[PDF.30vy] Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service

Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service

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 | #749377 in Books |  2009-11-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.79 x6.02l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| I'm the train they call the City Of New Orleans|By TravellingCari|A really interesting look at the past, present and future of Amtrak through the lens of the long distance trains. McCommons is a university professor and some chapters come through as feeling like a published paper, but overall it was super readable. Especially as I began reading it on a Lake Shore Limited betwee|From Booklist|Although there is probably plenty of interest in a fond reminiscence of the bygone days when people regularly traveled the U.S. on steel tracks, this is certainly not it. This is a hard look at the c

During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism.

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You easily download any file type for your device.Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service   |  James McCommons. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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