Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan

Author: Byron Babbish
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497568020
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
The Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan series of books brings back to life the many fascinating railroads serving a great city in the last quarter of the 20th Century when they were still so very interesting and so many. This is Volume 8 of Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan and it is about the commuter trains that ran between Detroit and Pontiac, Michigan. They were operated by the Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority (SEMTA) and ran on Grand Trunk Western Railroad's Holly Subdivision tracks. This suburban commuter train operation is extensively covered between 1975 and their end of operations in 1983 in both color and black and white photographs taken by the author.

Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan Volume 7

Author: Byron Babbish
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497415539
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 78

Book Description
The Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan series of books brings back to life the many fascinating railroads serving a great city in the last quarter of the 20th Century when they were still so very interesting and so many. This is Volume 7 of Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan and it is about the Detroit River Carferry and Tunnel Railroad Operations during the years 1975 to 2000. The Detroit River was a natural boundary between Detroit and Canada and Detroit's railroads sailed over the River and ran underneath it to reach Windsor, Ontario on the other side. Both the Carferry and Tunnel operations were fascinating and exciting to see and are covered extensively in this book in both color and black and white photographs taken by the author.

Chronicle

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Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Railfan & Railroad

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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 844

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Three Men and a Forester

Author: Ian S. Mahood
Publisher: Harbour Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781550170160
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
When Ian Mahood began his work for forestry magnate H.R. MacMillan in the 1950s, forest management was something less than a science. Mahood's pioneer silviculture methods were instrumental in changing the forest industry's approach to harvesting and crop management. From his early days of working as a sparkchaser on railway logging in the 1930s to stints as a Chief Executive Officer for top Canadian and international forest companies, Ian Mahood was a close inside observer of the forest industry. Now he brings his expertise to this biting indictment of a forest management policy gone astray. His story, a detailed examination of the industry spiced with personal anecdotes and incisive observations, questions the logic of the controversial Tree Farm Licence system.

The Railroad Never Sleeps

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ISBN: 9781616731281
Category : Photography of railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Digital Roots

Author: Gabriele Balbi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110740281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description
As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This book analyzes some of the most well-known and fiercely discussed concepts of the digital age from a historical perspective, showing how many of them have pre-digital roots and how they have changed and still are constantly changing in the digital era. Written by leading authors in media and communication studies, the chapters historicize 16 concepts that have become central in the digital media literature, focusing on three main areas. The first part, Technologies and Connections, historicises concepts like network, media convergence, multimedia, interactivity and artificial intelligence. The second one is related to Agency and Politics and explores global governance, datafication, fake news, echo chambers, digital media activism. The last one, Users and Practices, is finally devoted to telepresence, digital loneliness, amateurism, user generated content, fandom and authenticity. The book aims to shed light on how concepts emerge and are co-shaped, circulated, used and reappropriated in different contexts. It argues for the need for a conceptual media and communication history that will reveal new developments without concealing continuities and it demonstrates how the analogue/digital dichotomy is often a misleading one.

On the Rails

Author: Linda Niemann
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Category : Women railroad employees
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The first woman to go railroading on the Southern Pacific recounts her journey--the people who work on the trains, the craft of the railroader, the Western landscape that inspired her--providing an elegy to a dying trade.

Railfan

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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 834

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My Sisters Telegraphic

Author: Thomas C. Jepsen
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821413430
Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
"This study also explores the surprising parallels between the telegraphy of the nineteenth century and the work of women in technical fields today. The telegrapher's work, like that of the modern computer programmer, involved translating written language into machine-readable code. And anticipating the Internet by over one hundred years, telegraphers often experienced the gender-neutral aspect of the "cyberspace" they inhabited."--BOOK JACKET.