The American Passenger Train - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Passenger Train write by Mike Schafer. This book was released on 2001. The American Passenger Train available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
American Passenger Trains
American Passenger Trains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Passenger Trains write by Patrick Dorin. This book was released on 2009-05-15. American Passenger Trains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Waiting on a Train
Waiting on a Train - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Waiting on a Train write by James McCommons. This book was released on 2009-11-06. Waiting on a Train available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated
American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated write by Mark Wegman. This book was released on 2008-11-17. American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated available 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.
American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated
American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated write by Mark Wegman. This book was released on 2008-11-15. American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
