New York City Electrified Railroads
Author | : Alfred E. Fazio |
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Release | : 2010 |
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ISBN | : 9781582483085 |
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Author | : Alfred E. Fazio |
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Release | : 2010 |
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ISBN | : 9781582483085 |
Author | : Alfred E. Fazio |
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Release | : 2010 |
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ISBN | : 9781582483542 |
Author | : New York Electric Railway Association |
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Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Electric railroads |
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Author | : Harry James Carman |
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Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Municipal franchises |
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Author | : Bill Moyer |
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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.
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Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Author | : Michael Bezilla |
Publisher | : Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : History |
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The first comprehensive case study of railroad electrification in the United States, this pioneering book highlights a subject of current government and industry studies and a target of billions of dollars of Amtrak rehabilitation funds. Both energy conservation and environmental quality remain at stake together with transportation efficiency. Electric traction on the Pennsylvania Railroad was a technological success handicapped by an economic factor: the onetime relatively low cost of petroleum, which gave diesel locomotives and highway vehicles a temporary advantage. Today the growing cost advantage of electricity--generated with coal; atomic energy; water, wind, and solar power--prefigures a revival of electric railroad traction. Drawing upon previously untapped records of the PRR and its suppliers, notably General Electric, the author traces stages in cooperative risk management. First came challenges of limited scope which steam locomotives were unable to meet: the New York City tunnel extension of 1910 and the Philadelphia suburban modernization begun in 1913. Next came a decade of mainline electrification, 1928-38: first New York to Washington and then passenger and freight extensions to Harrisburg. These projects were preceded by large-scale research and experimentation, followed by constant improvement in equipment and operations. Electric traction is depicted as a program involving not only the railroad but also its consultants, equipment and energy suppliers, and (to a lesser degree) governmental bodies. Locomotive and power transmission design is described in detail--with copious illustrations--as are the creative achievements of managers, engineers, and workers. And the presentation will be clear to readers without specialized technical or business backgrounds.
Author | : Eric R. Oszustowicz |
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Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2014-12-01 |
Genre | : Electric railroads |
ISBN | : 9780692331569 |
The Elevated Railways of Manhattan by Eric R. Oszustowicz was written for the many New Yorkers who rush through the streets of Manhattan today completely oblivious to the fact that at one time there was an extensive elevated railway system that traversed most of the island from the Battery through Midtown, Harlem and on into The Bronx and later into Queens. Certain narrow downtown streets, such as Pearl Street, were shrouded in darkness by the elevated structure, even on the sunniest of days.But without these elevated railways, it would not have been possible for New York City to develop as fast as it did. Development would have been delayed about 25 years until the first subways opened since there was no other way to move the massive crowds through the City. Partially due to the constant expansion of the underground subway lines and to a great extent real estate interests, the elevated lines that ran into southern Manhattan were all torn down from 1938 to 1955.Although New York has its own unique and extreme dynamism and is one of the great cities of the world, one could only wonder what New York would be like today if one or more of the elevated lines were still standing.
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Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Electric railroads |
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Author | : A. Andrew Boemi |
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Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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