The Seventies Railway

Download or read book The Seventies Railway written by Greg Morse and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decade of blue and grey, of red-striped container trains, and curly sandwiches, once derided but now beloved of a generation of train lovers, here encapsulated by Greg Morse in full colour.

Download or read book Britain's Railways in the 1970s written by David Hayes and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nostalgic overview of the rail scene in the 1970s. The photographs in this book try to capture a flavour of the railways during this fascinating transition period.

Download or read book The LEGO Trains Book written by Holger Matthes and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the model-making process from start to finish, including the best ways to choose scale, wheels, motors, and track layout. Get advice for building steam engines, locomotives, and passenger cars, and discover fresh ideas and inspiration for your own LEGO train designs. Inside you'll find: -A historical tour of LEGO trains -Step-by-step building instructions for models of the German Inter-City Express (ICE), the Swiss “Crocodile,” and a vintage passenger car -Tips for controlling your trains with transformers, receivers, and motors -Advice on advanced building tech­niques like SNOT (studs not on top), micro­striping, creating textures, and making offset connections -Case studies of the design process -Ways to use older LEGO pieces in modern designs For ages 10+

Download or read book Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations written by Andrew Dow and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations is an authoritative compendium of quotations about railways from 1608 to the present day. More than 3,400 entries are drawn from over 1,300 writers and speakers and a wide range of original sources both British and American—Acts of Parliament, poetry, songs, journals, advertisements, obituaries, novels, histories, plays, films, office memoranda, speeches, newspapers, television and radio broadcasts, and private documents and conversations. Here Andrew Dow records remarkable, memorable words—from the well-known to the abstruse, from the commonplace to the vital. The selected quotations are arranged by subject matter and searchable by speaker, subject, and keyword. Dow's Dictionary will inform and captivate railway enthusiasts along with readers interested in railway architecture, engineering, geography, and history.

Download or read book Regional Rail Reorganization Act, Oversight written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book ECMT Round Tables Privatisation of Railways Report of the Ninetieth Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 4-5 February 1993 written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1993-05-18 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Round Table clarifies the issues, analyses a number of examples, and defines the potential obstacles to privatisation of railways.

Download or read book Regional Rail Reorganization Act--oversight, Hearing Before ..., 93-2, June 14, 1974 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: