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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
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Rail Passenger Development Plan ...
Author: Caltrain and the Peninsula Commute Service
Author: Janet McGovernPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738576220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The rail line now called Caltrain was started in the 1860s to create a faster alternative to stagecoaches and ships between the key cities of San Francisco and San Jose. Operated by Southern Pacific for many years, the Peninsula Commute Service is the oldest continuously operating passenger railroad in the West and boasts seven depots in the National Register of Historic Places. This indomitable iron horse has filled a vital transportation role, from evacuating San Franciscans during the 1906 earthquake to getting commuters to work. With the dawn of the 21st century, Caltrain reinvented itself yet again with its innovative Baby Bullet express trains.
Guadalupe Corridor Transportation Project, Santa Clara County, California
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Documents the environmental impact of a multimodal transportation corridor consisting of light rail transit, expressway, and bicycle paths in Santa Clara and San Jose, California.
San Jose Multimodal Transportation Terminal
Author: Railroad Corridors
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and CommercePublisher:
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Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
New Technologies for California Passenger Rail Services
Author: Draft EIS
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Category : Alameda Naval Air Station (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Rail Passenger Development Plan
Author: Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Draft Environmental Impact Report
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Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
North American Railroad Family Trees
Author: Brian SolomonPublisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 1610589106
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The history of railroading in North America is as much a story of boardroom intrigue as it is a story of the brute force that stamped thousands of miles of train track across a rugged continent. Today’s nine U.S. and Canadian Class I railroads are the result of well over a century of convoluted bankruptcies, mergers, acquisitions, and expansions. North American Railroad Family Trees marks the first time in book form that this major aspect of railroad history has been presented in a clear, graphic format, helping the railfan make sense of the many smaller train lines that shaped North American rail as it is today. In these pages, renowned rail author Brian Solomon takes a visual and chronological approach, presenting 50 “family trees” in the style of human lineages. The story begins with the railroads of the “Golden Age” (1890–1930), continuing through the second wave of consolidations between the World Wars, the merger mania of the 1950s through the 1970s, the creation of major passenger networks, and the megamergers of the last three decades that have left railroading close to its current incarnation. Solomon even offers a selection of maps tracing the evolution of the North American rail system and diagrams proposing what-if scenarios for the industry’s future. Including chapter-by-chapter narrative overviews of key eras, along with a selection of rare photography and period advertising to lend historical context, North American Railroad Family Trees provides an unprecedented retrospective of the continent’s iconic rail network.