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Book Synopsis State Short Line Railroads and the Rural Economy by : Michael W. Babcock
Download or read book State Short Line Railroads and the Rural Economy written by Michael W. Babcock and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objectives of the study are as follows: (1) Determine if short line railroads are a viable transportation alternative to abandonment; (2) Identify the key factors that determine short line success or failure; and (3) Compile a profile of a successful short line railroad to help guide the allocation of state financial assistance. A profile for a profitable short line railroad was developed. State financial assistance is recommended and program components presented. A list of additional recommended public policies is also presented. This study concluded that in the current environment, short line railroads are a viable transportation alternative. However, the long term financial survivability of short line roalroads as an industry is not assured.
Book Synopsis State Short Line Railroads and the Rural Economy by : Michael W. Babcock
Download or read book State Short Line Railroads and the Rural Economy written by Michael W. Babcock and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Backwoods Railroads by : D. C. Jesse Burkhardt
Download or read book Backwoods Railroads written by D. C. Jesse Burkhardt and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reflection of the effects of highways--and their hugely subsidized trucks--upon railroads, and of the incompetence of the Southern Pacific. The trucks took much rail freight on the coast, the SP--partly through government rules & inertia--failed to meet the competition; many lines were closed, most of the rest were sold to small, hungry, competent firms. This is the story. It is well told in a style familiar to rail fans: lists of stations, engine rosters, control blocks. Abundant photos, a few in color. Current through the visit of the X2000 in mid-1993. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Book Synopsis Economic Viability of Short Line Railroads by :
Download or read book Economic Viability of Short Line Railroads written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of the paper is to determine if short line railroads are an economically viable alternative to abandonment of rural rail branchlines. The objective is pursued through a survey that involves personal interviews of executives of 13 short line railroads in Iowa and Kansas, 309 shippers located on these railroads, and officials of the Iowa Department of Transportation. The executives and the shippers also completed detailed questionnaires. The shippers compared the performance of their short lines to that of their predecessor class I railroad on 17 price and service characteristics, Both grain and non-grain shippers rated the price-service performance of their short line as better than that previously provided by their class I railroad, with the grain shippers observing a greater improvement than the non-grain shippers. Shippers compared the performance of short lines to that of motor carriers on 13 price and service characteristics. Both grain and non-grain shipper groups rate their short lines as better than motor carriers on prices, but motor carriers are rated better than short lines on service characteristics related to market access, transit time, dependability of transit time, and frequency of service. The paper also specifies a profile of a profitable short line railroad. The profile contains several components including traffic, management and labor, relationship to class I railroads, financial, track quality, and state assistance. Results reveal that short lines offer a competitive transportation service and are economically viable, assuming that short line service can be profitably supplied in the long run. For the covering abstract of this conference see IRRD number 872978.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Ground Transportation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :140 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (7 download)
Book Synopsis Short Line Rail Infrastructure Needs by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Ground Transportation
Download or read book Short Line Rail Infrastructure Needs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Ground Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Passage to Union written by Sarah Gordon and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 1996 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflicts of interest - at local, state, and regional levels - characterized railroad growth at every stage. Despite the stated aims of government and the railroad corporations to promote settlement and commerce, Ms. Gordon shows that the states lost control of these enterprises and lost the economic benefits of their traffic. Smaller towns withered as people and money flowed to larger cities. By 1900 the union that had emerged reflected the worst fears of railroad critics.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :72 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Rural transportation problems as they relate to agriculture by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices
Download or read book Rural transportation problems as they relate to agriculture written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :108 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (51 download)
Book Synopsis Short Line and Regional Railroads by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Download or read book Short Line and Regional Railroads written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Railroads and American Economic Growth by : Robert William Fogel
Download or read book Railroads and American Economic Growth written by Robert William Fogel and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Train Time written by John R. Stilgoe and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike many United States industries, railroads are intrinsically linked to American soil and particular regions. Yet few Americans pay attention to rail lines, even though millions of them live in an economy and culture "waiting for the train." In Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape, John R. Stilgoe picks up where his acclaimed work Metropolitan Corridor left off, carrying his ideas about the spatial consequences of railways up to the present moment. Arguing that the train is returning, "an economic and cultural tsunami about to transform the United States," Stilgoe posits a future for railways as powerful shapers of American life. Divided into sections that focus on particular aspects of the impending impact of railroads on the landscape, Train Time moves seamlessly between historical and contemporary analysis. From his reading of what prompted investors to reorient their thinking about the railroad industry in the late 1970s, to his exploration of creative solutions to transportation problems and land use planning and development in the present, Stilgoe expands our perspective of an industry normally associated with bad news. Urging us that "the magic moment is now," he observes, "Now a train is often only a whistle heard far off on a sleepless night. But romantic or foreboding or empowering, the whistle announces return and change to those who listen." For scholars with an interest in American history in general and railroad and transit history in particular, as well as general readers concerned about the future of transportation in the United States, Train Time is an engaging look at the future of our railroads.
Book Synopsis Economic Impacts of Railroad Abandonment on Rural Kansas Communities by : Michael W. Babcock
Download or read book Economic Impacts of Railroad Abandonment on Rural Kansas Communities written by Michael W. Babcock and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research measured quantifiable impacts of shortline railroad abandonment in Kansas through the following four research tasks. First, an assessment of Kansas county road conditions and financing was conducted to determine the ability of counties to absorb the resulting incremental heavy truck traffic. Second, the changes in wheat handling and transportation costs were computed. Third, the increase in truck-attributable road damage costs to Kansas county and state roads was computed. Fourth, the additional highway accident benefits and costs attributable to the resulting incremental truck traffic were calculated. The western two-thirds of Kansas was selected as the study area. County road officials were interviewed and surveyed to assess county road conditions and finances. Geographic information system (GIS) routing software was used to model the wheat handling and transportation costs with and without shortline railroads. Using the results of the GIS transportation model and an existing pavement damage model, the additional damage costs to county and state roads were calculated. Finally, the safety cost was calculated using the estimated increased truck miles driven, accidents per mile traveled data and costs per accident.
Book Synopsis Interstate Commerce Commission Reports by : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Download or read book Interstate Commerce Commission Reports written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :136 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (51 download)
Book Synopsis Oversight Hearing on the State of the Railroad Industry by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine
Download or read book Oversight Hearing on the State of the Railroad Industry written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Eastern Oregon Shortline Railroads by : Jeff Moore
Download or read book Eastern Oregon Shortline Railroads written by Jeff Moore and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of Oregon east of the Cascade Mountains is a raw and inhospitable land, largely the product of recent volcanic activity. Railroad builders constructed a couple mainlines skirting the edges of the region and some branch lines into agricultural communities, but found very little else to attract their interest. Over time, however, a small collection of interesting shortline railroads built or bought rail lines, either in conjunction with the developing timber industry in the Blue, Ochoco, and Wallowa mountains or to connect a few existing communities with the mainline that bypassed the town. This book tells the stories of these small railroads and the roles they played in the development and economies of the region; covered railroads includes the Big Creek & Telocaset; City of Prineville; Condon, Kinzua & Southern; Idaho, Northern & Pacific; Klamath Northern; Oregon & Northwestern; Oregon, California & Eastern; Oregon Eastern Division of the Wyoming/Colorado; Sumpter Valley; Union Railroad of Oregon; Wallowa Union; and others.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :64 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Addressing Surface Transportation Needs in Rural America by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security
Download or read book Addressing Surface Transportation Needs in Rural America written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1022 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Reauthorization of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Download or read book Reauthorization of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Railroad Consolidation by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business
Download or read book Railroad Consolidation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
