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Riding the Transcontinental Rails
Author | : Bruce C. Cooper |
Publsiher | : Polyglot PressInc |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1411599934 |
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C Is for Caboose
Author | : Sara Gillingham |
Publsiher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2007-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0811856437 |
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Simple information about trains is given for every letter of the alphabet.
Riding the Rails in the USA
Author | : Martin W. Sandler |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2003-08-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780198030331 |
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Preachers railed against it: "Traveling at speeds up to 20 miles per hour went against the Lord's plan!" Doctors told their patients that traveling on it would cause serious physical and mental ailments, including the boiling of the blood. Newspapers cried out, "It is a topsy-turvy, harum-scarum whirligig!" But it didn't matter: America loved the train and the freedom of movement that came with it. Riding the Rails in America traces the dynamic relationship of America with the train, showing how the railroad was the single largest influence on the development of the nation's history and economy as it became possible to move freight and people farther and faster than ever before.
Riding the Rails
Author | : Robert D. Krebs |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2018-01-22 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780253031877 |
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A former Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway CEO tells the behind-the-scenes story of the transformation and resurgence of America’s ailing railroads. When Robert D. Krebs joined the ranks of Southern Pacific Railroad in 1966, the industry had been in decline for decades, and the future of trains was in peril. Despite these obstacles, Krebs fell in love with the rugged, competitive business of railroads and was determined to overcome its resistance to change and put rail transportation back on track. By the age of forty, Krebs was president of the Southern Pacific Railroad and had also served as chief executive of both the Santa Fe Railway and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway companies. Riding the Rails: Inside the Business of America’s Railroads details Krebs’s rise to a position of influence in the recovery of America’s railroads—and offers a unique insider’s view into the boardrooms where executives and businessmen reimagined transportation in the United States.
Waiting on a Train
Author | : James McCommons |
Publsiher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2009-11-06 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781603582599 |
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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.
Trains Culture and Mobility
Author | : Benjamin Fraser,Steven D. Spalding |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780739167496 |
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Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to a number of cultural discourses. Incorporating traditionally marginal areas of cultural production such as graffiti, museums, architecture or even plunging into the social experience of travel inside the traincar itself, each essay constitutes an attempt to work from the act of riding the train toward questions of much larger significance. Crisscrossing cultures from the New World and Old, from East and West, these essays share a common preoccupation with the way in which trains and railway networks have mapped and re-mapped the contours of both cities and states in the modern period. Bringing together individual and large-scale social practices, this volume traces out the cultural implications of "Riding the Rails."
Transcontinental Rails
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Author | : Thomas K. Hinckley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Pacific railroads |
ISBN | : 0910584923 |
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Train
Author | : Tom Zoellner |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2014-01-30 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780698151390 |
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An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner—coauthor of the New York Times–bestselling An Ordinary Man—travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world—and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A masterful narrative history, Train also explores the sleek elegance of railroads and their hypnotizing rhythms, and explains how locomotives became living symbols of sex, death, power, and romance.