Author: James Hutton LemlyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Future of Rail Transport in the United States
Author: James Hutton LemlyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
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 Past and Future of U.S. Passenger Rail Service
Author: Elizabeth PinkstonPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Introduction: Amtrak's current situation -- A brief history of Amtrak -- Amtrak's role in intercity transportation -- The basic economics of passenger rail -- Policy options for the future of passenger rail -- Appendix. Amtrak's interconnections with freight and commuter railroads.
Rail Freight Service in New England
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Freight and Passenger Rail
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous MaterialsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Future of Passenger Rail
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Moving Intercity Passenger Rail Into the Future
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and SecurityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Railroad Situation
Author: United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Policy and Program DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The Future of Railway Transportation in the United States
Author: Horatio Lorenzo WhitridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Train Time
Author: John R. StilgoePublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813930502
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Unlike many United States industries, railroads are intrinsically linked to American soil and particular regions. Yet few Americans pay attention to rail lines, even though millions of them live in an economy and culture "waiting for the train." In Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape, John R. Stilgoe picks up where his acclaimed work Metropolitan Corridor left off, carrying his ideas about the spatial consequences of railways up to the present moment. Arguing that the train is returning, "an economic and cultural tsunami about to transform the United States," Stilgoe posits a future for railways as powerful shapers of American life. Divided into sections that focus on particular aspects of the impending impact of railroads on the landscape, Train Time moves seamlessly between historical and contemporary analysis. From his reading of what prompted investors to reorient their thinking about the railroad industry in the late 1970s, to his exploration of creative solutions to transportation problems and land use planning and development in the present, Stilgoe expands our perspective of an industry normally associated with bad news. Urging us that "the magic moment is now," he observes, "Now a train is often only a whistle heard far off on a sleepless night. But romantic or foreboding or empowering, the whistle announces return and change to those who listen." For scholars with an interest in American history in general and railroad and transit history in particular, as well as general readers concerned about the future of transportation in the United States, Train Time is an engaging look at the future of our railroads.