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Author : John H. White
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Railroad passenger cars
ISBN : 9780801827471
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 : John H. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003444267
"A fascinating account that takes the reader into the real world of 19th-century railroad operations." -- Railroad History
Author : Anthony J. Bianculli
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780874137309
Volume 2 of 'Trains and Technology' is devoted to railroad cars of nineteenth-century America. Since the variety of cars used during the nineteenth century was huge, the book is divided into three sections- passenger, freight, and non-revenue cars. The easily understood, jargon-free discussions and explanations throughout the book are accompanied by over 225 illustrations and accurate scale drawings of the various equipment.
Author : August Mencken
Publisher : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015021047157
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 : August Mencken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1048754470
Author : Joe Welsh
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-10
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780760316313
This nostalgic, authoritative history of the railroad industry in the United States is richly illustrated with more than 200 images covering everything from the road's beginning to its heyday in the 1940s and '50s and its current state. Features include: black-and-white and period color photographs; maps, timetables, promotional materials, and other memorabilia; and details about railroading's five most fascinating components--its locomotives, freight trains, passenger trains, depots, and workforce.
Author : Master Car Builders' Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Cars and car building
ISBN : PRNC:32101057360362
Author : Master Car Builders' Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Railroad cars
ISBN : PRNC:32101051060968
Author : Matthias N. Forney
Publisher : New York : Railroad Gazette
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057001049959
Author : August Mencken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:252062992
Author : William D. Middleton,RICK MORGAN,Roberta L. Diehl
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-06
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780253027993
Lavishly illustrated and a joy to read, this authoritative reference work on the North American continent’s railroads covers the U.S., Canadian, Mexican, Central American, and Cuban systems. The encyclopedia’s over-arching theme is the evolution of the railroad industry and the historical impact of its progress on the North American continent. This thoroughly researched work examines the various aspects of the industry’s development: technology, operations, cultural impact, the evolution of public policy regarding the industry, and the structural functioning of modern railroads. More than 500 alphabetical entries cover a myriad of subjects, including numerous entries profiling the principal companies, suppliers, manufacturers, and individuals influencing the history of the rails. Extensive appendices provide data regarding weight, fuel, statistical trends, and more, as well as a list of 130 vital railroad books. Railfans will treasure this indispensable work.
Author : James McCommons
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781603582599
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
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781616731441
The period from the 1890s to the mid-1950s is generally considered the “golden era� of passenger rail travel in America. It was a time of celebrated locomotives and luxurious passenger service, a time when rail technology saw its greatest advances and railroads became the nation’s favored mode of transportation. These glory years come alive in American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated, 1889–1971. For this volume, author and illustrator Mark Wegman has researched original railroad drawings and in some cases even paint chips to render more than 160 profiles, front and top views, and interior layouts depicting the steam, diesel, and electric locomotives, along with passenger cars, of three dozen of the nation’s most celebrated trains of the golden age. Accompanying the author’s drawings are histories of each train, period photographs, postcards, menus, luggage stickers, vintage print ads, and detailed captions. The book is a lavishly appointed journey back in time to the bygone heyday of passenger-train travel.
Author : Patrick Dorin
Publisher : Enthusiast Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1583882324
Passenger Trains played an important role in the growth of traveling across America or to the nearest city—the height of its service after WWII until the start up of Amtrak. This book provides railroad hobbyists, historians, museum operators, and transportation instructors and planners with information about the types of train services and operations in various corridors, such as Chicago – Milwaukee; the overnight and daytime long distance service; transcontinental trains, and the various types of local trains on both main lines and branch lines. The book reviews the types of sleeping car, coach, parlor car, food and beverage services available at that time. The equipment and service such as vista dome coaches, dining and lounge cars with many types of meals and beverages, sleeping accommodations and coach seats including reclining and leg rests were drawing cards for passenger traffic. This historic review, including train schedules and advertisements, provides information on train consists which is valuable for creating model railroad layout size trains.
Author : Museum of the American Railroad
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781439655221
Establishing its collection as the Age of Steam exhibit at Dallas’s Fair Park in 1963, the Museum of the American Railroad would go on to acquire over 45 locomotives and railcars. By 2006, the museum needed to move from its first home to a larger facility to allow more space to exhibit the collection of railcars, documents, and other artifacts. One of the keystone pieces is the GG-1 electric locomotive that pulled Robert Kennedy’s funeral train in 1968. It has been restored to its original Pennsylvania Railroad appearance. The museum also houses the Centennial—the world’s largest diesel-electric locomotive—as well as the rare and famous Santa Fe Alco PA-1 locomotive, acquired from the Smithsonian Institution.