Transport industries Books
Little, Brown & Company Skunk Works a Personal Memoir of My Years at
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£19.71
WW Norton & Co Some Vernacular Railroad Photographs
Book SynopsisA remarkable collection of images taken by passionate amateurs that have both a historical value and an innocent charm.Trade Review"Beautiful and dramatic… a stunning collection." -- Frederick N. Rasmussen - Baltimore Sun
£28.00
W. W. Norton & Company Railroaded The Transcontinentals and the Making
Book SynopsisA Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations." —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"Required reading for anyone interested in the history of American railroading…This is an exciting story and well told." -- John Steele Gordon - Wall Street Journal"A model of narrative skill and [an] insightful reinterpretation of the Gilded Age. It is easily the best business history I have read." -- Donald Worster - Slate"A scathing and wonderful new book. [Railroaded] will entertain and outrage readers." -- Buzzy Jackson - Boston Globe"An acute analysis that in failure came success and in many ways the map of the nation." -- Scott Martelle - Washington Post"Imaginative, iconoclastic, immensely informative and mordantly funny." -- Glenn C. Altschuler - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"A different and provocative view of the role of the transcontinentals in developing the American West. Railroaded will no doubt spark lively debate and become required reading for those seeking an insightful and recast history of the transcontinental railroad saga." -- Walter R. Borneman - San Francisco Chronicle"Richard White is one of those rare historians with an unfailing ability to transform any topic he writes about, no matter how familiar that topic might seem. In Railroaded, he tells the story of the western transcontinentals as it has never been told before, with insights that speak as much to our own time as to the nineteenth-century era he explores with such wit and intelligence." -- William Cronon, author of Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West"When it comes to the American West, there is no other writer like Richard White, a serious scholar with a highly original take on familiar subjects and elegant prose besides. His subject, the making of the transcontinental railroads, is perhaps the pivotal story of the West, but it’s not the one we know from movies and myth. It’s about the birth of all those things that most trouble us nowadays, a genesis story in which the serpent in Eden is the railroad itself writhing across the continent." -- Rebecca Solnit, author of Orwell's Roses"This brilliant book will forever change our understanding of the great railroad projects of nineteenth-century America." -- William Deverell, director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West"Excellent big-picture, popularly written history of the Howard Zinn mold, backed by a mountain of research and statistics." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Floating Palaces of the Great Lakes
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press The Automobile and American Culture
Book SynopsisIntegrating scholarly and popular approaches, this anthology of essays, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and graphics describes the impact of one of this century's most fascinating inventions on American folkways. Now revised, this volume provides an even closer look at the past, present, and future of America's automobile revolution.
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Regulation Organizations and Politics
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£999.99
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Railroaders Jack Delanos Homefront Photography
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£47.45
Arcadia Publishing Delta Air Lines 75 Years of Airline Excellence
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£19.99
The History Press Ltd Confessions of A SteamAge Ferroequinologist
Book SynopsisChasing steam across its final years on BR's London Midland region
£23.10
Johns Hopkins University Press World Trade Since 1431
Book SynopsisMoreover, he argues, major changes in transportation and communication technologies actually constituted the moments of transformation from one world economy to another.Trade ReviewA magnificent work, Braudelian in its conception, scope, and attention to detail... A delight. Progress in Human Geography. A first-rate historical study in the genre of world history... Combines geography with the social sciences in skillful fashion. It is lucidly written and will appeal to the specialist and general reader. Virginia Quarterly Review Hugill provides a refreshingly long historical sweep in arguing that transportation technologies have been the key to success in world trade... A wealth of historical and technicaldetail. Geonomics.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of TablesPreface AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Geographic Reality in the Development of CapitalismChapter 2. Technology and Geography in the Elaboration of CapitalismChapter 3. The Triumph of the ShipChapter 4. The Problem of Overland Transportation: Canals, Rivers, and RailroadsChapter 5. The Return to Overland Route Flexibility: Bicycles, Cars, Trucks, and Busses Chapter 6. Aviation and the First Global SystemChapter 7. World System Theory and Geographic RealityReferencesWorld MapsGeneral IndexIndex of Proper Names
£37.55
University of Arizona Press Iron Horse Imperialism
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£999.99
University of Missouri Press A Missouri Railroad Pioneer
Book SynopsisLawyer and journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Louis Houck is often called the ""Father of Southeast Missouri"" because he brought the railroad to the region and opened this backwater area to industrialization and modernization. Although Houck's name is little known today outside Missouri, Joel Rhodes shows how his story has relevance for both the state and America.Trade ReviewReaders with an interest in Missouri history and the Southeast will find much to engage with, especially given Houck’s status as a local historian and intellectual. Those seeking to understand the complicated legal and financial arrangements contingent in the building of railroads in Missouri and the nation will also find this book useful."" - Southern Historian""Readers will be impressed with the skill Rhodes has mustered and researched the material for this volume from family descendants, archives, and published sources. The author makes what must have been a morass of material as thick and tangled as any southeast Missouri swamp into a very readable history."" - Missouri Historical ReviewTable of Contents A Missouri Railroad Pioneer Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Wanderjahre Chapter 2 Volksblatt Chapter 3 The Belle of Cape Girardeau Chapter 4 To Cogitate and To Dream: The Coming of the Railroad Chapter 5 The Houck Roads Chapter 6 Zwei Meinungen: Of Two Minds Chapter 7 A Damn Fine Lawyer Chapter 8 St. Louis, Kennett and Southern Allied Lines Chapter 9 Academic Hall Chapter 10 The Histories Chapter 11 Cape Girardeau Northern Chapter 12 The Big Ditch Chapter 13 A Quiet Religious Mood Bibliography Index
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Urban Land Institute,U.S. When the Road Price is Right Land Use Tolls
Book SynopsisTolling is increasingly used to pay for new and revitalised transportation infrastructure and to provide users with a reliable, congestion-free trip. This report presents the results of interviews with more than 35 land-use and transportation experts who discuss how tolling and congestion pricing will interact with land use. In addition, it features five case studies of tolling in California, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, and Texas.
£12.27
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Lower American River Images of America
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing (SC) The Lake Michigan Car Ferry Badger
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Pan American World Airways Images of Modern
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£21.24
Sourcebooks, Inc Cockpit Confidential
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA fascinating fear of flying book from a commercial airline pilot and author of the popular website askthepilot.com.For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even frightening experience. When you go behind the scenes, however, you can see that the grand theater of air travel is actually fascinating. From the intricate design of airport architecture to the logistics of inflight service, here is everything you need to know about flying.Commercial airlines like to hide the truth from customers and do nothing to comfort nervous fliers. And what''s scarier than the unknown? In this aviation book, pilot Patrick Smith breaks down that barrier and tells you everything you need to know about flying, including: How planes fly, and a revealing look at the men and women who fly them Straight talk on turbulence, pilot training, and safety The real story on delays, congestion, and the dysfunction of the modern airport The m
£12.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Anti-Aircraft Artillery in Combat, 1950-1972: Air
Book SynopsisAnti-aircraft artillery was extensively used in combat in the First World War, though such weapons had made their debut in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, when the besieged French used balloons for observation and communication and the Prussians used the first custom built 1-pounder gun to try and shoot them down. It was, however, not until the Second World War that anti-aircraft artillery came into prominence, shooting down more aircraft than any other weapon and seriously degrading the conduct of air operations. In the battle between the attackers and anti-aircraft artillery, the latter had the upper hand when the war ended. The post-war years saw a decline in anti-aircraft artillery as peace prevailed, and the advent of the jet aircraft seemed to tilt the balance in favour of the aircraft as they flew faster and higher, seemingly beyond the reach of anti-aircraft artillery. It would take all the hi-tech equipment and the guile and cunning that anti-aircraft artillery could muster to try and reclaim pole position. It is that story, of the tug of war between the aircraft and artillery, that forms the narrative of this book - as it traces the history of combat employment of anti-aircraft artillery from the Korean War, in effect the first Jet Age war, to the War of Attrition between Arab states and Israel when the missiles came of age, sending the aircraft scurrying for cover. _Anti-Aircraft Artillery in Combat, 1950-1972_ is the first attempt to look at the combat performance of ground-based air defences, incorporating the views, analyses and experiences of Soviet, Arab and South Asian Armies. The book looks at the major wars between 1950 and 1972, including the Korean War, Vietnam War, the wars in South Asia in 1965 and 1971, and conflicts in the Middle East, such as the Six Day War.
£23.49
Smithsonian Books The Mystery of Flight 427: Inside a Crash
Book SynopsisThe immediate human toll of the 1994 Flight 427 disaster was staggering: all 132 people aboard died on a Pennsylvania hillside. The subsequent investigation was a maze of politics, bizarre theories, and shrouded answers. Bill Adair, an award-winning journalist, was granted special access to the five-year inquiry by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) while its investigators tried to determine if the world's most widely used commercial jet, the Boeing 737, was really safe. Their findings have had wide-ranging effects on the airline industry, pilots, and even passangers. Adair takes readers behind the scenes to show who makes decisions about airline safety—and why.
£14.24
Michigan State University Press John H. Burdakin: Railroader
Book SynopsisGenuinely talented and successful managers in any field - business, government, military, academia - are scarce. John Howard Burdakin was a happy exception to the norm. This engaging biography examines Burdakin’s life in the railroad industry - at Pennsylvania Railroad, Penn Central, and finally at Grand Trunk Corporation - during a tumultuous time in the transportation business and underscores his core principles and how he employed them in the management of people and property. Some contemporary observers may consider Burdakin’s often conservative style as quite out of date, but a more sober assessment reveals that his approach has utility in any time and in any field.An excellent resource for leadership professionals, this study focuses on Burdakin’s career in management, ever stressing his foundational convictions - how he came by them, how he employed those principles as a manager, and how they were understood by those who worked for him or with him. Through teamwork, trust, hard work, honesty, diligence, and integrity, Burdakin would become respected as one of the railroad industry’s brightest guiding lights.
£999.99
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc Airport Management
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£49.99
American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics Launching into Commercial Space: Innovations in
Book SynopsisPreviously available in Kindle format only, Launching Into Commercial Space chronicles the dawn of a fast-moving commercial space age in which initiative from the private sector is launching innovation into tomorrow. With the door closed on the Space Shuttle-era, the revolutionary commercial ""Space Billionaires"" of the 21st century are opening a new door. This is the story of the pioneers and private companies around the globe currently developing new spacecraft, planning futuristic spaceports, and seeking to offer a range of ""space travel"" services for all. Features the history, accomplishments, and future endeavors of: Paul Allen, Stratolaunch Systems, Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, Robert Bigelow, Bigelow Aerospace, Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic, John Carmack, Armadillo Aerospace, Elon Musk, Space X. Focuses on the companies expanding their commercial space activities, including: Alliant ATK, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Space X, Stratolauncher, Virgin Galactic.
£33.95
Fonthill Media LLc Detroit's Streetcar Heritage
Book SynopsisDetroit's Streetcar Heritage is a photographic essay of the Detroit, Michigan, streetcar system. Replacement of slow moving horsecar service began with the opening of an electric street railway by the Detroit Citizens Street Railway in 1892. By 1900, all of the Detroit streetcar systems were consolidated into the Detroit United Railway (DUR). Following voter approval, the City of Detroit purchased DUR in 1922, becoming the first large United States city to own and operate public transit under Detroit Department of Street Railways (DSR). Between 1921 and 1930, DSR purchased 781 Peter Witt type streetcars. Although DSR purchased 186 modern Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC) cars between 1945 and 1949, many streetcar lines were converted to bus operation. The last streetcar line on Woodward Avenue was converted to bus operation in 1956 with 183 PCC cars sold to Mexico City. Detroit's Streetcar Heritage documents the city's streetcar era plus scenes of the PCC cars in Mexico City, the Washington Boulevard Line which operated from 1976 to 2003, and the QLINE streetcar which opened in 2017 on Woodward Avenue linking Grand Boulevard with downtown Detroit.
£20.90
America Through Time Roosevelt Field Through Time: A Visual History of
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£21.24
America Through Time Airport Airside at Bwi: Baltimore-Washington
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£20.79
Aviation Supplies & Academics Air Carrier Operations
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£44.96
Epic Books Purple on the Inside: How J.B. Hunt Transport Set
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£999.99
Paths International Ltd Models and Algorithms for Multi-objective
Book SynopsisWith the rapid development of trade globalisation, transportation plays a critical role, and outsourcing transportation has become a common practice in the modern logistics industry. This book studies two classes of decision-making optimisation problems widely concerned in the modern logistics industry: transportation service procurement problems, and online-to-offline food pickup and delivery problems.Table of Contents Preface 1 Chapter1 Introduction Chapter2Two-phrase Evolutionary Algorithm for the Bi-objective Full Truckload Transportation Service Procurement Problem Chapter 3 Bi-objective Branch-and bound for the Transportation Service Procurement Problem with Transmit Time and Total Quantity Discounts Chapter 4 Bi-objective Memetic Algorithm for the O2O Food Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows Chapter5 Conclusions Bibliography Acknowledgements
£116.95
ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Advanced Mobility and Transport Engineering
Book SynopsisMultimodal transport network customers need to be directed during their travels. A travel support tool can be offered by a Multimodal Information System (MIS), which allows them to input their needs and provides them with the appropriate responses to improve their travel conditions. The goal of this book is to design and develop methodologies in order to realize a MIS tool which can ensure permanent multimodal information availability before and during travel, considering passengers’ mobility. The authors propose methods and tools that help transport network customers to formulate their requests when they connect to their favorite information systems through PC, laptop, cell phone, Portable Digital Assistant (PDA), etc. The MIS must automatically identify the websites concerning the customer’s services. These sites can, in fact, represent transport services, cultural services, tourist services, etc. The system should then be able to collect the necessary travel information from these sites in order to construct and propose the most convenient information according to the user’s requests. Contents 1. Agent-oriented Road Traffic Simulation, René Mandiau, Sylvain Piechowiak, Arnaud Doniec and Stéphane Espié. 2. An Agent-based Information System for Searching and Creating Mobility-aiding Services, Slim Hammadi and Hayfa Zgaya. 3. Inter-vehicle Services and Communication, Sylvain Lecomte, Thierry Delot and Mikael Desertot. 4. Modeling and Control of Traffic Flow, Daniel Jolly, Boumediene Kamel and Amar Benasser. 5. Criteria and Methods for Interactive System Evaluation: Application to a Regulation Post in the Transport Domain, Houcine Ezzedine, Abdelwaheb Trabelsi, Chi Dung Tran and Christophe Kolski.Table of ContentsPreface xi Slim HAMMADI and Mekki KSOURI Introduction xiii Chapter 1. Agent-oriented Road Traffic Simulation 1 René MANDIAU, Sylvain PIECHOWIAK, Arnaud DONIEC and Stéphane ESPIÉ 1.1. Introduction 1 1.2. The principle of multi-agent systems 2 1.3. General remarks on traffic simulation devices 8 1.4. ArchiSim simulator 12 1.5. The issue of traffic simulation in intersections 14 1.6. Assessment of different scenarios 21 1.7. Conclusion 25 1.8. Bibliography 26 Chapter 2. An Agent-based Information System for Searching and Creating Mobility-aiding Services 31 Slim HAMMADI and Hayfa ZGAYA 2.1. Introduction 31 2.2. Formulating the problem 33 2.3. The global architecture of the system 36 2.4. Proposal of a resolution system with several interactive entities: a dynamic multi-agent system 42 2.5. The behavior of a scheduling agent 44 2.6. Managing system robustness when dealing with disruptions: advancing a negotiation process between stationary and mobile entities 59 2.7. The usefulness of a dedicated dynamic ontology 61 2.8. Simulations and results 64 2.9. Conclusion and perspectives 76 2.10. List of abbreviations 76 2.11. Bibliography 77 Chapter 3. Inter-vehicle Services and Communication 81 Sylvain LECOMTE, Thierry DELOT and Mikael DESERTOT 3.1. Introduction 81 3.2. The specificity of inter-vehicle communication 84 3.3. Inter-vehicle communication 91 3.4. Deployment and maintenance 95 3.5. What kind of future can we envisage for inter-vehicle services and communication technologies? 107 3.6. Bibliography 107 Chapter 4. Modeling and Control of Traffic Flow 111 Daniel JOLLY, Boumediene KAMEL and Amar BENASSER 4.1. General introduction 111 4.2. Microscopic models 114 4.3. Macroscopic models 118 4.4. General remarks concerning macroscopic and microscopic models 127 4.5. Hybrid models 129 4.6. Different strategies for controlling road traffic flow systems 147 4.7. Conclusion 164 4.8. Bibliography 164 Chapter 5. Criteria and Methods for Interactive System Evaluation: Application to a Regulation Post in the Transport Domain 173 Houcine EZZEDINE, Abdelwaheb TRABELSI, Chi Dung TRAN and Christophe KOLSKI 5.1. Introduction 173 5.2. Principles and criteria of evaluation 174 5.3. Methods, techniques and tools for the evaluation of interactive systems 181 5.4. Toward automated or semi-automated evaluation assistance tools 201 5.5. Proposal of a generic and configurable environment to aid in the evaluation of agent-based interactive systems: EISEval 213 5.6. Context of operation of the proposed evaluation environment 217 5.7. Conclusion 228 5.8. Bibliography 230 List of Authors 241 Index 245
£132.00
John Wiley & Sons Inc Handbook of Checked Baggage Screening: Advanced
Book SynopsisHandbook of Checked Baggage Screening – Advanced Airport Security Operation is a practical guide for project managers and designers embarking on hold-baggage screening developments within the airport environment for the first time. The book clearly explains away any uncertainty about the processes and procedures to be used by the various parties involved within the industry and sets out ‘best practice’ with respect to checked baggage screening design. Valuable lessons can be learned from actual case studies contributed by leading equipment manufacturers on recent 100% hold baggage screening projects. In addition to the all-important security screening of baggage and passengers the book also looks at the following areas associated with airport security, through the use of a detailed structured security check-list evaluation questionnaire. The questionnaire allows airports to assess the state of readiness of their airports and then, using the other chapters, gain an insight regarding which technology will best solve any security gaps. The authors offer a unique perspective through their background and experience. Many of the checked baggage screening procedures and equipment discussed in the book have already been implemented in the UK, with the authors responsible for leading this effort. The combined experience they can offer to the industry world wide is invaluable.Table of ContentsForeword. Acknowledgements. Glossary and Definition of Terms. Chapter 1. Where to Start. Chapter 2. Hold Baggage Screening. Chapter 3. Project Processes. Chapter 4. Dealing with Governments. Chapter 5. The Client and Users. Chapter 6. Interested Parties. Chapter 7. General Airport Processes. Chapter 8. General Airport Development Models. Chapter 9. Retail Development. Chapter 10. Planning/Environmental/Terminology. Chapter 11. Cost Management. Chapter 12. The HBS Project Programme. Chapter 13. Airport Systems Maintenance. Chapter 14. Airport Security. Chapter 15. Terminal Buildings. Chapter 16. Apron Areas. Chapter 17. Support Infrastructure. Chapter 18. Project Handover. Manufacturer Case Studies. Index.
£155.75
American Meteorological Society Railroads and Weather – From Fogs to Floods and
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Missouri Historical Society Press The Aerial Crossroads of America: St. Louis's
Book SynopsisThe history of Lambert St. Louis International Airport is the story of American aviation. Everything that has taken place on the airport's footprint from Lindbergh to American Airlines, jet airliners to space travel constitutes a microcosm of the triumphs and tragedies of winged flight in America. The Aerial Crossroads of America chronicles the transformation of the patch of farmland leased by Albert Bond Lambert in 1920 into the sprawling international airport it is today. Illustrated extensively with images from the airport's history, the book tells not only the story of Lambert, but also the history of what it means to take flight in America. Aviation expert Daniel L. Rust begins his story with Alfred Bond Lambert's pioneering efforts to promote air travel in the Midwest. While other American airports might today eclipse Lambert, Rust shows that airports serving New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago all lack the longevity of Lambert and its range of historic activity. In the book, Rust moves at super-sonic speed, covering the 1923 Air Races, Charles Lindbergh and his Spirit of St. Louis, the US Air Mail service, the birth of American Airlines, military aviation, the rise of the aircraft manufacturing industry, the development of air traffic control, regulation and deregulation, and the decline of Lambert as a large hub following the demise of TWA and 9/11. Brimming with anecdotes, little-known historical threads, and lively explanations of just what Lambert has meant to the aviation industry, The Aerial Crossroads of America will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in aviation, inspiring readers to glance out their windows and admire the view on every ascent.
£999.99
Witherby Seamanship International Ltd Ship Stability OOW
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£80.16
Crecy Publishing Britain's Aircraft Industry: Triumphs and
Book SynopsisBritain established the world''s first aircraft factory in 1909 after the Short brothers met up with the American Wright brothers and struck a deal. The industry expanded rapidly to rise to the challenge of World War One with such thoroughbreds as the Camel and the SE.5. The post-conflict slump proved to be difficult but classics such as the Moths, the Hart family and the Gladiator maintained Britain''s leadership. Another war loomed and iconic types such as the Hurricane, Lancaster, Mosquito, Spitfire and the Meteor jet appeared.With the return of peace over 20 major manufacturers faced inevitable contraction. The misguided Bristol Brabazon airliner was a dead end but the superb de Havilland Comet and Vickers Viscount led the field. Canberras, Hunters, Lightnings and the V-bombers met the Cold War confrontation.For the first time here is a readable, highly illustrated, examination of the entire industry; its heritage and the changes it faces in the 21st century, both technical and political. The life and times of the 40 ''big names'' from Airbus to Westland: aircraft, designers, factories, failures and successes, mergers and closures are all explained, supported by statistical tables and copious illustrations. Here is a celebration of a world class industry that remains at the cutting edge of excellence.
£32.79
West Virginia University Press The Steam and Diesel Era in Wheeling, West
Book SynopsisFor nearly seventy years, John J. Young Jr. photographed railroads. With unparalleled scope and span, he documented the impact and beauty of railways in American life from1936 to 2004.As a child during the Great Depression, J. J. Young Jr. began to photograph railroads in Wheeling, West Virginia. This book collects over one hundred fifty of those images—some unpublished until now—documenting the railroads of Wheeling and the surrounding area from the 1930s until the 1960s.The photographs within this book highlight the major railroads of Wheeling: the Baltimore & Ohio, the Pennsylvania, the Wheeling & Lake Erie, the Pittsburgh & West Virginia, the New York Central, and the industrial and interurban rail lines that crisscrossed the region. These images capture the routine activities of trains that carried passengers and freight to and from the city and its industries, as well as more unusual traffic, such as a circus-advertising car, the General Motors Train of Tomorrow, and the 1947 American Freedom Train.
£999.99
Classiques Garnier OrientExpress
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£52.00
World Health Organization Global status report on road safety 2018
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£79.80
Hong Kong University Press Moving Millions – The Commercial Success and
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£999.99
