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.
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"A monumental work -- truly a work of love... The historian, the researcher, the admirer of railway lore, the builder of model train sets, the restorer of a classic railway vehicle... will now spend the rest of their lives poring over Mr. White's words and his nearly 800 photographs and schematic cutaway drawings." -- New York Times
"First-class." -- Model Railway Constructor
"Well worth the price of the ticket." -- Baltimore Sun
"The Super Chief of railroad books." -- Chicago Sun-Times
"[A] beautifully produced volume... The real treat, however, is in White's informative and often entertaining narrative analysis of technological change." -- Journal of American History
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.About the Author
John H. White, Jr., formerly Curator of Transportation at the Smithsonian Institution, has written eight books and more than one hundred articles on American railroad technology.
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THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY and railroad passenger travel, the common day coach has been the largest and most important single class of car. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
car framing, hinged upper berth, master car builders, truck wheelbase, compression truss, folding berths, railroad car construction, wooden era, steel era, center sill, steel passenger car, suburban cars, duplex rooms, body bolsters, railroad passenger car, emigrant car, wooden cars, aluminum cars, belt rail, clerestory roof, car teas, sleeping car company, body framing, side sills, steel cars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Union Pacific, Illinois Central, New Haven, Pennsylvania Railroad, Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, Pullman Neg, National Car Builder, Michigan Central, Railroad Gazette, New England, North Western, Central Pacific, Long Island, Civil War, Silver Palace, Northern Pacific, Representative Cars, Von Gerstner, World War, Great Western, Steel Car Company, Union Palace, Railroad Car Journal New!
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THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY and railroad passenger travel, the common day coach has been the largest and most important single class of car. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
car framing, hinged upper berth, master car builders, truck wheelbase, compression truss, folding berths, railroad car construction, wooden era, steel era, center sill, steel passenger car, suburban cars, duplex rooms, body bolsters, railroad passenger car, emigrant car, wooden cars, aluminum cars, belt rail, clerestory roof, car teas, sleeping car company, body framing, side sills, steel cars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Union Pacific, Illinois Central, New Haven, Pennsylvania Railroad, Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, Pullman Neg, National Car Builder, Michigan Central, Railroad Gazette, New England, North Western, Central Pacific, Long Island, Civil War, Silver Palace, Northern Pacific, Representative Cars, Von Gerstner, World War, Great Western, Steel Car Company, Union Palace, Railroad Car Journal New!
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- Triumphant Democracy by Andrew Carnegie on page 215, and page 216
- The Story of the Pullman Car (Technology and Society) by Joseph Husband on page 262, and Back Matter
- Lincoln and the Railroads (Railroad Series) by John W., Jr. Starr in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- British Isles: 2 by W. Allen on page 371, and page 372
- The Railway Age (Mandolin) by Michael Robbins on page 373
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- Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in the United States, 1850-1915 by Catherine Cocks on 7 pages
- The American Railroad Passenger Car - Part2 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) by John H. White Jr. on 5 pages
- Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class by Larry Tye on 4 pages
- A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways by Brian J. Cudahy on 4 pages
- Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class by Larry Tye on 4 pages
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