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Book Synopsis Waiting on a Train by : James McCommons
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.
Book Synopsis Atlantic Coast Line Passenger Service by : Charles Lawrence Goolsby
Download or read book Atlantic Coast Line Passenger Service written by Charles Lawrence Goolsby and published by TLC Publishing (VA). This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Atlantic Coast Line's wonderful postwar passenger trains is told in a readable narrative supported by scores of company publicity photos that depict the trains inside and out. This book not only covers the great New York-to-Florida streamliners, but also the locals and workaday passenger trains that crisscrossed the ACL system. Also featured are car and locomotive rosters, diagrams and drawings, and other material useful to modelers in constructing and painting ACL passenger cars.
Book Synopsis Seaboard Air Line Passenger Service by : Larry Goolsby
Download or read book Seaboard Air Line Passenger Service written by Larry Goolsby and published by TLC Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the coming of Amtrak in 1971, the Seaboard Air Line Railroad was long recognized as having some of the best long-distance passenger trains in the country. Billing itself as “the Route of Courteous Service” Seaboard took great pride in running trains that the public would like the first time and would want to ride again and again. This book focuses on the last decades of Seaboard’s existence. The 1930s through the late 1950s in particular witnessed many dramatic changes – the replacement of steam with diesels, the ascendancy of lightweight trains, and the last hurrah of the once-familiar local passenger train. This is a chronological account, although special treatment has been given to Seaboard’s lightweight trains, other named trains and locals.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :572 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (5 download)
Book Synopsis Passenger Train Service by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics
Download or read book Passenger Train Service written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Railway Passenger Service by : Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics
Download or read book Railway Passenger Service written by Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :220 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (121 download)
Book Synopsis Passenger Train Service: July 31, August 1, 2, 3, and 25, 1967 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Download or read book Passenger Train Service: July 31, August 1, 2, 3, and 25, 1967 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :206 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Railroad Passenger Train Service by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics
Download or read book Railroad Passenger Train Service written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :170 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (6 download)
Book Synopsis Study of Essential Railroad Passenger Service by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Download or read book Study of Essential Railroad Passenger Service written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 90-81. Considers S. 3861, to require DOT to submit a report on existing and future intercity railroad passenger service, and to require that a special test of public convenience and necessity and financial burden be met before an established route that represents the last rail service between two points may be abolished.
Book Synopsis Study of Essential Railroad Passenger Service, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation...90-2, on S.3861, July 24, 29, 1968, Serial No. 90-81 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce
Download or read book Study of Essential Railroad Passenger Service, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation...90-2, on S.3861, July 24, 29, 1968, Serial No. 90-81 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Railway Transportation Systems by : Christos N. Pyrgidis
Download or read book Railway Transportation Systems written by Christos N. Pyrgidis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporates More Than 25 Years of Research and ExperienceRailway Transportation Systems: Design, Construction and Operation presents a comprehensive overview of railway passenger and freight transport systems, from design through to construction and operation. It covers the range of railway passenger systems, from conventional and high speed inter
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :150 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Passenger Train Service: May 24, 25, 1967 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Download or read book Passenger Train Service: May 24, 25, 1967 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Romance of the Rails by : Randal O'Toole
Download or read book Romance of the Rails written by Randal O'Toole and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American transportation has undergone many technological revolutions: from sailing ships to steam ships; from passenger trains and urban rail transit to airplanes and automobiles. Normally, the government has allowed and even encouraged these revolutions, but for some reason the federal government is spending billions of dollars trying to preserve and build obsolete rail transit and passenger train lines, including high-speed trains that cost more but are less than half as fast as flying. O'Toole asks why passenger trains have been singled out -- and whether this policy makes sense. -- adapted from jacket
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :202 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (6 download)
Book Synopsis Passenger Train Service by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics
Download or read book Passenger Train Service written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Download or read book Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :332 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (1 download)
Book Synopsis Passenger Train Service Legislation by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Download or read book Passenger Train Service Legislation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 91-37. Considers nine bills to revitalize rail passenger service in the U.S.
Book Synopsis New Haven Passenger Trains by : Peter E. Lynch
Download or read book New Haven Passenger Trains written by Peter E. Lynch and published by . This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Departures written by Anthony Perl and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North America faces a transportation crisis. Gas-guzzling SUVs clog the highways and air travelers face delays, cancellations, and uncertainty in the wake of unprecedented terrorist attacks. New Departures closely examines the options for improving intercity passenger trains’ capacity to move North Americans where they want to go. While Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada face intense pressure to transform themselves into successful commercial enterprises, Anthony Perl demonstrates how public policy changes lie behind the triumphs of European and Japanese high-speed rail passenger innovations. Perl goes beyond merely describing these achievements, translating their implications into a North American institutional and political context and diagnosing the obstacles that have made renewing passenger trains so much more difficult in North America than elsewhere. New Departures links the lessons behind rail passenger revitalization abroad with the opportunity to recast the policies that constrain Amtrak and VIA Rail from providing efficient and effective intercity transportation.
