Veículos ferroviários

Rollins Pass….The Ski Train….Moffat Tunnel….names from Colorado’s railroad heyday. This book tells a gripping story. It is about the building of Colorado’s most famous railroad, and how the sta …

‘A delightful book … the perfect companion as you wait for the 8.10 from Hove’ Observer After the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, many railways were gradually shut down. Rural communities were isolated …

This book details many of the different types of infrastructure that are present in a rail system. It is an overview, and presents a reasonable level of depth to the various engineering systems, such …

About 25, 000 kilometers of railway corridors connect countries within the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) region. CAREC countries export mostly to the European Union (33% of expor …

The story of the stephensons, father and son, and their first ‘modern’ locomotive, with various innovations that were used on almost all steam locomotives that were built from that time on. Rocket&#x …

The Chisholm Trail was the original "Cowboy Highway" stretching hundreds of miles from the ranches of Texas to the Cattle markets in Kansas. This classic work chronicles in vivid detail the …

The Pony Express was a mail service delivering messages, newspapers, and mail. Presently, ‘Pony Express’ is a trademark for postal services in the US (by the United States Postal Service). ‘This litt …

I’ll tell you a secret: a revolution has just begun. The world of transport is about to change forever and, with it, the lives of all of us. The invention to which the credit is attributed is called …

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1922): The Story of Mechanical Locomotion, with a description of the Construction & Working of the most up-to-date Inventions, Appliances and Devices for Securing Speed, Facilit …

In connection with the marvellous growth of our railway system there is nothing of so paramount importance and interest as the evolution of the locomotive steam engine. At the present time it is most …