Catálogo de libros: Trenes y ferrocarriles

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  • Grenville Mellen Dodge in the Civil War
    James Patrick Morgans
    In 1861, Colonel Grenville Dodge organized the 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment and led them off to war. They had few uniforms or weapons and were more of a mob than a military unit, but Dodge shaped them into a fighting force that won honors on the battlefield and gained respect as one of the best regiments in the Union army. Promoted to the rank of major-general, Dod...
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    43,88 €

  • Rails Across Dixie
    Jim Cox
    Covering legendary and obscure intercity passenger trains in a dozen Southeastern states, this book details the golden age of train travel. The story begins with the inception of steam locomotives in 1830 in Charleston, South Carolina, continuing through the mid-1930s changeover to diesel and the debut of Amtrak in 1971 to the present. Throughout, the book explores the techn...
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    59,40 €

  • Chinese Railways in the Era of High Speed
    Kingsley E. Haynes / Kingsley EHaynes / Zhenhua Chen
    This book reflects on experiences in other countries and makes recommendations for improving the capability and capacity of institutions and organizations, in order to achieve sustainable development of the Chinese high-speed railway (HSR) system. ...
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    167,48 €

  • Engines for empire
    Edward Spiers
    This wide-ranging and extensively researched work reviews the way in which the British army exploited the potential of railways from the ’dawn of the railway age’ to the outbreak of the First World War. ...
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    157,56 €

  • RailPass RailMap Europe 2015
    Caty Ross
    RailPass RailMap Europe 2015 Explore the whole European railway network with the full color icon illustrated Railway Atlas of Europe, Turkey and Morocco. Including: - Index with Country flag and RailMap pages - Detailed explanation of RailMap legend and what to look out for on RailMap. - Easily identified High speed routes - Main railway lines (seat res usually required) an...
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    17,53 €

  • Tropical Surge
    Benjamin Reilly
    An engaging historical narrative covering many significant events in the history of south Florida, Tropical Surge includes the major developments and setbacks in the early years of Miami and Key West, as well as an in-depth look at Henry Flagler’s amazing Overseas Railway. This well-written history tells the story of the dramatic battle between human ambition and the reality of...
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    16,02 €

  • Icebound Empire
    Elizabeth A. Tower
    Stories of Courage and Grit Behind Alaska’s Fierce IndependenceA mysterious vigilante murder in Nebraska, the Alaska Gold Rush, muckraking politics that lead to the suicide of an American hero and the ambitious, wealthy men vying for control of Alaskan business and industry at the turn of the century.This third and special edition has been released with new, never-before-publis...
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    19,71 €

  • The Gainesville Midland and Her Sister Short Lines
    Douglas van Veelen
    The Gainesville Midland is but a remnant of a system of railroads that covered the northeastern Georgia landscape. Her predecessor the Gainesville, Jefferson & Southern tried valiantly to forge a living in the area between Gainesville and Macon. The Gainesville, Jefferson & Southern merged with the Walton Railroad. The empire unraveled in bankruptcy. This book also covers the G...
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    35,31 €

  • Mobility in History - Volume 6
    Since 2003 the International Association for the History of Traffic, Transport and Mobility (T2M) has served as a trade-free zone, fostering a new interdisciplinary vitality in the now-flourishing study of the History of Mobility. In its Yearbook, Mobility in History, T2M surveys these developments in the form of a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of research in the field,...
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    137,69 €

  • The Dao of Doug 2
    Douglas Meriwether
    'Do you have a car?' 'Yes, I do, and you’re sitting in it! Today’s car number is 5481. I get a new car everyday, and I can hold up to fifty people at once! I get to take you where you want to go and get paid to do it. I don’t have to worry about parking, because it is free. I don’t have to pay for gas because this car uses free city hydroelectric power. I have a camera to send ...
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    11,92 €

  • The Dao of Doug 2
    Douglas Meriwether
    'Do you have a car?' 'Yes, I do, and you’re sitting in it! Today’s car number is 5481. I get a new car everyday, and I can hold up to fifty people at once! I get to take you where you want to go and get paid to do it. I don’t have to worry about parking, because it is free. I don’t have to pay for gas because this car uses free city hydroelectric power. I have a camera to send ...
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    27,05 €

  • India Junction
    Seema Sharma
    The Indian Railways provides us with a practical, convenient mode of transport, but its contribution to Indian life goes much beyond that. The Railways is the lifeline of the nation and, in many ways, its development has been deeply intertwined with the destiny of India. India Junction-featuring in-depth, analytical essays that are rich in history; delectable travel pieces; and...
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    16,81 €

  • Mister Moffat’s Road
    Stan Moore
    Rollins Pass....The Ski Train....Moffat Tunnel....names from Colorado’s railroad heyday.This book tells a gripping story. It is about the building of Colorado’s most famous railroad, and how the state became what it is today. Power, greed, tragedy and back room maneuvering are the background to the lives of the workers who built the road.In 1903, Denver banker David Moffat f...
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    12,39 €

  • How Railway Systems Work
    Jongpil Nam
    Railway systems are full of amazing scientific principles and elaborate plans. This book introduces the basic concepts of railways and their systems. And this book will answer most of your questions: ? How does a train overcome centrifugal force at a curve? ? How do vehicle bogies increase passenger’s comfort? ? How does a hybrid vehicle use two energy sources? ? How do some tr...
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    67,24 €

  • British railway enthusiasm
    Ian Carter / Ian Dr Carter
    The first book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. The postwar train spotting craze swept most boys (and some girls, despite railways being coded as a male business) into a passion for railways. These people invigorated different sectors in railway enthusiasm’s life world - from railway modelling to Britain’s huge preserved railway industry. ...
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    36,56 €

  • Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity
    Mark Wahlgren Summers
    This book describes the southern Republicans’ post- Civil War railroad aid program--the central element of the Gospel of Prosperity' designed to reestablish a vigorous economy in the devastated South. Conceding that race and Unionism were basic issues, Mark W. Summers explores a neglected facet of the postwar era: the attempt to build a new South and a biracial Republican major...
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    85,11 €

  • The Battle for Transportation Supremacy
    Lawrence Walsh
    Nowhere in all of North America is the competition for passenger travel more intense than in the 450-mile-long Northeast Corridor. In The Battle for Transportation Supremacy, author Lawrence Walsh examines the struggles of transportation companies during the past 170 years as they aimed to be the leader and considers how that leadership is tough to attain and tougher still to h...
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    23,12 €

  • The Battle for Transportation Supremacy
    Lawrence Walsh
    Nowhere in all of North America is the competition for passenger travel more intense than in the 450-mile-long Northeast Corridor. In The Battle for Transportation Supremacy, author Lawrence Walsh examines the struggles of transportation companies during the past 170 years as they aimed to be the leader and considers how that leadership is tough to attain and tougher still to h...
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    34,53 €

  • The Day the Whistles Cried
    Betsy Thorpe
    People are drawn to legendary disaster stories such as that of the Titanic, seeking hope and heroism among the wreckage. The Day The Whistles Cried is a true disaster tale, filled with real people and their lives. Reading about America’s worst train wreck is opening a window into Time.Two steam locomotives collide head-on in a cornfield at the edge of Nashville on July 9, 1918,...
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    20,90 €

  • Government Ownership of Railroads, and War Taxation (WWI Centenary Series)
    Otto Hermann Kahn
    This early work by Otto Hermann Kahn was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. ’Government Ownership of Railroads, and War Taxation’ is the text of an address before the National Industrial Conference Board New York, October 10, 1918. It details the speaker’s ideas for government economics and transport infrastructure d...
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    17,26 €

  • Life and Labours of Thomas Brassey
    Arthur Helps
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    37,23 €

  • The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich
    Alfred C. Mierzejewski / Alfred CMierzejewski
    The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1945, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the center of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany. In this, the second volume of his comprehensive history of the Reichsbahn, Alfred Mierzejewski offers the first complete account of the national railway under Hitler’s regime. Mierzejewski us...
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    44,66 €

  • Florida’s Great Ocean Railway
    Dan Gallagher
    The building of Henry Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railway extension over water to Key West from 1905 to 1916 was s triumph of engineering and logistics. The Keys were remote and with little means of communication. The massive amounts of materials had to be moved with steam power. This book tells the story of the planners and their plan and its execution. It has 250 old photos,...
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    18,55 €

  • The Economics and Politics of High-Speed Rail
    Daniel Albalate / Germa Bel
    The Economics and Politics of High Speed Rail: Lessons from Experiences Abroad, by Daniel Albalate and Germà Bel, introduces the main questions policy makers and scholars should examine when considering and studying HSR implementation, with particular emphasis on the US’s recent interest in this technology and possible application in California. This study is a rigorous investi...
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    58,52 €

  • The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich
    Alfred C. Mierzejewski / Alfred CMierzejewski
    The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1932, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the center of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany. In the first detailed history of this important organization, Alfred Mierzejewski presents a sophisticated analysis of the Reichsbahn’s operations, finances, and political and social roles. I...
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    69,85 €

  • Firing the Steam Locomotive
    The Reading Company
    Created in 1947 by the Reading Company, FIRING THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE served as the handbook for the last generation of locomotive firemen. Within its chapters you’ll find a breakdown of the fireman’s responsibilities, including how to prepare and inspect the fire, how to fire different types of coal, and how to correct bad fire conditions. The text also includes a description ...
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    14,20 €

  • Charles Greaves - Off the rails
    charles greaves
    This is a light-hearted and amusing autobiographical style book, based on the authors experiences and describes his unreadiness for work after leaving school and then his experiences in a railway engineers drawing office in the 1970’s. ...
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    36,31 €

  • Cape Breton Railways
    Herb MacDonald
    CAPE BRETON'S RAIL LINES are perhaps best known for their substantial roles in the coal and steel industries. Shaped by factors such as physical geography, the availability of both capital and customers, and the distribution of population and industries, railways have played many important roles in the life of the island. For more than a century-and-a-half after 1829 - when th...
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    29,11 €

  • Railway Safety, Reliability, and Security
    Francesco Flammini
    Human errors, as well as deliberate sabotage, pose a considerable danger to passengers riding on the modern railways and have created disastrous consequences. To protect civilians against both intentional and unintentional threats, rail transportation has become increasingly automated. Railway Safety, Reliability, and Security: Technologies and Systems Engineering provides engi...
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    256,39 €

  • An Illustrated History of Mayer, Arizona
    Nancy Burgess
    Near the center of Arizona, in the foothills of the Bradshaw Mountains, lies the small, unincorporated town of Mayer. With a population of less than 1500 people, Mayer remains unknown to almost all but its residents and neighbors, but its history is as lively and resonant as many larger cities. This volume chronicles the story of this rural western town and the men and women...
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    51,49 €


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