Transportation category: 6808 books
The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1
Building an Empire, 1846-1917
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world....
by Barry Dorshimer
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
The purpose of this book, "SCHOOL BUS WISDOM," is to aid the new school bus driver as well as the seasoned school bus driver in keeping their attitude, skills, safety performance and their interaction with students positive, professional, and sharp.
Every School Bus driver who transports...
Deadly Turbulence
The Air Safety Lessons of Braniff Flight 250 and Other Airliners, 1959-1966
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
Jet airliner operations in the United States began in 1958, bringing, it was thought, a new era of fast, high, safe, smooth, sophisticated travel. But almost immediately, the new aircraft were involved in incidents and accidents that showed jets created new problems even as they solved old ones. This...
Cleared for Take-Off
Structure and Strategy in the Low Fare Airline Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Competition in air transport has been transformed by industry liberalization initiatives, resulting in the emergence of a wide array of new airline start-ups. Restrictions on low fares have been removed, uniform control requirements have been established, and legislation has facilitated the proliferation...
Cutters to Motor Coaches
Pioneering Commercial Transportation in the Catskills
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Michael Duttweiler, a career-long adult educator, has long-standing interest in local history of the Catskill Mountains and other regions of New York. He was raised in Jeffersonville, Sullivan County, New York and lived there through his undergraduate years. With relatives still in the area, he returns...
Titanic
The Myths and Legacy of a Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
An exploration of why the legacy of the Titanic persists, in procedures, building regulation, navigational practice, statues, poems, novels, movies, and even a musical April 15, 2012, marks 100 years since the Titanic hit an iceberg and foundered in the North Atlantic with the loss of 1,513 lives....
by Leonard E. Alwine, David W. Seidel
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
Dating back to 1882, the Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway has humble origins, but it quickly became a viable transportation system serving the city of Altoona. Often referred to as the Logan Valley, the railway employed 300 people, transported 11.5 million passengers a year, and traveled 7,220...
The Routes Not Taken
A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Robert A. Van Wyck, mayor of the greater city of New York, broke ground for the first subway line by City Hall on March 24, 1900. It took four years, six months, and twenty-three days to build the line from City Hall to West 145th Street in Harlem. Things rarely went that quickly ever again. The Routes...
Engines of War
How Wars Were Won & Lost on the Railways
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Before the nineteenth century, armies had to rely on slow and unreliable methods of transportation to move soldiers and equipment during times of conflict. But with the birth of the railroad in the early 1830s, the way wars were fought would change forever.
In Engines of War, renowned expert...
Copenhagenize
The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
The bicycle enjoyed a starring role in urban history over a century ago, but now it is back, stronger than ever. It is the single most important tool for improving our cities. Designing around it is the most efficient way to make our cities life-sized—to scale cities for humans. It is time to cement...
by Frederick R. Morin, John Galluzzo
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Shortly after the Wright brothers took to the air, aviation fever gripped Massachusetts. The biggest names in the industry, including Wilbur Wright, Glenn Curtiss, and Claude Graham-White, among others, flew in for the first major air shows, further exciting the people of the Bay State about the potential...
by Billy J. Singleton
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Local businessman and inventor John Ellis Fowler introduced the concept of the flying machine to Mobile and South Alabama. Fowler�s innovative designs mark the beginning of the remarkable aviation heritage of Alabama�s port city, a legacy further enhanced by the evolution of military and civilian...
Louisiana Aviation
An Extraordinary History in Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
At the beginning of the twentieth century the skies presented a new frontier, one that attracted daredevils, businessmen, politicians, and engineers enticed by a new form of transportation. Louisiana entrepreneurs and pilots proved instrumental in ushering in the Golden Age of Aviation. They advanced...
Steamboats on the Western Rivers
An Economic and Technological History
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development: its construction, equipment and operation; the organization and conduct of steamboat transportation as a business enterprise; the hazards and amenities of shipboard life; steamboat races on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; collisions, explosions and fires; the rise of competition; the ultimate decline, and much more.