Railways of the Caribbean
Author : David C. Rollinson
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780333730423
Author : David C. Rollinson
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780333730423
Author : James Horsford
Publisher : Mainline & Maritime
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781900340205
The Jamaica Railway Company opened in 1845 with British finance and locomotives and expanded to open up the interior of the island, transporting bananas, sugar, rum, and other produce to the ports. American steam started to appear in the years prior to WW1, however, Englishman P.C. Dewhurst was the CME during the early 20th Century. The Jamaica Government Railway owned the system from 1900 and in 1960 this became the state-owned but independent Jamaica Railway Corporation. Dieselisation with British-built locos and railcars developed from the mid-1950s, indeed the JRC even bought some ex-LMS Stanier coaches from BR in 1964. Other diesels came from Canada, and France. The history is described fully and the routes are followed in detail with track diagrams and photos showing many key locations and the traffic operating. Steam & diesel locomotives, railcars and rolling stock all have their own chapters to give comprehensive coverage.
Author : United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Frederic Magie Halsey
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Christopher Walker
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 13,14 MB
Release : 1998-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781900095082
Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1586488511
The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, tracks were being laid as far afield as Australia and Cuba, and by the outbreak of World War I, the United States alone boasted over a quarter of a million miles. With unrelenting determination, architectural innovation, and under gruesome labor conditions, a global railroad network was built that forever changed the way people lived. From Panama to Punjab, from Tasmania to Turin, Christian Wolmar shows how cultures were enriched, and destroyed, by one of the greatest global transport revolutions of our time, and celebrates the visionaries and laborers responsible for its creation.
Author : James W. Lapsley
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : W RODNEY LONG
Publisher :
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 1927
Category :
ISBN :
Author : United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Publisher :
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Commerce
ISBN :
Author : Douglas J. Puffert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 2009-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226685098
A standard track gauge—the distance between the two rails—enables connecting railway lines to exchange traffic. But despite the benefits of standardization, early North American railways used six different gauges extensively, and even today breaks of gauge at national borders and within such countries as India and Australia are expensive burdens on commerce. In Tracks across Continents, Paths through History, Douglas J. Puffert offers a global history of railway track gauge, examining early choices and the dynamic process of diversity and standardization that resulted. Drawing on the economic theory of path dependence, and grounded in economic, technical, and institutional realities, this innovative volume traces how early historical events, and even idiosyncratic personalities, have affected choices of gauge ever since, despite changing technology and understandings of what gauge is optimal. Puffert also uses this history to develop new insights in the theory of path dependence. Tracks across Continents, Paths through History will be essential reading for anyone interested in how history and economics inform each other.