Long Steel Rail
Title | Long Steel Rail PDF eBook |
Author | Norm Cohen |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 774 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780252068812 |
Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition.
Death Rode the Rails
Title | Death Rode the Rails PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Aldrich |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 492 |
Release | 2006-04-10 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780801882364 |
"The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output - shaped by labor markets and public policy - motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety."--BOOK JACKET.
Steel Rails
Title | Steel Rails PDF eBook |
Author | William Hamilton Sellew |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 652 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Railroad engineering |
ISBN |
Annual and Statistical Report
Title | Annual and Statistical Report PDF eBook |
Author | New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 540 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Public utilities |
ISBN |
Iron Trade Review
Title | Iron Trade Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1688 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Iron industry and trade |
ISBN |
Iron Age
Title | Iron Age PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 2686 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | Hardware |
ISBN |
Parliamentary Papers
Title | Parliamentary Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1040 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Bills, Legislative |
ISBN |