Waiting on a Train - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Waiting on a Train write by James McCommons. This book was released on 2009-11-06. Waiting on a Train available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Rails Across Dixie
Rails Across Dixie - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rails Across Dixie write by Jim Cox. This book was released on 2010-11-17. Rails Across Dixie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covering legendary and obscure intercity passenger trains in a dozen Southeastern states, this book details the golden age of train travel. The story begins with the inception of steam locomotives in 1830 in Charleston, South Carolina, continuing through the mid-1930s changeover to diesel and the debut of Amtrak in 1971 to the present. Throughout, the book explores the technological achievements, the romance and the economic impact of traveling on the tracks. Other topics include contemporary museums and excursion trains; the development of commuter rails, monorails, light rails, and other intracity transit trains; the social impact of train travel; and historical rail terminals and facilities. The book is supplemented with more than 160 images and 10 appendices.
Rails Across America
Rails Across America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rails Across America write by William L. Withuhn. This book was released on 1993. Rails Across America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Rails Across America
Rails Across America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rails Across America write by . This book was released on 1993. Rails Across America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An overview of railroads in the United States and Canada from the 1830s to the present day.
Rails Across North America
Rails Across North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rails Across North America write by David Cable. This book was released on 2015-09-30. Rails Across North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Railways of the USA have a great following, both in the United States where there are large numbers of rail fans and increasingly in Britain/Europe, where there are enthusiasts who visit and model North American railroads.
