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.

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.

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.

Retribution Rails

Retribution Rails
Author: Erin Bowman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2017
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0544918886

Ten years after the events of Vengeance Road, Reece Murphy, who has been forced to join the Rose Riders gang, must work with aspiring journalist Charlotte Vaughn to get free.

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

The Great Railway Bazaar

The Great Railway Bazaar
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2006-06-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 054752515X

The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: “Compulsive reading” (Graham Greene). In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental tour. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express—are the stars of a journey that takes Theroux on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.

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.