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Book Synopsis The State of U.S. Railroads by : Brian A. Weatherford
Download or read book The State of U.S. Railroads written by Brian A. Weatherford and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. railroads have improved their productivity, but increasing freight volume threatens performance-degrading capacity constraints. This report describes the current state of railroad capacity and performance for freight transportation. The public consequences of private investment decisions justify a public role in addressing concerns about railroads, but better data and analysis are needed to inform transportation policymaking.
Book Synopsis History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States ... by : Henry Varnum Poor
Download or read book History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States ... written by Henry Varnum Poor and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Railway Statistics of the United States of America for the Years ... by :
Download or read book Railway Statistics of the United States of America for the Years ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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)
Book Synopsis The Railroad Situation by : United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Policy and Program Development
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:
Download or read book Railroad Facts written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo Publisher :University of North Texas Press ISBN 13 :157441464X Total Pages :244 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (744 download)
Book Synopsis Traqueros by : Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo
Download or read book Traqueros written by Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no other industrial technology changed the course of Mexican history in the United States--and Mexico--than did the coming of the railroads. Tens of thousands of Mexicans worked for the railroads in the United States, especially in the Southwest and Midwest. Construction crews soon became railroad workers proper, along with maintenance crews later. Extensive Mexican American settlements appeared throughout the lower and upper Midwest as the result of the railroad. The substantial Mexican American populations in these regions today are largely attributable to 19th- and 20th-century railroad work. Only agricultural work surpassed railroad work in terms of employment of Mexicans. The full history of Mexican American railroad labor and settlement in the United States had not been told, however, until Jeffrey Marcos Garcílazo's groundbreaking research in Traqueros. Garcílazo mined numerous archives and other sources to provide the first and only comprehensive history of Mexican railroad workers across the United States, with particular attention to the Midwest. He first explores the origins and process of Mexican labor recruitment and immigration and then describes the areas of work performed. He reconstructs the workers' daily lives and explores not only what the workers did on the job but also what they did at home and how they accommodated and/or resisted Americanization. Boxcar communities, strike organizations, and "traquero culture" finally receive historical acknowledgment. Integral to his study is the importance of family settlement in shaping working class communities and consciousness throughout the Midwest.
Book Synopsis The Iron Road in the Prairie State by : Simon Cordery
Download or read book The Iron Road in the Prairie State written by Simon Cordery and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the nation's railroad hub, with Chicago at its center. Speculators, greed, growth, and regulation followed as the railroad industry consumed unprecedented amounts of capital and labor. A nationwide market resulted, and the Windy City became the site of opportunities and challenges that remain to this day. In this first-of-its-kind history, full of entertaining anecdotes and colorful characters, Simon Cordery describes the explosive growth of Illinois railroads and its impact on America. Cordery shows how railroading in Illinois influenced railroad financing, the creation of a national economy, and government regulation of business. Cordery's masterful chronicle of rail development in Illinois from 1837 to 2010 reveals how the state's expanding railroads became the foundation of the nation's rail network.
Book Synopsis Railroads in the Old South by : Aaron W. Marrs
Download or read book Railroads in the Old South written by Aaron W. Marrs and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aaron W. Marrs challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America with this original study of the history of the railroad in the Old South. Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal diaries of Southern travelers, papers and letters from civil engineers, corporate records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Marrs skillfully expands on the conventional business histories that have characterized scholarship in this field. He situates railroads in the fullness of antebellum life, examining how slavery, technology, labor, social convention, and the environment shaped their evolution. Far from seeing the Old South as backward and premodern, Marrs finds evidence of urban life, industry, and entrepreneurship throughout the region. But these signs of progress existed alongside efforts to preserve traditional ways of life. Railroads exemplified Southerners' pursuit of progress on their own terms: developing modern transportation while retaining a conservative social order. Railroads in the Old South demonstrates that a simple approach to the Old South fails to do justice to its complexity and contradictions. -- Dr. Owen Brown and Dr. Gale E. Gibson
Book Synopsis The Railroad and the State by : Robert G. Angevine
Download or read book The Railroad and the State written by Robert G. Angevine and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the complex and changing relationship between the U.S. Army and American railroads during the nineteenth century.
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 :4.0/5 ( 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 Railway Statistics of the United States of America ... by :
Download or read book Railway Statistics of the United States of America ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :120 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Building a 21st-century Infrastructure for America by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
Download or read book Building a 21st-century Infrastructure for America 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 2017 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Railroads by : Robert E. Gallamore
Download or read book American Railroads written by Robert E. Gallamore and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overregulated and displaced by barges, trucks, and jet aviation, railroads fell into decline. Their misfortune was measured in lost market share, abandoned track, bankruptcies, and unemployment. Today, rail transportation is reviving. American Railroads tells a riveting story about how this iconic industry managed to turn itself around.
Book Synopsis Railroads of New Jersey by : Lorett Treese
Download or read book Railroads of New Jersey written by Lorett Treese and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional histories of the major railroads. Includes railroad attractions.
Book Synopsis North American Railroads by : Brian Solomon
Download or read book North American Railroads written by Brian Solomon and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated encyclopedia of classic and contemporary railroads features histories of 101 U.S. and Canadian railroads past and present. It is the go-to resource for railfans of all stripes.
Book Synopsis The Story of American Railroads by : Stewart H. Holbrook
Download or read book The Story of American Railroads written by Stewart H. Holbrook and published by New York : Crown Publishers. This book was released on 1947 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth and development of our national railroad system, the men who built it in spite of weather, politicians, desert, and rivals; the ingenuity and inventiveness used to improve constantly devices and techniques in railroading.
Book Synopsis The State of U.S. Railroads by : Brian Weatherford
Download or read book The State of U.S. Railroads written by Brian Weatherford and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume of freight transported in the United States is expected to double in the next 30 years. An increased use of rail freight could allow the supply chain to accommodate these increased volumes while minimizing highway congestion and improving energy efficiency in the transportation sector. Shippers and policymakers are concerned that the existing infrastructure--much diminished after decades of track abandonment--lacks sufficient capacity to accommodate the increased demand for rail freight. This report draws from publicly available data on the U.S. railroad industry to provide observations about rail infrastructure capacity and performance in freight transportation. Railroads have improved their productivity in the past three decades, mitigating immediate concerns about capacity, but concerns about future capacity constraints appear to be justified. Insufficient data exist to determine whether rail performance is now stable, significantly declining, or improving. The railroad system is privately owned and operated, but there is a public role for easing rail capacity constraints because private decisions about transportation investment and freight shipping have public consequences for safety and the environment. A better understanding of the public and private cost trade-offs between shipping freight by truck and by rail is needed. Improvements to data quality and freight-modeling tools will improve the ability for policymakers to better target public investment in the rail freight transportation system.
