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The Situation in China : A Report to the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church of An Official Visit
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Year: 2017 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Great Neck Publishing,

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The Panama Railroad
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ISBN: 0253052084 Year: 2021 Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press,

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"In 1848, a group of ambitious American entrepreneurs decided to embark upon a remarkable engineering feat-they would build a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The creation of the Panama Railroad ranks as one the boldest capitalist ventures in the nineteenth century, and would require battling climate, disease, and geography before it was completed. On a human level it would transform the destiny of thousands of lives in America and Panama as well as in Ireland. The Panama Railroad provides the first comprehensive account of the railroad's construction, going well beyond the known stories of the titans of industry involved with its construction, such as William Aspinwall, George Law, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. It seeks to correct false claims and address numerous gaps in past histories, and in particular showcases the stories of the ordinary Irish workers willing to travel halfway around the globe to pursue an uncertain future and a perilous undertaking in the hopes of escaping the devastating Great Famine of 1845-49"--

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Transporting moments : mobility, Australian railways and the trained society
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ISBN: 1681080117 9781681080116 9781681080123 Year: 2015 Publisher: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates : Bentham Science Publishers,

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Sociologists have suggested that being on the move entails a complex choreography, comprised of passenger comportment, signage, announcements and posters. Employing insights from mobility theory, Transporting moments provides an account of railway culture from a passenger's perspective. The book uses the context of commuting in Sydney, at a time when elements of its intra-urban rail network were being upgraded as its principal case study. This upgrade covers its rolling stock, infrastructure and linguistic landscape. It is argued that understanding the rationale behind these changes requires an understanding of the historical and policy context in which the railways of Sydney's, New South Wales and Australia are embedded. This is also the case with the nation's long distance trains, whose operators have fought hard to stave off competition from airliners and cars. Transporting moments, therefore, presents strong case for preserving public transport as a more equitable and sustainable form of mobility. Governments, Australian or otherwise, can use these insights for productive investment in their rail networks and public transportation service in general, and for reducing the nation's addiction to the automobile. With its invaluable insights into travelling on trains, Transporting moments is a fascinating addition to the growing corpus of literature on day-to-day mobility.

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U.S. rail news.
ISSN: 15457443 Year: 1978 Publisher: Silver Spring, MD : Business Publishers

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Emergency Railroad Transportation Act of 1933
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Year: 2017 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Great Neck Publishing,

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Railroads --- Railroads --- History.


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Eisenbahn Spielen! : Populäre Aneignungen und Inszenierungen des Schienentransports in großen und kleinen Maßstäben
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Göttingen : Universitätsverlag Göttingen,

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Gemessen an Transportleistungen und Motorisierungsgrad ist Deutschland eigentlich ein Autoland. Dass Deutschland aber auch ein Eisenbahnland ist, zeigt die Leidenschaft, mit der Lokomotivführer-Streiks und Pünktlichkeitsquoten von Zügen öffentlich diskutiert werden. Und vielen liegt die Bahn auch im wahren Wortsinn am Herzen - als nostalgisches Transportmittel von Geschichte und Geschichten, als Spielzeug, Freizeitbeschäftigung und Interessengebiet. Anhand ausgewählter Beispiele setzt sich "Eisenbahn Spielen" aus ethnografisch-kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive mit Aneignungen und Inszenierungen des Schienentransports in populären Kontexten auseinander. Gefragt wird nach dem kindlichen Eisenbahnspiel, nach der Präsentation der Eisenbahn im Museum, nach der Erinnerung an längst demontierte Gleise und nach männlicher Hegemonie im Eisenbahnverein. Vorgestellt werden ein interkulturelles Modellbahn-Bastelprojekt und ein Stück heile Männerwelt, das rund um eine Feldbahnanlage entstanden ist. Und es wird ganz grundsätzlich überlegt, in welchem Verhältnis die Eisenbahn zum schaffenden und spielenden Menschen steht und wie sich die populäre Begeisterung für Schienenverkehrsmittel erklären lässt.

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Railroads --- Railroads --- Management.


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Moving Millions : The Commercial Success and Political Controversies of Hong Kong's Railway
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ISBN: 9882207197 1282709178 9786612709173 9888052578 9789888052578 9789622098824 9622098827 9789622099630 9622099637 Year: 2008 Publisher: Hong Kong : Baltimore, Md. : Hong Kong University Press, Project MUSE,

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MTRC and KCRC moved millions of passengers daily and generated millions of profits. Both government-owned corporations were commercially and financially successful, but not without public controversies as Hong Kong went through drastic socio-political changes in the last three decades. Upon a possible MTRC-KCRC merger, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the past achievements, dilemmas, politics and public policy of the Hong Kong railways.


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On Railways Far Away
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ISBN: 1280596511 9786613626349 0253005949 9780253005946 9780253005915 0253005914 9781280596513 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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In this lavishly illustrated memoir, William D. Middleton invites readers to climb aboard and share with him 60 years of railroad tourism around the globe. Middleton's award-winning photography has recorded events such as the final days of American Civil War locomotives in Morocco and the start up of the world's first high-speed railway in Japan. He has photographed such great civil works as Scotland's Firth of Forth Bridge and the splendid railway station at Haydarpasa on the Asian side of the Bosporus, while closer to home he has been recognized for his significant contribution to the pho

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Locomotives --- Railroads


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Freight development and land use : issues, considerations, and guidance
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ISBN: 1633213765 9781633213760 1633213617 9781633213616 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York : Nova Publishers,

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Friedrich List as a railway pioneer in the USA : the Little Schuylkill Railroad in Pennsylvania - a German-American pioneering achievement
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ISBN: 3658345268 365834525X Year: 2021 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Springer,

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