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Train : Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World - from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief
ISBN: 9780143126348 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world
In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner coauthor of the New York Times bestselling An Ordinary Man travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A... An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world
In his wide-ranging and entertaining n... |
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104,33 zł |
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I Never Worked in Pocatello: The Life and Times of Santa Fe Railroad's Paul T. Collins
ISBN: 9781494912802 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of Paul T. Collins's life working on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, I Never Worked In Pocatello -The Life and Times of Santa Fe Railroad's Paul T. Collins, is the story of the changes in railroading from the end of the Nineteenth Century to past the middle of the Twentieth Century. Collins had the railroad and railroad wanderlust in his blood. His father spent his career working for railroads. Paul started at the age of sixteen as a station attendant for the Katy, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, working twenty-four hours a day. His career path took him to:...
The story of Paul T. Collins's life working on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, I Never Worked In Pocatello -The Life and Times of Santa Fe...
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45,41 zł |
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Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan Volume 4: Detroit's Short Line Railroads 1975 to 2000
ISBN: 9781495434150 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan series of books brings back to life the many fascinating railroads serving a great city in the last quarter of the 20th Century when they were still so very interesting and so many. This is Volume 4 of Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan and it is about Detroit's Short Line Railroads during the years 1975 to 2000. Covered in Volume 4 are Wyandotte Terminal Railroad, Wyandotte Southern Railroad, Detroit Connecting Railroad, Essex Terminal Railroad, Port Huron & Detroit Railroad, Detroit Connecting Railroad and Coe Rail. See these railroads, four of which are no...
The Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan series of books brings back to life the many fascinating railroads serving a great city in the last quarter of the...
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118,67 zł |
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Death, Disaster and the South Wales Railways
ISBN: 9781497412866 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This series of books - appearing under the umbrella heading of "Social History Today" - is intended to reflect my three main research interests: 1) The commerce, industry and transport of South Wales. 2) The social history of death and disaster. 3) The social history of "Collector-Classifiers." INDEX OF SOCIAL HISTORY TODAY - VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1 A MAN DECAPITATED ON THE TAFF VALE RAILWAY IN 1900 THE TAFF VALE RAILWAY STRIKE OF 1900 A FATAL FIGHT AT MERTHYR RAILWAY STATION IN 1901 A FATAL COLLISON ON THE SOUTH WALES MINERAL RAILWAY THE USE OF BRAKE VANS ON THE TAFF VALE RAILWAY A BOILER...
This series of books - appearing under the umbrella heading of "Social History Today" - is intended to reflect my three main research interests: 1) Th...
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50,85 zł |
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From a Nickel to a Token: The Journey from Board of Transportation to Mta
ISBN: 9780823261901 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A must-read for transit buffs, From a Nickel to a Token chronicles twenty specific events in the history of New York City's mass transit systems between 1940 and 1968, including large numbers of rare photos. Streetcars "are as dead as sailing ships," said Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in a radio speech, two days before Madison Avenue's streetcars yielded to buses. LaGuardia was determined to eliminate streetcars, demolish pre-1900 elevated lines, and unify the subway system, a goal that became reality in 1940 when the separate IRT,...
A must-read for transit buffs, From a Nickel to a Token chronicles twenty specific events in the hi...
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382,36 zł |
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Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan Volume 5: Detroit Transit Railway
ISBN: 9781496108746 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan series of books brings back to life the many fascinating railroads serving a great city in the last quarter of the 20th Century when they were still so very interesting and so many. This is Volume 5 of Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan and it is about the Detroit Transit Railway. Detroit Transit Railway was a one-mile long urban branchline of Conrail "street running" through the streets of Detroit's Warehouse District. It was 19th Century railroading in the late 20th Century until Conrail abandoned it in 1981. Volume 5 takes you street-side to witness the...
The Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan series of books brings back to life the many fascinating railroads serving a great city in the last quarter of the...
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73,94 zł |
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American railroading: a basic research bibliography: Volume 1
ISBN: 9781497595187 / Angielski / Miękka / 756 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A research tool, with detailed index, offering more than 16,000 titles covering a century and a half of books published on American railroading.
A research tool, with detailed index, offering more than 16,000 titles covering a century and a half of books published on American railroading.
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127,75 zł |
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Railway Architecture
ISBN: 9780747814450 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A guide to the architecture that gives British railways their identity, from stations to signal boxes. Roots of Britain's railways lie in the wooden-railed colliery wagonways of around 1600, but it was almost 1830 before specific railway architecture became needed. This evolved rapidly down to 1850, and for some time afterwards Britain led the world in designing passenger stations. Though stylistic dress followed contemporary fashions, their handling of space and of large crowds of people was something quite new. Glass and iron were used to produce elegant platform roofs, many exploiting the...
A guide to the architecture that gives British railways their identity, from stations to signal boxes. Roots of Britain's railways lie in the wooden-r...
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48,90 zł |
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American railroading: a basic research bibliography Volume 2: Volume 2 & Index
ISBN: 9781499217773 / Angielski / Miękka / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A research tool offering more than 16,000 titles spanning 150 years of publishing on American railroads. With detailed index.
A research tool offering more than 16,000 titles spanning 150 years of publishing on American railroads. With detailed index.
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127,75 zł |
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Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan Volume 6: Unusual, Unknown and Obscure Railroading In Detroit, 1975 to 2000
ISBN: 9781497361058 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan series of books brings back to life the many fascinating railroads serving a great city in the last quarter of the 20th Century when they were still so very interesting and so many. This is Volume 6 of Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan and it is about Detroit's Unusual, Unknown and Obscure Railroad Operations during the years 1975 to 2000. Covered in Volume 6 are Detroit's industrial railroads, belt lines and urban branchlines, towers, both interlocking and crossing types, and railroad bridges. See these unusual, unknown and obscure railroad operations as...
The Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan series of books brings back to life the many fascinating railroads serving a great city in the last quarter of the...
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128,72 zł |
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Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan Volume 7: Detroit River Carferry and Tunnel Operations
ISBN: 9781497415539 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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98,27 zł |
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Railways of the Ardèche and Vivarais
ISBN: 9781499380330 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Profusely illustrated throughout, with photographs, old postcard views, maps, plans and diagrams, this volume describes the history of the railways of the Ardeche and Vivarais. It covers the standard gauge main lines of the PLM, the metre gauge lines of the CFD Vivarais and Tramways de l'Ardeche, as well as a number of minor tramway schemes, and the never completed Transcevenole. In addition there are chapters on the railway town of Le Teil, the locomotives of the Ardeche, and the railway pioneer Marc Seguin."
Profusely illustrated throughout, with photographs, old postcard views, maps, plans and diagrams, this volume describes the history of the railways of...
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146,06 zł |
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Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan Volume 8: SEMTA Commuter Trains
ISBN: 9781497568020 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,89 zł |
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Freight Car Rosters 1
ISBN: 9781936829378 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Data reference. Not a photo album. The goal of this series is to present less-than-book length freight car roster subjects in an easy reference format. The term "roster" is used here in a broad definition to include a variety of data that can be employed by freight car spotters. This volume includes a survey of remaining temperature controlled railcars used by American operators at the end of 2013. Though greatly reduced in numbers since the steam and transition era, refrigerated railcars have been able to maintain a presence of over 14,000 units. Also included is a roster of cars delivered...
Data reference. Not a photo album. The goal of this series is to present less-than-book length freight car roster subjects in an easy reference format...
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177,70 zł |
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Elephant’s Ears: Band 03/Yellow
ISBN: 9780007538492 / Angielski / Miękka / 16 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by Collins Big Cat Writing Competition 2013 winner Grace Webster, this original and funny story follows a baby elephant as he tries to tame his gigantic floppy ears. * Ideas for Reading provide practical support and stimulating activities. * Text type: A patterned story with a predictable structure
Written by Collins Big Cat Writing Competition 2013 winner Grace Webster, this original and funny story follows a baby elephant as he tries to tame hi...
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36,96 zł |
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The Battle for Transportation Supremacy: How the Titans of Transportation Positioned Their Companies Over the Past 170 Years in the Boston to New York
ISBN: 9781491727386 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 hold on to. This study discusses how the southern half of this corridor-New York City to Washington, DC-is dominated by passenger rail travel, although the commercial airlines, buses, and even rental planes and... 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 f... |
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86,72 zł |
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The Battle for Transportation Supremacy: How the Titans of Transportation Positioned Their Companies Over the Past 170 Years in the Boston to New York
ISBN: 9781491727409 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 hold on to. This study discusses how the southern half of this corridor-New York City to Washington, DC-is dominated by passenger rail travel, although the commercial airlines, buses, and even rental planes and... 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 f... |
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130,19 zł |
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The Railfan Chronicles, Grand Trunk Western Railroad Book 4: Holly Subdivision Mainline Action 1975 to 2000
ISBN: 9781499751864 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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127,62 zł |
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The Iowa Route: A History of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway
ISBN: 9780253014672 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway was an important part of the commercial life of the upper Midwest during the age of railways. Don L. Hofsommer uses the BC&N as the vehicle for his investigation of the birth, evolution, and disappearance of an important regional carrier, offering an inside look at the struggles of a small railway to stay relevant while railroad empires were being built. More than a bit player, the BC&N might have become even more important had plans gone forward to utilize its rails in a campaign to reach the Pacific. The struggle of the Cedar Rapids road... The Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway was an important part of the commercial life of the upper Midwest during the age of railways. Don L... |
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320,36 zł |
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The Railfan Chronicles, Passenger Trains, Book 1: Amtrak in Southeastern Michigan 1974 to 2000
ISBN: 9781500290856 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Railfan Chronicles is a series of books about different railroads during the last quarter of the 20th Century. This was a period of great change in the railroad industry, with mergers of large railroads and creation of regional and short line railroads to operate unwanted lines of the Class One railroads. These books will cover this period in photographs taken by the author. Passenger trains is the topic in this second series of books of The Railfan Chronicles and Book 1 is about Amtrak in Southeastern Michigan from 1974 to 2000.
The Railfan Chronicles is a series of books about different railroads during the last quarter of the 20th Century. This was a period of great change i...
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104,07 zł |
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