| Author | : Jonathan Boyle |
| Publisher | : TLC Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006-04-01 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 9780976620167 |
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.
| Author | : Karl Zimmerman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Burlington Northern Railroad Company |
| ISBN | : 9781610603621 |
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.
| Author | : Patrick C Dorin |
| Publisher | : TLC Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2003-08-29 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 9781883089719 |
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.
| Author | : Colin Alexander |
| Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2021-09-15 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1445693356 |
Colin Alexander looks at the interwar period, a high-water mark in industrial design as the benefits of streamlining were realised.
| Author | : John H. White |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Railroad passenger cars |
| ISBN | : 0801827477 |
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 | : Steve Glischinski |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Railroads |
| ISBN | : 9781616731670 |
| Author | : Mike Schafer |
| Publisher | : MBI Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 183 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Express trains |
| ISBN | : 0760303770 |
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.
| Author | : William Kratville |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 9780738520421 |
Well into the 20th century, the railroad industry implemented a series of great technological changes that revolutionized rail transit in America. The twin cities of Omaha and Council Bluffs, serving as Union Pacific headquarters and the nation's nucleus of continental train travel, witnessed the bulk of these changes. Through a collection of captivating photographs, Railroads of Omaha and Council Bluffs documents the transformations that took place in the railroad industry and the impact those changes made on these two cities, as well as the rest of the country. The creation of the "streamlined" passenger train, the transition from steam to diesel power, the golden years of Omaha's Union Station, and the revolution of railroad freight service through mergers and government deregulation are just some of the events explored in this fascinating book.
