Road A Well And A Train
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A Road A Well And A Train
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Author : Paul R. Wonning
language : en
Publisher: Mossy Feet Books
Release Date : 2021-08-12
A Road A Well And A Train written by Paul R. Wonning and has been published by Mossy Feet Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-12 with History categories.
Nestled at the northern tip of Ripley County, Indiana, Batesville's origins begin with the construction of the Napoleon/Brookville Road, Teunis Amack's Well and the need for a railroad connecting Indianapolis Indiana and Cincinnati, Ohio. A Road, a Well and a Train is the history of the birth, growth and institutions of Batesville, Indiana. Batesville, Indiana, Ripley, County, Franklin, history
Road A Well And A Train
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Author : Wonning Paul R. (author)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901
Road A Well And A Train written by Wonning Paul R. (author) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1901 with categories.
Slow Train To Switzerland
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Author : Diccon Bewes
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-11-07
Slow Train To Switzerland written by Diccon Bewes and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with Travel categories.
In June 1863 an English lady set off by train on the trip of a lifetime: Thomas Cook's first Conducted Tour of Switzerland. A century and a half later, travel writer Diccon Bewes, author of the bestselling Swiss Watching, decided to go where she went and see what she saw. Guided by her diary, he followed the same route to discover how much had changed and how much hadn't. She went in search of adventure, he went in search of her, and found far more than he expected. Slow Train to Switzerland is the captivating account of two trips through the Alps: hers glimpsing the future of travel, his revisiting its past. Together they make a journey to remember. This is a tale of trains and tourists, of the British and the Swiss, of a Victorian traveller and a modern-day Englishman abroad. It is the story of a tour that changed both Switzerland and the world of travel forever.
The Gravy Train An Inside Look At The Long Island Rail Road
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Author : Dan Ruppert
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2003-01-19
The Gravy Train An Inside Look At The Long Island Rail Road written by Dan Ruppert and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-19 with Political Science categories.
Growing up in the suburbs of New York City on Long Island, I took a keen interest in all forms of transportation, especially trains. Afer graduating college, I worked as an industrial engineer for private sector corporations progressing to a middle management position within a Fortune 25 Company. In 1983 I accepted a job opportunity with the Long Island Rail Road as an industrial engineer. The LIRR is a government-subsidized agency that is part of a larger regional organization called the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The LIRR had embarked on a very ambitious improvement program to upgrade their physical plants. This plan included the construction of a new railcar maintenance facility. The new facility was to replace their one hundred year old maintenance shops. I was hired to develop facility layouts for the most advanced rail car maintenance facility in the country. Friends and professional colleagues advised me to decline the job offer. However, I was a railroad buff and the opportunity to work for a railroad overshadowed any tredpidations. For decades, the LIRR had bore the brunt of adverse publicity. I would often consider much of the critisism as being too harsh and misguided. Not long after commencing employment, my perspective of the LIRR would be completely transformed. The inefficient and workplace abuses I witnessed first hand could only flourish in publicly subsidized environment. My job required me to observe and analyze the maintenance and repair operations performed on commuter railcars. My next step was identifying more efficient methods. I would then implement these improvements into the design of the new railcar maintenance facilities. I was met with a wall of resistence and non-cooperation from the unionized workforce. The LIRR had languished in decades of inefficient work habits supplemented with managerial coplacency and rampant nepotism. I would operate in a very hostile environment that had no incentive to embrace improvements. It would be in the better interests of the unions to maintain low productivity and therefore justify the gross overstaffing that existed for decades. Upon completion of developing the facility layouts, the next phase of my responsibilities involved coordination with design consultants hired by the LIRR. The consultants were responsible for the architectural and structural designs of the new maintenance facility. The consultans typically were selected based on political connections and not their level of expertise. The design phase was muddled with incompetence and waste. Inept project management would add tens of millions of dollars and lengthly delays to the construction phase of the project. Upon completion of construction, a new regime intent on maintaining the status quo within the LIRR assues control of the new maintenance facility. The new regime is not committed to capitalizing on the labor efficiencies offered by the new facility. Key positions are then filled with managers' intent in preserving the traditional inefficient ways of the LIRR. My story concludes with the agendas of the new regime and conflicts with those who were trying to transform the LIRR into a socially responsible institution. My trials and tribulations along with personal victories and setbacks are all the basis of my book.
Returns Of Accidents And Casualties
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Author : Great Britain. Ministry of Transport
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Returns Of Accidents And Casualties written by Great Britain. Ministry of Transport and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Railroads categories.
Graveyard Train
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Author : James E. Wollrab
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2001-07-10
Graveyard Train written by James E. Wollrab and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-10 with Fiction categories.
The final battle of the War of 1812 results in a surprising victory for the outnumbered American defenders at the Rodriguez Canal east of New Orleans. The American command dispatches a patrol from its position in the Mississippi Delta. Its mission is to transport a group of severly wounded Scottish soldiers to a United States army field hospital for urgently needed medical care. The patrol, led by a free-black sergeant from the New Orleans militia, encounters problems along the trail. When the men are borne into an Acadian settlement in central Louisiana on one of the first experimental steam carriages, an irresistible tide of vengence and revenge is unleashed. The mystical forces conjured by a voodoo priestess and a Choctaw Indian chief reach even into the twentieth century. There they combine with modern conspiracy and murder to draw an attorney and newspaper reporter into the age-old enmity between the English and French. The deadly curse culminates on the same graveyard hill where it began.
Congressional Record
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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Law categories.
Tom Pringle S Courtship Or Life On The Road Second Edition
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Author : Thomas Bardel BRINDLEY
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
Tom Pringle S Courtship Or Life On The Road Second Edition written by Thomas Bardel BRINDLEY and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with categories.
Rail Road Reports
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Author : New Hampshire. Railroad Commissioners
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
Rail Road Reports written by New Hampshire. Railroad Commissioners and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Railroads categories.
Music And The Road
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Author : Gordon E. Slethaug
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2017-12-02
Music And The Road written by Gordon E. Slethaug and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-02 with Music categories.
Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Paul Simon-these familiar figures have written road music for half a century and continue to remain highly-regarded artists. But there is so much more to say about road music. This book fills a glaring hole in scholarship about the road and music. In a collection of 13 essays, Music and the Road explores the origins of road music in the blues, country-western, and rock 'n' roll; the themes of adventure, freedom, mobility, camaraderie, and love, and much more in this music; the mystique and reality of touring as an important part of getting away from home, creating community among performers, and building audiences across the country from the 1930s to the present; and the contribution of music to popular road films such as Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, Thelma and Louise, and On the Road.
