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 The Sunset Limited written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian. 'The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page' – Financial Times A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment the two men, known as 'Black' and 'White', begin a conversatino that leads each back through his own history. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con in recovery for drug addiction, is the more hopeful of the men. He is, however, desperate to convince White of the power of faith – while White is desperate to deny it. Between them, they hope to discover the meaning of life itself. Praise for Cormac McCarthy: ‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren 'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series '[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

Download or read book Passenger Train Service written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 1: Committee Serial No. 90-17. Considers S. 1175 and related bills, to change administrative procedure and requirements for discontinuance of passenger train service, allowing longer periods of investigative time, reassignment of burden of non-profitability proof to carriers, and making alternative transportation arrangement provisions rather than service continuance/discontinuance decisions

Download or read book Passenger Train Service written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers H.R. 5596 and 28 related bills, to amend the Interstate Commerce Act to require formal ICC hearing for each railroad and ferry boat passenger line earmarked for abandonment where more than one state is involved.

Download or read book Passenger Train Service written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Passenger Train Service 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 1970 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Passenger Train Service Legislation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 91-37. Considers nine bills to revitalize rail passenger service in the U.S.

Download or read book Railroad Passenger Train Service 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 1968 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Passenger Train Service May 24 25 1967 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 1: Committee Serial No. 90-17. Considers S. 1175 and related bills, to change administrative procedure and requirements for discontinuance of passenger train service, allowing longer periods of investigative time, reassignment of burden of non-profitability proof to carriers, and making alternative transportation arrangement provisions rather than service continuance/discontinuance decisions.

Download or read book Passenger Train Service July 31 August 1 2 3 and 25 1967 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 1: Committee Serial No. 90-17. Considers S. 1175 and related bills, to change administrative procedure and requirements for discontinuance of passenger train service, allowing longer periods of investigative time, reassignment of burden of non-profitability proof to carriers, and making alternative transportation arrangement provisions rather than service continuance/discontinuance decisions.

Download or read book The Crisis in Passenger Train Service written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 89-11. Considers S. 325, to provide a 5-year Federal assistance program to passenger railroads for operating expenses; S. 1234, to allow New York and Connecticut to create a New York-Connecticut Rail Authority; and S. 348 to create a Northeast Rail Authority.

Download or read book Passenger Train Service Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics 91 1 on H R 12084 H R 744 H R 785 H R 3112 H R 521 H R 9168 H R 14170 H R 13347 H R 13352 H R 13832 H R 14661 and H J Res 52 and Related Bills Nov 5 6 12 13 17 18 19 and 20 1969 written by United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Passenger Train Abandonment 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 1967 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Passenger Train Abandonment Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics 90 1 on H R 7004 H R 260 H R 519 H R 8939 April 25 29 May 8 1967 written by United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Amend Hours of Service Act of 1907 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 1966 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers H.R. 5196, H.R. 8476 and similar bills, to amend the Hours of Service Act to further limit hours of continuous duty for certain railroad employees.

Download or read book My Train is On Schedule written by Marquez Price and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Train is On Schedule offers the speaker in a vulnerable and straightforward way; he shows how romantic, family, political, and spiritual worlds change him as he is changed. The poems have an authority-a kind of wisdom- and I get the sense of who the writer is and what's at stake for him in the poems. The potency of the poems' handling of identity is especially interesting and important." Sean Singer, Editor

Download or read book Caltrain and the Peninsula Commute Service written by Janet McGovern and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rail line now called Caltrain was started in the 1860s to create a faster alternative to stagecoaches and ships between the key cities of San Francisco and San Jose. Operated by Southern Pacific for many years, the Peninsula Commute Service is the oldest continuously operating passenger railroad in the West and boasts seven depots in the National Register of Historic Places. This indomitable iron horse has filled a vital transportation role, from evacuating San Franciscans during the 1906 earthquake to getting commuters to work. With the dawn of the 21st century, Caltrain reinvented itself yet again with its innovative Baby Bullet express trains.