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The railway beat : a century of Canadian Pacific Police Service
A history of the Canadian Pacific Police Service, a police service enforcing safety along the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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The Civilizing Machine
In late nineteenth-century Mexico the Mexican populace was fascinated with the country's booming railroad network. Newspapers and periodicals were filled with art, poetry, literature, and social commentaries exploring the symbolic power of the railroad. As a symbol of economic, political, and industrial modernization, the locomotive served to demarcate a nation's status in the world. However, the dangers of locomotive travel, complicated by the fact that Mexico's railroads were foreign owned and operated, meant that the railroad could also symbolize disorder, death, and foreign domination.
InThe Civilizing MachineMichael Matthews explores the ideological and cultural milieu that shaped the Mexican people's understanding of technology. Intrinsically tied to the Porfiriato, the thirty-five-year dictatorship of Gen. Porfirio Díaz, the booming railroad network represented material progress in a country seeking its place in the modern world. Matthews discloses how the railroad's development represented the crowning achievement of the regime and the material incarnation of its mantra, \"order and progress.\" The Porfirian administration evoked the railroad in legitimizing and justifying its own reign, while political opponents employed the same rhetorical themes embodied by the railroads to challenge the manner in which that regime achieved economic development and modernization. As Matthews illustrates, the multiple symbols of the locomotive reflected deepening social divisions and foreshadowed the conflicts that eventually brought about the Mexican Revolution.
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Canadian Pacific : the golden age of travel
\"The story of Canadian Pacific is one of the greatest stories in the world. Straddling the continent for more than a century and globe for more than fifty years, Canadian Pacific is inextricably linked with the history of Canada itself. In 1885, the company completed the construction of two thousand miles of railway system and linking the Atlantic to the Pacific. It then established fleets of vessels on both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, laying the foundation for a transportation route that allowed members of the British Empire to travel around the world. To enhance the travel experience, the company also constructed great castle-like hotels, including the Algonquin in St. Andrews, the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City, and the Banff Springs Hotel in the Rockies, which themselves became landmarks. In this sumptuously illustrated history of a company whose story is integral to the Golden Age of Travel, Barry Lane recounts the history of Canadian Pacific, from the construction of the transcontinental railway to the development of the hotels and the building of the shipping line that linked Canada to the rest of the world.\"--From publisher.
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Amtrak, America's Railroad
Discover the story of Amtrak, America's Railroad, 50
years in the making .
In 1971, in an effort to rescue essential freight
railroads, the US government founded Amtrak. In the post-World War
II era, aviation and highway development had become the focus of
government policy in America. As rail passenger services declined
in number and in quality, they were simultaneously driving many
railroads toward bankruptcy. Amtrak was intended to be the
solution.
In Amtrak, America's Railroad: Transportation's Orphan and
Its Struggle for Survival , Geoffrey H. Doughty, Jeffrey T.
Darbee, and Eugene E. Harmon explore the fascinating history of
this popular institution and tell a tale of a company hindered by
its flawed origin and uneven quality of leadership, subjected to
political gamesmanship and favoritism, and mired in a perpetual
philosophical debate about whether it is a business or a public
service. Featuring interviews with former Amtrak presidents, the
authors examine the current problems and issues facing Amtrak and
their proposed solutions.
Created in the absence of a comprehensive national
transportation policy, Amtrak manages to survive despite inherent
flaws due to the public's persistent loyalty. Amtrak, America's
Railroad is essential reading for those who hope to see
another fifty years of America's railroad passenger service,
whether they be patrons, commuters, legislators, regulators, and
anyone interested in railroads and transportation history.
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The Hejaz railway
\"For the better part of a century the Hejaz Railway has been known for Lawrence of Arabia's celebrated desert campaign, fighting alongside the bedouin in the Arab Revolt during the First World War. Yet perhaps the reputation that it truly deserves is for the epic story of its construction, a monumental feat of engineering, requiring enormous imagination, skill and resolve. Here was something breathtaking, combining the romance of steam locomotion with the grandiose vision of the last years of the mighty Ottoman Empire.\" \"Conceived in the dying days of the nineteenth century and constructed under the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II, the railway followed the overland pilgrim trail from Damascus deep into the heart of Arabia to reach the holy city of Madinah. It was to lay its tracks across pitiless, wadi-fissured deserts and the unforgiving mountains of the Hejaz, from which the line would earn its name.\"--Jacket.
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Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Railway Point Machines by Sound Analysis
Railway point devices act as actuators that provide different routes to trains by driving switchblades from the current position to the opposite one. Point failure can significantly affect railway operations, with potentially disastrous consequences. Therefore, early detection of anomalies is critical for monitoring and managing the condition of rail infrastructure. We present a data mining solution that utilizes audio data to efficiently detect and diagnose faults in railway condition monitoring systems. The system enables extracting mel-frequency cepstrum coefficients (MFCCs) from audio data with reduced feature dimensions using attribute subset selection, and employs support vector machines (SVMs) for early detection and classification of anomalies. Experimental results show that the system enables cost-effective detection and diagnosis of faults using a cheap microphone, with accuracy exceeding 94.1% whether used alone or in combination with other known methods.
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Canadian railroad trilogy
Portrays the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway in a series of dreamlike paintings accompanied by the lyrics of Lightfoot's 1967 song commemorating Canada's centennial year.
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Railway Transport Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change at High Latitudes: A Review of Experience from Canada, Sweden and China
Impact of climate change on railway transport manifests in a variety of consequences, such as rail buckling, rail flooding, expansion of swing bridges, overheating of electrical equipment and its damage, bridge scour, failure of earthworks, ground settlement, pavement deterioration, damage to sea walls, coastal erosion of tracks and earthworks, and an increased number of railway accidents in general. Such impacts can cause considerable disruption of railway operations and lead to substantial financial expenses for repair of the railway infrastructure. Therefore, it is crucial to include adaptation strategies already in the design phase of the railway construction to ensure stability and integrity of the railway operations. This paper provides a literature review of adaptation considerations in Canada, China and Sweden and discusses climate change challenges that these countries face in their railway systems. In conclusion, the authors provide recommendations for adaptation approaches based on the reviewed international experience which can be useful for policymakers and managers of railway companies.
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Analysis and assessment of the railway network facilities in Bulgaria. Solutions for their adaptation to modern operational requirements
The present scientific work is devoted to the analysis and evaluation of the facilities on the railway network in Bulgaria, with a focus on the challenges related to their adaptation to modern operational requirements. The object of the study is the Sofia - Mezdra section of the railway line Sofia - Mezdra - Gorna Oryahovitsa - Varna. The selected section includes a wide range of infrastructure structures – bridges and tunnels - characterized by structural and material diversity, which makes it representative for the national railway network. A detailed technical survey and documentary description of the structures has been carried out, as well as an assessment of their current condition. Within the framework of the study, experimental tests of the main construction materials were also carried out in order to establish their residual service life. Special attention is paid to the old steel riveted bridges, for which specific engineering solutions are proposed for adaptation to the modern normative requirements, including those laid down in the Eurocode system. The presented approach combines practical measurements with a scientifically based methodology for assessment and strengthening, with a view to increasing the operational safety and extending the life cycle of railway structures in Bulgaria.
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