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Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780760346921
Classic Railroad Signals digs into nearly every piece of train signaling hardware with archival and modern photos showing signals from around America.
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781616738976
From the 1830s to today, the railroad industry has developed myriad complex mechanisms to help keep North America’s railroad rights-of-ways safe, efficient, and relatively accident-free. In this paperback rerelease of the successful 2003 title, the otherwise-arcane world of railroad signaling is explained in concise language and brought to life with nearly 200 fantastic photographs that depict signaling history and all aspects of modern operations. Author and photographer Brian Solomon brings his wealth of knowledge and photographic talent to a subject that has not often been tackled in book form, yet is integral to the American railroad experience.
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781627886390
Explore the history, quirks, and stories behind signals with gorgeous period and contemprary photography. Railroad signals are the link between the steam era and modern railroading. Designed for reliability and durability, signals can survive for decades. In fact, old semaphores installed during the early years of the twentieth century were still in service during the 1990s, protecting trains that were running with the latest modern diesels. Even searchlight-style signals that were the epitome of 1940s railroading continue to work today. Though standards were introduced in the early twentieth century, interpretation varied greatly among railroads, so even major railroads have individualized signals. Some, such as the Pennsylvania Railroad, were noted for their distinctive signaling hardware. Others lines became known for their peculiarities in practice. Classic Railroad Signals examines how different railroads developed specific hardware to serve their unique needs, in the process tracing the lineage of various types of hardware and highlighting how and where they were used. From nineteenth-century mechanical signals to disc signals, upper- and lower-quadrant semaphores, three-light electric signals, searchlight-style targets, positional lights, and color-position light hardware, author Brian Solomon covers nearly every conceivable piece of North American signaling hardware, even the virtually extinct wig wag that was once standard in California and Wisconsin. Gorgeous period and contemprary photography shows signals and trains from around North America. Classic Railroad Signals should be next to Railroad Signaling on every railroad fan's bookshelf.
Author : Mary Brignano,Hax McCullough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Railroads
ISBN : PSU:000011559382
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015023128625
Author : Stephen A. McEvoy
Publisher : Instantpublisher.com
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Railroad signal towers
ISBN : 159872858X
About the S.S. 44 tower located in South Norwalk.
Author : Dave Abeles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 162700825X
Perfect for those who want to incorporate signals and interlockings in their next layout, this all-new book will allow people to understand how prototype systems work, and give them enough information to design a system that best suits their needs.
Author : Railway Signal Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015021056711
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Somnath Banerjee
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : James Brandt Latimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UCAL:$B245998
Author : W. H. Elliott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015021051894
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Railroads
ISBN : MINN:319510008752333
Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780102943726
This NAO report examines how effectively the Strategic Rail Authority/Department for Transport and Network Rail turned around the West Coast programme between 2002 and 2006 in terms of delivering outputs and expected outcomes in line with the schedule and targets set by the government and set out in the West Coast Main Line Strategy of June 2003. Three areas were examined in detail: how the Strategic Rail Authority/Department of Transport and Network Rail addressed the weaknesses in programme management before 2002 to achieve delivery to schedule; whether costs have been brought under control; whether the programme is delivering its anticipated benefits. A number of findings and conclusions have been set out, including: that the SRA and Network Rail did turn around the programme through an industry-supported strategy, reducing technology risk through reliance on conventional signalling for most of the upgrade; there were some implementation problems in two areas, axle counters and computer-based interlocking signalling, which resulted in an increase in costs; in general, Network Rail's control of costs has improved, but an analysis of its reported and forecast expenditure shows a final programme spend of £8.6 billion, with an overspend of around £300 million; for renewal work on the west coast route, Network Rail is within its overall funding allowance and on course to achieve 70% of the £940 million cost efficiencies assumed by the rail Regulator; at present the Strategic Rail Authority provides subsidies on an annual basis to Virgin West Coast of £590 million in 2005-06 period, this amount represents a payment needed to maintain train services and is outside the £8.6 billion; the project has delivered journey time improvements, with punctuality and train reliability on the West Coast having improved since 2005; in the 2005-06 period, passenger journeys on Virgin West Coast grew by over 20%, and the remaining work on the programme to 2009 will increase passenger train and freight capacity, but the consensus in the rail industry is that around 2015 to 2020, the line will have insufficient capacity to sustain current levels of growth in passenger and freight traffic; the overall strategy has delivered passenger benefits from a modernised track, but value for money for the programme has not been maximised. The report sets out a number of recommendations, including: that the Department in future should model and appraise costs and benefits for different options for the timing of delivery of the project; that the Department and the Office of Rail Regulation should further develop standard definitions for costs for different stages and elements of transport projects; where projects propose new technology at significant cost, the Department and ORR should ensure that Network Rail draws up a supporting business case, addressing costs, benefits and possible challenges along with a supporting implementation and maintenance strategy; the ORR should ensure Network Rail progresses its plans and adopts best practice strategy, and this approach should include a company-wide strategy that addresses whole life costs in its investment appraisal/project business cases, along with improved recording of maintenance and renewals costs for its equipment.
Author : G. M. Kichenside,Alan Williams
Publisher : Haynes Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023146215
A history of the development of railway signalling, from the earliest days through the introduction of the disc and crossbar signal, to semphores and color lights and the modern communications systems of the 1990s.
Author : Braman Blanchard Adams,Rodney Hitt,Railway Signal Association
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1346151482
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