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Author : Sarah Bridges
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1404816070
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book I Drive a Freight Train written by Sarah Bridges and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hop aboard a freight train to see what it's like.
Author : Sarah Bridges
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1404816070
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book I Drive a Freight Train written by Sarah Bridges and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hop aboard a freight train to see what it's like.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Railroad Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carrot Quinn
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 0593133285
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)
Download or read book The Sunset Route written by Carrot Quinn and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to travel the country via freight train—a beautiful memoir about forgiveness, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of nature, perfect for fans of Wild or Educated. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER • “An urgent read. A courageous life. Quinn’s story burns through us and bleeds beauty on every page.”—Noé Álvarez, author of Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land After a childhood marked by neglect, poverty, and periods of homelessness, with a mother who believed herself to be the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. She found a sense of belonging among straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and feed herself by foraging in dumpsters. Her new life was one of thrilling adventure and freedom, but still she was haunted by the ghosts of her lonely and traumatic childhood. The Sunset Route is a powerful and brazenly honest adventure memoir set in the unseen corners of the United States—in the Alaskan cold, on trains rattling through forests and deserts, as well as in low-income apartments and crowded punk houses—following a remarkable protagonist who has witnessed more tragedy than she thought she could ever endure and who must learn to heal her own heart. Ultimately, it is a meditation on the natural world as a spiritual anchor, and on the ways that forgiveness can set us free.
Author : Jim Boyd
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 0760308330
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book The American Freight Train written by Jim Boyd and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2001 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photohistory examines the use of trains as freight haulers over the course of one and a half centuries. Depicts and explains the evolution of boxcars, flatcars, hoppers, refrigerator cars, tanks cars, ore jennies, auto-rack transports and more.
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.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781301453290
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Rolling Nowhere written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hopping a freight in the St. Louis rail yards, Ted Conover0́4winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award0́4embarks on his dream trip, traveling the rails with "the knights of the road." Equipped with rummage store clothing, a bedroll, and his notebooks, Conover immerses himself in the peculiar culture of the hobo, where handshakes and intoductions are foreign, but where everyone knows where the Sally (Salvation Army) and the Willy (Goodwill) are. Along the way he encounters unexpected charity (a former cop goes out of his way to offer Conover a dollar) and indignities (what do you do when there are no public bathrooms?) and learns how to survive on the road.But above all, Conover gets to know the men and women who, for one reason or another, live this life. There's Lonny, who accepts that there are some towns he can't enter before dark because he's black, and Pistol Pete, a cowboy who claims his son is a doctor and his daughter a ballerina, and Sheba Sheila Sheils, who's built herself a house out of old tires. By turns resourceful and desperate, generous and mistrusting, independent and communal, philosophical and profoundly cynical, the tramps Conover meets show him a segment of humanity outside society, neither wholly romantic nor wholly tragic, and very much like the rest of us.
Author : Duffy Littlejohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hopping Freight Trains in America written by Duffy Littlejohn and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming mix of how-to, RR love and operation. Short of the "bible," Armstong's The Railroad--What It Is..., this is the best work on the history, development, use and function of track, rolling stock, signals that we've found outside the textbooks. Jargon is explained (including a 45 p. glossary). Fine, fun, informative book. Published by Sand River Press, 1319 14th Street, Los Osos, CA 93402. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465462147
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)
Download or read book The Big Book of Trains written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first locomotive built in 1804 to the high-speed bullet train, The Big Book of Trains is the perfect ebook for kids who love trains. Includes amazing facts and photographs of trains around the world, The Big Book of Trains covers the history of trains and train travel. Different types of trains are featured on their own spreads, and each page features multiple images to give a close-up view as well as informative text about each train. See the differences among monorails, passenger trains, and TGVs. Learn about pistons, fireboxes, boilers, and coupling rods, and find out exactly what they do to help the train travel down on the tracks. See key features of each train model and discover the difference between steam trains and diesels. Find out how trains are designed for certain jobs and tasks, including mountain trains, snow trains, and freight trains. Look at the biggest and fastest trains in the world. With incredible pictures and informative text, The Big Book of Trains is the essential ebook for young readers who want to know everything about trains.
Author : Michael Rex
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805066829
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book My Freight Train written by Michael Rex and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little boy, living out his fantasy of driving his own freight train, describes the different cars, what each carries, how they are connected, and more.
Author : Chris Prentiss
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 0943015626
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Zen and the Art of Happiness written by Chris Prentiss and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gentle wisdom of "Zen and the Art of Happiness" shows how to invite magnificent experiences into your life and create a philosophy that will sustain you through anything. The Zen of doing anything is to behave with a particular state of mind that brings the experience of enlightenment to even everyday facts -- and through that experience, happiness.
Author : Edward Charles Schmidt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Freight Train Resistance written by Edward Charles Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Railroad Facts written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : V Profillidis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351150839
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Railway Management and Engineering written by V Profillidis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rapidly changing world, with increasing competition in all sectors of transportation, railways are in a period of restructuring their management and technology. New methods of organization are introduced, commercial and tariff policies change radically, a more entrepreneurial spirit is required. At the same time, new high-speed tracks are being constructed and old tracks are renewed, high-comfort rolling stock vehicles are being introduced, logistics and combined transport are being developed. Awareness of environmental issues and search for greater safety give to the railways a new role within the transportation system. Meanwhile, methods of analysis have significantly evolved, principally due to computer applications and new ways of thinking and approaching old problems. Therefore it becomes necessary to come up with a new scientific approach to tackle management and engineering aspects of railways, to understand in-depth the origins and inter-relationships of the various situations and phenomena and to suggest the appropriate methods and solutions to solve the various emerging problems. This book aims to cover the need for a new scientific approach for railways. It is written for railway managers, economists and engineers, consulting economists and engineers, students of schools of engineering, transportation and management. The book is divided into three distinct parts: Part A deals with the management of railways, Part B deals with the track and, Part C deals with rolling stock and environmental topics. Each chapter of the book contains the necessary theoretical analysis of the phenomena studied, the recommended solutions, applications, charts and design of the specific railway component. In this way, both the requirement for a theoretical analysis is met, and the need of the railway manager and engineer for tables, nomographs, regulations, etc. is satisfied. Railways in Europe have separated activities of infrastructure from those of operation. In other parts of the world, however, railways remain unified. The book addresses both situation. Railways present great differences in their technologies. Something may be valid for one such technology, but not for another. To overcome this problem, regulations of the International Union of Railways (UIC) as well as European Standardization (CEN) have been used to the greatest extent possible. Whenever a specific technology or method is presented, the limits of its application are clearly emphasized.
Author : Danna Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534492518
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Wake Up, Freight Train! written by Danna Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing each car of a freight train during a nighttime adventure, this board book invites little ones to find sleepy animals throughout.
Author : Philip Burtt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Principal Factors in Freight Train Operating written by Philip Burtt and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William W. Hay
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471364009
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Railroad Engineering written by William W. Hay and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1991-01-16 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revision of the classic text on railroad engineering, considered the ``bible'' of the field for three decades. Presents railroad engineering principles quantitatively but without excessive resort to mathematics, and applies these principles to day-by-day design, construction, operation, and maintenance. Relates practice to principles in an orderly, sequential pattern (subgrade, ballast, ties, rails). Applicable to both conventional railroads and rapid transit systems.
