Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 1923
Category :
ISBN :
[PDF] Railway Transportation In The United States eBook
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Train Time
Author : John R. Stilgoe
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0813930502
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.
Railway Statistics of the United States of America for the Years ...
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
National Consolidation of the Railways of the United States
Author : George Henry Lewis
Publisher : New-York, Dodd, Mead
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Railroads Across North America
Author : Claude Wiatrowski
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 20,43 MB
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 161060136X
From the first steam-powered locomotives of the early nineteenth century to the high-speed commuter trains of today, the American railroad has been a great engine powering the nations growth and industry. This book celebrates the glory and grandeur of that legacy with a lavish tour of the history of the American railroad and the culture surrounding it. Generously illustrated with vintage photographs, modern images, maps, timetables, tickets, brochures, and all manner of memorabilia, this volume offers a fascinating look at the rail industrys beginnings and development, as well as its place in American history. From the might of the major rail companies and their empires to the romance of rail travel, this is the full and fabulously colorful story of the industry that moved a nation--and stirs our imaginations to this day.
Railway Statistics of the United States of America
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Annual Report on the Statistics of Railways in the United States
Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
1921-1942 contain abstracts of periodical reports.
Principles of Railway Transportation
Author : Eliot Jones
Publisher : New York, Macmillan
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Waiting on a Train
Author : James McCommons
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 2009-11-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1603582592
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.
Study of Federal Aid to Rail Transportation
Author : United States. Department of Transportation
Publisher :
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 25,87 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Federal aid to transportation
ISBN :