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Download or read book Solutionary Rail written by Bill Moyer and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Solutionary Rail vision draws unlikely allies together. It provides common cause to workers, farmers, tribes, urban and rural communities via the tracks and corridors that connect them. Part action plan and part manifesto, this book launches a new people-powered campaign to transform the way we use trains and the corridors they travel through.
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.
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 Marketing, the Future of the Railroads by : Railway Systems and Management Association. Meeting
Download or read book Marketing, the Future of the Railroads written by Railway Systems and Management Association. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Future of the Railroads by : R. W. Babson
Download or read book The Future of the Railroads written by R. W. Babson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Future of the Railroads by : Roger Ward Babson
Download or read book The Future of the Railroads written by Roger Ward Babson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Past and Future of U.S. Passenger Rail Service by : Elizabeth Pinkston
Download or read book The Past and Future of U.S. Passenger Rail Service written by Elizabeth Pinkston and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2003 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Amtrak's current situation -- A brief history of Amtrak -- Amtrak's role in intercity transportation -- The basic economics of passenger rail -- Policy options for the future of passenger rail -- Appendix. Amtrak's interconnections with freight and commuter railroads.
Book Synopsis The Railroad Retirement System by : United States. Commission on Railroad Retirement
Download or read book The Railroad Retirement System written by United States. Commission on Railroad Retirement and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Evanston (Ill.). Transportation Center at Northwestern University Publisher :Evanston : Transportation Center ISBN 13 : Total Pages :256 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Technological Change and the Future of the Railways by : Evanston (Ill.). Transportation Center at Northwestern University
Download or read book Technological Change and the Future of the Railways written by Evanston (Ill.). Transportation Center at Northwestern University and published by Evanston : Transportation Center. This book was released on 1961 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Marketing, the Future of the Railroads by : Railway Systems and Management Association
Download or read book Marketing, the Future of the Railroads written by Railway Systems and Management Association and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Future of the Railroads by : Roger W. Babson
Download or read book The Future of the Railroads written by Roger W. Babson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Future of the Railroads: Historic and Economic Facts for Railroad Men, Shippers, and Investors To show the probable outcome of the struggle among these three forces, is the purpose of this little book. Many insist that the different objects of the three inter ests are so conflicting that any reconcilia tion is impossible. Rather, these interests are so bound together that one cannot long prosper except as the others prosper like wise. To prove certain statements the writer has used tables, together with comments thereon, prepared by Mr. Slason Thompson, to whom credit is hereby given. 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.
Book Synopsis The Railroads of King of Prussia, PA by : Michael Stefan Shaw
Download or read book The Railroads of King of Prussia, PA written by Michael Stefan Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2013 is the 175th anniversary of the year railroads first entered Upper Merion Township. Resident and historian, Michael Shaw, spent the better part of a year diligently researching the history of King of Prussia's railroads, from the past to the present. Here's the scoop on the glorious and often understated history of Upper Merion's railroads, from the Merion/Abrams Yard site to the Trenton Cut-Off and through the Chester Valley Railroad. The future of the rails may lead back to the past with a reintroduction of passenger service. Climb aboard!
Book Synopsis The Future of Railroads in America by : Joseph D. Ruffolo
Download or read book The Future of Railroads in America written by Joseph D. Ruffolo and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Future of the Railroads by : Samuel Orace Dunn
Download or read book The Future of the Railroads written by Samuel Orace Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Railroads and the Transformation of China by : Elisabeth Köll
Download or read book Railroads and the Transformation of China written by Elisabeth Köll and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial conditions by competing foreign investors. The national system that began taking shape in the 1910s suffered all the ills of the country at large: warlordism and Japanese invasion, Chinese partisan sabotage, the Great Leap Forward when lines suffered in the “battle for steel,” and the Cultural Revolution, during which Red Guards were granted free passage to “make revolution” across the country, nearly collapsing the system. Elisabeth Köll’s expansive study shows how railroads survived the rupture of the 1949 Communist revolution and became an enduring model of Chinese infrastructure expansion. The railroads persisted because they were exemplary bureaucratic institutions. Through detailed archival research and interviews, Köll builds case studies illuminating the strength of rail administration. Pragmatic management, combining central authority and local autonomy, sustained rail organizations amid shifting political and economic priorities. As Köll shows, rail provided a blueprint for the past forty years of ambitious, semipublic business development and remains an essential component of the PRC’s politically charged, technocratic economic model for China’s future.
Book Synopsis Riding the Rails by : Robert D. Krebs
Download or read book Riding the Rails written by Robert D. Krebs and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway CEO tells the behind-the-scenes story of the transformation and resurgence of America’s ailing railroads. When Robert D. Krebs joined the ranks of Southern Pacific Railroad in 1966, the industry had been in decline for decades, and the future of trains was in peril. Despite these obstacles, Krebs fell in love with the rugged, competitive business of railroads and was determined to overcome its resistance to change and put rail transportation back on track. By the age of forty, Krebs was president of the Southern Pacific Railroad and had also served as chief executive of both the Santa Fe Railway and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway companies. Riding the Rails: Inside the Business of America’s Railroads details Krebs’s rise to a position of influence in the recovery of America’s railroads—and offers a unique insider’s view into the boardrooms where executives and businessmen reimagined transportation in the United States.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :248 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Freight and Passenger Rail by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
Download or read book Freight and Passenger Rail written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
