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Rail-Trails New England: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island &, Vermont (Rails-To-Trails Conservancy Guidebooks)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0089997449
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Eugene A. Miller
Railroad 1869: Along the Historic Union Pacific

2009 y.
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Description: Building the Union Pacific was a time for egos and opportunists, but their monumental effort helped span the continent. Railroad 1869: Along the Historic Union Pacific is an insightful account of the railroad`s construction years - years when they pushed westward from Omaha, racing to meet the Central Pacific Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869. There are first hand descriptions of terrifying Indian encounters from the diary of Arthur Ferguson, a young surveyor working for the railroad, and tales of the tumultuous life of the Frontier Index, the ``newspaper-on-wheels`` that followed the construction crews as they moved westward. Photographs by Arundel C. Hull, William H. Jackson and others vividly portray the desolate plains and rugged Utah canyons, the colorful construction camps and short-lived towns along the way. Readers can envision the relive the challenges and adventures facing the builders, the work trains, board front dance halls, whiskey palaces, and the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0972851135
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Michael Conant
Railroad Bankruptcies and Mergers from Chicago West: 1975-2001, Volume 7 : Financial Analysis and Regulatory Critique (Research in Transportation Economics)

2004 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionTwo major U.S. Midwestern railroads, the Rock Island Lines and the Milwauke Road, filed for bankruptcy after 1975 and the Court ordered them dismembered. This study explains the economic factors causing financial failure such as total rail line excess capacity in the region leading to low density of freight traffic, in addition, labor union rules required unnecessary large train crews. The regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission aggravated the economic problems by limiting rail line abandonments and mergers designed to improve efficiency. Congress passed the Staggers Act in 1980 to correct a large part of the regulatory limitations to efficient reorganization of the U.S. rail system, but it was too late to save the Rock Island and the Milwaukee Road. The later chapters are economic analyses of the more recent mergers of the large railroads from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast. A key saving resulted from the court ruling that segments of rail… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0762310790
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Railroad Economics (Research in Transportation Economics)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0762312556
Book size: —; Page extent: 288.

 

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Steve Barry
Railroad Rolling Stock (Gallery)

2009 y.
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Description: Illustrated with more than 250 photographs, this book traces the evolution of various forms of rolling stock through the history of North American railroading. Each chapter looks at a specific type of car: from boxcars, gondolas, and hoppers to tank cars, flatcars, and auto racks, intermodal rolling stock, passenger equipment, the venerable caboose, and even maintenance-of-way (MOW) equipment. Throughout, the photographs reflect the geographic and technological breadth of North American railroading and are accompanied by detailed captions identifying the rolling stock pictured and explaining their roles from the “Golden Age” of railroading to present. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0760332606
Book size: —; Page extent: 192.

 

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Ahmed A. Shabana, Khaled E. Zaazaa, Hiroyuki Sugiyama
Railroad Vehicle Dynamics: A Computational Approach

2007 y.
Publisher: CRC
Description: The methods of computational mechanics have been used extensively in modeling many physical systems. The use of multibody-system techniques, in particular, has been applied successfully in the study of various, fundamentally different applications. `Railroad Vehicle Dynamics: A Computational Approach` presents a computational multibody-system approach that can be used to develop complex models of railroad vehicle systems. The book examines several computational multibody-system formulations and discusses their computer implementation. The computational algorithms based on these general formulations can be used to develop general- and special-purpose railroad vehicle computer programs for use in the analysis of railroad vehicle systems, including the study of derailment and accident scenarios, design issues, and performance evaluation. The authors focus on the development of fully nonlinear formulations, supported by an explanation of the limitations of the linearized formulations that… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1420045814
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Linda Niemann, Lina Bertucci
Railroad Voices

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ISBN: 0804732094
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Michael Perelman
Railroading Economics: The Creation of the Free Market Mythology

2006 y.
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Description: Most economic theory assumes a pure capitalism of perfect competition. This book is a penetrating critique of the rhetoric and practice of conventional economic theory. It explores how even in the United States?the most capitalist of countries?the market has always been subject to numerous constraints. Perelman examines the way in which these constraints have been defended by such figures as Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, and Herbert Hoover, and were indeed essential to the expansion of U.S. capitalism. In the process, he rediscovers the critical element in conservative thought that has been lost in the neoliberals present. This important and original historical reconstruction points the way to a discipline of economics freed from the mythology of the market. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1583671358
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Derrick Jensen, George Draffan, John Osborn, Inland Empire Public Lands Council
Railroads and Clearcuts: Legacy of Congress`s 1864 Northern Pacific Railroad Land Grant

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ISBN: 1879628082
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Lloyd J. Mercer
Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A Study in Government Intervention

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Description: This is a reprint of a previously published book. It deals with the effect of 19th century railroad land grants on economic efficiency. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1587981548
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Aaron W. Marrs
Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society

2009 y.
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Description: Aaron W. Marrs challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America with this original study of the history of the railroad in the Old South. Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal diaries of Southern travelers, papers and letters from civil engineers, corporate records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Marrs skillfully expands on the conventional business histories that have characterized scholarship in this field. He situates railroads in the fullness of antebellum life, examining how slavery, technology, labor, social convention, and the environment shaped their evolution. Far from seeing the Old South as backward and premodern, Marrs finds evidence of urban life, industry, and entrepreneurship throughout the region. But these signs of progress existed alongside efforts to preserve traditional ways of life. Railroads exemplified Southerners` pursuit of progress on their own terms: developing modern… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0801891302
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William Z. Ripley
Railroads, Rates and Regulations

— y.
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Description: This outstanding study reviews the history of transportation in the United States and examines a host of systemic pricing abuses that affected the U.S. economy. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1893122425
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William Z. Ripley
Railroads: Finance &, Organizations (Business Classics (Beard Books))

— y.
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Description: A detailed look at the financial and organizational aspects related to railroads. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1587980746
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Chad Fowler
Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers)

2006 y.
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Description: Rails is large, powerful, and new. How do you use it effectively? How do you harness the power? And, most important, how do you get high quality, real-world applications written? From the latest Ajax effects to time-saving automation tips for your development process, Rails Recipes will show you how the experts have already solved the problems you have. Use generators to automate repetitive coding tasks. Create sophisticated role-based authentication schemes. Add live search and live preview to your site. Run tests when anyone checks code in. How to create tagged data the right way. and many, many more… Owning Rails Recipes is like having the best Rails programmers sitting next to you while you code. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0977616606
Book size: —; Page extent: 332.

 

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Aurelius Prochazka
RailsSpace Ruby on Rails Tutorial (Video LiveLessons) (LiveLessons)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0321517067
Book size: —; Page extent: 80.

 

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Michael Hartl, Aurelius Prochazka
RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails

2007 y.
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Description: Ruby on Rails is fast displacing PHP, ASP, and J2EE as the development framework of choice for discriminating programmers, thanks to its elegant design and emphasis on practical results. `RailsSpace` teaches you to build large-scale projects with Rails by developing a real-world application: a social networking website like MySpace, Facebook, or Friendster. Inside, the authors walk you step by step from the creation of the site`s virtually static front page, through user registration and authentication, and into a highly dynamic site, complete with user profiles, image upload, email, blogs, full-text and geographical search, and a friendship request system. In the process, you learn how Rails helps you control code complexity with the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture, abstraction layers, automated testing, and code refactoring, allowing you to scale up to a large project even with a small number of developers. This essential introduction to Rails provides: … [detailed...]

ISBN: 0321480791
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Nesbit, Edith
Railway Children, The

2000 y.
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ISBN: 9780582472211
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Edith Nesbit
Railway Children

2005 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionNearly a hundred years after its original publication, The Railway Children is still one of E. Nesbit`s most beloved and delightful stories. Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis were very happy living in a comfortable house surrounded by a cook and servants and two loving parents, until one evening when there was a knock at the door and their father was mysteriously taken away by two men. Suddenly alone, their mother moves the family to a small cottage in the countryside. There, the children begina series of exciting adventures, from saving a train filled with passengers from a landslide, to rescuing a baby from a fire, to aiding a penniless Russian exile, to eventually unraveling the mystery of their father`s disappearance. Featuring a new jacket illustration by Caldecott medalist Paul O. Zelinsky, as well as all nineteen of the original black-and-white line drawings by C. E. Brock, this classic story is perfect for home and classroom libraries. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1587172801
Book size: —; Page extent: 240.

 

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Balthasar Henry Meyer
Railway Legislation in the United States

2009 y.
Publisher: BCR
Description: The History of the American West Collection is a unique project that provides opportunities for researchers and new readers to easily access and explore works which have previously only been available on library shelves. The Collection brings to life pre-1923 titles focusing on a wide range of topics and experiences in US Western history. From the initial westward migration, to exploration and development of the American West to daily life in the West and intimate pictures of the people who inhabited it, this collection offers American West enthusiasts a new glimpse at some forgotten treasures of American culture. Encompassing genres such as poetry, fiction, nonfiction, tourist guides, biographies and drama, this collection provides a new window to the legend and realities of the American West. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1110809646
Book size: —; Page extent: 346.

 

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Iain Rice
Railway Modelling

2007 y.
Publisher: Haynes Publishing
Description: Railway modeling is as popular as ever today. Its diversity and richness of interest – often with a degree of nostalgia – make the hobby the ideal antidote to the stresses of modern life. This book, a completely new version of Norman Simmons’ long-lived Railway Modelling, first published in 1972 and updated through eight editions, is the ideal companion for today’s railway modeler, as it combines traditional modeling techniques and advice with full details of all the new technology that has transformed the hobby in recent years. There can be no better handbook for any model railway enthusiast, novice or expert. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1844253597
Book size: —; Page extent: 352.

 

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William Z. Ripley
Railway Problems, Vol. 2

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Description: In this survey of transportation economics, many of the problems encountered by the railroads are examined.. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1587980762
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Alessia Ferrarini
Railway Stations : From the Gare de L`est to Penn Station

2005 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionSimilar in format to the Electaarchitecture title, `Twenty Houses by Twenty Architects,` this volume presents a series of case studies of different interpretations of one building type. The author?s introduction provides an overview of the history of railway architecture, citing its most significant developments. Individual project documentation begins with the Gare de L?Est in Paris, the first major railway station of the nineteenth century. Grand Central Terminal in New York City, of 1903-13, is documented through archival material, including engineering drawings and period photographs, as well as contemporary photographs revealing the major restoration project of the 1990s. Several contemporary stations that have reinvigorated the building type include the Santa Justa station in Seville by Antonio Cruz and Antonio Oritz, the a station in Kyoto by Hiroshi Hara, the Lyon TGV Station by Santiago Calatrava, and the Arnhem Station by Dutch architects Ben von… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1904313345
Book size: —; Page extent: 220.

 

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Barry Eisler
Rain Fall

2003 y.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
Description: John Rain, a Japanese American konketsu, or half-breed, learned his lethal trade as a member of the U.S. Special Forces. Although tortured by memories of atrocities he committed in Vietnam, he has become a paid assassin, a solitary man who lives in the shadows and trusts no one, even those who pay extraordinary sums for his ability to make murder look like natural death. But the aftermath of an otherwise routine hit on a government bureaucrat brings Rain to the attention of two men he knows from the old days in Vietnam: a friend who`s now a Tokyo cop and an enemy who betrayed Rain long ago and is now the CIA`s station chief in Japan. Like the gangster who hired Rain to kill Yasuhiro Kawamura, they want something the dead man had - a computer disk containing proof of high-level corruption, information that could destroy Japan`s ruling political coalition. The search for the disk leads them to a woman Rain has come to love, a talented young jazz musician who also happens to be… [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-141-01010-6
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Rain Forest (Living &, Non-Living)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0431184615
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Scholastic
Rain Forest (Scholastic First Discovery)

2008 y.
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ISBN: 0545001420
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William H. Fisher
Rain Forest Exchanges: Industry and Community on an Amazonian Frontier (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry (Hardcover))

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Description: In Rain Forest Exchanges , William Fisher contends that efforts to encourage conservation and sustainable practices among indigenous Amazonian groups remain problematic unless the dynamics of each group`s social and economic organization are recognized. He looks specifically at the Xikrin Kayapo of Brazil and the ways in which their subsistence practices, notions of barter or sale, and social status systems have been shaped by decades of life on a boom-bust frontier and increasing reliance on outside trade goods. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1560989580
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Lucia Sa
Rain Forest Literatures: Amazonian Texts and Latin American Culture (Cultural Studies of the Americas, V. 16)

2004 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionNative texts of the Amazonian rain forest have been viewed as myth or ethnographic matter?the raw material of literature?rather than as significant works in their own right. But in this unprecedented study, Lucia Sa approaches indigenous texts as creative works rather than source material. Disclosing the existence and nature of longstanding, rich, and complex Native American literary and intellectual traditions that have typically been neglected or demeaned by literary criticism, Rain Forest Literatures analyzes four indigenous cultural traditions: the Carib, Tupi-Guarani, Upper Rio Negro, and Western Arawak. In each case, Sa considers principal native texts and, where relevant, their publication history. Sheoffers a historical overview of the impact of these texts on mainstream Spanish-American and Brazilian literatures, detailing comparisons with native sources and making close analyses of major instances, such as Mario de… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0816643253
Book size: —; Page extent: 320.

 

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Jan Sovak
Rain Forest Wildlife Stained Glass Coloring Book

2008 y.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Description: This educational coloring book presents 16 typical creatures of the rain forest—a number of them on the endangered list. Expertly rendered images include a hummingbird, toucan, jungle fowl, black panther, orangutan, scarab beetle, spider monkey, muntjac, civet, and scarlet macaw, among others. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0486415546
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Richard C. Vogt
Rain Forests (Insiders)

2009 y.
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Description: Discover Rain ForestsINsiders brings rain forests to life, with the most up-to-date information and state-of-the-art 3-D illustrations that practically leap off every page, stimulating minds and imaginations in a whole new way. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1416938664
Book size: —; Page extent: 64.

 

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Kay Jackson
Rain Forests (Our Environment)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0737736240
Book size: —; Page extent: 48.

 

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Laura Purdie Salas
Rain Forests: Gardens of Green (Amazing Science) (Amazing Science)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 1404830987
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