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Author : John J. Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Rail written by John J. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John J. Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (878 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Rail written by John J. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Tatlow
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland written by Joseph Tatlow and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1920 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John J. Thomas
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332920009
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Rail (Classic Reprint) written by John J. Thomas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fifty Years on the Rail When you pay for this book, of course it is yours, yet I should like to ask of you a favor. If you find in it any valuable information, just say as much to your friends, but kindly refuse to let the other fellow read your copy, thus giving some chance of compensation to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Charles B. George
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Forty Years on the Rail written by Charles B. George and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Carolla
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307717380
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks written by Adam Carolla and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A couple years back, I was at the Phoenix airport bar. It was empty except for one heavy-set, gray bearded, grizzled guy who looked like he just rode his donkey into town after a long day of panning for silver in them thar hills. He ordered a Jack Daniels straight up, and that's when I overheard the young guy with the earring behind the bar asking him if he had ID. At first the old sea captain just laughed. But the guy with the twinkle in his ear asked again. At this point it became apparent that he was serious. Dan Haggerty's dad fired back, "You've got to be kidding me, son." The bartender replied, "New policy. Everyone has to show their ID." Then I watched Burl Ives reluctantly reach into his dungarees and pull out his military identification card from World War II. It's a sad and eerie harbinger of our times that the Oprah-watching, crystal-rubbing, Whole Foods-shopping moms and their whipped attorney husbands have taken the ability to reason away from the poor schlub who makes the Bloody Marys. What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we now settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers. Adam Carolla has had enough of this insanity and he's here to help us get our collective balls back. In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks is Adam's comedic gospel of modern America. He rips into the absurdity of the culture that demonized the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, turned the nation's bathrooms into a lawless free-for-all of urine and fecal matter, and put its citizens at the mercy of a bunch of minimum wagers with axes to grind. Peppered between complaints Carolla shares candid anecdotes from his day to day life as well as his past—Sunday football at Jimmy Kimmel's house, his attempts to raise his kids in a society that he mostly disagrees with, his big showbiz break, and much, much more. Brilliantly showcasing Adam's spot-on sense of humor, this book cements his status as a cultural commentator/comedian/complainer extraordinaire.
Author : Geoffrey H. Doughty
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253060656
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Amtrak, America's Railroad written by Geoffrey H. Doughty and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the story of Amtrak, America's Railroad, 50 years in the making. In 1971, in an effort to rescue essential freight railroads, the US government founded Amtrak. In the post–World War II era, aviation and highway development had become the focus of government policy in America. As rail passenger services declined in number and in quality, they were simultaneously driving many railroads toward bankruptcy. Amtrak was intended to be the solution. In Amtrak, America's Railroad: Transportation's Orphan and Its Struggle for Survival, Geoffrey H. Doughty, Jeffrey T. Darbee, and Eugene E. Harmon explore the fascinating history of this popular institution and tell a tale of a company hindered by its flawed origin and uneven quality of leadership, subjected to political gamesmanship and favoritism, and mired in a perpetual philosophical debate about whether it is a business or a public service. Featuring interviews with former Amtrak presidents, the authors examine the current problems and issues facing Amtrak and their proposed solutions. Created in the absence of a comprehensive national transportation policy, Amtrak manages to survive despite inherent flaws due to the public's persistent loyalty. Amtrak, America's Railroad is essential reading for those who hope to see another fifty years of America's railroad passenger service, whether they be patrons, commuters, legislators, regulators, and anyone interested in railroads and transportation history.
Author : Bill Laws
Publisher : Firefly Books
ISBN 13 : 9781446302903
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Fifty Railways that Changed the Course of History written by Bill Laws and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Railroads that Changed the Course of History, is a handsome, illustrated survey of the most important historical and contemporary railway lines around the world.
Author : William O'Neal Stringer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Railroad Stories From The EJ&E Railroad and a Few Others written by William O'Neal Stringer and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railroad Stories describes my start on the EJ&E Railroad, from the very beginning, and it includes all my trials and tribulations. The heart of the book is in the 150 stories of events and employees within the EJ&E Railroad. The cover picture depicts a Red Wing Blackbird, sitting on my hand, inside the cab of a moving locomotive. This was a very special moment for both of us. I worked with numerous men at EJ&E, over my 33 years, and you could best describe them as "Railroad Characters." You would have to work 100 different jobs in your lifetime to meet such a diverse array of people. According to one reader, "The book is a good read and will provide insight into what is really going on with the crews and the work that they do. If you were not there on the inside to appreciate how things played out, you can read this book and get all that special inside information."
Author : Simon Cordery
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253019125
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Iron Road in the Prairie State written by Simon Cordery and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the nation's railroad hub, with Chicago at its center. Speculators, greed, growth, and regulation followed as the railroad industry consumed unprecedented amounts of capital and labor. A nationwide market resulted, and the Windy City became the site of opportunities and challenges that remain to this day. In this first-of-its-kind history, full of entertaining anecdotes and colorful characters, Simon Cordery describes the explosive growth of Illinois railroads and its impact on America. Cordery shows how railroading in Illinois influenced railroad financing, the creation of a national economy, and government regulation of business. Cordery's masterful chronicle of rail development in Illinois from 1837 to 2010 reveals how the state's expanding railroads became the foundation of the nation's rail network.
Author : Jeriah Bonham
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338531092X
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years' Recollections: With Observations and Reflections on Historical Events, Giving Sketches of Eminent Citizens; Their Lives and Public Services written by Jeriah Bonham and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : Michael A. Vanns
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473892147
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Great Central Railway written by Michael A. Vanns and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling book centers on the Great Central Railways early history, focusing particularly on its drive to reach London. It follows the subsequent fortunes of the London Extension right up until its closure, and into the preservation era, examining the remarkable achievements of hundreds of enthusiasts and their continuing struggle to fulfill the aspirations of those 1969 visionaries.In 1899 the Great Central Railway opened a new main line between Nottinghamshire and London. It was built to the highest of standards; civil and mechanical engineers able to benefit from the experience of over fifty years of British railway construction. It was a glorious achievement. Yet, despite incorporating some of the best facilities to enable it to operate in a more efficient way than its older rivals, it had a short working life compared to its contemporaries. By the end of the 1960s, most of it had closed. However, ironically, that abandonment by the state-owned British Railways presented an independent and enterprising group of railway enthusiasts with a unique opportunity to operate their own main line with their own engines. In 1969 the Main Line Preservation Group was formed with a vision to re-create a fully functioning, double track, steam-worked main line between Nottingham and Leicester. This book explores the journey, development and changes of the Great Central Railway and is a fantastic guide to how the railway industry has changed over time.
Author : Charles B. George
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Forty Years on the Rail written by Charles B. George and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abrahm Lustgarten
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429967188
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book China's Great Train written by Abrahm Lustgarten and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of China's unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and its obsession to transform its land and its people In the summer of 2006, the Chinese government fulfilled a fifty-year plan to build a railway into Tibet. Since Mao Zedong first envisioned it, the line had grown into an imperative, a critical component of China's breakneck expansion and the final maneuver in strengthening China's grip over this remote and often mystical frontier, which promised rich resources and geographic supremacy over South Asia. Through the lives of the Chinese and Tibetans swept up in the project, Fortune magazine writer Abrahm Lustgarten explores the "Wild West" atmosphere of the Chinese economy today. He follows innovative Chinese engineer Zhang Luxin as he makes the train's route over the treacherous mountains and permafrost possible (for now), and the tenacious Tibetan shopkeeper Rinzen, who struggles to hold on to his business in a boomtown that increasingly favors the Han Chinese. As the railway—the highest and steepest in the world—extends to Lhasa, and China's "Go West" campaign delivers waves of rural poor eager to make their fortunes, their lives and communities fundamentally change, sometimes for good, sometimes not. Lustgarten's book is a timely, provocative, and absorbing first-hand account of the Chinese boom and the promise and costs of rapid development on the country's people.
Author : Charles B. George
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230262406
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Forty Years on the Rail written by Charles B. George and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xi. human nature on the rail. If the porst who wrote "The proper study of mankind is man," had been a conductor he might have indulged in that study to his heart's content. Perhaps no other place furnishes a better opportunity than the train does for the study of human nature. No one has a better chance to learn the peculiarities of mankind than the conductor, going backward and forward as he does through the train and passing his days thus from one year's end to the other. The mask that is worn so successfully in church and society is dropped before him without reserve. All kinds of people are to be found traveling on the rail. There is the man who acts as if the rest of the world, and especially all railroad officials, were in league against him. "This is a free country, and I'm in for all the law allows," he says. So he puts his valise in the seat beside him to prevent anyone from sitting next to him, opens the window without regard to the feeble woman back of him, or the sick child across the aisle, and then spits tobacco juice all over the floor. This is the man who always rides on a pass when he can get it by hook or crook, or resorts to scalpers for tickets when passes give out, or is determined to use a limited ticket long after the time of limitation has expired. It is against his principles to pay a good, honest fare. "There's nothing like cheek, in this world," he remarks, when giving advice to a traveler not so endowed with this article as himself. "There is nothing like cheek, and if a thing's to be got by it, why I'm there every time. When I put on my coat in the morning I put on my gall with it, and I tell you I never get left." Once in a while the selfish passenger gets a fitting rebuke, as the following story...
Author : Raymond Florax
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540223610
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years of Regional Science written by Raymond Florax and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the complete text of the special Golden Anniversary issue of the flagship journal of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Papers in Regional Science (Volume 83, Number 1), as well as the full text of Walter Isard's Presidential Address "The future (near and far) of regional science". Professor Isard originally delivered the speech in a special plenary session of the fiftieth North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International. The session began with a ceremonial kickoff to the year-long celebration of the multidisciplinary field's first 50 years. At the ceremony, held on the morning of Friday, November 21,2004 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Philadelphia, we presented Walter Isard, the founder of our multidisciplinary field, as well as Antoine Bailly, the President of the Regional Science Association International, and David Boyce, the Association's Archivist, with commemorative first copies of the anniversary issue. This book, entitled Fifty Years of Regional Science, consists of a compendium of "thought" papers authored by a representative sampling of some of the field's leading scholars. For the special journal issue we originally titled the collection: "The Brightest of Dawns".
Author : Beppe Severgnini
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1592408729
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)
Download or read book Off the Rails written by Beppe Severgnini and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this witty and entertaining collection of travel tales, an acclaimed journalist explores his obsession with trains--and what his rail journeys have taught him about culture and identity. "I've gone around the world in installments. Every trip has been a revelation. I've watched regions, nations, and continents change moods and I've met more people on trains than in forty years of airplane flights. Every train trip has been a spectacle. Trains are stages, cafés, bazaars. The only talk show that will never go off the air..." Beppe Severgnini has spent his life traveling the world, and not just because he's a journalist; he's a passionate, unflagging train buff. Off the Rails recounts some of his favorite trips across Europe, Australia, Asia, and the United States, each journey bringing readers not only to a different place but to a different time, from his honeymoon on the Trans-Siberian Express (in a four-person compartment!), to a winding journey from Russia to Turkey during the last summer of communism, to a recent coast-to-coast trip with his son from Washington, D.C., to Washington State. Off the Rails is the perfect getaway for anyone with a touch of wanderlust, who dreams of escape or just likes to laugh. Filled with memorable characters and perceptive observations, it demonstrates--hilariously--what unites us. With the world in chaos and life in perpetual fast-forward, it's always the right time to hop on board with Beppe Severgnini and meet your charming, hapless, quarrelsome, romantic, shifty, quirky, endearing neighbors.
