Wartime Rails

Author : Augustus Veenendaal,H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Military railroads
ISBN : 9490258156

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Rails to the Front by Augustus Veenendaal,H. Roger Grant Pdf

The military use of railways derives from their ability to move troops or material rapidly and, less commonly, on their use as a platform for military systems (like armoured trains and heavy artillery). Until recently, the mobility of large armies generally depended on control of railways to move reinforcements, ammunition and food, as the locomotive and railways cars proved far superior to animal-drawn equipment. Historians Augustus J. Veenendaal and H. Roger Grant capture the critical impact of railways in an abundance of conflicts worldwide, from the German revolutions in the 1840s to the Gulf War in the 1990s.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Industries
ISBN : OSU:32435061922068

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B.I.O.S. Final Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Aldrich
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780801889073

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Death Rode the Rails by Mark Aldrich Pdf

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.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1708 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119507320

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Rail Merger Legislation by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Railroads
ISBN : OSU:32437122480177

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Rail Merger Legislation by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly Pdf

Author : Richard Harding Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Cuba
ISBN : PRNC:32101022910911

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Cuba in War Time by Richard Harding Davis Pdf

Author : Jeri Quinzio
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781442227330

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Food on the Rails by Jeri Quinzio Pdf

In roughly one hundred years – from the 1870s to the 1970s – dining on trains began, soared to great heights, and then fell to earth. The founders of the first railroad companies cared more about hauling freight than feeding passengers. The only food available on trains in the mid-nineteenth century was whatever passengers brought aboard in their lunch baskets or managed to pick up at a brief station stop. It was hardly fine dining. Seeing the business possibilities in offering long-distance passengers comforts such as beds, toilets, and meals, George Pullman and other pioneering railroaders like Georges Nagelmackers of Orient Express fame, transformed rail travel. Fine dining and wines became the norm for elite railroad travelers by the turn of the twentieth century. The foods served on railroads – from consommé to turbot to soufflé, always accompanied by champagne - equaled that of the finest restaurants, hotels, and steamships. After World War II, as airline travel and automobiles became the preferred modes of travel, elegance gave way to economy. Canned and frozen foods, self-service, and quick meals and snacks became the norm. By the 1970s, the golden era of railroad dining had come grinding to a halt. Food on the Rails traces the rise and fall of food on the rails from its rocky start to its glory days to its sad demise. Looking at the foods, the service, the rail station restaurants, the menus, they dining accommodations and more, Jeri Quinzio brings to life the history of cuisine and dining in railroad cars from the early days through today.

Author : Thomas Pinney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520952225

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The Makers of American Wine by Thomas Pinney Pdf

Americans learned how to make wine successfully about two hundred years ago, after failing for more than two hundred years. Thomas Pinney takes an engaging approach to the history of American wine by telling its story through the lives of 13 people who played significant roles in building an industry that now extends to every state. While some names—such as Mondavi and Gallo—will be familiar, others are less well known. These include the wealthy Nicholas Longworth, who produced the first popular American wine; the German immigrant George Husmann, who championed the native Norton grape in Missouri and supplied rootstock to save French vineyards from phylloxera; Frank Schoonmaker, who championed the varietal concept over wines with misleading names; and Maynard Amerine, who helped make UC Davis a world-class winemaking school.

Author : Benedict Le Vay
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 184162277X

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Britain from the Rails by Benedict Le Vay Pdf

There's a magical romance about trains that no other form of transport can capture. Meeting under an iconic station clock at a grand terminus. Gathering speed through city, town and country, swooping across viaducts, rattling across huge junctions and whistling through tunnels. At long last you are in a small Sussex beachside halt, or a Welsh valley country station, beside a quiet Norfolk waterway, or winding through a remote forest high above a Scottish loch. Dreamily you think, 'Do those same twin ribbons of steel really lead all the way back to the greatest city in Europe? Can this really be the very same seat?'Britain from the Rails travels to a world far from the endless queues and prodding security of ugly airport terminals. It abandons the cars to their motorway jams and soaring petrol prices, and revels instead in the gems of Britain's historic railway system.

Author : Takashi Nishiyama
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781421412672

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Engineering War and Peace in Modern Japan, 1868–1964 by Takashi Nishiyama Pdf

The role of engineering communities in taking Japan from a defeated war machine into a peacetime technology leader. Naval, aeronautic, and mechanical engineers played a powerful part in the military buildup of Japan in the early and mid-twentieth century. They belonged to a militaristic regime and embraced the importance of their role in it. Takashi Nishiyama examines the impact of war and peace on technological transformation during the twentieth century. He is the first to study the paradoxical and transformative power of Japan’s defeat in World War II through the lens of engineering. Nishiyama asks: How did authorities select and prepare young men to be engineers? How did Japan develop curricula adequate to the task (and from whom did the country borrow)? Under what conditions? What did the engineers think of the planes they built to support Kamikaze suicide missions? But his study ultimately concerns the remarkable transition these trained engineers made after total defeat in 1945. How could the engineers of war machines so quickly turn to peaceful construction projects such as designing the equipment necessary to manufacture consumer products? Most important, they developed new high-speed rail services, including the Shinkansen Bullet Train. What does this change tell us not only about Japan at war and then in peacetime but also about the malleability of engineering cultures? Nishiyama aims to counterbalance prevalent Eurocentric/Americentric views in the history of technology. Engineering War and Peace in Modern Japan, 1868–1964 sets the historical experience of one country’s technological transformation in a larger international framework by studying sources in six different languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. The result is a fascinating read for those interested in technology, East Asia, and international studies. Nishiyama's work offers lessons to policymakers interested in how a country can recover successfully after defeat.

Author : Thomas Weber
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253213215

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The Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Thomas Weber Pdf

Time has been very good to Thomas Weber's Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861-1865. First published by Columbia University Press in 1952, it has been out of print since the 1970s, but never out of demand. It has emerged as the premier account of the impact of the railroads on the American Civil War and vice versa. Not only did the railroads materially help the north to victory through movement of troops and materiel, but the war materially changed the way railroads were built, run, financed, and organized in the crucial years following the war. We are still waiting (9/1/98) for the reviews to come from the author's files. "Thomas Weber's study of northern railroads during the Civil War remains the obvious treatment of an important topic. His analysis rests on solid research and leaves no doubt that the North's excellent use of railroads contributed significantly to Union victory." —Gary W. Gallagher (shortened) "Thomas Weber's . . . analysis rests on solid research and leaves no doubt that the North's excellent use of railroads contributed significantly to Union victory." —Gary W. Gallagher

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030198030

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Peacekeeper Rail Garrison Program by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Commerce
ISBN : UIUC:30112070928103

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Domestic Commerce by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce Pdf

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781398121027

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A World History of Rail by Jeremy Black Pdf

Is it possible to overestimate the impact of the railway in history? Jeremy Black analyses that impact from the beginning to today. And of course it's not all a triumph. The network of the Congo today operates on three gauges run by separate companies; and a lot of it doesn't work.

Author : Nelson MacPherson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135772468

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American Intelligence in War-time London by Nelson MacPherson Pdf

Based on OSS records only recently released to US National Archives, and on evidence from British archival sources, this is a thoroughly researched study of the Office of Strategic Services in London. The OSS was a critical liaison and operational outpost for American intelligence during World War II.