 Railway Maintenance Equipment: The Men and Machines That Keep the Railroads Running
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| By : Brian Solomon |
Railroad tracks take quite a beating, with countless tons of cold steel and freight rumbling over them day and night, wearing down rails and vibrating ties loose from their ballasts. This book reveals the special machinery railroads use to maintain and mend tracks and other property, as well as how the machines were developed and how they work. Each chapter tackles a different piece of maintenance equipment like tie pullers, spike drivers and rail grinders. Photos illustrate the machines in action, while detail shots depict the "business end" of each.
Publisher: Motorbooks International
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30 Bridges
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| By : Matthew Wells |
Many of the bridges built during the past 10 years show a high degree of experimentation. Bridges are also starting to attract attention as important features of the cultural and architectural landscape. With an introduction by the acclaimed architectural critic Hugh Pearman, this captivating reference analyzes 30 bridges around the world that display the most cutting-edge architectural....
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns
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Bridges: The Spans of North America
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| By : David Plowden |
Whether built of stone, brick, wood, iron, steel, or concrete, bridges have captivated our imaginations more than any other man-made structures. In David Plowden's words, "there is no more overt, powerful, or rational expression of accomplishment—of man's ability to build." And Americans, in particular, have excelled in this structural art. Bridges explores in depth how, when, where, and by whom the most important North American bridges were built, and, with Plowden's superb photographs, we can dwell on their most important engineering and aesthetic qualities. In his extensive text, Plowden vividly records the discoveries, misconceptions, struggles, failures, and triumphs of the men who dedicated their energies to bridge...
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
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Bridges: Three Thousand Years of Defying Nature
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| By : David J. Brown |
This stunning visual presentation, filled with photographs and illustrations depicting the world's greatest bridges, explains the manners in which laborers, engineers and architects have surmounted the problem of spanning the seemingly impassable from ancient times to the 21st century. A brilliantly written text explains in understandable terms the physics of different bridge types, while fascinating histories describe the "hows" and "whys" behind the world's most recognizable structures.
Publisher: Motorbooks International
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Bridgescape : The Art of Designing Bridges
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| By : Frederick Gottemoeller |
This book demystifies the creative process of bridge design by breaking down the bridge into its most fundamental elements--line, form, and placement in the site, as well as color, texture, and ornamentation. The author shows how to plan bridges that take into account symbolism, historical meaning, and our ability to understand the visual world.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Sales Rank: 126,940
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Colonial Engineer: John Whitton, 1819-1898, and the Building of Australia's Railways
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| By : Robert Lee |
Raised in the milieu of the great English pioneer railway engineers, John Whitton conquered the Great Dividing Range in the 1860s, building transmontane lines by hand, before the use of dynamite and in some of the most remote and inhospitable terrain. His origins were humble, and his story one of social and material advancement through talent, will, and mastery of production techniques. His achievement was such that, alone among engineers in Australia, he acquired an international reputation for his genius and his extraordinary achievements. He was responsible for the building of 2,131 miles of railway, traversing terrain as challenging as any railway engineer ever encountered.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
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Contact Lines for Electrical Railways : Planning - Design - Implementation
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| By : Friedrich Kiessling |
From both ecological and economical perspectives, electric traction is the most favorable type of power supply for railways. Its reliability depends to a large degree on the contact lines, which have to operate safely under all relevant climatic conditions, needing as little maintenance as possible. Particularly extreme demands are made if overhead contact lines are expected to ensure safe power transmission to electric traction vehicles travelling at speeds over 300 km/h. The authors have used their world-wide experience to provide a clear and comprehensive description of the configuration, mechanical and electrical design, installation and operation of contact lines for electric railways on local and long-distance transportation systems.
Publisher: Vch Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh
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Florida's Great Ocean Railway: Building the Key West Extension
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| By : Dan Gallagher |
From 1905 to 1916, thousands of laborers and engineers engaged in an amazing construction project - building a railroad line from Miami to Key West. Every mile of the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway brought new surprises for the construction team. Although they were able to put the line in place for passenger service by 1912, it took four more years to complete the Extension and make Key West the southernmost rail-steamer connection in the U.S.
Publisher: Pineapple Pr
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