Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
Railway World
Author: Bulletin (1901-195 )
Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
American Engineer and Railroad Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine
Author: Tracks Across Continents, Paths Through History
Author: Douglas J. PuffertPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226685098
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
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.
Palmer's Index to "The Times" Newspaper
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Times (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Railroad Car Journal
Author: Federal Regulation of Railroad Rates, 1880-1898
Author: John Horace ChurchmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Way-bill
Author: Railway Locomotives and Cars
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description