Book Description
Railroad companies' response to a railroad accident that occurred between Burlington, N.J. and Bordentown, N.J. when a horse-drawn carriage collided with a passenger train en route from Philadelphia to New York.
Author : Delaware and Raritan Canal Company (N.J.)
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Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Railroad accidents
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Railroad companies' response to a railroad accident that occurred between Burlington, N.J. and Bordentown, N.J. when a horse-drawn carriage collided with a passenger train en route from Philadelphia to New York.
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 1855
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Author : Delaware and Raritan Canal Company (N.J.)
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Canal companies
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Page : 1760 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Sermons, American
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Page : 58 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 1855
Category : 30 p
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Author : Delaware and Raritan Canal Company (N.J.)
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Canals
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Author : New Jersey. Commissioners Appointed to Investigate Charges Made Against the Directors of the Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Canals
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Author : Mark Aldrich
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,30 MB
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0801889073
For most of the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, that year claiming the lives of nearly twelve thousand passengers, workers, and others. In Death Rode the Rails Mark Aldrich explores the evolution of railroad safety in the United States by examining a variety of incidents: spectacular train wrecks, smaller accidents in shops and yards that devastated the lives of workers and their families, and the deaths of thousands of women and children killed while walking on or crossing the street-grade tracks. The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output—shaped by labor markets and public policy—motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety. A fascinating account of one of America's most important industries and its dangers, Death Rode the Rails will appeal to scholars of economics and the history of transportation, technology, labor, regulation, safety, and business, as well as to railroad enthusiasts.
Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Catalogs, Union
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Author : Delaware and Raritan Canal Company (N.J)
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Page : 23 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Postal service
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