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Coach Trains And Travel By Patrick Dorin w/ Dust Jacket 1975 FIRST EDITION
Coach Trains And Travel By Patrick Dorin
Hard cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1975 FIRST EDITION
192 Pages
Contents:
Development of coach travel
Doodlebugs Motor cars & RDC's
Coach and chair car operations
The Challenger
Some superb all coach trains
Local trains
Commuter trains
Milk mail & Express trains
Autorak
Auto-train
Algoma Central Railway to Agawa Canyon
Ontario Northern's polar bear to James Bay
Ski trains
Rail fan trips and special events
Just a note on parlor cars
Index
The purpose of this book is to trace the development of coach and chair car travel from the DeWitt Clinton to the Metroliners and Turboliners of 1975. The time span covered is about 175 years, and during that time precious little has actually been written about the backbone of rail passenger service.
This book is actually the third in a series of books written by this author covering rail passenger service. This new book covers most of the types of coach services offered in the USA and Canada including the doodlebugs, RDC's, the world famous Challengers, all-coach streamliners, local runs, commuter trains, milk, mail and express trains, slumbercoaches, special tour trains, and finally the two newest organizations in the USA: Auto-Train and Amtrak. Canadian roads are represented by the Algoma Central and Ontario Northland, but the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National passenger services are covered in other volumes by this author. In fact, the next book to be written by this author will be entitled The Canadian National Railway Story.
Most railroad companies used the terms chair cars and coaches interchangeably. Such is the case in this book. However the term "chair car" usually indicates that each set of seats on each side of the aisle is divided into two reclining seats. Parlor cars with single seating on each side were generally not referred to as chair cars.
The railroad passenger coach has received little attention but yet some of the Nation's finest trains were "All Coach" trains. The coach was, and is, the most economical form of transportation and has served in the widest variety of train operations. No other car can boast such a service record.
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