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Waiting on a Train

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Release : 2009-11-06
Genre : Travel
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Book Synopsis Waiting on a Train by : James McCommons

Download or read book Waiting on a Train written by James McCommons. This book was released on 2009-11-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Waiting for the Morning Train

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Release : 1987
Genre : Historians
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Book Rating : 850/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Waiting for the Morning Train by : Bruce Catton

Download or read book Waiting for the Morning Train written by Bruce Catton. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated writer reminisces about his boyhood in Michigan at the turn of the century.

Waiting Experience at Train Stations

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Release : 2011
Genre : Railroad stations
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Book Rating : 069/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Waiting Experience at Train Stations by : Mark van Hagen

Download or read book Waiting Experience at Train Stations written by Mark van Hagen. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Waiting For A Train That Never Comes

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Release : 2019-06-08
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Book Rating : 151/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Waiting For A Train That Never Comes by : Jan-Andrew Henderson

Download or read book Waiting For A Train That Never Comes written by Jan-Andrew Henderson. This book was released on 2019-06-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobby Berlin's father wakes up convinced it's 1979 and he's a teenage fugitive called Dodd Pollen. Fleeing with his reluctant son in tow they find the countryside inexplicably deserted. And Bobby realizes how dangerous Dodd Pollen is. Short-listed for the Royal Mail Award, Angus Book Award, Manchester Book Award and Bolton Book Award.

Mystery Train

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Release : 2008-03-25
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 64X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Mystery Train by : Greil Marcus

Download or read book Mystery Train written by Greil Marcus. This book was released on 2008-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now Available as an eBook Catch a train to the heart of rock ‘n’ roll with this essential study of the quintessential American art form. First published in 1975, Greil Marcus’ Mystery Train remains a benchmark study of rock ‘n’ roll and a classic in the field of music criticism. Focusing on six key artists--Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank, Randy Newman, the Band, Sly Stone, and Elvis Presley--Marcus explores the evolution and impact of rock ‘n’ roll and its unique place in American culture. This sixth edition of Mystery Train includes an updated and rewritten Notes and Discographies section, exploring the evolution and continuing impact of the recordings featured in the book.

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