Solutionary Rail

Solutionary Rail
Author: Bill Moyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2016-11-04
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780998096308

The Solutionary Rail vision draws unlikely allies together. It provides common cause to workers, farmers, tribes, urban and rural communities via the tracks and corridors that connect them. Part action plan and part manifesto, this book launches a new people-powered campaign to transform the way we use trains and the corridors they travel through.

Rail

Rail
Author: Kai Carlson-Wee
Publisher: Poulin, Jr. New Poets of Ameri
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2018
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781942683582

A spiritual journey across the railways and backroads of the American West.

The Rail

The Rail
Author: Tommy Donovan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Bildungsromans
ISBN: 9780991008391

The story of a young man growing up during difficult times in the Bronx, New York.

Long Steel Rail

Long Steel Rail
Author: Norm Cohen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 774
Release: 2000
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780252068812

Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition.

New Departures

New Departures
Author: Anthony Perl
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2002-12-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780813170480

North America faces a transportation crisis. Gas-guzzling SUVs clog the highways and air travelers face delays, cancellations, and uncertainty in the wake of unprecedented terrorist attacks. New Departures closely examines the options for improving intercity passenger trains’ capacity to move North Americans where they want to go. While Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada face intense pressure to transform themselves into successful commercial enterprises, Anthony Perl demonstrates how public policy changes lie behind the triumphs of European and Japanese high-speed rail passenger innovations. Perl goes beyond merely describing these achievements, translating their implications into a North American institutional and political context and diagnosing the obstacles that have made renewing passenger trains so much more difficult in North America than elsewhere. New Departures links the lessons behind rail passenger revitalization abroad with the opportunity to recast the policies that constrain Amtrak and VIA Rail from providing efficient and effective intercity transportation.

New Hampshire Rail Trails

New Hampshire Rail Trails
Author: Charles Fontaine Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2008
Genre: Transportation
ISBN:

The most comprehensive guide yet written on multi-use rail trails in New Hampshire, with inviting prose, 95 meticulous maps, and 180 photographs of railroad artifacts, scenery, and trail conditions. Includes capsule histories of the abandoned railroads that formerly operated in New Hampshire, followed by detailed descriptions of the trails that have taken their place. Each trail description includes ratings of the trail surface condition and the scenery along the trail; a list of permitted uses; clear instructions for parking and accessing the trail; and comprehensive notes on natural and historical sights and railroad artifacts that trail users will see along the way.

Personal Passenger Safety in Railway Stations

Personal Passenger Safety in Railway Stations
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2006-05-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0215028996

Personal passenger safety in railway Stations : Oral and written evidence, oral evidence taken on Wednesday 19 April 2006

New Research on Railway Engineering and Transportation

New Research on Railway Engineering and Transportation
Author:
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2024-01-24
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 183768619X

Modern railways are no longer the sole forte of civil and mechanical engineering. They now involve a broad range of multidisciplinary engineering domains from advanced computing, digital telecommunications, and networking to big data analytics and even artificial intelligence. Among the emerging technologies and innovations in railways, hyperloop transportation systems employing magnetic propulsion, hydrogen-powered trains, and autonomous intelligent systems in the control and command subsystems of railways have significant potential to improve the performance of railways in terms of speed, service availability, comfort, sustainability, and potentially safety. These innovations will also help mitigate carbon emissions. This volume presents the latest research on railway engineering and transportation and discusses the practices and processes involved in shaping modern railways.