Author : Tony Koester
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780890244180
Develop realistic operating sessions and operate your model railroad like a full-sized one. The book covers how to forward cars, move trains, and use signal systems.
Author : John H. Armstrong
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780890242278
Covers freight and passenger operations, route design, and contemporary railroading operations. The step-by-step design techniques and operation-oriented track plans also make it easy to create your own realistic model railroad.
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Law firms
ISBN : 9781610600149
Author : Elisabeth Köll
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 18,74 MB
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0674916425
As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial conditions by competing foreign investors. The national system that began taking shape in the 1910s suffered all the ills of the country at large: warlordism and Japanese invasion, Chinese partisan sabotage, the Great Leap Forward when lines suffered in the “battle for steel,” and the Cultural Revolution, during which Red Guards were granted free passage to “make revolution” across the country, nearly collapsing the system. Elisabeth Köll’s expansive study shows how railroads survived the rupture of the 1949 Communist revolution and became an enduring model of Chinese infrastructure expansion. The railroads persisted because they were exemplary bureaucratic institutions. Through detailed archival research and interviews, Köll builds case studies illuminating the strength of rail administration. Pragmatic management, combining central authority and local autonomy, sustained rail organizations amid shifting political and economic priorities. As Köll shows, rail provided a blueprint for the past forty years of ambitious, semipublic business development and remains an essential component of the PRC’s politically charged, technocratic economic model for China’s future.
Author : Rudolph Daniels
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 2017-04-06
Category :
ISBN : 9780996696333
War is a brutal thing. Countries clash in a grand struggle for power, while belligerent nations mobilize their vast resources to tackle their opponents head-on. Both man and machine, and the supplies to support them, must be moved in mass quantity to have any hope of victory.World War I, or "The Great War" (as it was called at the time), was the first worldwide conflict of its kind, requiring mass mobilizations at unrivaled levels. The rail systems of nations across the globe were put to the test by the war effort. Tasked to move troops, equipment, ammunition, and supplies around the clock, railroads were pushed to the precipice of failure."The Great Railroad War," by Dr. Rudolph Daniels, delves into the often unrecognized and underappreciated history of United States rail operations during and immediately following World War I. Daniels' expertly-written academic history sheds light on the profound impact that American railroads and railroaders had on the war effort. The book covers the unpreparedness of the railroads for an unprecedented war, the 1918 government takeover to ensure operating efficiency, and the relinquishment of the railroads and groundbreaking Transportation Act of 1920.Covering more than just the history, Daniels discusses the operational details of United States rail shipments both at home and abroad, and how these operations interplayed and overlapped with military operations in France and Russia. Experience the unsung war of the twentieth century - The Great Railroad War.
Author : Dr. Christopher R. Gabel
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1782895698
Includes 4 figures, 13 maps and 4 tables. Renowned Military Historian Dr Christopher Gabel investigates the effects of the Railroad on the strategies employed by both the Union and Confederate Generals of the Civil War. According to an old saying, “amateurs study tactics: professionals study logistics.” Any serious student of the military profession will know that logistics constantly shape military affairs and sometimes even dictate strategy and tactics. This excellent monograph by Dr. Christopher Gabel shows that the appearance of the steam-powered railroad had enormous implications for military logistics, and thus for strategy, in the American Civil War. Not surprisingly, the side that proved superior in “railroad generalship,” or the utilization of the railroads for military purposes, was also the side that won the war.
Author : Henry Varnum Poor
Publisher :
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Canals
ISBN :
Author : Christos N. Pyrgidis
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1498788157
Incorporates More Than 25 Years of Research and ExperienceRailway Transportation Systems: Design, Construction and Operation presents a comprehensive overview of railway passenger and freight transport systems, from design through to construction and operation. It covers the range of railway passenger systems, from conventional and high speed inter
Author : Frank W. Telewski
Publisher : Oso Pub
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781931064057
History of Weyerhaeuser railroad logging in the Northwest. Starting with steam power and evolving to diesel power, Weyerhaeuser harvested and transported logs for some 65 years via their Vail-McDonald operation.
Author : The Law The Law Library
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 2018-09-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781727532197
Passenger Train Emergency Preparedness (US Federal Railroad Administration Regulation) (FRA) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Passenger Train Emergency Preparedness (US Federal Railroad Administration Regulation) (FRA) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 FRA is amending its existing regulation entitled Passenger Train Emergency Preparedness by revising or clarifying various provisions. The final rule clarifies that railroad personnel who communicate or coordinate with first responders during emergency situations must receive certain initial and periodic training and be subject to operational tests and inspections related to the railroad's emergency preparedness plan. The final rule also clarifies that railroads must develop procedures in their emergency preparedness plans that specifically address the safety of passengers with disabilities during actual and simulated emergency situations, such as during train evacuations. The rule also limits the need for FRA to formally approve certain purely administrative changes to approved emergency preparedness plans. In addition, the final rule requires that operational tests and inspections be conducted in accordance with a program that meets certain minimum requirements. Finally, the rule removes as unnecessary the provision discussing the preemptive effect of the regulations. This book contains: - The complete text of the Passenger Train Emergency Preparedness (US Federal Railroad Administration Regulation) (FRA) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
