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1. Back on Track: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 19652015 (Hagley Library Studies in Business, Technology, and Politics)
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Throughout the early twentieth century, railroad safety steadily improved across the United States. But by the 1960s, American railroads had fallen apart, the result of a regulatory straightjacket that eroded profitability and undermined safety. Collisions, derailments, worker fatalities, and grade crossing mishaps skyrocketed, while hazmat disasters exploded into newspaper headlines.
In Back on Track, his sequel to Death Rode the Rails, Mark Aldrich traces the history of railroad accidents beginning in 1965, when Congress responded to bankrupt and scandal-ridden carriers by enacting a new safety regime. Aldrich details the federalization of rail safety and the implementation of a massive grade crossing program. He touches on post-1976 economic deregulation, which provided critical financing that underwrote better public safety. He also explores how the National Transportation Safety Board acted as a public scold to shine bright lights on private failings, while Federal Railroad Administration regulations reinforced market incentives for better safety.
Ultimately, Aldrich concludes, the past 50 years have seen great strides in restoring railroad safety while enhancing industry profitability. Arguing that it was not inadequate safety regulation but rather stifling economic regulation that initially caused an uptick in train accidents, Back on Track is both a paen to the return of more competitive railroading and the only comprehensive history of the safety of modern American railroads.
Praise for Death Rode the Rails
"A masterful study of the complex evolution of railroad safety."American Historical Review
"Students of rail safety, and today's Class I railroad managers, need to read this volume."Trains
"Aldrich has created a masterpiece. His research is extensive, drawing on a rich variety of obscure yet relevant sources."Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
"One of the first large-scale scholarly studies of railroad safety in America."Railroad History
"A thought-provoking and well-grounded contribution to the history of American economic development."Journal of American History
"Pioneering... A central message of Aldrich's book is that 'little accidents' played a crucial though until now largely hidden role in the gradual evolution of a risk society."Technology and Culture
"A work of merit... essential reading for historians of transport safety, business, and technology."Journal of Transport History
"Impressive and thoroughly researched... Demonstrates how railroad safety evolved from the intersection of market pressures, technology, and public sentiment."Journal of Southern History
2. Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 18281965
Description
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 outputshaped by labor markets and public policymotivate 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.
3. A History of Railroad Accidents, Safety Precautions and Operating Practices
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Fascinating history and analysis of railroad accidents and their causes. Written in an entertaining style, the book nonetheless is a serious appraisal of railroad safety over the years, the different kinds of accidents (boiler explosions, bridge collapses, signal failures, operator failure, broken rails, washouts, brake failure, sabotage, explosions and fires, collisions, etc.), the usual and unusual causes, the efforts to improve safety, the legal consequences, and railroad safety in perspective. The book also covers accidents on commuter rail, subways, interurbans and street railways. The list of wrecks in the Appendix is keyed to the pictures that appear in Robert C. Reed's book, "Train Wrecks." 473 pages.4. Britains Railway Disasters: Fatal Accidents From the 1830s to the Present Day
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Passengers on the early railways took their lives in their hands every time they got on board a train. It was so dangerous that they could buy an insurance policy with their ticket. There seemed to be an acceptance that the level danger was tolerable in return for the speed of travel that was now available to them. British Railway Disasters looks at the most serious railway accidents from the origins of the development of the train up to the present day. Seriousness is judged on the number of those who died. Information gleaned from various newspaper reports is compared with official reports on the accidents. The book will appeal to all those with a fascination for rail transport as well as those with a love of history. Michael Foley examines the social context of how injuries and deaths on the railways were seen in the early days, as well as how claims in the courts became more common, leading to a series of medical investigations as to how traveling and crashing at high speed affected the human body. Interesting facts: * Passengers were locked into carriages and often tried to acquire keys to the doors. * Traveling in second and third class was much more dangerous than first class. * Punishments inflicted on early railway companies for causing death were often based on a law dating back the middle ages. * Not only was there often more than one fatal crash in the same week, there were some multiple fatal accidents on the same day. * There was an ailment known as railway spine. It was similar to whiplash injuries seen in modern car accidents.5. Train Wrecks: A Pictorial History of Accidents on the Main Line
