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This review is from: New York Central & Trains of the Future (Hardcover)
This book is a wonderful overview of a subject seldom investigated. Doughty captures the spirit and effort of the different railroads making a last ditch attempt to keep passengers on the rails in the late 1940s and 1950s. A wide variety of illustrations show the futuristic efforts of design and technology that is now being revived to make todays trains better and faster. This book is of interest to anyone who likes thetime period and wants to recapture the days when a new passenger train was an event not a footnote in the news. Not just New York Central's efforts are covered, but the overview of the bigger story as well makes this a value for historians as well as fans.
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This review is from: New York Central & Trains of the Future (Hardcover)
Hardback with pictorial boards, released without dustjacket. Sewn binding. 102 pp. Illustrations throughout. Bibliography.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Troubled Times 1946-1956 The Passenger Train: Shackled by Its Past Is White Right About Passengers? Enter Robert R. Young Talgo Aerotrain GM's Aerotrain NYC's Trains of the Future Epilogue Appendix: Train X Appendix: What Train X is Like Appendix: Diesel Mec-Hydro Appendix: Travel Tailored Schedules Appendix: Meanwhile...Over at Budd |
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New York Central and the Trains of the Future by Geoffrey H. Doughty (Hardcover - July 1997)
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