Western Railway Research Articles

The Development and Solution of a Tax-Adjusted Model for Personal Injury Awards

In Norfolk & Western Railway vs. Liepelt, 444 U.S. 490 (1980), the United States Supreme Court rejected the plaintiff's contention that a victim's lost earnings should be determined without reference to income taxes. As a result, there is now a need for reexamination of economic loss calculations in personal injury cases. In this paper a general model is developed for computing the sum of future wages, where both the sum interest earnings and the wages may be subject to taxes. A detailed mathematical explanation of the procedure is provided, describing the relationships that involve tax rates and their effects on the award. Recent judicial decisions encourage the inclusion of an income tax analysis in the calculation of the present value of loss of earning capacity in personal injury or wrongful death cases [5]. Although several authors have addressed the issue, none has presented a detailed model that is capable of dealing with the variable tax rates involved [1,2,3,6]. The purpose of this article is to present such a model. Typical no-tax procedures select a loss period which accounts for work-life expectancy, and then estimate the progression of wages over that work-life expectancy. Such considerations as fringe benefits and personal consumption of a decedent may be used to adjust estimates either upward or downward. Each annual wage is then reduced to present value using a discount factor based upon projected interest rates. The total of all these annual present value figures is the lump sum equivalent of the loss of wages. This sum award provides the actual income stream necessary to pay out wages in each future year, and it does so in such a way that the sum will be exhausted after the last wage payout is made. The sum of a stream of wage income is found using the following formulas: W. w

3·D vision·guided welding robot system

One ofthefirst 3D vision‐guided welding robots in production has gone to work in the tough environment of a Norfolk and Western railroad repair shop.

Times Beach: The Long Road to Recovery

Times Beach: The Long Road to Recovery

Legends of the glasgow and South Western railway in the LMS days : David L. Smith, David & Charles, North Pomfret, VT 05053, U.S.A., 1980, pp. 176, $17.95.

Legends of the glasgow and South Western railway in the LMS days : David L. Smith, David & Charles, North Pomfret, VT 05053, U.S.A., 1980, pp. 176, $17.95.

The Shallow end

IN THE days of aerodromes, when flying was mostly done by heroes in goggles—and Amy Johnson—travellers in foreign parts used many railway systems and, on returning to England, wrote to the Times and the Telegraph saying how superior they all were to the London & North Eastern, the LMS, the Southern and the Great Western railways.

An Information System for Allocating Coach Stock on Indian Railways

A computerized information system for coach stock has been designed and developed for the zonal railway subsystem of Western Railway in India at the Computer Center, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. The system can be used to study the coach utilization for any zonal railway, or for Indian Railways as a whole with some minor modifications.

The Great Western Railway Under the British Railways Act of 1921

American railroad executives since the end of World War II have learned — the hard way, as usual — how little real salvation there is in the expedient of the massive merger. They might have studied to good purpose the experiences of the English railways, which were forced to consolidate into four great systems under legislation passed in 1921. Dr. Channon has done so, and tells a dreary story that scouts the idea that great cost savings flow all but automatically from consolidations. His discussion of the Great Western's failure to introduce railway cars capable of carrying 20 tons of coal, at a time when the typical American coal car carried a payload of more than twice that amount, will be variously interpreted by both sides in the controversy over the decline in British entrepreneurship since 1870. Dr. Channon throws much light, moreover, on the problems of managerial organization, a subject that claims considerable attention in current business history.

Book Reviews

J.H. Plumb, Frederic A. Youngs, Jr., Henry L. Snyder, E. A. Reitan, and David M. Fahey. The English Heritage. St. Louis: Forum Press, 1978. Pp. 419. Paper, $9.95. Review by Don M. Cregier of the University of Prince Edward Island. J. R. Hay. The Development of the British Welfare State, 1880-1975. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. Pp. x, 116. Cloth, $18.95; C. J. Bartlett. A History of Postwar Britain, 1945-1974. New York: Longman, Inc., 1977. Pp. v, 360. Cloth, $19.00; paper, $9.95. Review by Fred R. van Hartesveldt of Valley City State College. Donald Kagan, ed. The End of the Roman Empire: Decline or Transformation? Second edition. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and Co., 1978. Pp. xii, 188. Paper, $3.95. Review by Charles M. Flail of Harwood Union High School. Alexander J. DeGrand. The Italian Nationalist Association and .the Rise of Fascism in Italy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1978.- pp. x, 238. Cloth, $12.50; Leon Poliakov. The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist and Nationalist Ideas in Europe. New York: Meridian, 1974. Pp. x, 388. Paper, $4.95; Esmonde M. Robertson. Mussolini as Empire Builder: Europe and Africa, 1932-36. New York: St. Martin's, 1978. Pp. 246. Cloth, $17.95. Review by Helmut J. Schmeller of Fort Hays State University. Peter N. Carroll and David W. Noble. The Free and the Unfree: A New History of the United States. New York: Penguin, 1977. Pp. 448. Paper, $4.95. Review by Larry A. Greene of Seton Hall University. Irwin Unger. These United States: The Questions of Our Past. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978. Pp. xxiv, 993, lxxix. Cloth, $15.95 (single-volume ed.); paper, $9.95 (two-volume ed.); H. L. Ingle and James A. Ward. American History: A Brief View. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978. Pp. xii, 500, ix. Paper, $9.95 (single-volume ed.); $5.95/volume (two-volume ed.). Review by Richard A. Diem of The University of Texas at San Antonio. Maxine Seller. To Seek America: A History of Ethnic Life in America. Englewood, New Jersey: Jerome S. Ozer, 1977. Pp. 328. Paper, $6.95. Review Larry Madaras of Howard Community College (Maryland). Willie Lee Rose, ed. A Documentary History of Slavery in North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xvi, 537. Cloth, $19.95; paper, $7.00. Review by Charles T. Haley of Colby College. Alice Marriott and Carol Rachlin. Plains Indian Mythology. New York: Mentor, 1975. Pp. xi, 180. Paper, $1.75. Review by Michael B. Husband of Morningside College. J. Frank Dobie. Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico (c. 1967), 1976. Pp. xiii, 366. Paper, $4.95; James B. Gillett. Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875-1881. Lincoln: University of Nebraska (c. 1925), 1976. Pp. xxxvi, 259. Paper, $3.95; Robert Edgar Riegel. The Story of the Western Railroads: From 1852 Through the Reign of the Giants. Lincoln: University of Nebraska (c. 1926), 1964.Pp. xv, 345. Paper, $3.95. Review by Michael L. Tate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Emma Goldman. Living My Life. Edited by Richard and Anna Maria Drinnon. New York: The New American Library, 1977. Pp. 754. Paper, $6.95. Review by Sally Allen of Hampshire College. John Baskin. New Burlington: The Life and Death of an American Village. New York: Plume, 1977 . Pp. xii, 259. Paper, $2.95; Diana Klebanow, Franklin L. Jonas, and Ira M. Leonard. Urban Legacy: The Story of America's Cities. New York: Mentor, 1977. Pp. xix, 421. Paper, $2.95. Review Joseph M. McCarthy of Suffolk University.

The Organization and Capital Structure of the Irish North Western Railway

Restricted accessAbstractFirst published June 1977The Organization and Capital Structure of the Irish North Western RailwayJoseph LeckeyVolume 4, Issue 1https://doi.org/10.1177/033248937700400108

Special report: Gov. Shapp on what's wrong with rail transportation: An EE turned successful politician suspects a conspiracy of rail interests in the U.S. against business and the public

Milton J. Shapp, Governor of the State of Pennsylvania, thinks the Rail Reorganization Act ? a Federal program, currently before Congress, ostensibly intended to rehabilitate the deteriorating rail network in the northeastern United States ? may be a conspiracy on the part of the financially sound western railroads to ?pick up? profitable eastern mainline business ?at the expense of the less well-heeled railroads already in existence.? This and other outspoken views were expressed by Gov. Shapp in an exclusive interview with Spectrum on a day in April when the Governor was scheduled to attend an Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) hearing that was held in New York City.

Phonopore and phonoplex F.D.M.telegraph systems used on railways in the late 19th century

The phonopore and the phonoplex were both systems introduced in 1885 for providing additional telegraph channels (or, alternatively, in the phonopore system, a telephone channel) in the frequency range above that of the ordinary d.c. or Morse channels. The phonopore, developed by Charles Langdon-Davies in England, used a special kind of coupling transformer/condenser, which is here analysed but shown to have had few useful special properties, and used a ‘harmonic’ telegraph channel, i.e. a keyed oscillatory signal. Edison's phonoplex used, for the highpass channel, signals derived from the transients produced by an induction coil. Both systems were made commercially, and had a certain success on railways. The Phonopore Syndicate (later Company) had an interesting but not successful history, here partially unravelled; from 1893, its managing director was C.E. Spagnoletti, F.R.S., Past-President of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, and newly-retired telegraph superintendent of the Great Western Railway. Although the company had, by 1895, raised around £100 000 of capital, it was in that year effectively purchased by the New Phonopore Telephone Co. for £2000. The new company continued in existence, with an issued capital reaching no more than about £8000, until it was purchased for £175 in 1916 by the Phonopore Construction Co., which finally ceased operations soon after 1920.

Mark Huish and the London & North Western Railway: A Study of Management. By T. R. Gourvish. Leicester, Leicester University Press, 1972. Pp. 319. £5.00.

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Review: Mark Huish and the London & North Western Railway: A Study of Management

Review: Mark Huish and the London & North Western Railway: A Study of Management

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Mark Huish and the London and North Western Railway. A Study of Management.

Mark Huish and the London and North Western Railway. A Study of Management.

The Birth of the Great Western Railway: Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of George Henry Gibbs. Jack Simmons

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsThe Birth of the Great Western Railway: Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of George Henry Gibbs. Jack Simmons Carroll PursellCarroll Pursell Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 63, Number 4Dec., 1972 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/351031 Views: 1Total views on this site Copyright 1972 History of Science Society, Inc.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Sydney John Folley, 1906-1970

Sydney John Folley was born on 14 January 1906 into a working-class family in Swindon, Wilts. He died on 29 June 1970. His father, Thomas John Folley of 75 Graham Street, Swindon, who died in 1950 at the age of 83 years, was for more than 40 years an engine fitter in the Great Western Railway Running Shed at Swindon. His mother, Katie Folley (née Baggs), died in 1938 at the age of 67 years. John Folley, as he was always known, had an elder sister, but was an only son. He was twice married, first, in 1935, to Madeline Kerr of Altrincham, Cheshire, and, then, when this marriage was dissolved in 1947, to Mary Lee Muntz (née Harnett) of Reading. There were no children of either marriage. Folley was proud of the railwaymen in his family and he was fascinated by trains. His maternal grandfather and his paternal great-grandfather both worked in one capacity or another for the Great Western and his paternal grandfather was a well known passenger driver on that railway. He recalls that his childhood circumstances were those usual in households of the skilled artisan class, but that his parents had a great respect for and were fully aware of the value of education. They were anxious to make it possible for both their children to take full advantage of every educational opportunity and were prepared to make considerable sacrifices to this end. ‘Perhaps the number of books in my home, when I was a child, was unusual for a working class home at that time. Probably, many of them were school books of my sister who was 8 years my senior and had received a secondary education after winning a scholarship. From an early age I had a passion for reading and took full advantage of these books’.

Book Review: The Birth of the Great Western Railway, Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of George Henry Gibbs.

Book Review: The Birth of the Great Western Railway, Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of George Henry Gibbs.

The Birth of the Great Western Railway

The Birth of the Great Western Railway

Couplings to the Khyber: The Story of the North Western Railway.

Couplings to the Khyber: The Story of the North Western Railway.