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Author : Geoffrey Freeman Allen
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 1990
Category : High speed trains
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Author : Robert E. Gallamore
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674725646
Overregulated and displaced by barges, trucks, and jet aviation, railroads fell into decline. Their misfortune was measured in lost market share, abandoned track, bankruptcies, and unemployment. Today, rail transportation is reviving. American Railroads tells a riveting story about how this iconic industry managed to turn itself around.
Author : Tim Bryars
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 022620250X
The twentieth century was a golden age of mapmaking, an era of cartographic boom. Maps proliferated and permeated almost every aspect of daily life, not only chronicling geography and history but also charting and conveying myriad political and social agendas. Here Tim Bryars and Tom Harper select one hundred maps from the millions printed, drawn, or otherwise constructed during the twentieth century and recount through them a narrative of the century’s key events and developments. As Bryars and Harper reveal, maps make ideal narrators, and the maps in this book tell the story of the 1900s—which saw two world wars, the Great Depression, the Swinging Sixties, the Cold War, feminism, leisure, and the Internet. Several of the maps have already gained recognition for their historical significance—for example, Harry Beck’s iconic London Underground map—but the majority of maps on these pages have rarely, if ever, been seen in print since they first appeared. There are maps that were printed on handkerchiefs and on the endpapers of books; maps that were used in advertising or propaganda; maps that were strictly official and those that were entirely commercial; maps that were printed by the thousand, and highly specialist maps issued in editions of just a few dozen; maps that were envisaged as permanent keepsakes of major events, and maps that were relevant for a matter of hours or days. As much a pleasure to view as it is to read, A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps celebrates the visual variety of twentieth century maps and the hilarious, shocking, or poignant narratives of the individuals and institutions caught up in their production and use.
Author : MIKE. HORNE
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 2018
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ISBN : 9781854144256
Author : Christopher Chant
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Railroad trains
ISBN : 9780753702673
Text and photographs present some of the best known and well remembered railroad trains of the past 100 years.
Author : Karl R. Zimmerman
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780760314227
This authoritative history of the 20th Century Limited from 1902 to its 1967 demise examines the train; its steam, electric, and diesel motive power; and its swank passenger cars, services, and amenities. The Century was a train of magnates and movie stars, with a red carpet rolled out for departure from Chicago to New York City. With the finest of food in the diner and a full array of amenities - barber, secretary, shower, maid - the 20th Century Limited set the standards against which all other passenger trains would be measured. This book tells the complete story of this extraordinary train, from its illustrious beginning in the days of opulent wooden cars through its demise in the era of passenger-train cutbacks that lead to the formation of Amtrak.
Author : T. M. Simmons
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 17,66 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 0760368104
Rails Around the World is a visually glorious history depicting trains and locomotives at work in scenic locations throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
Author : Peter W. B. Semmens
Publisher : Haynes Publications
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781852603236
Railway DisasterSemmens
Author : Stephen B. Goddard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 1996-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226300436
From the glory days of the railroad to today's gridlocked, six-lane highway, Getting There dramatizes America's shift from rail to road transportation, how it has robbed Americans of the choice of travel options enjoyed by Europeans, and why it threatens the nation's economic future. Stephen B. Goddard reveals how government joined automakers and roadbuilders to nearly destroy the rails, and why the 21st century will witness high-tech remedies and a railroad resurgence.