Author: Bill Moyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998096308
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Solutionary Rail vision draws unlikely allies together. It provides common cause to workers, farmers, tribes, urban and rural communities via the tracks and corridors that connect them. Part action plan and part manifesto, this book launches a new people-powered campaign to transform the way we use trains and the corridors they travel through.
Solutionary Rail
Author: Bill Moyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998096308
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Solutionary Rail vision draws unlikely allies together. It provides common cause to workers, farmers, tribes, urban and rural communities via the tracks and corridors that connect them. Part action plan and part manifesto, this book launches a new people-powered campaign to transform the way we use trains and the corridors they travel through.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998096308
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Solutionary Rail vision draws unlikely allies together. It provides common cause to workers, farmers, tribes, urban and rural communities via the tracks and corridors that connect them. Part action plan and part manifesto, this book launches a new people-powered campaign to transform the way we use trains and the corridors they travel through.
Rail
Author: Kai Carlson-Wee
Publisher: Poulin, Jr. New Poets of Ameri
ISBN: 9781942683582
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A spiritual journey across the railways and backroads of the American West.
Publisher: Poulin, Jr. New Poets of Ameri
ISBN: 9781942683582
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A spiritual journey across the railways and backroads of the American West.
Getting There
Author: Stephen B. Goddard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226300436
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
From the glory days of the railroad to today's gridlocked, six-lane highway, Getting There dramatizes America's shift from rail to road transportation, how it has robbed Americans of the choice of travel options enjoyed by Europeans, and why it threatens the nation's economic future. Stephen B. Goddard reveals how government joined automakers and roadbuilders to nearly destroy the rails, and why the 21st century will witness high-tech remedies and a railroad resurgence.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226300436
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
From the glory days of the railroad to today's gridlocked, six-lane highway, Getting There dramatizes America's shift from rail to road transportation, how it has robbed Americans of the choice of travel options enjoyed by Europeans, and why it threatens the nation's economic future. Stephen B. Goddard reveals how government joined automakers and roadbuilders to nearly destroy the rails, and why the 21st century will witness high-tech remedies and a railroad resurgence.
The Rail
Author: Tommy Donovan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991008391
Category : Bildungsromans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story of a young man growing up during difficult times in the Bronx, New York.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991008391
Category : Bildungsromans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story of a young man growing up during difficult times in the Bronx, New York.
Long Steel Rail
Author: Norm Cohen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068812
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068812
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition.
Laying Down the Rails
Author: Sonya Shafer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616346096
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616346096
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Retribution Rails
Author: Erin Bowman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544918886
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Ten years after the events of Vengeance Road, Reece Murphy, who has been forced to join the Rose Riders gang, must work with aspiring journalist Charlotte Vaughn to get free.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544918886
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Ten years after the events of Vengeance Road, Reece Murphy, who has been forced to join the Rose Riders gang, must work with aspiring journalist Charlotte Vaughn to get free.
High-speed Rail: An Analysis Of The Chinese Innovation System
Author: Bai Gao
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811206767
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
High-speed railway system is interdisciplinary subject that covers infrastructure, mobile equipment, traction power supply, communication signal, operation and maintenance, and transportation organization. The purpose of this book is to give readers a basic understanding of the technology behind of China's high-speed rail network.In this book, the author mainly focusses on the innovations of products and processes, especially product innovation, which involves the selection of technology route, technology system and technology source. Therefore, the innovation in HST here refers to the selection of technology route, technology system and technology source, as well as, the new products developed and manufactured according to the selection. With the in-depth study, the author would like to provide outlook for development in this area in the next stage.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811206767
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
High-speed railway system is interdisciplinary subject that covers infrastructure, mobile equipment, traction power supply, communication signal, operation and maintenance, and transportation organization. The purpose of this book is to give readers a basic understanding of the technology behind of China's high-speed rail network.In this book, the author mainly focusses on the innovations of products and processes, especially product innovation, which involves the selection of technology route, technology system and technology source. Therefore, the innovation in HST here refers to the selection of technology route, technology system and technology source, as well as, the new products developed and manufactured according to the selection. With the in-depth study, the author would like to provide outlook for development in this area in the next stage.
New Hampshire Rail Trails
Author: Charles Fontaine Martin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The most comprehensive guide yet written on multi-use rail trails in New Hampshire, with inviting prose, 95 meticulous maps, and 180 photographs of railroad artifacts, scenery, and trail conditions. Includes capsule histories of the abandoned railroads that formerly operated in New Hampshire, followed by detailed descriptions of the trails that have taken their place. Each trail description includes ratings of the trail surface condition and the scenery along the trail; a list of permitted uses; clear instructions for parking and accessing the trail; and comprehensive notes on natural and historical sights and railroad artifacts that trail users will see along the way.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The most comprehensive guide yet written on multi-use rail trails in New Hampshire, with inviting prose, 95 meticulous maps, and 180 photographs of railroad artifacts, scenery, and trail conditions. Includes capsule histories of the abandoned railroads that formerly operated in New Hampshire, followed by detailed descriptions of the trails that have taken their place. Each trail description includes ratings of the trail surface condition and the scenery along the trail; a list of permitted uses; clear instructions for parking and accessing the trail; and comprehensive notes on natural and historical sights and railroad artifacts that trail users will see along the way.
Personal Passenger Safety in Railway Stations
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0215028996
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Personal passenger safety in railway Stations : Oral and written evidence, oral evidence taken on Wednesday 19 April 2006
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0215028996
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Personal passenger safety in railway Stations : Oral and written evidence, oral evidence taken on Wednesday 19 April 2006