Download or read book 100 Years of Railroad Cars written by Walter Arndt Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 100 Years of Railroad Cars Compiled and Edited by W A Lucas With Illustrations written by Walter Arndt Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 240 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.
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:
Download or read book 100 Trains 100 Years written by Fred Winkowski and published by Castle. This book was released on 2003 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling a full century of railroading in a unique way, '100 Trains 100 Years' portrays one significant locomotive or other piece of rolling stock for each of the past 100 years in stunning, full-color photographs. Informative text relates each train's individual story, facts surrounding its design or production, or details about the railroads it served. Readers will see the twentieth century's trains from 'big steam' to streamlined diesels to futuristic high-speed electrics.
Download or read book The Railroad Caboose written by William F. Knapke and published by San Marino, Calif. : Golden West Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Private Luxury Railcars written by Chef Bill Hoeffer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author offers up a photo essay from 10 years of working on the rails traveling accross the United States working on these beautifuly restored Private Luxury Railcars. This is a showcase of the PV s for lease and charter. The cars are highlighted in stunning imagery with their history and floor plans. From Vista Dome cars to Business cars, Lounge cars, and Sleepers. What is Private Railroading? A handful of investors, passionate about vintage railcars and the nostalgia that comes along with it, have purchased some of the past's finest railcars. These beautiful private railcars are now known as Private Varnish. They have worked tirelessly to fully restore these gems of railroad engineering, making these cars aesthetically pleasing and even more comfortable than they originally were more than 50 years ago. More importantly, they have been upgraded mechanically to comply with Amtrak's passenger service so that they may again ride the rails. By doing so, they are part of an exclusive group of less than 100 cars nationwide afforded the privilege to hook behind Amtrak.
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
Download or read book The American Railroad Passenger Car written by John H. White and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Railroad Passenger Car recaptures the lost, but not-too-distant past when 98 percent of all intercity travel in the United States was by rail. It documents in extraordinary detail the ingenuity and splendor of the classic trains as well as the rattle and clatter, the dust and cinders of early rail travel. With clarity and precision, White explains the methods of construction of wood, iron, steel, and aluminum cars. He traces the evolution of wheels and brakes, dining cars and sleeping compartments. And he follows the revolutions in taste and technology that dramatically altered the appearance of the railroad passenger car over the century and a half that it dominated American travel. Detailed plans and diagrams accompanying the text make it possible for model-builders to reconstruct many famous passenger cars themselves.
Download or read book 100 Years of Railroad Progress 1851 1951 written by J. Harold Kiracofe and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coal Cars written by Martin Robert Karig and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railroads--and the efficient, cheap transport they offered between developing cities--were one of the primary catalysts of the Industrial Revolution in both England and the United States. But it was the coal carried by those trains that allowed these cities to grow, expand, and flourish. Martin Robert Karig's landmark book, Coal Cars, is the story of the wide variety of railroad cars that transported that most essential of commodities to new markets. Coal Cars is the comprehensive study of the freight cars that conveyed coal across broad swaths of land that had been impassible before the invention of the steam engine. This groundbreaking volume traces the history and evolution of coal cars from their earliest use in England to the construction of major railways for the purpose of coal hauling and the end of the steam era on American railroads. In addition to contextualizing coal cars in the annals of industrial history, the book features extensive design specifications and drawings as well as a complete history of the various safety and mechanical innovations employed on these freight cars. It concludes with a photographic essay illustrating the development of the coal car over its first 300 years of use. Crucial to any understanding of American and European history, Coal Cars will be the definitive book on a fascinating chapter of railroad life.
Download or read book The Railroad Passanger Car written by August Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strasburg Rail Road written by Eric S. Conner and Steve Barrall and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Strasburg Rail Road was chartered in 1832, no one anticipated the myriad of obstacles the short line would encounter. What began as an afterthought in the early 19th century eventually became one of America's premier steam train excursions and the most visited heritage railroad in the continental United States. By 1957, the declining condition of its rails and the lack of freight and passenger service seemed to mark the end of the railroad, but it was given new life in 1958, and not even the wildest imagination foresaw the remarkable transformation and development this "Methuselah of railroads" would undergo. This book chronicles the unlikely success of America's oldest continuously operating railroad. Explore how and why Strasburg's four-and-a-half-mile line survived, and discover the story behind its ascension to prominence as an iconic, internationally known, small-town steam railroad.
Download or read book Trains and Technology Cars written by Anthony J. Bianculli and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 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.
Download or read book The Last Winter written by Frank Barry and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Southern Railway Further Recollections written by C. Pat Cates and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on the heels of Images of Rail: The Southern Railway, this volume takes a more detailed look at a historic railroad that has served the South for over 100 years and continues to serve as the Norfolk Southern Railway. Included in these pages are stories of bravery in war and ingenuity in peace. From 1942 to 1945, the 727th Railway Operating Battalion'sponsored by the Southern Railway'served in North Africa and up the spine of Italy into Germany. The courageous unit received a citation from Gen. George S. Patton for its involvement in the Sicily Campaign.
Download or read book Santa Fe Railway written by Steve Glischinski and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
