The impact on local economies could be huge. Many towns began as division points where trains changed their crews and steam locomotives were resupplied with water. Others became industrial centers because the railroad linked them to materials and markets. On the other hand, those towns and region...
This meant that wagon freighting, stagecoaching, and steamboating did not come to an end when the first train appeared; rather they became supplements or feeders. Each new "end-of-track" became a center for animal-drawn or waterborne transportation. The major effect of the railroad was }o ...
This meant that wagon freighting, stage-coaching, and steam boating did not come to an end when the first train appeared; rather they became supple ments or feeders. Each new "end-of-track" became a center for animal drawn or waterborne transportation. The major effect of the railroad was...
“end of track” became a center for animal drawn or waterborne transportation. The major effect of the railroad was to shorten the distance that had to be covered by the older, slower, and more costly means. Wagon freighters continued operating throughout the 1870’s and 1880’s and into...
While there have been many studies of the impact of railroad deregulation on agricultural transportation markets there have been very few that address the impact of railroad mergers on rail grain prices and the distribution of efficiency gains. The purpose of this paper is to add to the sparse ...
by afinetheorem Somehow I’ve never written about Dave Donaldson’s incredible Indian railroad paper before; as it has a fair claim on being the best job market paper in the past few years, it’s time to rectify that. I believe Donaldson spent eight years as LSE working on his PhD, ...
hearing on Capitol Hill, Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw said the railroad "will clean the site safely, thoroughly, and with urgency," noting that the company has committed to reimbursements and investments of more than 20 million U.S. dollars in order to address the impact of the derailment....
This review paper presents a history of the evolution of railroad bridge impact formulas. Most non-North American countries operate passenger trains at much higher speeds than in North America. In the US, hundreds of very old open deck bridges will eventually likely be required to carry faster ...
Smith, 1987, "The Impact of US Rail Regulatory Reform on Railroad Manage- ment and Organizational Structure," Transportation Research Part A: General 21, 87-94.Grimm, Curtis M, Kling, Tames A and Smith, Ken G "The Impact of US Rail Regulatory Reform on Railroad Management and Organizational...
This study analyzed the relative weights of railroad road-bed construction cost and energy cost in th... S Suh,JH Kim - 대한토목학회논문집 제34권 제4호 被引量: 0发表: 2014年 Use of industrial by-products in urban transportation infrastructure: argument for increased ...