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Age Of The Mad Dragons Steam Locomotives in North America by Waitley w DJ
The Age Of The Mad Dragons Steam Locomotives in North America By Douglas Waitley
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket (has plastic protective covering) Reflections from the lights on some photos.
Copyright 1981
224 Pages
The Age of the Mad Dragons Steam Locomotives in North America Table of Contents:
1. The First Mad Dragon7
2. The Steam Pots21
3. Upon the Wings of Lightning37
4. Empire on the Prairies59
5. The War Trains81
6. The New World of Transcontinental Travel103
7. Titan of the Rails143
8. The Dragon Empire163
9. The Wild Drama of Adventure181
10. Song of the Rails200
Afterword220
Index221
The Age of the Mad Dragons recreates the era of steam trains from their inception-when they could not outrace a horse-to the days when luxurious expresses roared-at mile-a-minute speeds-across the continent.
Charles Dickens called the steamers "mad dragons" as they spouted smoke and flame across the countryside of the early nineteenth century. Henry Thoreau grew to love them as they panted along the far side of Walden Pond.
Experience with these eyewitnesses the building days that made the fortunes of crafty men, as the Illinois Central expanded the prairies and the Union Pacific conquered the majestic Rockies. See the bandits who made train robbery an art and the robber barons who gathered the entire nation into an empire of steam and steel. Ride with the hoboes, tasting freedom from their boxcar mansions.
Here too are the great locomotive races, the building of the longest railroad, the development of trains into weapons during the Civil War, and their use in opening up the West.
From the days of Peter Cooper's Tom Thumb, America has been entranced by trains. This delightful and informative account of our railroad's unique history explains this fascination, using photographs and drawings, from the 1830s to the 1930s.
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