...Railway Transportation in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christos N. Pyrgidis
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2016-04-21
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 1498788157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Incorporates More Than 25 Years of Research and ExperienceRailway Transportation Systems: Design, Construction and Operation presents a comprehensive overview of railway passenger and freight transport systems, from design through to construction and operation. It covers the range of railway passenger systems, from conventional and high speed inter
Author: John R. Stilgoe
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2009-02-05
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0813930502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: George Henry Lewis
Publisher: New-York, Dodd, Mead
Published: 1893
Total Pages: 362
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James McCommons
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: 2009-11-06
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1603582592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 580
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Author: Eliot Jones
Publisher: New York, Macmillan
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 668
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Department of Transportation
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 498
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