Download or read book Keeping the Railroads Running written by Karl A. Borntrager and published by Hastings House Book Publishers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Railway Maintenance Equipment written by Brian Solomon and published by . This book was released on with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railroad tracks take quite a beating, with countless tons of cold steel and freight rumbling over them day and night, wearing down rails and vibrating ties loose from their ballasts. This book reveals the special machinery railroads use to maintain and mend tracks and other property, as well as how the machines were developed and how they work. Each chapter tackles a different piece of maintenance equipment like tie pullers, spike drivers and rail grinders. Photos illustrate the machines in action, while detail shots depict the "business end" of each. This one-of-a-kind title is perfect for railfans and modelers.

Download or read book Working on the Railroad written by Brian Solomon and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nothing Like It In the World written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

Download or read book Failing Railroads written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Waiting on a Train written by James McCommons and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.

Download or read book Settlement of Labor management Disputes in Transportation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Running God s Spiritual Railroad written by Chris E. Howard and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this collection of short stories, Howard has blended his passions for God and railroads. These tales are filled with thought-provoking insights and teachings, yet maintain a simplicity and clarity that all ages can enjoy. (Christian)

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Download or read book Return of the Railroads to Private Ownership written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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