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Author : Gerald L. Foster
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0395701120
Identifies more than 170 locomotives and cars, grouped by visual similarity for ease of identification and including statistical data, manufacturing history, and usage by railroads.
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780760349977
The ultimate guide for train lovers, Field Guide to Trains is fully loaded with pictures and fun facts on all the machines that ride the rails
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780760351260
Now you can be the human Wikipedia page of trains--from locomotives to rolling stock. No Great American road trip would be complete without seeing trains streaming across wild prairies and through thick forests. All kinds of diesel and even a few steam locomotives can be seen, with everything from boxy frontends to curving streamlined bodies. The containers, flat cars, and boxcars pulled by these locomotives carry diverse freight, and the variety of these cars is wide. Field Guide to Trains: Locomotives and Rolling Stock is the source for easy-to-digest information on locomotives and cars. Model railroaders will also find this book indispensible, as it offers myriad ideas for realistic train systems. The book is divided by diesel-electric locomotives, self-propelled passenger trains, passenger cars, freight cars, rail transit, and preserved equipment at museums and excursion steam locomotives. It also touches on historic diesels, vintage trams, maintenance trains, snowplow engines, and circus trains. Featuring North American and world examples of trains, Field Guide to Trains includes just about any type of locomotive and train car you are likely to see on the rails today, making this book the only available comprehensive guide to locomotives and rolling stock out there. Bring Field Guide to Trains: Locomotives and Rolling Stock along on family trips to see what rolls the rails as you're traveling. Make a game of how many locomotives and car types you can identify. Buy locomotives and certain car types for your model layout. This is simply the handiest field guide for families and railroad buffs that you'll ever find.
Author : Claude Wiatrowski
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781610601368
From the first steam-powered locomotives of the early nineteenth century to the high-speed commuter trains of today, the American railroad has been a great engine powering the nations growth and industry. This book celebrates the glory and grandeur of that legacy with a lavish tour of the history of the American railroad and the culture surrounding it. Generously illustrated with vintage photographs, modern images, maps, timetables, tickets, brochures, and all manner of memorabilia, this volume offers a fascinating look at the rail industrys beginnings and development, as well as its place in American history. From the might of the major rail companies and their empires to the romance of rail travel, this is the full and fabulously colorful story of the industry that moved a nation--and stirs our imaginations to this day.
Author : M. R. Montgomery,Gerald L. Foster
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0618411275
Describes and illustrates over four hundred different airplanes likely to be seen in North America, grouped in the categories of biplanes, agricultural planes, low-wing singles, amphibians, low-wing twins, high-wing twins, twin-boom and canard twins, four-engine props, business jets, jet airliners, military aircraft, recently retired military aircraft, and helicopters.
Author : Jim Loomis
Publisher : Prima Lifestyles
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Transportation
ISBN : WISC:89066194010
This is the definitive guide to North American train travel, complete with booking procedures, on-board etiquette, maps, floor plans for typical coach and sleeping cars, and more. This new edition reflects all the recent changes at Amtrak, North America's largest passenger rail system.
Author : Casey McFarland,Matthew Monjello,David Moskowitz
Publisher : Peterson Field Guides
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780544963382
A comprehensive field guide to the nests and nesting behavior of North American birds Beyond being a simple reference book, the Peterson Field Guide to North American Bird Nests is a practical, educational, and intimate doorway to our continent's bird life. The diversity of nests and nesting strategies of birds reflect the unique biology and evolution of these charismatic animals. Unlike any other book currently on the market, this guide comprehensively incorporates nest design, breeding behavior, and habitat preferences of North American birds to provide the reader with a highly functional field resource and an engaging perspective of this sensitive part of a bird's life cycle.
Author : George H. Drury,Bob Hayden
Publisher : Milwaukee [Wis.] : Kalmbach Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 0890240612
"Significant facts, figures, and features of over 140 railroads in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico"--Cover subtitle.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1186 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Railroads
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024479565
Author : S. David Scott,Casey McFarland
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0811742172
Over 400 photos of representative feathers from 379 species.
Author : Rudolph Daniels
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0253214114
Trains Across the Continent North American Railroad History Second Edition Rudolph Daniels A wonderfully readable, illustrated guide to the history of railroads in America. "Trains Across the Continent is everything you need to know about railroad history—both educational and enjoyable reading." —Dean Bruce, President, Railroad Education Training Association "Trains Across the Continent should be in every public school library in the country. Quickly and concisely Dr. Daniels leads you through the maze of building, merging, and a myriad of other details necessary to understand modern railroading. Steam, diesel, passenger, and freight are all carefully explained on a national scale rather than railroad specific, making this book even more of a useful tool for the student." —Donald D. Snoddy, Historian, Union Pacific Railroad "Trains Across the Continent" is a truly comprehensive account of how railroads helped shape, and are continuing to shape, the history of North America." —Jonathan B. Hanna, Historian, Canadian Pacific Railway "Nothing but positive comments about it from faculty and students alike. . . . The industry bible in this area." —Phillip B. Cypret, Sacramento City College "Professor Daniels displays both passion and scholarship in this nicely arranged buffet of subjects both large and minute, important and interesting, serious and fun, to present a delicious overview of railroad history." —James D. Porterfield, author of Dining by Rail "Daniels manages to make brief mention of all major points of North American railroad history . . . from the workings of a steam locomotive to the dawn of the railroad mega-merger, nearly every conceivable aspect of railroading receives attention. . . . This volume is a must for those wishing to broaden or hone their knowledge of the birth and evolution of the railroad industry in North America." —Rail News Updated maps, new appendices, a greatly expanded bibliography, detailed discussions of the recent attempted mergers of the CN and BNSF, of the diesel locomotive, and of railroad electrification further round out the usefulness of Trains Across the Continent as the complete and concise introduction to North American railroads. Rudolph Daniels is Chair of the Behavioral Sciences Department at Western Iowa Tech Community College, where he teaches history and Railroad Operations Technology.
Author : Louis Decimus Rubin (Jr.)
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 157003382X
The author, a literary critic and historian, uses over 100 of his own photographs to recall his life-long love of trains.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Great scenic railway journeys (Television program)
ISBN : 0980117801
Author : Virginia Savage McAlester
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780375710827
The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses. This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.
Author : George H. Drury
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0890243565
The important railroad mergers in the past few years have readers looking for a comprehensive reference. This concise guide covers histories of all North American railroads abandoned or merged since 1930. No other book covers the topic as thoroughly! Great for railfans as well as railroad modelers.