The American Railroad Passenger Car

Author : John H. White
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801827477
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Railroad Passenger Car written by John H. White and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Anthony J. Bianculli
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 0874137306
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trains and Technology: Cars written by Anthony J. Bianculli and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railroad Passenger Car written by August Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : August Mencken
Publisher : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railroad Passenger Car written by August Mencken and published by Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John H. White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Railroad Freight Car written by John H. White and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating account that takes the reader into the real world of 19th-century railroad operations." -- Railroad History

Author : James McCommons
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603582592
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waiting on a Train written by James McCommons and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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)
ISBN 13 : 9780760334751
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated written by Mark Wegman and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mike Schafer
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 9780760308967
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Passenger Train written by Mike Schafer and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Santa Fe "Super Chief" to modern Amtrak high-speed intercity services, this sprawling photographic history rambles through two centuries of passenger trains and presents a wealth of archival imagery and period color photos. 200 illustrations, 150 in color.

Author : Master Car Builders' Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Car-builder's Dictionary written by Master Car Builders' Association and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Master Car Builders' Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Car-builder's Dictionary written by Master Car Builders' Association and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: