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400 Story, The By Jim Scribbins Chicago & North Western's premier passenger tra
The 400 Story By Jim Scribbins Chicago & North Western's premier passenger trains.
Hard cover With dust jacket
Copyright 1982 SECOND PRINTING 1988
231 pages, indexed.
CONTENTS
7 Introduction
9 400 miles in 400 minutes For a train of social rank, a splendidly appropriate title
39 Yellow and green Hot competition for Hiawathas and Zephyrs
81 Minnesota 400 and kin Multiple monickers: Minnesota, Dakota and Rochester 4D0's
121 Flambeau 400 The vacationer's choice to Wisconsin's resort country
147 Peninsula 400 From smelt specials to Upper Michigan's last passenger train
167 Kate Shelley 400 For Iowa, a train named for a heroine
175 The 400 fleet The North Western knew how to run a corridor
195 The bilevel era Gallery cars and head-end power revolutionize carbuilding
203 Protesters and empty seats Minnesota loses its 400's
207 Locomotives
217 Rolling stock
225 A 400 color sampler
230 Index
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
When the Chicago & North Western Railway inaugurated its speedy 400's in late 1934, it began carving a reputation that commands respect in the passenger railroad industry of the 1980s. What North Western wrought can still serve as a lesson in this age of Amtrak Superliners and French TGV trains. The 400's were everything today's trains strive to be.
Now there is a book big enough to tell this remarkable story. Jim Scribbins' THE 400 STORY recaptures the excitement of the 400 era, tracing the rise and fall of a passenger system that made Twin Cities 400 and kin household terms in the Upper Midwest. In a detailed narrative and more than 400 photos, Scribbins recalls the singular elements of THE 400 STORY. high-stepping Pacifics, yellow-and-green streamliners, resort-country trains and the revolutionary bilevel era.
Scribbins, one of railroading's most accomplished historians and authors, brings the images of North Western's yellow-and-green fleet to life in this important book.
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