Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Before You Start a Small Railroad
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
So You Want to Start a Small Railroad
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Building a Model Railroad Step by Step
Author: David PoppPublisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
ISBN: 0890246890
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Model Railroader's managing editor David Popp tells the complete construction story of his N scale Naugatuck River Valley layout using techniques any model railroader can use! More than 30 short projects from building benchwork to realistic operation.
Track Planning for Realistic Operation
Author: John H. ArmstrongPublisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
ISBN: 9780890242278
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Covers freight and passenger operations, route design, and contemporary railroading operations. The step-by-step design techniques and operation-oriented track plans also make it easy to create your own realistic model railroad.
Railroads of the Eastern Shore
Author: Lorett TreesePublisher: History Press
ISBN: 9781540246585
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The history of the Delmarva Peninsula is inextricably entwined with the story of its railroads. The earliest railroads were short, locally funded lines. The dream to connect Norfolk directly to Eastern Seaboard cities farther north was first realized by the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad in the 1880s. The line ran north-south along the peninsula to Cape Charles City, Virginia, where freight cars were loaded onto barges for the trip across the Chesapeake Bay. This line was eventually absorbed by the giant Pennsylvania Railroad, and the ferry service was eclipsed when the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel was completed in 1964. For more than a century, though, railroads played a critical role in the development of the Eastern Shore. Regional historian Lorett Treese tells this story.
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.
The Big Book of Model Railroad Track Plans
Author: Robert SchleicherPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610606769
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Walt Disney's Railroad Story
Author: Publisher: Carolwood Pacific LLC
ISBN: 0975858424
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Get Started in Garden Railroading
Author: Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
ISBN: 9780890246641
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Learn the basics of garden railroading with this booklet offering tips on choosing plants to arranging the track to best suit the terrain of your yard.
Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description