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Author : Harvey Weiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780690013047
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)
Download or read book How to Run a Railroad written by Harvey Weiss and published by . This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses setting up model railroads including layouts, construction, and train selection.
Author : George Ella Lyon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481482033
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Trains Run! written by George Ella Lyon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We’ve already learned that trucks roll, planes fly, and boats float. Now, all aboard for the fourth book in George Ella Lyon’s transportation series, and this time learn all about trains! Train travels down the track— all day gone all night back. Trains run! From steam engines to subways, from the locomotive to the caboose, this story stays right on track, exploring all different kinds of trains and what they do in a day.
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610600149
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Working on the Railroad written by Brian Solomon and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerard Fiennes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784970840
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book I Tried to Run a Railway written by Gerard Fiennes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'BR rebel chairman resigns' The Guardian. 'Rebel rail chief in row' Daily Mail. 'I don't take it back says sacked rail chief' Daily Express. This is the notorious book that got Gerard Fiennes sacked from British Railways while he was Chairman and General Manager of the Eastern Region in 1968. Fiennes became a railwayman by accident, joining the L.N.E.R as a Traffic Apprentice in 1928. Over the next four decades he worked himself up to the top of management tree, experiencing all facets of railway life – steam through diesel to electrification – on his way to the top. When he got there, he knew the service was ripe for a revolution... and he believed he was the man to lead it. But of course, it was the wrong time for a manager who thought that railways could be a success – Dr. Beeching was sharpening his axe and unprofitable lines were closed rather than turned round. After being resisted, circumvented, delayed and blocked, G. F. Fiennes ran out of patience and put pen to paper and ran his career into the buffers as he told the story of what happens when non-railwaymen tried to run the railway.
Author : American Hoist & Derrick Company, St. Paul
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Building a Railroad written by American Hoist & Derrick Company, St. Paul and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tony Koester
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
ISBN 13 : 9780890244180
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Realistic Model Railroad Operation written by Tony Koester and published by Kalmbach Publishing, Co.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develop realistic operating sessions and operate your model railroad like a full-sized one. The book covers how to forward cars, move trains, and use signal systems.
Author : James McCommons
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603582592
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Waiting on a Train written by James McCommons and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Mr. Kidwell (Zedekiah)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report on the Impracticability of Building a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean written by Mr. Kidwell (Zedekiah) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501747789
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book "Follow the Flag" written by H. Roger Grant and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Follow the Flag" offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. The corporate saga of the Wabash involved the efforts of strong-willed and creative leaders, but this book provides more than traditional business history. Noted transportation historian H. Roger Grant captures the human side of the Wabash, ranging from the medical doctors who created an effective hospital department to the worker-sponsored social events. And Grant has not ignored the impact the Wabash had on businesses and communities in the "Heart of America." Like most major American carriers, the Wabash grew out of an assortment of small firms, including the first railroad to operate in Illinois, the Northern Cross. Thanks in part to the genius of financier Jay Gould, by the early 1880s what was then known as the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway reached the principal gateways of Chicago, Des Moines, Detroit, Kansas City, and St. Louis. In the 1890s, the Wabash gained access to Buffalo and direct connections to Boston and New York City. One extension, spearheaded by Gould's eldest son, George, fizzled. In 1904 entry into Pittsburgh caused financial turmoil, ultimately throwing the Wabash into receivership. A subsequent reorganization allowed the Wabash to become an important carrier during the go-go years of the 1920s and permitted the company to take control of a strategic "bridge" property, the Ann Arbor Railroad. The Great Depression forced the company into another receivership, but an effective reorganization during the early days of World War II gave rise to a generally robust road. Its famed Blue Bird streamliner, introduced in 1950 between Chicago and St. Louis, became a widely recognized symbol of the "New Wabash." When "merger madness" swept the railroad industry in the 1960s, the Wabash, along with the Nickel Plate Road, joined the prosperous Norfolk & Western Railway, a merger that worked well for all three carriers. Immortalized in the popular folk song "Wabash Cannonball," the midwestern railroad has left important legacies. Today, forty years after becoming a "fallen flag" carrier, key components of the former Wabash remain busy rail arteries and terminals, attesting to its historic value to American transportation.
Author : Richard Reinhardt
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806135250
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Workin' on the Railroad written by Richard Reinhardt and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The mighty railroad occupied the undisputed center of American public life. The railroad founded cities, populated states, created governments, destroyed the wilderness. It was the great speculator, the political tyrant, the recruiter of immigrants, the opener of new lands, the cynosure of poets and pioneers, the symbol of adventure, opportunity, escape, and power. . . . Yet, the railroad man, for all his historic importance, his archetypal stature, and his economic power, has achieved only a minor position in American literature.”--from Workin’ on the Railroad In Workin’ on the Railroad, Richard Reinhardt presents firsthand accounts from engineers, brakemen, porters, conductors, section men, roundhouse workers, switchmen, telegraphers, surveyors, and other neglected pioneers who worked the railroad during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Age of Steam.
Author : E. B. White
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062348752
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Essays of E. B. White written by E. B. White and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some of the finest examples of contemporary, genuinely American prose. White's style incorporates eloquence without affection, profundity without pomposity, and wit without frivolity or hostility. Like his predecessors Thoreau and Twain, White's creative, humane, and graceful perceptions are an education for the sensibilities." — Washington Post The classic collection by one of the greatest essayists of our time. Selected by E.B. White himself, the essays in this volume span a lifetime of writing and a body of work without peer. "I have chosen the ones that have amused me in the rereading," he writes in the Foreword, "alone with a few that seemed to have the odor of durability clinging to them." These essays are incomparable; this is a volume to treasure and savor at one's leisure.
Author : Joshua Prince
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1402721838
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)
Download or read book I Saw an Ant on the Railroad Track written by Joshua Prince and published by Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack, a railroad switchman, frantically tries to save an ant who is heading east on a westbound track, straight into the path of an oncoming freight train.
Author : Charles DeLano Hine
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752393807
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Letters From a Railway Official written by Charles DeLano Hine and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Letters From a Railway Official by Charles DeLano Hine
Author : Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Annual Reports of the Railroad Corporations in the State of Massachusetts written by Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1851-56 include Abstract of the returns of railroad corporations.
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economic Growth and Stabilization
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book National railroad policy written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economic Growth and Stabilization and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book American Railroad Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wisconsin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2872 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Wisconsin Statutes written by Wisconsin and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 2872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
