The story of the construction, evolution and success of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways.
"Beginning with Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a critical period of American expansion and national formation, one largely dominated…
"Beginning with Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a critical period of American expansion and national formation, one largely dominated…
"Trains, literature and culture is the first work to thoroughly explore the railroad's connections with a full range of cultural discourses--including literature, visual art, music, graffiti, and television but also advertising, architecture, cell phones, and more ..."--Provided…
An earlier draft was submitted as a doctoral thesis to the History Dept. of Harvard University. Bibliography: p. 241-264.
"American historians tend to believe that labor activism was moribund in the years between the First World War and the New Deal. John Huibregtse challenges this perspective in his examination of the railroad unions of the time. Huibregtse demonstrates that not only were the rail…
In 1789, when the First Congress met in New York City, the members traveled to the capital just as Roman senators two thousand years earlier had journeyed to Rome, by horse, at a pace of some five miles an hour. Indeed, if sea travel had improved dramatically since Caesar's time…
This history of rail transportation in America examines the railroad's importance to our country. The railroad was America's first major industry, and it made possible or promoted the growth of all other industries, among them coal, steel, flour milling, and commercial farming. …
"The advent of mass railroad travel in the 1800s saw the extension of a system of global transport that developed various national styles of construction, operation, administration, and passenger experiences. Drawing on travel narratives and broad range of other contemporary sou…
Wirbelstrom-Sensoren ermöglichen die Realisierung einer rein bordautonomen Ortung von Schienenfahrzeugen. Diese basiert dabei auf zwei diversitären Verfahren. Zum einen wird die Geschwindigkeit berührungslos gemessen, zum anderen lassen sich Weichen und Weichenbauteile detektier…