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| Author | : James McCommons |
| Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2009-11-06 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1603582592 |
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.
| Author | : Bruce Catton |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780814318850 |
The celebrated writer reminisces about his boyhood in Michigan at the turn of the century.
| Author | : Mark van Hagen |
| Publisher | : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V. |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Railroad stations |
| ISBN | : 9059725069 |
| Author | : Jan-Andrew Henderson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2019-06-08 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780992856151 |
Bobby Berlin's father wakes up convinced it's 1979 and he's a teenage fugitive called Dodd Pollen. Fleeing with his reluctant son in tow they find the countryside inexplicably deserted. And Bobby realizes how dangerous Dodd Pollen is. Short-listed for the Royal Mail Award, Angus Book Award, Manchester Book Award and Bolton Book Award.
| Author | : Jodie Callaghan |
| Publisher | : Second Story Press |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 2020-03-24 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1772601993 |
Ashley meets her great-uncle by the old train tracks near their community in Nova Scotia. Ashley sees his sadness, and Uncle tells her of the day years ago when he and the other children from their community were told to board the train before being taken to residential school where their lives were changed forever. They weren't allowed to speak Mi'gmaq and were punished if they did. There was no one to give them love and hugs and comfort. Uncle also tells Ashley how happy she and her sister make him. They are what give him hope. Ashley promises to wait with her uncle by the train tracks, in remembrance of what was lost.
| Author | : Philip Mark Plotch |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020-03-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1501745026 |
Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transit services all across the city. With his extraordinary access to powerful players and internal documents, Philip Mark Plotch reveals why the city's subway system, once the best in the world, is now too often unreliable, overcrowded, and uncomfortable. He explains how a series of uninformed and self-serving elected officials have fostered false expectations about the city's ability to adequately maintain and significantly expand its transit system. Since the 1920s, New Yorkers have been promised a Second Avenue subway. When the first of four planned phases opened on Manhattan's Upper East Side in 2017, subway service improved for tens of thousands of people. Riders have been delighted with the clean, quiet, and spacious new stations. Yet these types of accomplishments will not be repeated unless New Yorkers learn from their century-long struggle. Last Subway offers valuable lessons in how governments can overcome political gridlock and enormous obstacles to build grand projects. However, it is also a cautionary tale for cities. Plotch reveals how false promises, redirected funds and political ambitions have derailed subway improvements. Given the ridiculously high cost of building new subways in New York and their lengthy construction period, the Second Avenue subway (if it is ever completed) will be the last subway built in New York for generations to come.
| Author | : John R. Stilgoe |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2009-02-05 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0813930502 |
Unlike many United States industries, railroads are intrinsically linked to American soil and particular regions. Yet few Americans pay attention to rail lines, even though millions of them live in an economy and culture "waiting for the train." In Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape, John R. Stilgoe picks up where his acclaimed work Metropolitan Corridor left off, carrying his ideas about the spatial consequences of railways up to the present moment. Arguing that the train is returning, "an economic and cultural tsunami about to transform the United States," Stilgoe posits a future for railways as powerful shapers of American life. Divided into sections that focus on particular aspects of the impending impact of railroads on the landscape, Train Time moves seamlessly between historical and contemporary analysis. From his reading of what prompted investors to reorient their thinking about the railroad industry in the late 1970s, to his exploration of creative solutions to transportation problems and land use planning and development in the present, Stilgoe expands our perspective of an industry normally associated with bad news. Urging us that "the magic moment is now," he observes, "Now a train is often only a whistle heard far off on a sleepless night. But romantic or foreboding or empowering, the whistle announces return and change to those who listen." For scholars with an interest in American history in general and railroad and transit history in particular, as well as general readers concerned about the future of transportation in the United States, Train Time is an engaging look at the future of our railroads.
| Author | : Charlotte Voake |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2000-03 |
| Genre | : Children's stories |
| ISBN | : 9780744572964 |
The authors seeks to capture all the excitement and suspense of waiting on a footbridge high above a railway track. William, Chloe and their dad wait, watch and listen. And then, in the distance is a little speck, coming nearer and nearer. Here comes the train
| Author | : Satomi Ichikawa |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2010-11-11 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101648511 |
Little Train toots along, taking all his passengers exactly where they want to go. "To the pond!" says the duck. "To the forest!" says the monkey. "To the mountain!" says the bear. But Little Kangaroo doesn't say a word. He wants to go on an adventure with Little Train-adventure that leads him up a mountain, off a cliff, and back where he belongs: in his mama's pocket. This endearing picture book is perfect for train, toy and adventure lovers everywhere.
| Author | : David Garnes |
| Publisher | : CreateSpace |
| Total Pages | : 510 |
| Release | : 2013-08-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781434863683 |
World War II, perhaps the defining event of the 20th century, didn't happen only on the battlefield. WAITIN' FOR THE TRAIN TO COME IN is an historical novel about a New England family on the home front during the tumultuous years that changed the world--and the lives of all Americans. The novel follows the Stewarts of Springfield, Massachusetts as they cope with the sacrifices, adventures, and drama of "the war to end all wars." Live the years 1943-1946 through the eyes of Laura and Alan Stewart, their son Billy, and his Aunt Belle as each experiences life in an urban neighborhood and, for one, on a Navy ship in the Pacific. Through the eyes of Laura, Billy, Belle, Alan and many other characters, WAITIN' FOR THE TRAIN TO COME IN also explores larger outcomes of the war: the changing role of women; adjustments of returning veterans; life in wartime factories; and the struggles of being a child and adolescent during these turbulent years. Re-live air raid drills; rationing; holiday and end-of-war celebrations. Experience life in the Navy, from basic training to kamikaze attacks, typhoons, and the pleasures of wartime Honolulu. David Garnes' extensive research also adds to the vivid re-creation of popular culture of the Forties: on the radio, in the movies, and in newspapers and popular books and magazines. WAITIN' FOR THE TRAIN TO COME IN will appeal to readers who lived through this period, as well as those who did not experience the war but enjoy a well-plotted novel set against the backdrop of a crucial and exciting time in our history.
