Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York...
Grand Central Terminal, one of New York City’s preeminent buildings, stands as a magnificent Beaux-Arts monument to America’s Railway Age, and it remains a vital part of city life today. Completed in...
View ArticleRail, Steam, and Speed: The “Rocket” and the Birth of Steam Locomotion
From October 6 through 14, 1829, a competition was held in Rainhill to find a locomotive that could maintain a speed of ten mph for a round trip totaling thirty-five miles, the distance separating...
View ArticlePractical Railway Engineering
This textbook covers the very wide spectrum of all aspects of railway engineering for all engineering disciplines, in a ‘broad brush’ way giving a good overall knowledge of what is involved in...
View ArticleShinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan (Routledge...
The image of the shinkansen – or “bullet train” – passing Mount Fuji is one of the most renowned images of modern Japan. Yet, despite its international reputation for speed and punctuality, little is...
View ArticleThe Transcontinental Railroad: The Gateway to the West (Milestones in...
In May 1869, the U.S. railroad network unified when the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads came together in Promontory, Utah. “The Transcontinental Railroad” discusses this important milestone...
View ArticleRailroad Vehicle Dynamics: A Computational Approach
The methods of computational mechanics have been used extensively in modeling many physical systems. The use of multibody-system techniques, in particular, has been applied successfully in the study of...
View ArticleContainer Terminals and Cargo Systems: Design, Operations Management, and...
Since their introduction in the 1960s containers represent the standard unit-load concept for international freight. Container terminals primarily serve as an interface between different modes of...
View ArticleArmored Trains (New Vanguard)
First seen during the American Civil War and later appearing in the Franco-Prussian War and the Anglo-Boer Wars, the armored train came to prominence on the Eastern Front during World War I. It was...
View ArticleTransport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil
The lives of people around the world, particularly in developed countries, depend on relatively inexpensive movement of people and goods. Now, more than ever, the prospect of rising costs puts...
View ArticleDynamics of High-Speed Railway Bridges: Selected and revised papers from the...
The dynamic behaviour of bridges strongly affects the infrastructure system of high-speed railways, and is a crucial factor in safety issues and passenger comfort. Dynamics of High-Speed Railway...
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