Author: Jonathan Boyle
Publisher: TLC Publishing
ISBN: 9780976620167
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 80 pages, with scores of photos and drawings, author Jonathan Boyle, Sr., chronicles the life of Burlington's premier cars of the streamlined era, the observation cars that brought up the rear of the great trains and carried their names --the "signature" cars of the fleet.
Burlington Route Streamlined Observation Cars
Author: Jonathan Boyle
Publisher: TLC Publishing
ISBN: 9780976620167
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 80 pages, with scores of photos and drawings, author Jonathan Boyle, Sr., chronicles the life of Burlington's premier cars of the streamlined era, the observation cars that brought up the rear of the great trains and carried their names --the "signature" cars of the fleet.
Publisher: TLC Publishing
ISBN: 9780976620167
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 80 pages, with scores of photos and drawings, author Jonathan Boyle, Sr., chronicles the life of Burlington's premier cars of the streamlined era, the observation cars that brought up the rear of the great trains and carried their names --the "signature" cars of the fleet.
Burlington's Zephyrs
Author: Karl Zimmerman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610603621
Category : Burlington Northern Railroad Company
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This authoritative, illustrated history of the Zephyr fleet examines the trains, their motive power and landmark streamlined designs, rolling stock (including the Vista-Dome, generally considered the first successful dome car), and services. Dozens of black-and-white archival images and period color photographs depict Zephyrs along routes throughout the Midwest, Rocky Mountains, Pacific Coast, and Texas, as well as Burlington uniforms, dinnerware, stations and terminals, and interior views of cars. In the process, the book provides a dramatic visual account of train travel's decline throughout the century. Also featured are period advertisements, and route maps, timetables, and menus.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610603621
Category : Burlington Northern Railroad Company
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This authoritative, illustrated history of the Zephyr fleet examines the trains, their motive power and landmark streamlined designs, rolling stock (including the Vista-Dome, generally considered the first successful dome car), and services. Dozens of black-and-white archival images and period color photographs depict Zephyrs along routes throughout the Midwest, Rocky Mountains, Pacific Coast, and Texas, as well as Burlington uniforms, dinnerware, stations and terminals, and interior views of cars. In the process, the book provides a dramatic visual account of train travel's decline throughout the century. Also featured are period advertisements, and route maps, timetables, and menus.
Missouri Pacific Passenger Trains
Author: Patrick C Dorin
Publisher: TLC Publishing
ISBN: 9781883089719
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ideal for passenger train buffs, MoPac fans and modelers, this overview of Missouri Pacific passenger trains and service tells the complete story since the first streamlined trains to travel the line, to the arrival of Amtrak in 1971. Nicknamed the Route of the Eagles, it spanned from the Midwest all the way to Mexico and operated a diverse fleet of colorful passenger trains in the years between World War II and Amtrak. Photographs, car diagrams, drawings, maps, timetables and consists, and advertising material round out this colorful history.
Publisher: TLC Publishing
ISBN: 9781883089719
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ideal for passenger train buffs, MoPac fans and modelers, this overview of Missouri Pacific passenger trains and service tells the complete story since the first streamlined trains to travel the line, to the arrival of Amtrak in 1971. Nicknamed the Route of the Eagles, it spanned from the Midwest all the way to Mexico and operated a diverse fleet of colorful passenger trains in the years between World War II and Amtrak. Photographs, car diagrams, drawings, maps, timetables and consists, and advertising material round out this colorful history.
The Golden Age of Streamlining
Author: Colin Alexander
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445693356
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Colin Alexander looks at the interwar period, a high-water mark in industrial design as the benefits of streamlining were realised.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445693356
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Colin Alexander looks at the interwar period, a high-water mark in industrial design as the benefits of streamlining were realised.
The American Railroad Passenger Car
Author: John H. White
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801827477
Category : Railroad passenger cars
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
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.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801827477
Category : Railroad passenger cars
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
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.
Railfan & Railroad
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Classic American Streamliners
Author: Mike Schafer
Publisher: MBI Publishing Company
ISBN: 0760303770
Category : Express trains
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Richly illustrated with over 200 photos, this book tells the story of railroad streamliners, from their early days as short little articulated speedsters to their halcyon years as 20-car "cities on wheels"--Places that were going somewhere. And it also tells a story of a time of individuality, when streamliners reflected the personality of the regions they served.
Publisher: MBI Publishing Company
ISBN: 0760303770
Category : Express trains
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Richly illustrated with over 200 photos, this book tells the story of railroad streamliners, from their early days as short little articulated speedsters to their halcyon years as 20-car "cities on wheels"--Places that were going somewhere. And it also tells a story of a time of individuality, when streamliners reflected the personality of the regions they served.
Santa Fe Railway
Author: Steve Glischinski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616731670
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616731670
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Locomotive World
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Burlington Route
Author: Richard Cleghorn Overton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description