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PublisherMBI Publishing Company LLC

ISBN-100760313601

ISBN-139780760313602

eBay Product ID (ePID)5934149

Product Key Features

Book TitleRailroad Signaling

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicRailroads / General, Railroads / History

FeaturesRevised

IllustratorYes

GenreTransportation

AuthorBrian Solomon

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight42.2 Oz

Item Length11 in

Item Width8.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-056107

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal625.165

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisThis complete and illustrated guide to railroad signaling in the U.S. simplifies and presents the utterly bewildering array of mechanisms, procedures, and rules that have evolved since the 1830s to promote safety, impose control, and disseminate information on America's railways. In addition to providing a brief history of North American signaling from the nineteenth century onward, Brian Solomon provides photos of equipment and explanations of not only how it works, but how it is used and what it all means. Solomon also explains how trains on the same route are given precedence or placed in pecking orders and how routes are broken down into digestible segments called blocks that help dictate the speed and manner in which a train is driven. The result is a fascinating look at the development of communication on the rails, from the days when slips of paper describing an engineer's track orders were held on a metal hook for him to grab on the fly, to today, when instructions are transmitted via computer. Major manufacturers of signaling equipment are represented., This complete and illustrated guide to railroad signaling in the U.S. simplifies and presents the utterly bewildering array of mechanisms, procedures, and rules that have evolved since the 1830s to promote safety, impose control, and disseminate information on America's railways. In addition to providing a brief history of North American signaling from the nineteenth century onward, Brain Solomon provides photos of equipment and explanations of not only how it works, but how it is used and what it all means. Solomon also explains how trains on the same route are given "precedence" or placed in pecking orders and how routes are broken down into digestible segments called "blocks" that help dictate the speed and manner in which a train is driven. The result is a fascinating look at the development of communication on the rails, from the days when slips of paper describing an engineer's track orders were held on a metal hook for him to grab on the fly, to today, when instructions are transmitted via computer. Major manufacturers of signaling equipment are represented.

LC Classification NumberTF615.S695 2003