Railway Education Bureau

With intermodal container freight increasing, keeping double stack container cars operating safely and efficiently is a growing concern to railroads keeping customers and manufacturers happy with service is a large part of that concern. Don't add to the backlog of container freight by not inspecting cars on your line thoroughly.

The Double Stack Container Car Manual, will help guide freight car inspectors through the major inspection issues regarding double stack container cars. This handy reference incorporates the latest applicable AAR rules along with information from component manufacturers to provide a practical tool for use by car inspectors.

Topics covered include: ' Car Types ' Car bodies ' Side Bearings ' Hitches ' Container Securement ' Trucks ' Drawbar Connectors ' Breakout Protection Structure ' Slack Adjusters ' Brake Valve Arrangement ' Empty/Load Valves ' Articulated Connectors The Railway Educational Bureau, spiral bound, 76 pages, 4.5 x 9 x .5 in., B&W illustrations.

Publisher: Simmons-Boardman Books

Softcover, 116 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .75 in., B&W diagrams and illustrations with text.

Contents:

• System Dynamics
• Type E Couplers
• Type E/F Couplers
• Type F Couplers
• Uncoupling Levers
• Yokes
• Draft Gears
• Cushioning Devices
• Hydra-Cushion Center-of-Car
• Slackless Drawbar
• National Castings Articulated Connection
• ASF Articulated Connectors
• Spherical Articulated Coupling (SAC-1)

If you are curious about the history of Amtrak, it's special status as a quasi-government corporation and its potential, this softcover book will provide the reader with the items of the ongoing public policies and debate regarding interstate rail passenger service in the United States. The conflicting roles of Amtrak as a business responding to market demand and a public entity dependent on political support are chronicled in academic detail and stylish prose by a 40-year rail industry veteran who has drafted rail policy positions as a senior industry official, implemented them as a White House appointed federal regulator, written about them as a journalist and critiqued them as a rail labor-union officer.

This is Frank N. Wilner's sixth book, which Dan Weikel of the Los Angeles Times terms ''more than the story of a train wreck [explaining] how to tap Amtrak's potential at a time in the nation's history when passenger railroading is becoming increasingly necessary.''

Contents:

• Who Shot the Passenger Train? pp. 1–14
• Railpax is Born, pp. 15–32
• Out of the Station - Barely, pp. 33–42
• Woe Be the Equipment and Track, pp. 43–52
• Novus Ordo, pp. 53–66
• The Saga of Amtrak's Common Stock, pp. 67–70
• Mail and Express, pp. 71–80
• High-Speed Rail, pp. 81–96
• The Northeast Corridor, pp. 97–106
• Privatization. 107-122
• Labor Relations, pp. 123–128
• Modern Amtrak, pp. 129–140
• Conclusion, pp. 141–144
• Afterword by Anthony Perl, pp. 145–148
• Amtrak Presidents, pp. 149–152
• Federal Statutes Mentioned, pp. 153–154
• Endnotes, pp. 155–200
• Index, pp. 200–212. Simmons-Boardman, softcover, 238 pages, small format 6 x 9, text, pictures of Amtrak presidents. Features: New Softcover Frank N. Wilner Simmons-Boardman

This book is a spiral bound training and study guide about the basics of railroad air brakes. It was first published in 1954 and updated in 1971. It is a new condition, but out-of-print copy.

Contents:

• New
• spiral bound
• Railway Education Bureau
• Simmons-Boardman