Walt Disney's Railroad Story
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Publisher : Carolwood Pacific LLC
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
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ISBN : 0975858424
Author :
Publisher : Carolwood Pacific LLC
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
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ISBN : 0975858424
Author : Ranjith L. Dissanayake
Publisher :
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Railroad engineering
ISBN : 9789555234900
Author : Roger Lloyd
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Railroads
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Author : Simon Bradley
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1847653529
Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2015 Currently filming for BBC programme Full Steam Ahead Britain's railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years. Transforming lives and landscapes, they have left their mark on everything from timekeeping to tourism. As a self-contained world governed by distinctive rules and traditions, the network also exerts a fascination all its own. From the classical grandeur of Newcastle station to the ceaseless traffic of Clapham Junction, from the mysteries of Brunel's atmospheric railway to the lost routines of the great marshalling yards, Simon Bradley explores the world of Britain's railways, the evolution of the trains, and the changing experiences of passengers and workers. The Victorians' private compartments, railway rugs and footwarmers have made way for air-conditioned carriages with airline-type seating, but the railways remain a giant and diverse anthology of structures from every period, and parts of the system are the oldest in the world. Using fresh research, keen observation and a wealth of cultural references, Bradley weaves from this network a remarkable story of technological achievement, of architecture and engineering, of shifting social classes and gender relations, of safety and crime, of tourism and the changing world of work. The Railways shows us that to travel through Britain by train is to journey through time as well as space.
Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 38,90 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : 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.
Author : Rajendra B. Aklekar
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789353332877
His stories instruct and entertain, bringing the past of Indian Railways alive in the present. Did you know that India's first steam engine never ran on tracks and was actually used to run driving mills in a factory? That the maximum speed of the first commercial train in India was 4.5 miles/hour?
Author : Richard Balkwill
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780753415887
Examines trains and railway systems from all over the world, from the super-sleek bullet train of Japan to the remote mountain railways of Mexico. 6 yrs+
Author : Mercury (pseud.)
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Page : 210 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Railroads
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Populäre Eisenbahnliteratur.
Author : Craig Sanders
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 2006-05-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0253027934
"Craig Sanders has done an excellent job of research . . . his treatment is as comprehensive as anyone could reasonably wish for, and solidly based. In addition, he succeeds in making it all clear as well as any human can. He also manages to inject enough humor and human interest to keep the reader moving." —Herbert H. Harwood, author of The Lake Shore Electric Railway Story and Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers A complete history of Amtrak operations in the heartland, this volume describes conditions that led to the passage of the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970, the formation and implementation of Amtrak in 1970–71, and the major factors that have influenced Amtrak operations since its inception. More than 140 photographs and 3 maps bring to life the story as told by Sanders. This book will become indispensable to train enthusiasts through its examination of Americans' long-standing fascination with passenger trains. When it began in 1971, many expected Amtrak to last about three years before going out of existence for lack of business, but the public's continuing support of funding for Amtrak has enabled it and the passenger train to survive despite seemingly insurmountable odds.
Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2001-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780743203173
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.