Author: Arthur James Manson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
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.
Railroad Electrification and the Electric Locomotive
Author: Arthur James Manson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Electric Traction on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1895-1968
Author: Michael Bezilla
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The first comprehensive case study of railroad electrification in the United States, this pioneering book highlights a subject of current government and industry studies and a target of billions of dollars of Amtrak rehabilitation funds. Both energy conservation and environmental quality remain at stake together with transportation efficiency. Electric traction on the Pennsylvania Railroad was a technological success handicapped by an economic factor: the onetime relatively low cost of petroleum, which gave diesel locomotives and highway vehicles a temporary advantage. Today the growing cost advantage of electricity--generated with coal; atomic energy; water, wind, and solar power--prefigures a revival of electric railroad traction. Drawing upon previously untapped records of the PRR and its suppliers, notably General Electric, the author traces stages in cooperative risk management. First came challenges of limited scope which steam locomotives were unable to meet: the New York City tunnel extension of 1910 and the Philadelphia suburban modernization begun in 1913. Next came a decade of mainline electrification, 1928-38: first New York to Washington and then passenger and freight extensions to Harrisburg. These projects were preceded by large-scale research and experimentation, followed by constant improvement in equipment and operations. Electric traction is depicted as a program involving not only the railroad but also its consultants, equipment and energy suppliers, and (to a lesser degree) governmental bodies. Locomotive and power transmission design is described in detail--with copious illustrations--as are the creative achievements of managers, engineers, and workers. And the presentation will be clear to readers without specialized technical or business backgrounds.
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The first comprehensive case study of railroad electrification in the United States, this pioneering book highlights a subject of current government and industry studies and a target of billions of dollars of Amtrak rehabilitation funds. Both energy conservation and environmental quality remain at stake together with transportation efficiency. Electric traction on the Pennsylvania Railroad was a technological success handicapped by an economic factor: the onetime relatively low cost of petroleum, which gave diesel locomotives and highway vehicles a temporary advantage. Today the growing cost advantage of electricity--generated with coal; atomic energy; water, wind, and solar power--prefigures a revival of electric railroad traction. Drawing upon previously untapped records of the PRR and its suppliers, notably General Electric, the author traces stages in cooperative risk management. First came challenges of limited scope which steam locomotives were unable to meet: the New York City tunnel extension of 1910 and the Philadelphia suburban modernization begun in 1913. Next came a decade of mainline electrification, 1928-38: first New York to Washington and then passenger and freight extensions to Harrisburg. These projects were preceded by large-scale research and experimentation, followed by constant improvement in equipment and operations. Electric traction is depicted as a program involving not only the railroad but also its consultants, equipment and energy suppliers, and (to a lesser degree) governmental bodies. Locomotive and power transmission design is described in detail--with copious illustrations--as are the creative achievements of managers, engineers, and workers. And the presentation will be clear to readers without specialized technical or business backgrounds.
Railroad Electrification Data
Author: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Railway Electrification
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Report of the Committee on Railroad Electrification
Author: Civic League of Saint Louis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Railway Electrification
Author: Harry Fredrick Trewman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Railroad Electrification
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Electrification
Author: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Industrial Arts Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 1550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 1550
Book Description