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Author : Errol Lincoln Uys
Release : 2004-06
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 293/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Riding the Rails by : Errol Lincoln Uys
Download or read book Riding the Rails written by Errol Lincoln Uys. This book was released on 2004-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through letters and photographs, profiles teenagers who hopped the freight trains during the Great Depression in order to find adventure, seek employment, or escape poverty.
Author : Robert D. Krebs
Release : 2018-01-22
Genre : Transportation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 877/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Riding the Rails by : Robert D. Krebs
Download or read book Riding the Rails written by Robert D. Krebs. This book was released on 2018-01-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway CEO tells the behind-the-scenes story of the transformation and resurgence of America’s ailing railroads. When Robert D. Krebs joined the ranks of Southern Pacific Railroad in 1966, the industry had been in decline for decades, and the future of trains was in peril. Despite these obstacles, Krebs fell in love with the rugged, competitive business of railroads and was determined to overcome its resistance to change and put rail transportation back on track. By the age of forty, Krebs was president of the Southern Pacific Railroad and had also served as chief executive of both the Santa Fe Railway and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway companies. Riding the Rails: Inside the Business of America’s Railroads details Krebs’s rise to a position of influence in the recovery of America’s railroads—and offers a unique insider’s view into the boardrooms where executives and businessmen reimagined transportation in the United States.
Author : Tom Zoellner
Release : 2014-01-30
Genre : Transportation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 399/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Train by : Tom Zoellner
Download or read book Train written by Tom Zoellner. This book was released on 2014-01-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner—coauthor of the New York Times–bestselling An Ordinary Man—travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world—and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A masterful narrative history, Train also explores the sleek elegance of railroads and their hypnotizing rhythms, and explains how locomotives became living symbols of sex, death, power, and romance.
Author : Benjamin Fraser
Release : 2012
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 499/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Trains, Culture, and Mobility by : Benjamin Fraser
Download or read book Trains, Culture, and Mobility written by Benjamin Fraser. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to a number of cultural discourses. Incorporating traditionally marginal areas of cultural production such as graffiti, museums, architecture or even plunging into the social experience of travel inside the traincar itself, each essay constitutes an attempt to work from the act of riding the train toward questions of much larger significance. Crisscrossing cultures from the New World and Old, from East and West, these essays share a common preoccupation with the way in which trains and railway networks have mapped and re-mapped the contours of both cities and states in the modern period. Bringing together individual and large-scale social practices, this volume traces out the cultural implications of "Riding the Rails."
Author : Sara Gillingham
Release : 2007-03
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 430/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis C Is for Caboose by : Sara Gillingham
Download or read book C Is for Caboose written by Sara Gillingham. This book was released on 2007-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple information about trains is given for every letter of the alphabet.
