Download or read book The Dictionary of Railway Track Terms written by Christopher F. Schulte and published by Simmons-Boardman Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Railway Dictionary written by Alan Arthur Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1998-11-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging reference work to guide both enthusiast and professional through the often specialist language that has developed during the last two hundred years. International in scope, the dictionary covers all aspects of railway terminology, past and present.

Download or read book Railway Age s Comprehensive Railroad Dictionary written by Simmons-Boardman Books, Incorporated and published by Simmons-Boardman Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Indianapolis Union and Belt Railroads written by Jeffrey Darbee and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of how railroads aided in the growth of Indiana and its capital city, featuring maps and illustrations. In an era dominated by huge railroad corporations, Indianapolis Union and Belt Railroads reveals the important role two small railroad companies had on development and progress in the Hoosier State. After Indianapolis was founded in 1821, early settlers struggled to move people and goods to and from the city, with no water transport nearby and inadequate road systems around the state. But in 1847, the Madison & Indianapolis Railroad connected the new capital city to the Ohio River and kicked off a railroad and transportation boom. Over the next seven decades, the Indiana railroad map expanded in all directions, and Indianapolis became a rail transport hub, dubbing itself the “Railroad City.” Though the Pennsylvania and the New York Central Railroads traditionally dominated the Midwest and Northeast and operated the majority of rail routes radiating from Indianapolis, these companies could not have succeeded without the two small railroads that connected them. In the downtown area, the Indianapolis Union Railway was less than two miles long, and out at the edge of town the Belt Railroad was only a little over fourteen miles. Though small in size, the Union and the Belt had an outsized impact, both on the city’s rail network and on the city itself. It played an important role both in maximizing the efficiency and value of the city’s railroad freight and passenger services and in helping to shape the urban form of Indianapolis in ways that remain visible today. “A good history book explains why things are the way they are. This is a great history book, neatly telling the value of railroads in the development of the United States as well as in Indianapolis. Footnotes and bibliography combined with maps and ephemera and photos of everything from track construction to buildings to locomotives make it of interest to architects and engineers as well as rail fans and Hoosier history buffs. It’s a super tour guide, too.” —Cynthia L. Ogorek, coauthor of The Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad “An interesting history not only of these two railroads but how they ultimately served as a model for the many other belt railroads . . . [The book discusses] how and why railroads transformed Indianapolis into a major city; in fact, the largest U.S. city not on navigable water.” —Tom Hoback, Owner, Indiana Rail Road Company

Download or read book The Railway Dictionary written by Alan Arthur Jackson and published by Sutton Pub Limited. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International in scope and covering all aspects of railway terminology, past and present, this fourth edition includes among much else proper names of trains, companies and manufacturers, and clarifies a profusion of abbreviations.

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Download or read book AASHTO Transportation Glossary written by and published by AASHTO. This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 2009 AASHTO Transportation Glossary is an update and revision of the 1983 Transportation Glossary and the 1998 Transportation Glossary, which was unpublished. The largest additions in terminology were in bridge and drainage subjects. The new Glossary also includes lists of organizational acronyms, abbreviations, and other glossary references. Terms and definitions in this glossary were taken from an unpublished 1998 AASHTO Glossary and supplemented with definitions listed in AASHTO publications issued after 1998. Several additional sources were also referenced, including the Highway Capacity Manual, Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, Code of Federal Regulations-Title 23, an FHWA list of roundabout terminology, and the Transportation Research Thesaurus. Glossary terms are listed in alphabetical order regardless of transportation mode. However, the glossary also includes two indexes-subject area and keyword-which provide cross references for the user."--AASHTO Bookstore website (viewed June 24, 2.

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Download or read book The Railway Dictionary written by Alan Arthur Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference work for both enthusiasts and professionals to the often specialist language which has developed around railways over 200 years. International in scope, the dictionary covers all aspects of railway terminology, past and present, and covers real names, abbreviations and slang.

Download or read book The Railway Track and Its Long Term Behaviour written by Konstantinos Tzanakakis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-26 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proper quality of a track and other infrastructure objects represents a basic requirement for train safety and punctuality. Most of the physical systems and their components deteriorate over time. This affects performance and may lead to failures. Albert Einstein said, “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” Only if we understand how the whole system works, taking into account its imperfections and how they influence its quality and performance will we be able to learn the rules of the game and “play better.” The book provides the readers with the necessary functional knowledge of track behaviour and comprehensively covers the function of the various track components, their interaction as elements of the track system, as well as the interaction of the track with railway vehicles. By presenting important tools for a deep understanding of track-behaviour this book aims to be a reference guide for infrastructure managers and to help them to find ways improving track quality for optimum long-term behaviour.