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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Wisconsin State Rail Plan
Author: The Wisconsin State Rail Plan
Author: Wisconsin. Department of TransportationPublisher:
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Category : Environmental impact analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The Wisconsin State Rail Plan
Author: Wisconsin. Department of Transportation. Division of PlanningPublisher:
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Category : Choice of transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The Wisconsin State Rail Plan to 1980
Author: Wisconsin. Department of Transportation. Division of PlanningPublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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The Wisconsin State Rail Plan, 1983 Update
Author: The Wisconsin State Rail Plan
Author: Wisconsin. Department of TransportationPublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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The Wisconsin State Rail Plan
Author: Wisconsin. Dept. of TransportationPublisher:
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Category : Environmental impact analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 339
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Trouting on the Brulé River, Or, Lawyers' Summer-wayfaring in the Northern Wilderness
Author: John Lyle KingPublisher:
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Category : Brule River (Mich. and Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune, the book's chapters tell how a group of Chicago lawyers traveled by rail, foot and canoe to destinations along the Menominee, Michigami, and Brule Rivers in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The author describes the delights of fly-fishing in lyrical detail, along with bobbing for pike, shooting rapids, deer and duck hunting, and encounters with birds and animals. He romanticizes the expedition's Indian guides, believing that they lived in a state of nature.
Waiting on a Train
Author: James McCommonsPublisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603582592
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
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.
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