Rails Through The West

Author : Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
Publisher : Wilderness Press
ISBN 13 : 0899974899
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rail-Trails West written by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newest edition in the popular series, the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy presents the best of the West. With 70 rural, suburban, and urban trails threading through 1,050 miles, Rail-Trails West covers 60 trails in California, eight in Arizona, and two in Nevada. Many rail-trails offer escapes from city life, like the Mount Lowe Railway Trail, high above the buzzing Los Angeles basin on a rail line vacationers once took to a mountaintop resort. Others offer the pure sensory thrill of sweeping terrain, like Arizona's 7-mile Prescott Peavine Trail. Still more juxtapose the natural world with the railroad's industrial past, like Nevada's Historic Railroad Hiking Trail, which passes through five massive tunnels to reach Hoover Dam. Every trip has a detailed map, directions to the trailhead, and information about parking, restroom facilities, and other amenities. Many of the level rail-trails are suitable for walking, jogging, bicycling, inline skating, wheelchairs, and horses.

Author : Helen Hinckley Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rails from the West written by Helen Hinckley Jones and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beppe Severgnini
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1592408729
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Off the Rails written by Beppe Severgnini and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this witty and entertaining collection of travel tales, an acclaimed journalist explores his obsession with trains--and what his rail journeys have taught him about culture and identity. "I've gone around the world in installments. Every trip has been a revelation. I've watched regions, nations, and continents change moods and I've met more people on trains than in forty years of airplane flights. Every train trip has been a spectacle. Trains are stages, cafés, bazaars. The only talk show that will never go off the air..." Beppe Severgnini has spent his life traveling the world, and not just because he's a journalist; he's a passionate, unflagging train buff. Off the Rails recounts some of his favorite trips across Europe, Australia, Asia, and the United States, each journey bringing readers not only to a different place but to a different time, from his honeymoon on the Trans-Siberian Express (in a four-person compartment!), to a winding journey from Russia to Turkey during the last summer of communism, to a recent coast-to-coast trip with his son from Washington, D.C., to Washington State. Off the Rails is the perfect getaway for anyone with a touch of wanderlust, who dreams of escape or just likes to laugh. Filled with memorable characters and perceptive observations, it demonstrates--hilariously--what unites us. With the world in chaos and life in perpetual fast-forward, it's always the right time to hop on board with Beppe Severgnini and meet your charming, hapless, quarrelsome, romantic, shifty, quirky, endearing neighbors.

Author : Robert P. Olmsted
Publisher : McMillan Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prairie Rails written by Robert P. Olmsted and published by McMillan Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1979 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Beaumont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780730066
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rails Through the West written by Jonathan Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the 1960s to date, this is a portrait of the Limerick to Sligo line which will revive memories of this unique railway. A century after the GSWR took over, the Western Rail Corridor is a display of its own history. At the south end, a busy passenger service, in the middle, renewal work is under way, and at the northern end all is quiet.

Author : Jim Loomis
Publisher : Prima Lifestyles
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Aboard! written by Jim Loomis and published by Prima Lifestyles. This book was released on 1998 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive guide to North American train travel, complete with booking procedures, on-board etiquette, maps, floor plans for typical coach and sleeping cars, and more. This new edition reflects all the recent changes at Amtrak, North America's largest passenger rail system.

Author : Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
Publisher : Wilderness Press
ISBN 13 : 0899976670
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rail-Trails Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York written by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the country, more than 1,600 unused railroad corridors have been converted to level, public, multiuse trails, where people can enjoy a fitness run, a leisurely bike ride, or a stroll with the family. In this newest addition to the popular series, the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy presents the Northeast's finest rail-trails. Rail-Trails Northeast covers one hundred of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania's rail-trails. With a rich industrial and passenger rail history, the Northeast is one of the densest rail-trail regions in the country. Rural, suburban, or urban, rail-trails serve as the backbone of an impressive trail system. This two-color book includes succinct descriptions of each trail from start to finish, plus at-a-glance summary information indicating permitted uses, surface type, length, and directions to trailheads for each trail. Every trip has a detailed map that includes start and end points, trailhead, parking, restroom facilities, and other amenities.

Author : Peter Harnik
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496226550
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Rails to Trails written by Peter Harnik and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If, as Wallace Stegner said, the national park is “the best idea we ever had,” the rail-trail is certainly a close runner-up. Part transportation corridor, part park, the rail-trail has revolutionized the way America creates high-quality, car-free pathways for bicyclists, runners, walkers, equestrians, and more. It was only a few decades after railroad barons had run roughshod over America’s economy and politics that they began to shed nearly one hundred thousand miles of unneeded railroad corridor. At the same time, bicyclists were being so thoroughly pushed off ever-more-intimidating roadways they came close to extinction. Through political organizing and lawyerly grit, an unlikely, formerly marginalized advocacy arose, seized on seemingly worthless strips of land, and created a resource that is treasured by millions of Americans today for recreation, purposeful travel, tourism, conservation, and historical interpretation. From Rails to Trails is the fascinating tale of the rails-to-trails movement as well as a consideration of what the continued creation of rail-trails means for the future of Americans’ health, nonmotorized transportation networks, and communities across the country.

Author : David J. DeBoer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Piggyback and Containers written by David J. DeBoer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ralph Pfingsten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976889526
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rails Through West Park written by Ralph Pfingsten and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: