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Author | : James McCommons |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2009-11-06 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1603582592 |
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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 | : Historians |
ISBN | : 9780814318850 |
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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 |
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Author | : Jan-Andrew Henderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2019-06-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780992856151 |
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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 | : Greil Marcus |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 1525 |
Release | : 2008-03-25 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 110166164X |
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Now Available as an eBook Catch a train to the heart of rock ‘n’ roll with this essential study of the quintessential American art form. First published in 1975, Greil Marcus’ Mystery Train remains a benchmark study of rock ‘n’ roll and a classic in the field of music criticism. Focusing on six key artists--Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank, Randy Newman, the Band, Sly Stone, and Elvis Presley--Marcus explores the evolution and impact of rock ‘n’ roll and its unique place in American culture. This sixth edition of Mystery Train includes an updated and rewritten Notes and Discographies section, exploring the evolution and continuing impact of the recordings featured in the book.
Author | : Philip Mark Plotch |
Publisher | : Three Hills |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Subways |
ISBN | : 9780801453663 |
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"The story of the Second Avenue subway, as it symbolizes New York's inability to modernize its infrastructure and reveals the ingredients necessary to build a twenty-first-century megaproject"--
Author | : James Baldwin |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2013-09-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0804149704 |
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A major work of American literature from a major American writer that powerfully portrays the anguish of being Black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war. "Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American writers." —Saturday Review At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone is overpowering in its vitality and extravagant in the intensity of its feeling.
Author | : Jodie Callaghan |
Publisher | : Second Story Press |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2020-03-24 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1772601993 |
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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 | : Dr. Seuss |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2013-09-24 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0385372086 |
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A perennial favorite, Dr. Seuss’s wonderfully wise graduation speech is the perfect send-off for children starting out in the world, be they nursery school, high school, or college grads! From soaring to high heights and seeing great sights to being left in a Lurch on a prickle-ly perch, Dr. Seuss addresses life’s ups and downs with his trademark humorous verse and illustrations, while encouraging readers to find the success that lies within. In a starred review, Booklist notes: “Seuss’s message is simple but never sappy: life may be a ‘Great Balancing Act,’ but through it all ‘There’s fun to be done.’” This Read & Listen edition contains audio narration.
Author | : John R. Stilgoe |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2009-02-05 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0813930502 |
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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.