Solutionary Rail

Author: Bill Moyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998096308
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 126

Book Description
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.

Rail

Author: Kai Carlson-Wee
Publisher: Poulin, Jr. New Poets of Ameri
ISBN: 9781942683582
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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

The Rail

Author: Tommy Donovan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991008391
Category : Bildungsromans
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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

Long Steel Rail

Author: Norm Cohen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068812
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 774

Book Description
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.

New Departures

Author: Anthony Perl
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813170480
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 366

Book Description
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.

New Hampshire Rail Trails

Author: Charles Fontaine Martin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
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.

Laying Down the Rails

Author: Sonya Shafer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616346096
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Railway and Engineering Review

Author: Walter Mason Camp
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1060

Book Description

New Research on Railway Engineering and Transportation

Author:
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 183768619X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
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.

Personal Passenger Safety in Railway Stations

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0215028996
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Personal passenger safety in railway Stations : Oral and written evidence, oral evidence taken on Wednesday 19 April 2006