Book Description
The celebrated writer reminisces about his boyhood in Michigan at the turn of the century.
Author : Bruce Catton
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Historians
ISBN : 9780814318850
The celebrated writer reminisces about his boyhood in Michigan at the turn of the century.
Author : James McCommons
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 2009-11-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1603582592
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 :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9780385191838
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Publisher : David Muncaster
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
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ISBN : 1840946164
Author : Russell Feliciano
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1638142645
“The Bravest” is a label of enormous respect. No higher level of respect can one identify with that of the Fire Department of New York City (FDNY). No greater leadership and traditional institution have I ever been a part of. I never envisioned how my life would virtually spin in so many directions in one year. The dramatic challenge that the FDNY has ahead leaves one breathless.
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Publisher :
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : George Scheer (III)
Publisher : Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 16,38 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
The story of a month and a half on the rails on Amtrak, following the routes of famous American trains--from the heat and torpor of New Orleans to the ice and snow of Montana, from New York to San Francisco, and all points in between.
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Page : 420 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 1883
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Author : Stanley Crawford
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0826355625
Scotty’s family owns a lodge near their silver mine in the Colorado Rockies. Summers at the lodge are idyllic for Scotty and his cousin Mickey. The grown-ups are dealing with the complications of business and adult dysfunction, but the boys are more interested in the complications of puberty, especially when Rosalind, the teenage daughter of family friends, is on hand. To read this quiet, rich evocation of adolescent watchfulness is to experience what it is like to be fourteen years old, waiting for something to happen, aware of everything but oblivious to as much of it as possible. Readers will be reminded of such modern masters as William Maxwell and John Updike.
Author : United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board
Publisher :
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release :
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
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