Railroad Safety

Railroad Safety

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Hazardous Materials

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13:

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Railroad Safety Programs

Railroad Safety Programs

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 108

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Death Rode the Rails

Death Rode the Rails

Author: Mark Aldrich

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published: 2009-11-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780801894022

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For most of the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, that year claiming the lives of nearly twelve thousand passengers, workers, and others. In Death Rode the Rails Mark Aldrich explores the evolution of railroad safety in the United States by examining a variety of incidents: spectacular train wrecks, smaller accidents in shops and yards that devastated the lives of workers and their families, and the deaths of thousands of women and children killed while walking on or crossing the street-grade tracks. The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output—shaped by labor markets and public policy—motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety. A fascinating account of one of America's most important industries and its dangers, Death Rode the Rails will appeal to scholars of economics and the history of transportation, technology, labor, regulation, safety, and business, as well as to railroad enthusiasts.


Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1969

Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1969

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation

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Published: 1969

Total Pages: 476

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Committee Serial No. 91-32. Considers S. 1933 and similar S. 2915 and S. 3061, to authorize DOT inspection and regulation of railroad cars and equipment to ensure railroad safety. July 14 hearing was held in Indianapolis, Ind., to conduct an investigation into several Indiana railroad accidents.