Transportation
epub |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:Michael White [White, Michael]

Chapter 19 ~ Masquerade~ Two days passed in a flurry as deliveries arrived at the Drowned Duck in either very small or very large packages with hardly any middle ground ...
( Category: Action & Adventure January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Stanley Hooker [Hooker, Stanley]

Chapter 7 The Proteus I joined the Bristol Engine Division on 3 January 1949, full of optimism. The company was still producing large numbers of the excellent Hercules and Centaurus ...
( Category: History of Technology January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-28 | Author:unknow

Charli I wondered who would be outside my door wanting me at this hour. Probably one of my parents, I thought. I wrapped my dressing gown around me and walked ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Michael Frewston [Frewston, Michael]

China already can boast of the highest speeds anywhere in the world in commercial service (i.e. higher than the 320 km/h currently to be seen in France and Spain, although ...
( Category: Railroads January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-27 | Author:Michael Frewston [Frewston, Michael]

Ukraine’s railways today encompass 22 000 km of route distance, all to 1520 mm gauge, of which 10 000 km are electrified. But that does not mean that Ukraine has ...
( Category: Measurement January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Michael Frewston [Frewston, Michael]

The automatic gauge changing facilities are installed wherever the high speed lines interface with the rest of the railway network. It has been reported that the whole of Spain’s 12 ...
( Category: Railroads January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Michael Frewston [Frewston, Michael]

By the spring of 1942, Hitler had converted many other lines in Russia to Standard gauge, including the important line to Kiev, in the Ukraine. It was however the line ...
( Category: Railroads January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-19 | Author:Michael Frewston [Frewston, Michael]

Western Australia however was not devoid of Standard gauge railways in the State’s early years after the formation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. The newly formed federal government ...
( Category: Railroads January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-23 | Author:Michael Frewston [Frewston, Michael]

Quite a few states (e.g. New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Ohio, Indiana) had two gauges within their borders, while Pennsylvania had three – 1435 mm, 1473 mm and 1829 ...
( Category: Railroads January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-09 | Author:Captain Taylor Fox [Fox, Captain Taylor]

PART 4: Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals (IFF) Pre IFF After graduation, I drove to Missouri and my grandpa and I flew our Bonanza out to Yosemite National Park. It was ...
( Category: Aviation January 16,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-12-29 | Author:Adolf Galland

18 The House Without a Roof The year 1943 saw Germany in retreat on all fronts. After the fall of Stalingrad the Red army went over to the attack at ...
( Category: World War II December 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2003-03-05 | Author:Cashill, Jack [Cashill, Jack]

As a result of Elizabeth’s actions, continued the letter, “TWA’s status as a party to the NTSB investigation into F800 was and remains under the threat of expulsion.” If this ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 29,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-17 | Author:Thomas Fleming Day

ON ANCHORS AND ANCHORING "Let's forge a goodly anchor—a bower thick and broad; For a heart of oak is hanging on every blow I bode; And I see a good ...
( Category: Boating December 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:Anna Jeffrey

Chapter 18 Pat awoke the next morning well after daylight with Suzanne’s tousled head resting on his chest under his chin. He was sore. He felt as if they had ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People December 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Elaine Sciolino

THE BOUQUINISTES are the literary gatekeepers of Paris. They have survived four centuries of censorship, economic crises, and political unrest. They endure wind, heat, frost, noise, floods, and air pollution ...
( Category: Rivers December 18,2019 )