[PDF] Rail eBook

Author : Bill Moyer
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780998096308

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The Solutionary Rail vision draws unlikely allies together. It provides common cause to workers, farmers, tribes, urban and rural communities via the tracks and corridors that connect them. Part action plan and part manifesto, this book launches a new people-powered campaign to transform the way we use trains and the corridors they travel through.

Author : Kai Carlson-Wee
Publisher : Poulin, Jr. New Poets of Ameri
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781942683582

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A spiritual journey across the railways and backroads of the American West.

Author : Anthony Perl
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780813170480

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North America faces a transportation crisis. Gas-guzzling SUVs clog the highways and air travelers face delays, cancellations, and uncertainty in the wake of unprecedented terrorist attacks. New Departures closely examines the options for improving intercity passenger trains’ capacity to move North Americans where they want to go. While Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada face intense pressure to transform themselves into successful commercial enterprises, Anthony Perl demonstrates how public policy changes lie behind the triumphs of European and Japanese high-speed rail passenger innovations. Perl goes beyond merely describing these achievements, translating their implications into a North American institutional and political context and diagnosing the obstacles that have made renewing passenger trains so much more difficult in North America than elsewhere. New Departures links the lessons behind rail passenger revitalization abroad with the opportunity to recast the policies that constrain Amtrak and VIA Rail from providing efficient and effective intercity transportation.

Author : Tommy Donovan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Bildungsromans
ISBN : 9780991008391

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The story of a young man growing up during difficult times in the Bronx, New York.

Author : Charles Fontaine Martin
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Transportation
ISBN :

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The most comprehensive guide yet written on multi-use rail trails in New Hampshire, with inviting prose, 95 meticulous maps, and 180 photographs of railroad artifacts, scenery, and trail conditions. Includes capsule histories of the abandoned railroads that formerly operated in New Hampshire, followed by detailed descriptions of the trails that have taken their place. Each trail description includes ratings of the trail surface condition and the scenery along the trail; a list of permitted uses; clear instructions for parking and accessing the trail; and comprehensive notes on natural and historical sights and railroad artifacts that trail users will see along the way.

Author :
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 2024-01-24
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 183768619X

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Modern railways are no longer the sole forte of civil and mechanical engineering. They now involve a broad range of multidisciplinary engineering domains from advanced computing, digital telecommunications, and networking to big data analytics and even artificial intelligence. Among the emerging technologies and innovations in railways, hyperloop transportation systems employing magnetic propulsion, hydrogen-powered trains, and autonomous intelligent systems in the control and command subsystems of railways have significant potential to improve the performance of railways in terms of speed, service availability, comfort, sustainability, and potentially safety. These innovations will also help mitigate carbon emissions. This volume presents the latest research on railway engineering and transportation and discusses the practices and processes involved in shaping modern railways.

Author : Rob van der Bijl
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,55 MB
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0128147857

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Light Rail Transit Systems: 61 Lessons in Sustainable Urban Development shows how to design and operate light rail to maximize its social benefits. Readers will learn how to understand the value of light rail and tactics on its effective integration into communities. It uses strong supporting evidence and theory drawn from the author's team and their extensive experience in developing new light rail systems. The book uses numerous case studies to demonstrate how key concepts can bridge the geographic limitations inherent in many transit-related discussions. In addition, users will learn how to develop important relationships with local decision-makers and communities. Presents applied research by experienced practitioners and academic researchers Draws on more than 50 cases from Europe, the Middle East, the UK and US Incorporates five themes on why it’s important to invest in light rail, including effective mobility, and for an efficient city, economy, environment and equity Includes a checklist for planning public transport projects

Author : Norm Cohen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252068812

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Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition.