The Freight Story
The Freight Story

Author: Harry Caldwell

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13:

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Although efforts to improve freight transportation efficiency and reliability have been successful, the U.S. transportation system is now facing challenges that, unless addressed, may jeopardize its reliability. Allowing transportation system reliability to erode would add additional pressure to U.S. companies operating in an increasingly competitive international market and place more burdens on communities seeking to sustain their economic base and quality of life. Improved logistics has thus far been able to address the corrosive effects of the loss of system reliability. Unfortunately, the ability of logistics to provide additional offsetting savings appears to be nearing its limit, as are the savings attributable to deregulation. Unless these challenges are addressed, more discretionary income will be devoted to moving materials and products, businesses will be constrained in their adoption of innovative strategies to maintain global competitiveness, quality of life-as measured by congestion-will suffer, and safety and security could be jeopardized.

The Freight Story
The Freight Story

Author: Harry Caldwell

Publisher:

Published: 2002-10-31

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780756744939

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Although efforts to improve freight transportation efficiency & reliability have been successful, the U.S. transportation system is now facing challenges that, unless addressed, may jeopardize its reliability. This report discusses the development of the Freight Analysis Framework, a nat. database & policy analysis tool, & extensive outreach to freight stakeholders. Several key challenges have been identified that face freight transportation: (1) congestion & expanding capacity; (2) improving systems operations; (3) planning & financing freight project; (4) safety; (5) nat. security; (6) the environmental effects of freight transport; & (7) building freight professional capacity. Discusses several strategies to meet these challenges. Illustrations.

Freight Train
Freight Train

Author: Donald Crews

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-08-23

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 0062120476

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In simple, powerful words and vibrant illustrations, Donald Crews evokes the rolling wheels of that childhood favorite: a train. This Caldecott Honor Book features bright colors and bold shapes. Even a child not lucky enough to have counted freight cars will feel he or she has watched a freight train passing after reading Freight Train. Donald Crews used childhood memories of trains seen during his travels to his grandparents' farm in the American South as the inspiration for this timeless favorite. New York magazine's The Strategist chose Freight Train as one of the "Best (Nonobvious) Baby Books to Bring to a Shower." As The Strategist stated: "The Caldecott Honor Book is spare and minimal in both art and text and follows the journey of a freight train and all its cars until it rolls off the page and into the distance. It’s a good way to learn all the different names of train cars, too." Red caboose at the back, orange tank car, green cattle car, purple box car, black tender and a black steam engine . . . freight train.

Hello, Freight Train!
Hello, Freight Train!

Author: Marjorie Blain Parker

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780439598910

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As the freight train rolls passed him, a young boy delights in looking at all the cars, such as the refrigerator cars, tank cars, and boxcars, being pulled by the strong engine leading the way to its far-off destination. Original.

Economic Effects of Transportation
Economic Effects of Transportation

Author: ICF Consulting

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13:

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Describes how an efficient and reliable freight transportation system helps to generate improvements in economic productivity.

The American Freight Train
The American Freight Train

Author: Jim Boyd

Publisher: Motorbooks International

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0760308330

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Photohistory examines the use of trains as freight haulers over the course of one and a half centuries. Depicts and explains the evolution of boxcars, flatcars, hoppers, refrigerator cars, tanks cars, ore jennies, auto-rack transports and more.

Angel on a Freight Train
Angel on a Freight Train

Author: Peter C. Baldwin

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1438479964

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Angel on a Freight Train examines the experiences of Samuel Edward Warren (1831–1909), a teacher and college professor in Troy, New York, who struggled to reconcile his same-sex erotic desires with his commitment to a Christian life. Unlike twenty-first-century evangelicals who try to "pray the gay away," Warren discerned no fundamental conflict between his faith and his attraction to younger males. Growing up in the antebellum Northeast, in a culture that permitted and even celebrated emotional bonds between men, he strove to build emotionally intense relationships in many overlapping forms—friendship, pedagogy, evangelism, and romance—which allowed him to enjoy intimacy with little effort at concealment. However, as he passed into mature manhood and built a prestigious career, Warren began to feel that he should have grown out of romantic friendships, which he now feared had become emotionally and physically excessive. Based on Warren's deeply introspective and previously unexplored diaries, Angel on a Freight Train traces his youthful freedom and sensuality, his attempt to join with younger men in a spirit of loving mentorship, and, finally, the tortured introspection of a man whose age seemed to shut him out from an idyllic lost world. In the end, Warren came to believe rather sorrowfully in a radical division between his angelic, ideal self and what he called "the freight train of animal life below."