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Author | : John H. White |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Railroad passenger cars |
ISBN | : 0801827477 |
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Hailed since its publication as the definitive - and most opulent - book on the subject, The American Railroad Passenger Car is now made available in an unabridged two-part softcover edition.
Author | : August Mencken |
Publisher | : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
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Railroad travel in the nineteenth century was often dangerous, dirty, uncomfortable, and uncertain. Yet at the same time, most of the inventions associated with the luxury of a later era--from sleeping cars and dining cars to streamlining and even an early form of air conditioning--had already made their appearance by the time of the Civil War. In The Railroad Passenger Car August Mencken offers a fascinating look at the achievements and contradictions of this key period in railroad history.
Author | : Peter T. Maiken |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Locomotives |
ISBN | : 9780801845031 |
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Forty years ago, it was the way to travel. Back then, one could climb between crisp linens and soft blankets, adjust the oversized pillows, and watch America speed by in the night. With more than 300 photographs and 50 maps, Night Trains is a lively account of the Pullman enterprise during the golden years of its operation--from 1920 to 1955--when the remarkable sleeping car system routinely played host to more than 50,000 guests nightly. "A compelling tribute to a bygone time when getting there was half the fun... An education for the young and a scrapbook for those who remember." -- Herald-Dispatch
Author | : August Mencken |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Harry Stegmaier |
Publisher | : TLC Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003-12-25 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781883089818 |
Download Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Train Consists and Cars 1952 Vol. 1 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book uses the contents of the official 1952 Pennsylvania RR passenger train consist book detailing the make-up of its east-west trains. The author supplements this data with a general introduction about PRR service of the period, and introduces each train with a description of its make-up, service, and cars used. Color photos illustrate many of the cars used in the era. B&W and Color photos show typical trains. Illustrations of menus and ads complete the book.
Author | : August Mencken |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1957 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles Blardone |
Publisher | : Pennsylvannia Railroad Technical & Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
Genre | : Railroad passenger cars |
ISBN | : 9780961972905 |
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Author | : United States. Public Health Service. Division of Environmental Engineering and Food Protection |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Dining cars |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James McCommons |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2009-11-06 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1603582592 |
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During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.
Author | : Mark Wegman |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press (MN) |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2008-11-17 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780760334751 |
Download American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A lavishly illustrated look at the glory years of travel by rail, with over 160 profiles, front and top views, and interior layouts depicting three dozen of the nation’s most celebrated trains of the golden age.