Download or read book Railroad and Street Transportation written by Ralph Douglas Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroad and Street Transportation written by Ralph Douglas Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the American Street and Interurban Railway Transportation and Traffic Association written by American Street and Interurban Railway Transportation and Traffic Association and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amtrak America s Railroad written by Geoffrey H. Doughty and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the story of Amtrak, America's Railroad, 50 years in the making. In 1971, in an effort to rescue essential freight railroads, the US government founded Amtrak. In the post–World War II era, aviation and highway development had become the focus of government policy in America. As rail passenger services declined in number and in quality, they were simultaneously driving many railroads toward bankruptcy. Amtrak was intended to be the solution. In Amtrak, America's Railroad: Transportation's Orphan and Its Struggle for Survival, Geoffrey H. Doughty, Jeffrey T. Darbee, and Eugene E. Harmon explore the fascinating history of this popular institution and tell a tale of a company hindered by its flawed origin and uneven quality of leadership, subjected to political gamesmanship and favoritism, and mired in a perpetual philosophical debate about whether it is a business or a public service. Featuring interviews with former Amtrak presidents, the authors examine the current problems and issues facing Amtrak and their proposed solutions. Created in the absence of a comprehensive national transportation policy, Amtrak manages to survive despite inherent flaws due to the public's persistent loyalty. Amtrak, America's Railroad is essential reading for those who hope to see another fifty years of America's railroad passenger service, whether they be patrons, commuters, legislators, regulators, and anyone interested in railroads and transportation history.
Download or read book Train Time written by John R. Stilgoe and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trains have a nostalgic connotation for most Americans, but John Stilgoe argues that we should be looking to rail lines as the path to our future, not just our past. Train Time picks up where his acclaimed work Metropolitan Corridor left off, carrying Stilgoe's ideas about the spatial consequences of railways up to the present moment. With containers bringing the production of a global economy to our ports, the price of oil skyrocketing, and congestion and sprawl forcing many Americans to live far from work, trains offer an obvious alternative to a culture dependent on cars and long-haul trucking. Arguing that the train is returning, "an economic and cultural tsunami about to transform the United States," Stilgoe posits a future for railways as powerful shapers of American life. For anyone looking for prescient analysis and compelling history of the American landscape and economy in general and railroad and transit history in particular, Train Time is an engaging look at the future of our railroads and of transportation and land development. For those familiar with John Stilgoe's talent for seeing things that elude the rest of us, and delivering those observations in pithy asides about real estate, corporate culture, and other aspects of American life, this book will not disappoint.
Download or read book Report on Short Line Railroads written by United States. Office of Federal Coordinator of Transportation. Section of Research and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Street Railway Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Getting There written by Stephen B. Goddard and published by . This book was released on 1994-06-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting There is a human saga of opportunity, greed, high ideals, raw ambition, and heartbreak, told with wit and excitement. Beginning with the glory days of American railroads, Goddard discloses why the robber barons led the campaign for good roads and how government joined automakers, industry and road-builders to create a self-perpetuating highway system. Drawing on original sources, he takes his reader behind the doors of corporate boardrooms and congressional hearing rooms to document dramatically how the "highwaymen" and the railways rocked the financial markets for six decades as they grappled with each other for advantage.
Download or read book Metropolitan Railways written by William D. Middleton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Metropolitan Railways" is a large-scale, illustrated volume that deals with the growth and development of urban rail transit systems in North America.
Download or read book Proceedings of the American Street and Interurban Railway Transportation and Traffic Association written by American Electric Railway Transportation and Traffic Association and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on Passenger Subway and Elevated Railroad Development in Chicago written by Charles Keagle Mohler and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Transportation in the Eastern Cotton Belt to 1860 written by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and published by New York, Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1908 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the American Street and Interurban Railway Association written by American Street and Interurban Railway Association and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cleveland Education Survey written by Ralph D. Fleming and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cleveland Education Survey: Railroad and Street Transportation This report on Railroad and Street Transpor tation is one of the 25 sections of the report of the Educational Survey of Cleveland conducted by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation in 1915. Twenty-three of these sections will be published as separate mono graphs. In addition there will be a larger vol ume giving a summary of the findings and recommendations relating to the regular work of the public schools, and a second similar vol ume giving the summary of those sections re lating to industrial education. Copies of all these publications may be obtained from the Cleveland Foundation. They may also be ob tained from the Division of Education of the Russell Sage Foundation, New York City. A complete list will be found in the back of this volume, together with prices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Proceedings of the American Electric Railway Transportation and Traffic Association written by American Electric Railway Transportation and Traffic Association and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing a complete report of the ... annual convention.
Download or read book Transportation Rates and Their Regulation written by Harry Gunnison Brown and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nashville s Streetcars and Interurban Railways written by Ralcon Wagner and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nashville's 150-year public transportation heritage is a rich and colorful one that began in 1866 when two private companies, the McGavock and Mount Vernon Horse Railroad Company and the South Nashville Street Railroad Company, commenced operation. The first cars were mule powered. During the 1880s, as streetcar routes became longer and too strenuous for animal power, steam dummy lines were introduced. On April 30, 1889, Nashville became one of the earliest cities served by electric street railways, developing a 70-mile system by 1915. In addition to its advanced streetcar system, Nashville was also served by two interurban railway systems. Over time, improved roads and affordable cars caused ridership on public transportation to drop rapidly. By February 1941, buses had replaced the last of the city's aging streetcars. The traction era had come to an end.
