Download or read book Train written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This glorious visual celebration of train travel keeps you on the right track with stop-offs at the most important and incredible rail routes from all over the world. Your first stop in The Train Book is the groundbreaking steam locomotives of the 19th century and your final destination is the high-speed bullet trains of today. From the Union-Pacific Railroad to the Trans-Siberian Railway, you'll cross the continents to experience epic journeys and staggering scenery. You'll pick a seat on the most iconic locomotives, including the Orient Express, the Blue Train, and the Eurostar. You can also inspect the engines of famous British trains, such as Rocket, Mallard, and Javelin, and international trains, such as India's Palace on Wheels and America's Thatcher Perkins. You'll meet the true pioneers of train and track, including "Father of the Railways" George Stephenson, engineering legend Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and Métro maestro Fulgence Bienvenüe. For train-spotters and transport enthusiasts everywhere, this is your trip of a lifetime.
Download or read book The Development of the Railcar written by Roger Wakely Kidner and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Odyssey the Development of the Drewry Railcar 1902 1908 written by Peter Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This small publication results from the rediscovery of several long-forgotten references to motorised railcars operating in the early days of the Rhodesia Railway network, in what is now Zimbabwe. Our story follows what we believe to be the independent development of the some of the world's first commercially produced motorised railcars, designed by James Sidney Drewry. Further railcar designs of increasing size and horse-power followed, leading to the formation of the Drewry Car Company in 1906, for many decades specialists in the custom production of a range of motorised rail inspection cars for railway systems across the world. Fully illustrated with many archive images and illustrations (66 pages, over 15,000 words).
Download or read book The Train and the Telegraph written by Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complicating the existing scholarship by demonstrating that the railroad and telegraph in the United States were uneasy partners at best—and more often outright antagonists—throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Train and the Telegraph will appeal to scholars of communication, transportation, and American business history and political economy, as well as to enthusiasts of the nineteenth-century American railroad industry.
Download or read book The Illustrated Book of Steam and Rail written by Colin Garratt and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the birth of the railroads in the early Industrial Age, people across the world have been fascinated by the locomotive as a powerful symbol of advanced technology and an exciting means of transport. From the early beginnings of steam power to today's high-speed passenger trains, this book spans nearly two centuries of locomotive and railway development.
Download or read book The Gravy Train An Inside Look at the Long Island Rail Road written by Dan Ruppert and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in the suburbs of New York City on Long Island, I took a keen interest in all forms of transportation, especially trains. Afer graduating college, I worked as an industrial engineer for private sector corporations progressing to a middle management position within a Fortune 25 Company. In 1983 I accepted a job opportunity with the Long Island Rail Road as an industrial engineer. The LIRR is a government-subsidized agency that is part of a larger regional organization called the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The LIRR had embarked on a very ambitious improvement program to upgrade their physical plants. This plan included the construction of a new railcar maintenance facility. The new facility was to replace their one hundred year old maintenance shops. I was hired to develop facility layouts for the most advanced rail car maintenance facility in the country. Friends and professional colleagues advised me to decline the job offer. However, I was a railroad buff and the opportunity to work for a railroad overshadowed any tredpidations. For decades, the LIRR had bore the brunt of adverse publicity. I would often consider much of the critisism as being too harsh and misguided. Not long after commencing employment, my perspective of the LIRR would be completely transformed. The inefficient and workplace abuses I witnessed first hand could only flourish in publicly subsidized environment. My job required me to observe and analyze the maintenance and repair operations performed on commuter railcars. My next step was identifying more efficient methods. I would then implement these improvements into the design of the new railcar maintenance facilities. I was met with a wall of resistence and non-cooperation from the unionized workforce. The LIRR had languished in decades of inefficient work habits supplemented with managerial coplacency and rampant nepotism. I would operate in a very hostile environment that had no incentive to embrace improvements. It would be in the better interests of the unions to maintain low productivity and therefore justify the gross overstaffing that existed for decades. Upon completion of developing the facility layouts, the next phase of my responsibilities involved coordination with design consultants hired by the LIRR. The consultants were responsible for the architectural and structural designs of the new maintenance facility. The consultans typically were selected based on political connections and not their level of expertise. The design phase was muddled with incompetence and waste. Inept project management would add tens of millions of dollars and lengthly delays to the construction phase of the project. Upon completion of construction, a new regime intent on maintaining the status quo within the LIRR assues control of the new maintenance facility. The new regime is not committed to capitalizing on the labor efficiencies offered by the new facility. Key positions are then filled with managers' intent in preserving the traditional inefficient ways of the LIRR. My story concludes with the agendas of the new regime and conflicts with those who were trying to transform the LIRR into a socially responsible institution. My trials and tribulations along with personal victories and setbacks are all the basis of my book.
Download or read book Illustrated Book of Steam and Rail written by Colin Garratt and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the birth of the railroads in the early Industrial Age, people across the world have been fascinated by the locomotive as a powerful symbol of advanced technology and an exciting means of transport. From the early beginnings of steam power to today's high-speed passenger trains, this book spans nearly two centuries of locomotive and railway development.
Download or read book Development and Analysis of a Vertical Dynamic Railcar Model written by Gregory Dale Buckner and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Train written by Phillip Marsh and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history of rail travel, which more than any other form of transport, changed the face of the world we live in today. From the origins of train travel in the seventeenth century to the atmospheric glorious age of steam, to the high-speed electric trains of today.
Download or read book The Train Book written by and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning book is a glorious celebration of all things train and track! Packed with stunning photography, The Train Book catalogues the development of trains from early steam to diesel engines and electric locomotives, explores in detail iconic trains such as the Palace on Wheels and the Orient Express, and chronicles the social, political, and cultural backdrop against which railways were built the world over. Profiling the best-loved railways and rail journeys of all time - from the Union-Pacific Railroad to the Trans-Siberian Railway - and the pioneers of train and track - from "Father of the Railways" George Stephenson to engineering legend Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Métro-maestro Fulgence Bienvenüe, The Train Book has something for every train enthusiast to love! The Train Book further features: - A truly international view of trains through time, from English steam to Japanese electric. - Tells the stories of key innovators, designers, and engineers responsible for advancing rail travel. - Double-page images capture the beauty of the railways and the challenges faced by the people who built them. A must-have gift book for anyone with an interest in trains, locomotives, and the history of the railway, this one-stop train guide is sure to delight.
Download or read book The American Railway Its Construction Development Management and Appliances written by Thomas Curtis Clarke and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances' by Thomas Curtis Clarke, the author delves into the detailed history and operations of the American railway system. Clarke explores the technological advancements, managerial strategies, and societal impact of the railway, providing a comprehensive overview of its construction and evolution. Written in a scholarly and informative style, the book offers readers a deep understanding of the railway industry in the United States during the time period it covers, highlighting key milestones and challenges. With its focus on both the practical aspects and broader implications of the railway system, Clarke's work stands as a valuable resource for students and enthusiasts of transportation history. The meticulous research and detailed analysis presented in the book make it a compelling read for those interested in the development of infrastructure and transportation in America.
Download or read book The Railway Journey written by Wolfgang Schivelbusch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not always the case; as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change—the development of our modern, industrialized consciousness—was very much a learned behavior. In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch examines the origins of this industrialized consciousness by exploring the reaction in the nineteenth century to the first dramatic avatar of technological change, the railroad. In a highly original and engaging fashion, Schivelbusch discusses the ways in which our perceptions of distance, time, autonomy, speed, and risk were altered by railway travel. As a history of the surprising ways in which technology and culture interact, this book covers a wide range of topics, including the changing perception of landscapes, the death of conversation while traveling, the problematic nature of the railway compartment, the space of glass architecture, the pathology of the railway journey, industrial fatigue and the history of shock, and the railroad and the city. Belonging to a distinguished European tradition of critical sociology best exemplified by the work of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, The Railway Journey is anchored in rich empirical data and full of striking insights about railway travel, the industrial revolution, and technological change. Now updated with a new preface, The Railway Journey is an invaluable resource for readers interested in nineteenth-century culture and technology and the prehistory of modern media and digitalization.
Download or read book Illustrated Book of Steam and Rail written by Colin Dennis Garratt and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lead 65 written by Sam Stuart and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lead 65 documents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Lead held in Arnhem, 4-7 October 1965. The conference was organized by the Lead Development Association on behalf of the European Lead Development Committee (ELDC). In these Edited Proceedings will be found the full text of 34 papers presented during the conference together with an account of the discussion which followed presentation of each paper or related groups of papers. The book opens with a discussion of trends in world lead consumption. The remainder of the book is organized into four sections. The papers in Section 1 focus on dispersion strengthened lead. Section 2 presents studies on lead cable sheathing. Section 3 examines lead acid batteries for various applications while the papers in Section 4 deal with chemical and other applications of lead.
Download or read book The History of Great Western A E C Diesel Railcars written by Colin Walter Judge and published by Noodle Books. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with an overview of how the internal combustion engine came to be used for railway purposes, this book specifically examines the successful series of GWR railcars used from the 1930s onwards.
Download or read book The Far Eastern Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers written by Society of Automotive Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
