experience.
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 1616738979
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
From the 1830s to today, the railroad industry has developed myriad complex mechanisms to help keep North America’s railroad rights-of-ways safe, efficient, and relatively accident-free. In this paperback rerelease of the successful 2003 title, the otherwise-arcane world of railroad signaling is explained in concise language and brought to life with nearly 200 fantastic photographs that depict signaling history and all aspects of modern operations. Author and photographer Brian Solomon brings his wealth of knowledge and photographic talent to a subject that has not often been tackled in book form, yet is integral to the American railroad experience.
Classic Railroad Signals
Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 0760346925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Classic Railroad Signals digs into nearly every piece of train signaling hardware with archival and modern photos showing signals from around America.
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 0760346925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Classic Railroad Signals digs into nearly every piece of train signaling hardware with archival and modern photos showing signals from around America.
Classic Railroad Signals
Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 1627886397
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Explore the history, quirks, and stories behind signals with gorgeous period and contemprary photography. Railroad signals are the link between the steam era and modern railroading. Designed for reliability and durability, signals can survive for decades. In fact, old semaphores installed during the early years of the twentieth century were still in service during the 1990s, protecting trains that were running with the latest modern diesels. Even searchlight-style signals that were the epitome of 1940s railroading continue to work today. Though standards were introduced in the early twentieth century, interpretation varied greatly among railroads, so even major railroads have individualized signals. Some, such as the Pennsylvania Railroad, were noted for their distinctive signaling hardware. Others lines became known for their peculiarities in practice. Classic Railroad Signals examines how different railroads developed specific hardware to serve their unique needs, in the process tracing the lineage of various types of hardware and highlighting how and where they were used. From nineteenth-century mechanical signals to disc signals, upper- and lower-quadrant semaphores, three-light electric signals, searchlight-style targets, positional lights, and color-position light hardware, author Brian Solomon covers nearly every conceivable piece of North American signaling hardware, even the virtually extinct wig wag that was once standard in California and Wisconsin. Gorgeous period and contemprary photography shows signals and trains from around North America. Classic Railroad Signals should be next to Railroad Signaling on every railroad fan's bookshelf.
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 1627886397
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Explore the history, quirks, and stories behind signals with gorgeous period and contemprary photography. Railroad signals are the link between the steam era and modern railroading. Designed for reliability and durability, signals can survive for decades. In fact, old semaphores installed during the early years of the twentieth century were still in service during the 1990s, protecting trains that were running with the latest modern diesels. Even searchlight-style signals that were the epitome of 1940s railroading continue to work today. Though standards were introduced in the early twentieth century, interpretation varied greatly among railroads, so even major railroads have individualized signals. Some, such as the Pennsylvania Railroad, were noted for their distinctive signaling hardware. Others lines became known for their peculiarities in practice. Classic Railroad Signals examines how different railroads developed specific hardware to serve their unique needs, in the process tracing the lineage of various types of hardware and highlighting how and where they were used. From nineteenth-century mechanical signals to disc signals, upper- and lower-quadrant semaphores, three-light electric signals, searchlight-style targets, positional lights, and color-position light hardware, author Brian Solomon covers nearly every conceivable piece of North American signaling hardware, even the virtually extinct wig wag that was once standard in California and Wisconsin. Gorgeous period and contemprary photography shows signals and trains from around North America. Classic Railroad Signals should be next to Railroad Signaling on every railroad fan's bookshelf.
Railway Signaling and Communications
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Classic Railroad Scenes: Railroads at Work Hard Cover
Author: Art Peterson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781627008631
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Art Peterson is back with more color images from his Krambles-Peterson Archive. This book focuses on freight railroading and features scenes of switching and trains in industrial areas in the Transition and Classic eras. Large photos and in depth captions go beyond just telling what's in the photo - they put the images in context with the greater railroad scene as well as what was going on in the larger society.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781627008631
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Art Peterson is back with more color images from his Krambles-Peterson Archive. This book focuses on freight railroading and features scenes of switching and trains in industrial areas in the Transition and Classic eras. Large photos and in depth captions go beyond just telling what's in the photo - they put the images in context with the greater railroad scene as well as what was going on in the larger society.
Automatic Train Control in Rail Rapid Transit
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : High speed ground transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : High speed ground transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Night on the Galactic Railroad and Other Stories from Ihatov
Author: Kenji Miyazawa
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1935548999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is one of Japan's most beloved writers and poets, known particularly for his sensitive and symbolist children's fiction. This volume collects stories that focus on Miyazawa's love of space and his use of the galaxy as a metaphor for the concepts of purity, self-sacrifice, and faith, which were near and dear to his heart. "The Nighthawk Star" follows a lowly bird as he struggles to transform himself into something greater, a constellation in the night sky; "Signal & Signal-less" depicts a pair of star-crossed train signals who dream of eloping to the moon; and "Night on the Galactic Railroad," Miyazawa's most famous work, tells the story of two boys as they journey upon a train that traverses the Milky Way, learning the true meaning of friendship, happiness, and life itself along the way.
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1935548999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is one of Japan's most beloved writers and poets, known particularly for his sensitive and symbolist children's fiction. This volume collects stories that focus on Miyazawa's love of space and his use of the galaxy as a metaphor for the concepts of purity, self-sacrifice, and faith, which were near and dear to his heart. "The Nighthawk Star" follows a lowly bird as he struggles to transform himself into something greater, a constellation in the night sky; "Signal & Signal-less" depicts a pair of star-crossed train signals who dream of eloping to the moon; and "Night on the Galactic Railroad," Miyazawa's most famous work, tells the story of two boys as they journey upon a train that traverses the Milky Way, learning the true meaning of friendship, happiness, and life itself along the way.
Railway Signalling & Interlocking
Author: Gregor Theeg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783777103945
Category : Eisenbahnsignalanlage
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783777103945
Category : Eisenbahnsignalanlage
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Signal Engineer
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Little Trains Sticker Activity Book
Author: Carolyn Ewing
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486418391
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Pint-size train buffs apply stickers to a background scene of a railroad station and tracks. The reusable stickers depict trains, passengers, crossing gates, and more. 29 full-color stickers.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486418391
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Pint-size train buffs apply stickers to a background scene of a railroad station and tracks. The reusable stickers depict trains, passengers, crossing gates, and more. 29 full-color stickers.