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Trespassing on the Railroad

Research in Transportation Economics, 2007
Greater than half of all the fatal injuries on the United States railroads are sustained by trespassers. The paper provides a statistical analysis of the demographics of trespassers, the activities they were engaged in, and the causes of injury. It also analyzes trends over time. The paper finds that the risks of injury and death are particularly acute
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The Railroad Giveth and the Railroad Taketh Away

California History, 2021
Continued railroad investment and the development of national highway transportation infrastructure factored heavily into the development of American communities during the twentieth century. Seligman, Arizona, is one of these communities, located on a major railroad route (Santa Fe Railway) and a former U.S. federal highway (U.S. Route 66).
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Railroad Space and Railroad Time

New German Critique, 1978
(Economically, the railways' operation ... causes distances to diminish ... Lille suddenly finds itself next to Lourves; Calais to Pontoise; le Havre to Poissy; Rouen to Sevres or to Asnieres; Reims to Pantin; Strasbourg to Meaux; Lyon to a place halfway between Melun and Corbeil; Marseilles to Nemours; Perpignan to Pithiviers; Bordeaux to Chartres or ...
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Railroad

Journal of Engineering for Power, 1959
Abstract Progress during 1957 on the coal-burning gas-turbine power plant being perfected by the Locomotive Development Committee of Bituminous Coal Research, Inc., is reported. Operating experience with the Union Pacific Railroad’s 4500-hp General Electric gas-turbine-electric units, and the characteristics of the 8500-hp units on order
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Railroad Transportation An Railroad Terminals: A Symposium: Federal Valuation of Railroads

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1924
The purpose of this paper is to show the relation of valuation to the railroad problem. The passage of the Transportation Act, 1920, made fundamental changes in the relations of the Interstate Comm...
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RAILROAD BANKRUPTCY PROPENSITY

The Journal of Finance, 1971
THE RECENT POOR PERFORMANCE of our nation's economy has been marked by a rash of business failures in all sectors.' One industry which has been particularly sensitive to economic downturns in the past is the nation's railroad carriers. In 1970, four railroads petitioned the courts for bankruptcy under Section 77 of the National Bankruptcy Act.
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The Railroad

2005
Railroads altered the landscape of the United States. Within a few decades of the invention of the locomotive, railways stretched from coast to coast, enabling people and goods to travel far greater distances than ever before, completely altering our concept of time and space.
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Railroad Transportation And Railroad Terminals: A Symposium

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1924
The railroad system of the United States, as it exists to-day constitutes a monument to the ingenuity of the civil engineer and his confreres, the mechanical and the electrical engineer.
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