Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
With appendices.
Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
With appendices.
Official Proceedings
Author: Western Railway ClubPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
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Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2062
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2038
Book Description
The American Economic Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Includes papers and proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Economic Association. Covers all areas of economic research.
Death Rode the Rails
Author: Mark AldrichPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801889073
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
For most of the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, that year claiming the lives of nearly twelve thousand passengers, workers, and others. In Death Rode the Rails Mark Aldrich explores the evolution of railroad safety in the United States by examining a variety of incidents: spectacular train wrecks, smaller accidents in shops and yards that devastated the lives of workers and their families, and the deaths of thousands of women and children killed while walking on or crossing the street-grade tracks. The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output—shaped by labor markets and public policy—motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety. A fascinating account of one of America's most important industries and its dangers, Death Rode the Rails will appeal to scholars of economics and the history of transportation, technology, labor, regulation, safety, and business, as well as to railroad enthusiasts.
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Sunset Cluster
Author: H. Roger GrantPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253066727
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Discover the Sunset Cluster—railroads that were doomed to fail? The first two decades of the 20th century were the twilight of the Railroad Age. Major routes had long been established, and local service became the focus of new construction. Beginning in 1907, a cluster of five shortline railroads were established in otherwise unconnected parts of Iowa. They, however, would short lived. The five Iowa 'sunset cluster' railroads might appear to deserve eternal obscurity, being at best minor footnotes to American railroad history. After all, their total mileage barely exceeded 100 miles. Their average life span, moreover, covered about five years, and the Des Moines & Red Oak Railway (DM&RO) never turned a wheel. Yet, these Iowa shortlines had an immediate positive impact to their service area, but disappointingly they became victims of modal competition and the Good Roads Movement. Using contemporary newspapers, government reports, and other little-known sources, renowned railway historian H. Roger Grant offers a fascinating look at these shortline railroads. Sunset Cluster explores the almost desperate desire by communities to benefit from steel rails before the regional railroad map finally imploded and the challenges faced by latter-day shortline builders.
Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Locomotive Boilers to the Interstate Commerce Commission
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Division of Locomotive Boiler InspectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Locomotive boilers
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers
Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description