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Author : Thurman William Van Metre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Trains, Tracks and Travel written by Thurman William Van Metre and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Loomis
Publisher : Prima Lifestyles
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book All Aboard! written by Jim Loomis and published by Prima Lifestyles. This book was released on 1998 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive guide to North American train travel, complete with booking procedures, on-board etiquette, maps, floor plans for typical coach and sleeping cars, and more. This new edition reflects all the recent changes at Amtrak, North America's largest passenger rail system.
Author : Thurman William Van Metre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Trains, Tracks, and Travel written by Thurman William Van Metre and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Trevor K. Snowdon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476671540
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Diverging Tracks written by Trevor K. Snowdon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of mass railroad travel in the 1800s saw the extension of a system of global transport that developed various national styles of construction, operation, administration, and passenger experiences. Drawing on travel narratives and a broad range of other contemporary sources, this history contrasts the railroad cultures of 19th century England and America, with a focus on the differing social structures and value systems of each nation, and how the railroad fit into the wider industrial landscape.
Author : Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520957903
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Railway Journey written by Wolfgang Schivelbusch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not always the case; as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change—the development of our modern, industrialized consciousness—was very much a learned behavior. In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch examines the origins of this industrialized consciousness by exploring the reaction in the nineteenth century to the first dramatic avatar of technological change, the railroad. In a highly original and engaging fashion, Schivelbusch discusses the ways in which our perceptions of distance, time, autonomy, speed, and risk were altered by railway travel. As a history of the surprising ways in which technology and culture interact, this book covers a wide range of topics, including the changing perception of landscapes, the death of conversation while traveling, the problematic nature of the railway compartment, the space of glass architecture, the pathology of the railway journey, industrial fatigue and the history of shock, and the railroad and the city. Belonging to a distinguished European tradition of critical sociology best exemplified by the work of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, The Railway Journey is anchored in rich empirical data and full of striking insights about railway travel, the industrial revolution, and technological change. Now updated with a new preface, The Railway Journey is an invaluable resource for readers interested in nineteenth-century culture and technology and the prehistory of modern media and digitalization.
Author : Sue Finnie
Publisher : Puffin HC
ISBN 13 : 9780140347111
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Trains, Tracks and Travel written by Sue Finnie and published by Puffin HC. This book was released on 1992 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graeme Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781877019463
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Trains written by Graeme Carter and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1. The history of rail -- Chapter 2. Servicng the cities -- Chapter 3. Train technology -- Chapter 4. Trains and society -- Chapter 5. Trains shaping history -- Chapter 6. Preservation and hobbies -- Chapter 7. Great rail journeys -- Index and glossary.
Author : gestalten
Publisher : Gestalten
ISBN 13 : 9783967040203
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Epic Train Journeys written by gestalten and published by Gestalten. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a journey through the Alps on the Bernina Express to a ride from Colombo up to Sri Lanka's tea plantations, there are endless possibilities to explore the world through fabulous train rides. Train Journeys will provide inspiration and practical tips for people who want to experience the joys of traveling by rail. The book features descriptions and details of 50 amazing rail journeys across the globe, from short trips that last a few hours to multi-day, cross-continental journeys, ranging from budget-friendly trips aboard local transport to iconic luxury liners.
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 : Gayle Letherby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000323617
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Train Tracks written by Gayle Letherby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth exploration of trains and train travel. Letherby and Reynolds have conducted extensive research with all those concerned with trains, from leisure travelers and enthusiasts to railway workers and commuters. Overturning conventional wisdom, they show that the train has a social life in and of itself and is not simply a way to get from A to B.The book also looks at the depiction of train travel through cultural media, such as music, films, books and art. The authors consider the personal politics of train travel and political discussion surrounding the railways, as well as the relationship trains have to leisure and work. The media often paints a gloomy picture of the railways and there is a general view that the romance of train travel ended with the steam locomotive. Letherby and Reynolds show that this is far from the case.
Author : Sebastian Junger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982153423
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Freedom written by Sebastian Junger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe"--
Author : Graeme Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Trains written by Graeme Carter and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terry Pindell
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802112798
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Making Tracks written by Terry Pindell and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author relates his journey across America aboard passenger trains, recalls the tales of noted figures in the history of American railroading, and highlights adventures and passengers he met along the way
Author : Thurman William Van Metre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Trains, Track and Travel written by Thurman William Van Metre and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Beppe Severgnini
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1592408729
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)
Download or read book Off the Rails written by Beppe Severgnini and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this witty and entertaining collection of travel tales, an acclaimed journalist explores his obsession with trains--and what his rail journeys have taught him about culture and identity. "I've gone around the world in installments. Every trip has been a revelation. I've watched regions, nations, and continents change moods and I've met more people on trains than in forty years of airplane flights. Every train trip has been a spectacle. Trains are stages, cafés, bazaars. The only talk show that will never go off the air..." Beppe Severgnini has spent his life traveling the world, and not just because he's a journalist; he's a passionate, unflagging train buff. Off the Rails recounts some of his favorite trips across Europe, Australia, Asia, and the United States, each journey bringing readers not only to a different place but to a different time, from his honeymoon on the Trans-Siberian Express (in a four-person compartment!), to a winding journey from Russia to Turkey during the last summer of communism, to a recent coast-to-coast trip with his son from Washington, D.C., to Washington State. Off the Rails is the perfect getaway for anyone with a touch of wanderlust, who dreams of escape or just likes to laugh. Filled with memorable characters and perceptive observations, it demonstrates--hilariously--what unites us. With the world in chaos and life in perpetual fast-forward, it's always the right time to hop on board with Beppe Severgnini and meet your charming, hapless, quarrelsome, romantic, shifty, quirky, endearing neighbors.
Author : David Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781877019043
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Trains written by David Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1. The history of rail -- Chapter 2. Servicng the cities -- Chapter 3. Train technology -- Chapter 4. Trains and society -- Chapter 5. Trains shaping history -- Chapter 6. Preservation and hobbies -- Chapter 7. Great rail journeys -- Index and glossary.
Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782832122
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Night Trains written by Andrew Martin and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes. The reality could often be as thrilling: early British travellers on the Orient Express were advised to carry a revolver (as well as a teapot). In Night Trains, Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great European sleeper trains by using their modern-day equivalents. This is no simple matter. The night trains have fallen on hard times, and the services are disappearing one by one. But if the Orient Express experience can only be recreated by taking three separate sleepers, the intriguing characters and exotic atmospheres have survived. Whether the backdrop is 3am at a Turkish customs post, the sun rising over the Riviera, or the constant twilight of a Norwegian summer night, Martin rediscovers the pleasures of a continent connected by rail. By tracing the history of the sleeper trains, he reveals much of the recent history of Europe itself. The original sleepers helped break down national barriers and unify the continent. Martin uncovers modern instances of European unity - and otherwise - as he traverses the continent during 'interesting times', with Brexit looming. Against this tumultuous backdrop, he experiences his own smaller dramas, as he fails to find crucial connecting stations, ponders the mystery of the compartment dog, and becomes embroiled in his very own night train whodunit.
