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Pennsy Streamliners: The Blue Ribbon Fleet

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The Pennsylvania Railroad was one of the largest and most successful corporations in the United States for many decades. At its best, it provided some of the most extensive and superlative freight and passenger service in the world. Passenger service entered a brief but brilliant renaissance (and equally speedy demise) after World War II. To those of us who grew up in the 1950's and 1960's in the Northeast, this well-researched and finely illustrated book brings those times and trains vividly back into view, with a clear reminder of the last halcyon days of American passenger train service. For those of us who had the pleasure of riding the likes of "The Broadway Limited", "The Congressional" "The Spirit of Saint Louis" and many other fine Pennsy trains, this book is a vivid and beautiful reminder of what we had and what we have lost. There will never be another time in transportation history when travel was as exciting, elegant and luxurious as the days of the Blue Ribbon Fleet. To those readers too young to have been there, this book will provide, if nothing else, a tantalizing portrait of an era lost, but not forgotten. Highly recommended to any serious student of American rail travel.