The Pennsylvania Railroad in Indiana

The Pennsylvania Railroad in Indiana PDF

Author: William J. Watt

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780253337085

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Photographs, advertising and promotional materials, and detailed maps resurrect its speedy passenger trains and heavy-tonnage freights, and show how it earned its slogan: "The Standard Railroad of the World.""--BOOK JACKET.

The Present Railroad Crisis

The Present Railroad Crisis PDF

Author: William James Cunningham

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2017-01-30

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1512815403

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Railroads and the Transformation of China

Railroads and the Transformation of China PDF

Author: Elisabeth Köll

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2019-01-14

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0674368177

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To convey modern China’s history and the forces driving its economic success, rail has no equal. From warlordism to Cultural Revolution, railroads suffered the country’s ills but persisted because they were exemplary institutions. Elisabeth Köll shows why they remain essential to the PRC’s technocratic economic model for China’s future.