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• Ride with the ghost of the Santa Fe: the legacy of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
• Too many Santa Fes!: overview of the railroad that introduced the FT
• Mechanical motion, set to music: Santa Fe steam at the dawn of the FT
• Hamilton, Winston, Kettering: the evolution of Electro-Motive
• Finally, a locomotive prime mover: the birth of the legendary 567 engine
• The Model F standard: in the end, Electro-Motive had to prove it could handle freight
• A mikado on the prairies, a mallet in the mountains: the 103 goes to work on the Santa Fe trail
• Lessons learned from the 103: what the 103 did, and did not do, on the Santa Fe
• A big coming-out party: Santa Fe rolls out its first freight diesel
• Electro-Motive goes to war: a locomotive builder serves the US Navy
• The unions and the laws: the challenges to operating efficiency
• Eighty locomotives the hard way: building the fleet one EMD order at a time
• A class by itself: the author's retrospective

"Explores the history and evolution of the FT, the train that put an end to steam locomotives in the US. Wallace Abbey is an almost legendary figure in the world of railroad and train photography. Features more than 140 photos from Abbey's collection which are either previously unpublished or rarely seen of the FT."-- Publisher's description
As war loomed in 1939, American railroads were on the precipice of transformation. The FT was a diesel-electric, semi-streamlined frreight engine that would establish a new standard for reliability, flexibility, and cost. Abbey explores the history and evolution of the FT, the train that put an end to steam locomotives in the US. He shows how the Santa Fe Railway had to throw its conservative mechanical traditions aside to bet big on the diesel. Abbey's book features photos from his collection, which are either previously unpublished or rarely seen of the FT. - adapted from jacket

Since the early 1990s, Christophe Agou, a French photographer, has been taking pictures of New York. He has developed a love for the city and an uncanny feel for the look of the ordinary. The New York subway has captured the imaginations of photographers from Walter Evans to Bruce Davidson. But never has it been so powerfully and lyrically portrayed as in Agou's carefully orchestrated sequences where the searing images haunt and intrigue us at the same time. Bridging the worlds of documentary and art photography, Life Below is a series of frozen moments, revealing fear, love, affection, stress and solitude. These are compellingly intimate photographs of people from all walks of life, in a meditative state before they put on a mask.
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• List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceIntroduction1. In the Beginning: American Railroad Dangers and Safety, 1828-18732. Off the Tracks: The Changing Pattern of Derailments, 1873-19003. Collisions and the Rise of Regulation, 1873-19004. The Major Risks from Minor Accidents, 1873-19005. Engineering Success and Disaster: Bridge Design and Failure, 1840-19006. Coping with the Casualties: Companies, Workers, and Injuries, 1850-19007. Safety Crisis and Safety First, 1900-19208. Lobbying for Regulation: Transporting Hazardous Substances, 1903-19309. Private Enterprise and Public Regulation: Safety between the Wars, 1922-193910. Safety in War and Decline, 1940-1965Conclusion: The Political Economy of Railroad Safety, 1830-1965
• Appendix 1: Nineteenth-Century Railroad Accident and Casualty Statistics
• Appendix 2: Casualties and Accidents from Interstate Commerce Commission Statistics, 1888-1965List of AbbreviationsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex.
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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.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceIntroduction1. In the Beginning: American Railroad Dangers and Safety, 1828-18732. Off the Tracks: The Changing Pattern of Derailments, 1873-19003. Collisions and the Rise of Regulation, 1873-19004. The Major Risks from Minor Accidents, 1873-19005. Engineering Success and Disaster: Bridge Design and Failure, 1840-19006. Coping with the Casualties: Companies, Workers, and Injuries, 1850-19007. Safety Crisis and Safety First, 1900-19208. Lobbying for Regulation: Transporting Hazardous Substances, 1903-19309. Private Enterprise and Public Regulation: Safety between the Wars, 1922-193910. Safety in War and Decline, 1940-1965Conclusion: The Political Economy of Railroad Safety, 1830-1965
• Appendix 1: Nineteenth-Century Railroad Accident and Casualty Statistics
• Appendix 2: Casualties and Accidents from Interstate Commerce Commission Statistics, 1888-1965List of AbbreviationsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

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.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)