Southern California Local Freight Trains 2013/2014

Author: Charles Freericks
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781490504131
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
This IS AN OUTDATED VERSION OF THE BOOK. THERE IS A NEW 2015/2016 VERSION. This version of Southern California Locals: A Railroad Enthusiast's Field Guide to Local Trains in Southern California was updated in mid 2013. With new sections on locals from the past, model railroad shops, and other interesting items. The new edition also features black and white photographs. Like the previous edition, this book contains information, including start times when known, on over 500 locals, haulers, road switchers, switchers, and industrial jobs in the Southern California area. It is a terrific guide for those who wish to photograph and fan merchandise freight trains. A sample from the book: R-CAL0141I - Corona Local, Mon-Fri, (On duty 0501, at Porphyry Yard but often not seen until 0830. Crew is shuttled from San Bernardino to Corona where the power and caboose are kept. Works industries from West Corona to Casa Blanca and up to Highgrove. Does many lengthy shoves. Also works 3M Spur, which is the last remnant of the Lake Elsinore branch. The 3M plant ships roofing pellets in covered hoppers. The local heads down the spur two to three times a week. Often seen in Riverside about 1100. Usually done by 1200.)

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.

My Imaginary Friend Was Too Cool to Hang Out with Me

Author: Charles Freericks
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781506103181
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
My first friend was a tree. And so begins this highly original volume of comedic essays about a boy who didn't realize that the reason he didn't have an imaginary friend was because he hadn't imagined one. Told through the eyes of a child and then teenager who really needed a handbook on how life works, these stories about life's foibles are sure to roil up everyone's own memories of their childhoods and the awkward days when life was just a big mystery.

Santa Cruz Trains

Author: Derek R. Whaley
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781508570738
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Once there was an endless redwood wilderness, populated by only the hardiest of people. Then, the sudden blast of a steam whistle echoed across the canyons and the valleys-the iron horse had arrived in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Driven by the need to transport materials like lumber and lime to the rest of the world, the railroad brought people seeking out new ways of living, from the remote outposts along Bean and Zayante Creeks to the bustling towns of Los Gatos and Santa Cruz. Bridges and tunnels marked the landscape, and each new station, siding and spur signaled activity: businesses, settlements, and vacation spots. Summer resorts in the mountains evolved into sprawling residential communities which formed the backbone of the towns of the San Lorenzo Valley today. Much of the history of the locations along the route has since been forgotten. This is their story. Third Revision (February 2016) Addenda available at http://www.whaleyland.com/downloads/addenda1.3.pdf Exclusive CreateSpace Discount: Enter MU236Q6V into the coupon code field and get this book for $5.00 off! Offer only valid through CreateSpace. Review this book at GoodReads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25144919)

California Labor Code 2016

Author: John Snape
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329884469
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
The California Labor Code is a collection of civil law statutes for the State of California. The code is made up of statutes which govern the general obligations and rights of persons within the jurisdiction of the State of California. This is the 2016 edition, and is complete and unabridged. It contains the following divisions: Division 1. Department of Industrial Relations Division 2. Employment Regulation and Supervision Division 3. Employment Relations Division 4. Workers' Compensation and Insurance Division 4.5. Workers' Compensation and Insurance: State Employees Not Otherwise Covered Division 4.7. Retraining and Rehabilitation Division 5. Safety and Employment

Pacific Electric Red Cars

Author: Jim Walker
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738546889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
Of the rail lines created at the turn of the 20th century, in order to build interurban links through Southern California communities around metropolitan Los Angeles, the Pacific Electric grew to be the most prominent of all. The Pacific Electric Railway is synonymous with Henry Edwards Huntington, the capitalist with many decades of railroad experience, who formed the "P. E." and expanded it as principal owner for nearly its first decade. Huntington sold his PE holdings to the giant Southern Pacific Railroad in 1910, and the following year the SP absorbed nearly every electric line in the fourcounty area around Los Angeles in the "Great Merger" into a "new" Pacific Electric. Founded in 1901 and terminated in 1965, Pacific Electric was known as the "World's Great Interurban."

Freight Facts and Figures

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 58

Book Description

FRA Guide for Preparing Accidents/incidents Reports

Author: United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Safety
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description

Railway Depots, Stations & Terminals

Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 0760348901
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
Ride the rails with famed railroad historian, Brian Solomon, and learn about the incredible architecture and history of stations across America.

The Road to Resegregation

Author: Alex Schafran
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520961676
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447

Book Description
How could Northern California, the wealthiest and most politically progressive region in the United States, become one of the earliest epicenters of the foreclosure crisis? How could this region continuously reproduce racial poverty and reinvent segregation in old farm towns one hundred miles from the urban core? This is the story of the suburbanization of poverty, the failures of regional planning, urban sprawl, NIMBYism, and political fragmentation between middle class white environmentalists and communities of color. As Alex Schafran shows, the responsibility for this newly segregated geography lies in institutions from across the region, state, and political spectrum, even as the Bay Area has never managed to build common purpose around the making and remaking of its communities, cities, and towns. Schafran closes the book by presenting paths toward a new politics of planning and development that weave scattered fragments into a more equitable and functional whole.