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Author : Melville Ezra Ingalls
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Past, Present and Future of American Railways written by Melville Ezra Ingalls and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Freeman Allen
Publisher : Gramercy
ISBN 13 : 9780517652596
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (525 download)
Download or read book Railways written by Geoffrey Freeman Allen and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 1987 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Daniel M Brady
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020846144
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (461 download)
Download or read book The Past, Present and Future of Railway Clubs written by Daniel M Brady and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Brady explores the history and development of railway clubs and societies. He examines the role that these organizations have played in the past, as well as their potential for shaping the future of rail transportation. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history and future of railways. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Policy and Program Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Railroad Situation written by United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Policy and Program Development and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John R. Stilgoe
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813930502
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
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.
Author : Thomas Timmis Vernon Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Past, Present and Future of Atlantic Ocean Steam Navigation written by Thomas Timmis Vernon Smith and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ezekiel Porter Belden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book New-York, Past, Present, and Future written by Ezekiel Porter Belden and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George F. Shale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646297460
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (974 download)
Download or read book Our Railways written by George F. Shale and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andy Singer
Publisher : Microcosm Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1621061353
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Why We Drive written by Andy Singer and published by Microcosm Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-29 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, we're married to our cars. But life behind the wheel of an automobile didn't come naturally to Americans. Crooked politicians, unscrupulous businessmen, burning streetcars, and convoluted tax shenanigans are a few of the players in this gripping tale of corruption, greed, and endless miles of asphalt. In Andy Singer's accessible, scandalous tale of motordom, comics, text, and historic photographs tell the story of the rise of the U.S. highway system and the corresponding demise of rail and public transportation. He also explores how we can ditch the car and rebuild a functional transportation system that can bring wealth, happiness, and freedom.
Author : Ezekiel Porter Belden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book New-York; Past, Present, and Future; Comprising a History of the City of New-York written by Ezekiel Porter Belden and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Curtis Clarke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510702016
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The American Railway written by Thomas Curtis Clarke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early history of the American railroad by the man the New York Times calls “one of the best-known civil engineers in America.” The American Railway provides an exciting look at the railroad industry in the 1880s and how it developed as the business boomed. Originally published in 1889, it contains a thorough history of how railroads were built, the types of railways, the lives of railway workers, the various ways the railway affected political and business economics, as well as the safety precautions of people who rode or worked with the railway system. You’ll also find more than two hundred hand-drawn illustrations—visual representations of great steam engines, graceful bridges, life in a Pullman car, railway accidents, views of track construction, and portraits of railroad pioneers and magnates of the times—and stories from real rail workers. Learn how far we’ve come from such humble beginnings and grow to have a newfound appreciation for the railways that paved our country’s future. This edition features a new foreword by Jeff Smith, editor of the NRHS Bulletin, the quarterly magazine published by the National Railway Historical Society.
Author : United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Policy and Program Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Railroad Situation written by United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Policy and Program Development and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Marion La Follette
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Making of America written by Robert Marion La Follette and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Craig Thorpe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253065372
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Railroads, Art, and American Life written by J. Craig Thorpe and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the past, present, and future of rail travel through 30 years of one artist's work. Once a common part of the American landscape, trains are increasingly fading from public view. Though photographs can accurately convey the details of "what, where, and when," sometimes paintings can better convey the deeper truths of an era. Collecting more than thirty years of paintings and renderings, Railroads, Art, and American Life tells the story of rail transportation in America through the life and works of artist J. Craig Thorpe. Commissioned by companies such as Amtrak and General Electric, Thorpe's work can be found featured on items ranging from catalogs to calendars, postcards to posters. His artwork depicts not only the golden age of train travel but considers the present and looks forward to a potential future. Featuring more than 130 color illustrations and combining history, biography, ethics, and humor, Thorpe's personal story joins with his paintings to invite the reader to relive the heyday of American rail and better understand the role of railroads in our society today.
Author : American Transit Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Verbatim Report of the Annual Meeting of the American Street-Railway Association written by American Transit Association and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of individual members in 1906-13.
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 1610589106
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)
Download or read book North American Railroad Family Trees written by Brian Solomon and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2013-10-20 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of railroading in North America is as much a story of boardroom intrigue as it is a story of the brute force that stamped thousands of miles of train track across a rugged continent. Today’s nine U.S. and Canadian Class I railroads are the result of well over a century of convoluted bankruptcies, mergers, acquisitions, and expansions. North American Railroad Family Trees marks the first time in book form that this major aspect of railroad history has been presented in a clear, graphic format, helping the railfan make sense of the many smaller train lines that shaped North American rail as it is today. In these pages, renowned rail author Brian Solomon takes a visual and chronological approach, presenting 50 “family trees” in the style of human lineages. The story begins with the railroads of the “Golden Age” (1890–1930), continuing through the second wave of consolidations between the World Wars, the merger mania of the 1950s through the 1970s, the creation of major passenger networks, and the megamergers of the last three decades that have left railroading close to its current incarnation. Solomon even offers a selection of maps tracing the evolution of the North American rail system and diagrams proposing what-if scenarios for the industry’s future. Including chapter-by-chapter narrative overviews of key eras, along with a selection of rare photography and period advertising to lend historical context, North American Railroad Family Trees provides an unprecedented retrospective of the continent’s iconic rail network.
