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Boiler waters on railroads
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Maintenance of way of railroads
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Boiler waters on railroads: a thesis
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An economic history of five midwestern railroads.
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 1977.
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Market behavior for bonds of bankrupt railroads.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1975
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The development of railroads in Missouri to 1860
… This thesis shows that two of the state aid railroads failed to meet their interest payments due January 1, 1856. Beginning January 1, 1859, further failures of railroad companies occurred, and finally the state released her lien on the roads for ''a very small sum." With the exception of the …
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Railroads and the Government of Iowa, 1850-1872
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Transportation generalized cost functions for railroads and inland waterways
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1979.
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Essays on the economic performance of U.S. freight railroads under deregulation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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“To try the speed": adventures in the development of Massachusetts railroads, 1826-1850
Railroads entered American life during the second quarter of the nineteenth century through the efforts of rural residents who embraced this new technology. In an era of expanding economic opportunities, men and women throughout Massachusetts related what they learned about railroads to their …
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"Every Thing in its Place" Gender and Space on America's Railroads, 1830-1899
… ordered and hierarchical strongly shaped how railroads treated their passengers. Like home and hotel parlors, railroad passenger cars constituted an intersection of the sacred private realm of the home and the less pure mundane arena of public life. Nineteenth-century middle-class Americans …
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Prediction of arrival times of freight traffic on us railroads using support vector regression
Variability of the travel times on the United States freight rail network is high due to large network demand relative to infrastructure capacity especially when traffic is heterogeneous. Variable runtimes pose significant operational challenges if the nature of runtime variability is not …
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Assessing the level of service for shipments originating or terminating on short line railroads
… shipping lanes spread amongst several short line railroads, with a total of 6,747 movements analyzed. In addition, two shipping lanes of 69 total movements that were provided for preliminary analysis are presented in greater detail. Two short lines have also provided their own multiyear data on …
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Division and privatization of the Japanese National Railways : the impact upon the re-vitalization of Japanese railroads
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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The motor truck vs the railroads as a means of freight transportation from Boston to New England points
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Business and Engineering Administration, 1925
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Tiny Octopuses: The Successes, Struggles, and Failures of Short Lines and Branch Lines in Rural Nevada, California, and Oregon Between 1869 and 1920
… the story of the short line and branch line railroads that operated throughout Nevada, California, and Oregon between 1869 and 1920. After the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, numerous small railroads arose to link cities, towns, and rural stations to each other and …
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A Settlement Geography of Three Ports on the Northern Gulf of Mexico: The Role of Rivers, Railroads, and Hurricanes: 1830-1930
… modes of transportation such as shipping and railroads, the economic and agricultural base that was used to improve the settlement’s reputation, the characteristics of the settlement’s concept of folk housing, and the impact and recovery of the settlement from disasters such as fire and …
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Railroads in Tuolumne County, California : their role and importance to specific industries and their impact on county economic development, 1897-1917
… and the early years of the twentieth numerous railroads were built throughout America. Some. grew into gigantic systems with names we recognize today; Southern Pacific, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Chesapeake & Ohio. Others faded into oblivion. But all, successful or not, were built to fill …
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Renewable Energy Integration in NYC Subway: Solar Panels (Under Railroads and at the Subway's Edge) & Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) Near Tracks
… that will incorporate solar panels under railroads, solar panels alongside tracks, and vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) alongside the tracks. This will reduce, at a certain point, the dependence on Con Edison for high energy demand and show a commitment to sustainability and …
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