Freight Train

Author: Donald Crews
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062120476
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27

Book Description
In simple, powerful words and vibrant illustrations, Donald Crews evokes the rolling wheels of that childhood favorite: a train. This Caldecott Honor Book features bright colors and bold shapes. Even a child not lucky enough to have counted freight cars will feel he or she has watched a freight train passing after reading Freight Train. Donald Crews used childhood memories of trains seen during his travels to his grandparents' farm in the American South as the inspiration for this timeless favorite. New York magazine's The Strategist chose Freight Train as one of the "Best (Nonobvious) Baby Books to Bring to a Shower." As The Strategist stated: "The Caldecott Honor Book is spare and minimal in both art and text and follows the journey of a freight train and all its cars until it rolls off the page and into the distance. It’s a good way to learn all the different names of train cars, too." Red caboose at the back, orange tank car, green cattle car, purple box car, black tender and a black steam engine . . . freight train.

The American Freight Train

Author: Jim Boyd
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 0760308330
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
Photohistory examines the use of trains as freight haulers over the course of one and a half centuries. Depicts and explains the evolution of boxcars, flatcars, hoppers, refrigerator cars, tanks cars, ore jennies, auto-rack transports and more.

The Rail Freight Challenge for Emerging Economies

Author: Bernard Aritua
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464813817
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 65

Book Description
This report captures ways in which policy makers and senior officials in railway organizations from emerging economies can accelerate modal shift to rail. Such officials, as well as the general public, aspire for more freight to be moved by rail. The environmental and societal benefits of such a shift are compelling. And yet investment in railways is often not followed by a corresponding increase in freight moved by rail. This report highlights the fact that, in a world of changing global supply chains and logistics, the approach to regaining modal share needs to be different. The expectation that lower cost and efficient rail service will automatically lead to modal shift from road to rail has not been a reality in most emerging economies. Modern railways focus on understanding the logistics of targeted freight and positioning rail transport services as part of an overall logistics system aimed at meeting the needs of customers.

Freight Train Graffiti

Author: Roger Gastman
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
As dazzling as the art it celebrates, this volume is packed with 1,000 full-color illustrations and features in-depth interviews with more than 125 train artists and "writers" to provide unprecedented perspective into graffiti.

U.S. Freight Rail Economics and Policy

Author: Jeffrey Macher
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429633645
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
The passage of the Staggers Rail Act in 1980 led brought a renaissance to the freight rail industry. In the decade following, economists documented the effects of the Act on a variety of important economic metrics including prices, costs, and productivity. Over the preceding years, and with the return of the industry to more stable footing, attention to the industry by economists faded. The lack of attention, however, has not been due to a dearth of ongoing economic and policy issues that continue to confront the industry. In this volume, we begin to rectify this inattention. Rather than retread older analyses or provide yet another look at the consequences of Staggers, we assemble a collection of ten chapters in four sections that collectively provide fresh and up-to-date analyses of the economic issues and policy challenges the industry faces: the first section sets the context through foundational discussion of freight rail; the second section highlights the role of freight rail in an increasingly interrelated economy; the third section examines industry structure and scope in freight rail; and the fourth section assesses current regulatory challenges that confront freight rail. This book will be of great value to researchers, academics, policymakers, and students interested in the fields of freight rail economics and policy, transportation, business history, and regulatory economics.

Hopping Freight Trains in America

Author: Duffy Littlejohn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
A charming mix of how-to, RR love and operation. Short of the "bible," Armstong's The Railroad--What It Is..., this is the best work on the history, development, use and function of track, rolling stock, signals that we've found outside the textbooks. Jargon is explained (including a 45 p. glossary). Fine, fun, informative book. Published by Sand River Press, 1319 14th Street, Los Osos, CA 93402. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Rail Transport—Systems Approach

Author: Aleksander Sładkowski
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319515020
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 458

Book Description
This book shows how the systems approach is employed by scientists in various countries to solve specific problems concerning railway transport. In particular, the book describes the experiences of scientists from Romania, Germany, the Czech Republic, the UK, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland. For many of these countries there is a problem with the historical differences between the railways. In particular, there are railways with different rail gauges, with different signaling and communication systems, with different energy supplies and, finally, with different political systems, which are reflected in the different approaches to the management of railway economies. The book’s content is divided into two main parts, the first of which provides a systematic analysis of individual means of providing and maintaining rail transport. In turn, the second part addresses infrastructure and management development, with particular attention to security issues. Though primarily written for professionals involved in various problems concerning railway transport, the book will also benefit manufacturers, railway technical staff, managers, and students with transport specialties, as well as a wide range of readers interested in learning more about the current state of transport in different countries.

Rail Freight Solutions to Roadway Congestion

Author: Joseph Bryan
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 0309098939
Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
NCHRP Report 586 explores guidance on evaluating the potential feasibility, cost, and benefits of investing in rail freight solutions to alleviate highway congestion from heavy truck traffic.

Railway Transportation Systems

Author: Christos N. Pyrgidis
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1498788157
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 580

Book Description
Incorporates More Than 25 Years of Research and ExperienceRailway Transportation Systems: Design, Construction and Operation presents a comprehensive overview of railway passenger and freight transport systems, from design through to construction and operation. It covers the range of railway passenger systems, from conventional and high speed inter

Thomas and the Freight Train

Author: Wilbert V. Awdry
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0679815996
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 22

Book Description
Thomas helps people by hauling freight cars filled with coal, sand, wood and oil.