Download or read book Famous Trains written by Bruce LaFontaine and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2005-05-31 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty drawings depict such famous trains as Europe's Orient Express, the observation lounge on the Burlington Zephyr, and a sleeping compartment on New York Central's 20th Century Limited.
Download or read book Amazing Train Journeys written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience 60 of the world's greatest and most unforgettable train journeys, from classic long-distance trips like Canada's Rocky Mountaineer and Darwin to Adelaide's The Ghan, to little-known gems on regular commuting lines. Each profile contains practical information like ticket options and timetables, plus inspiring photos and illustrated maps.
Download or read book Trains written by Sarah Tieck and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes design and uses of trains in easy to understand terms.
Download or read book The Great Trains written by and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 20 Fun Facts About Famous Railroads written by Therese M. Shea and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some railroads are known for their place in history, such as the American transcontinental railroad. Others are known for their arresting scenic views, such as the Ukrainian Tunnel of Love. Still others are famous for their record-breaking length, like Russia's Trans-Siberian Railroad. Readers will gain an appreciation for railroads around the globe in this exciting compilation of facts about famous trains and railways. Attention-grabbing photographs and helpful graphic organizers accompany the interesting and accessible narrative.
Download or read book Famous Trains of the 20th Century written by Christopher Chant and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and photographs present some of the best known and well remembered railroad trains of the past 100 years.
Download or read book Legendary Journeys Trains written by Philip Steele and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncover the romance of train travel in this eye-catching, hands-on exploration of the Iron Horse. Amazing die-cuts, sliders, and see-through panels bring the details to life as readers see inside some of the world's most iconic trains. Full color.
Download or read book Great Trains of North America written by Patrick Bruce Whitehouse and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1974 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of railroads in North America is also a history of the development of two great nations: the United States and Canada. The coming of the railway made possible the rapid expansion and growth of the two countries in the nineteenth century, and today railroads form an important commercial network over the continent. This book traces the colourful history of the great trains and railroads from the beginnings to the present, and looks at the possibilities for the future. It describes important railroads such as the Penn Central, Burlington Northern and the Union Pacific in the United States, and the CNR and CPR in Canada. Some of the giants of American steam -- the 4-4-0, Camelback, Mother Hubbard and Mallet -- are recalled, and famous trains and coaches like the Twentieth Century Ltd. and the Hawatha are included. The reader is taken along the important tourist railways of America and is given a look into the probable future of North American trains, when concepts such as automatic wagon identification, piggyback operations and crewless locomotives will be an integral part of the railroad scene.
Download or read book The Big Book of Trains written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first locomotive built in 1804 to the high-speed bullet train, The Big Book of Trains is the perfect ebook for kids who love trains. Includes amazing facts and photographs of trains around the world, The Big Book of Trains covers the history of trains and train travel. Different types of trains are featured on their own spreads, and each page features multiple images to give a close-up view as well as informative text about each train. See the differences among monorails, passenger trains, and TGVs. Learn about pistons, fireboxes, boilers, and coupling rods, and find out exactly what they do to help the train travel down on the tracks. See key features of each train model and discover the difference between steam trains and diesels. Find out how trains are designed for certain jobs and tasks, including mountain trains, snow trains, and freight trains. Look at the biggest and fastest trains in the world. With incredible pictures and informative text, The Big Book of Trains is the essential ebook for young readers who want to know everything about trains.
Download or read book A C Gilbert s Famous American Flyer Trains written by Paul C. Nelson and published by Heimburger House Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999-12-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the toys a boy could want, a Gilbert American Flyer train has always been high on the list. Gilbert’s American Flyer two-rail trains looked real, featured smoke and choo-choo, horns and whistles, operating lights, realistic-looking couplers and bright paint schemes that matched prototype railroads. Climb aboard with us as we discover these fascinating trains made between 1946 and 1966, which have provided a long-lasting legacy from The A.C. Gilbert Company. Includes handy alphabetical and numerical indexes. An invaluable book worth every penny! This book tells you what S gauge products Gilbert made and when. Its covers such items as the Royal Blue, 4-8-4 Northerns, 0-8-0 switchers, the Pennsylvania 0-6-0’s and 4-6-2s and the famous 4-6-4 New York Central Hudsons. In the diesel chapter, you’ll read about the colorful PA-style Alco Santa Fe warbonnet units, the rare Silver Flash and the beautiful yellow and blue Comet locomotives, the green and yellow A-A Rocket units, the classy C&O Geeps, the New Haven Alco A units in white, red and black, and the later-era General Motors diesels from 1961. Freight cars from the State of Maine 40-foot box car to the Missouri Pacific yellow-blue-gray box cars to the Northern Pacific Pig Palace cars are covered in detail, as are the Chicago & NorthWestern refrigerator cars, the American Refrigerator cars, tank cars, Baker’s Chocloate cars, Gilbert and Celanese chemical cars, hoppers and covered hoppers, flats, depressed center flats, gondolas, cranes, and operating cars such as the milk car, tie car, rocket launcher and lumber cars. Passenger cars included are the New Haven-style red and green cars, the long, six-wheel truck Pullman-style passenger cars in red and green, the streamlined passenger combines, coaches, domes and observation cars, and the 1959-1960 Frontiersman passenger cars. Exciting accessories such as the #787 Log Loader, #752 Seaboard Coaler, #23796 Sawmill, #583 Electromatic Crane, #766 Animated Station, #578 Station Figure Set and #789 Baggage Smasher Station are also described and detailed. This 8½ x 11”, 200-page hardbound book includes 330 b/w and color photos and period advertisements.
Download or read book Railway World written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated written by Mark Wegman and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Famous Trains written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Famous American Trains and Their Stories written by Roger Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yet There Isn t a Train I Wouldn t Take written by William D. Middleton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yet there isn't a train goes by all day But I hear its whistle shrieking.... Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going. —Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Travel" "Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take" is a collection of stories about favorite train journeys by an inveterate railway enthusiast and train traveler. A half century career as an engineer, Naval officer, and university administrator took Bill Middleton to almost every part of the globe, and everywhere he took with him an abiding interest in railways, and a notebook and camera to record his experiences. His North American journeys have included experiences as diverse as the long journey north through Manitoba to polar bear country on Hudson Bay, a trip to Minnesota's Mesabi Range to haul a boatload of iron ore to Lake Superior behind a giant Yellowstone articulated steam locomotive, and the trip between Costa Rica's Atlantic and Pacific coasts by narrow gauge railway. His European travels have ranged from a Pullman seat on the crack London-Paris Golden Arrow to the slow trip across Thrace on one of the last runs of the celebrated Simplon-Orient Express. In Asia he traveled through the Toros Mountains of Turkey on the famous Istanbul-Baghdad Toros Express, experienced modern high-speed railroading in the cab of Japan's Bullet Train, and rode to Asia's highest mountain east of the Himalayas on the little trains of Taiwan's Ali Shan Forestry Railway.
Download or read book Train Beyond the Mountains written by Rick Antonson and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating journey blending memoir, history, and biography that takes the reader on one of the world's most famous trains and tells of carving the dramatic route it follows, while pondering other international railways through the eyes of travellers past and present. Rick Antonson has ridden trains in more than thirty-five countries—but almost everything he thinks he knows about train travel changes when he boards the Rocky Mountaineer with his ten-year-old grandson, Riley. As they wind over trestles and through tunnels, each mile of track uncovers stories of dynamite and discovery, surveyors and schemers, explorers and visionaries, and the people who helped to build Canada against the odds of geography and politics. Surrounded by a wild landscape that sparks imagination, fellow passengers recount train travels in other countries, get nostalgic for the era of steam locomotives, and consider life’s unfinished journeys. Peppered with spirited dialogue, heartrending vignettes, and intriguing anecdotes, Train Beyond the Mountains is a travelogue with urgency: to make your travel dreams happen now. As one passenger muses, "The mistake we make is that we think we have time."
Download or read book World of Trains Coloring Book written by Arkady Roytman and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring an interesting mix of historical and modern models, 30 drawings include such famous examples as France's high-speed Train à Grande Vitesse, the legendary Trans-Siberian Express, the scenic Panama Canal Railway, as well as select interior views.
