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The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 2
By 1933, the Pennsylvania Railroad had been in existence for nearly ninety years.During this time, it had grown from a small line, struggling to build west from the state capital in Harrisburg, to the dominant transportation company in the United States.In Volume 2 of The Pennsylvania Railroad, Albert J.
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The train to Timbuctoo
Brown's 1951 tale about a big train and a little train that have just left Kalamazoo.
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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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Monorails
Explores the world of the monorail, offering details and photographs on varieties, whether the rail is above or beneath the cars.
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Upheaval on the Railways in Germany?/ Umbruch bei der Eisenbahn in Deutschland?
Deutsche Bahn, the German principal rail and rail infrastructure operator, is in critical condition. Profits are declining, punctuality and reliability are on the lowest level ever. The Federal Minister for Transport announced changes in governance in June that are scrutinized in this article. Die Politik hat der Eisenbahn eine wichtige Rolle bei der Senkung der Emissionen zugedacht. Aktuell zeigt sich allerdings, dass die DB AG als wichtigstes Unternehmen der Branche in Schwierigkeiten steckt. Die Zuverlassigkeit des Netzes sinkt dramatisch, sichtbar an abnehmender Punktlichkeit und ruckgestauten Guterzugen. Zugleich ist die wirtschaftliche Lage kritisch. Verkehrsminister V. Wissing hat Ende Juni 2022 angekundigt, die DB AG kunftig starker zu beaufsichtigen. Daraufhin trat der Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende, M. Odenwald, zuruck. Die Probleme des Sektors und Losungsansatze werden diskutiert.
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