Transcontinental Railroad, The: The Gateway to the West. Milestones in American History. (Milestones in American History)
by Edward J Renehan, Jr.
Dorset (British Railways Past & Present S., #29)
by David Mitchell and Terry Gough
This work covers: Railways around Bournemouth; The Somerset and Dorset line north from Bournemouth; The Great Western line from Weymouth; Weymouth, the Quay line and the Easton branch; Branches to Abbotsbury, West Bay and Lyme Regis; and the now preserved Swanage branch.
Railways have always been at the heart of British politics, from their early beginnings in the 1830s through to the present day. And the sharpest debates have been on the issue of ownership and accountability. The book charts the railways under nationalisation (1948-1993) and outlines rail privatisation in both the UK and other European countries. Paul Salveson gives credit to recent achievements but attacks the fragmentation, increased costs and higher fares that have become a feature of Brita...
Dedicated Mobile Communications for High-speed Railway (Advances in High-speed Rail Technology)
by Zhang-Dui Zhong, Bo Ai, Gang Zhu, Hao Wu, Xiong Lei, Fang-Gang Wang, Lei Lei, Jian-Wen Ding, Ke Guan, and Rui-Si He
This book addresses the fundamental theory and key technologies of narrowband and broadband mobile communication systems specifically for railways. It describes novel relaying schemes that meet the different design criteria for railways and discusses the applications of signal classification techniques as well as offline resource scheduling as a way of advancing rail practice. Further, it introduces Novel Long Term Evolution for Railway (LTE-R) network architecture, the Quality of Service (QoS)...
Efforts to create and mould new technologies have been a central, recurrent feature of the American experience since at least the time of the Revolution. In Regulating Railroad Innovation, historian Steven Usselman brings this neglected aspect of American history to light. For nearly a century, railroad technology persistently posed novel challenges for Americans, prompting them to re-examine their most cherished institutions and beliefs. Business managers, inventors, consumers, and politicians...
Historic North American Locomotives traces the historic development of North American locomotives from the early 1800s through today. Considered a photographic book with the look and feel of fine art, 100 locomotives are profiled using descriptive text and richly detailed and colored photographic imagery. A well-researched introduction provides the reader with a historical perspective. The author/photographer includes high-quality photographs, created through various techniques that vividly ca...
Canada Railroad Photographs (Railroad Photographs, #2)
by Byron Babbish
Creativity in Later Life
This collection begins with two premises: that our understanding of the nature and forms of creativity in later life remains limited and that dialogue between specialists in gerontology, the arts and humanities can produce the crucial new insights that are so obviously needed. Representing the outcome of ongoing dialogue across the disciplinary divide, the contributions of this volume reflect anew on what we share and how we differ; creating new narratives so as to build an understanding of late...
Canadian National Steam Roster 6 (Canadian National Steam, #6)
by Donald McQueen