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.
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.
Passenger Train Service
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Pt. 1: Committee Serial No. 90-17. Considers S. 1175 and related bills, to change administrative procedure and requirements for discontinuance of passenger train service, allowing longer periods of investigative time, reassignment of burden of non-profitability proof to carriers, and making alternative transportation arrangement provisions rather than service continuance/discontinuance decisions
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Pt. 1: Committee Serial No. 90-17. Considers S. 1175 and related bills, to change administrative procedure and requirements for discontinuance of passenger train service, allowing longer periods of investigative time, reassignment of burden of non-profitability proof to carriers, and making alternative transportation arrangement provisions rather than service continuance/discontinuance decisions
Passenger Train Service
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Passenger Train Service
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Passenger Train Service
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ferries
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Considers H.R. 5596 and 28 related bills, to amend the Interstate Commerce Act to require formal ICC hearing for each railroad and ferry boat passenger line earmarked for abandonment where more than one state is involved.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ferries
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Considers H.R. 5596 and 28 related bills, to amend the Interstate Commerce Act to require formal ICC hearing for each railroad and ferry boat passenger line earmarked for abandonment where more than one state is involved.
Passenger Train Service Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 91-37. Considers nine bills to revitalize rail passenger service in the U.S.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 91-37. Considers nine bills to revitalize rail passenger service in the U.S.
Passenger Train Service, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Railroad Passenger Train Service
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Passenger Train Service: May 24, 25, 1967
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Pt. 1: Committee Serial No. 90-17. Considers S. 1175 and related bills, to change administrative procedure and requirements for discontinuance of passenger train service, allowing longer periods of investigative time, reassignment of burden of non-profitability proof to carriers, and making alternative transportation arrangement provisions rather than service continuance/discontinuance decisions.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Pt. 1: Committee Serial No. 90-17. Considers S. 1175 and related bills, to change administrative procedure and requirements for discontinuance of passenger train service, allowing longer periods of investigative time, reassignment of burden of non-profitability proof to carriers, and making alternative transportation arrangement provisions rather than service continuance/discontinuance decisions.
The Crisis in Passenger Train Service
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 89-11. Considers S. 325, to provide a 5-year Federal assistance program to passenger railroads for operating expenses; S. 1234, to allow New York and Connecticut to create a New York-Connecticut Rail Authority; and S. 348 to create a Northeast Rail Authority.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 89-11. Considers S. 325, to provide a 5-year Federal assistance program to passenger railroads for operating expenses; S. 1234, to allow New York and Connecticut to create a New York-Connecticut Rail Authority; and S. 348 to create a Northeast Rail Authority.