Author: United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Policy and Program Development
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 514
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Frank Dobbin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521629904
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores 19th-century railroad policies in the United States, France, and Britain to identify the roots of nations' modern industrial policy styles.
Author: William James Cunningham
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economic Growth and Stabilization
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 890
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Elizabeth Pinkston
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 58
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduction: Amtrak's current situation -- A brief history of Amtrak -- Amtrak's role in intercity transportation -- The basic economics of passenger rail -- Policy options for the future of passenger rail -- Appendix. Amtrak's interconnections with freight and commuter railroads.
Author: James W. Ely, Jr.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2001-12-06
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0700611444
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →No enterprise is so seductive as a railroad for the influence it exerts, the power it gives, and the hope of gain it offers.—Poor's Manual of Railroads (1900) At its peak, the railroad was the Internet of its day in its transformative impact on American life and law. A harbinger and promoter of economic empire, it was also the icon of a technological revolution that accelerated national expansion and in the process transformed our legal system. James W. Ely Jr., in the first comprehensive legal history of the rail industry, shows that the two institutions-the railroad and American law-had a profound influence on each other. Ely chronicles how "America's first big business" impelled the creation of a vast array of new laws in a country where long-distance internal transport had previously been limited to canals and turnpikes. Railroads, the first major industry to experience extensive regulation, brought about significant legal innovations governing interstate commerce, eminent domain, private property, labor relations, and much more. Much of this development was originally designed to serve the interests of the railroads themselves but gradually came to contest and control the industry's power and exploitative tendencies. As Ely reveals, despite its great promise and potential as an engine of prosperity and uniter of far-flung regions, the railroad was not universally admired. Railroads uprooted people, threatened local autonomy, and posed dangers to employees and the public alike-situations with unprecedented legal ramifications. Ely explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which those ramifications played out, as railroads crossed state lines and knitted together a diverse nation with thousands of miles of iron rail. Epic in its scope, Railroads and American Law makes a complex subject accessible to a wide range of readers, from legal historians to railroad buffs, and shows the many ways in which a powerful industry brought change and innovation to America.
Author: United States. Federal Railroad Administration
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economic Growth and Stabilization
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 1120
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