A Century of Trains
Author | : Basil Cooper |
Publisher | : Smithmark Publishers |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780831712266 |
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Author | : Basil Cooper |
Publisher | : Smithmark Publishers |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780831712266 |
Author | : Dan Ponzol |
Publisher | : Friedman/Fairfax Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Oversize books |
ISBN | : 9781567999662 |
"This officially licensed, centennial celebration of the Lionel electric train tells the story of the first one hundred years of Lionel and showcases stunning, full-color photographs of some of the famous--as well as some of the rarest--examples of the Lionel output."--Cover.
Author | : James D. Dilts |
Publisher | : ForeEdge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : ARCHITECTURE |
ISBN | : 9781611688023 |
A richly illustrated guide to railroad architecture, in all its surprising variety
Author | : DK |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1465436588 |
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.
Author | : Brian Solomon |
Publisher | : Motorbooks |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Locomotives |
ISBN | : 0760368104 |
Rails Around the World is a visually glorious history depicting trains and locomotives at work in scenic locations throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
Author | : Brian Hollingsworth |
Publisher | : Crestline Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780760311936 |
Illustrations and descriptions of more than 300 locomotives from the early steam pioneers of the 1830s to modern electric and diesel locomotives and proposed locomotives for the 1990s and beyond.
Author | : Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2019-08-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1421429748 |
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.
Author | : Stephen B. Goddard |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1996-11-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780226300436 |
From the glory days of the railroad to today's gridlocked, six-lane highway, Getting There dramatizes America's shift from rail to road transportation, how it has robbed Americans of the choice of travel options enjoyed by Europeans, and why it threatens the nation's economic future. Stephen B. Goddard reveals how government joined automakers and roadbuilders to nearly destroy the rails, and why the 21st century will witness high-tech remedies and a railroad resurgence.
Author | : Wolfgang Schivelbusch |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520957903 |
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.
Author | : Bill James |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2017-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476796270 |
An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this “impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America” (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history. Between 1898 and 1912, families across the country were bludgeoned in their sleep with the blunt side of an axe. Some of these cases—like the infamous Villisca, Iowa, murders—received national attention. But most incidents went almost unnoticed outside the communities in which they occurred. Few people believed the crimes were related. And fewer still would realize that all of these families lived within walking distance to a train station. When celebrated true crime expert Bill James first learned about these horrors, he began to investigate others that might fit the same pattern. Applying the same know-how he brings to his legendary baseball analysis, he empirically determined which crimes were committed by the same person. Then after sifting through thousands of local newspapers, court transcripts, and public records, he and his daughter Rachel made an astonishing discovery: they learned the true identity of this monstrous criminal and uncovered one of the deadliest serial killers in America. “A suspenseful historical account” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), The Man from the Train paints a vivid, psychologically perceptive portrait of America at the dawn of the twentieth century, when crime was regarded as a local problem, and opportunistic private detectives exploited a dysfunctional judicial system. James shows how these cultural factors enabled such an unspeakable series of crimes to occur, and his groundbreaking approach to true crime will convince skeptics, amaze aficionados, and change the way we view criminal history. “A beautifully written and extraordinarily researched narrative…This is no pure whodunit, but rather a how-many-did-he-do” (Buffalo News).