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Domeliners, The By Patrick Dorin A Pictorial history of the Penthouse Trains DJ
The Domeliners By Patrick Dorin A Pictorial history of the Penthouse Trains
Hard cover with Dust Jacket Signed
COPYRIGHT 1973 1st edition Superior Publishing Company
224 pages
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1A History of Observation 9
Chapter 2The Train of Tomorrow 23
Chapter 3The Burlington Zephyrs 30
Chapter 4The California Zephyr 48
Chapter 5The Empire Builder 61
Chapter 6The North Coast Limited 71
Chapter 7The Baltimore & Ohio Strata Domes 79
Chapter 8The Santa Fe Chiefs 89
Chapter 9The Union Pacific "Cities" and The Challenger 102
Chapter 10The Missouri Pacific Eagles 119
Chapter 11The Blue Fleet of the Wabash Railroad 127
Chapter 12Dixie, Gulf Coast and Florida Service 133
Chapter 13The Milwaukee Road Super Domes 145
Chapter 14The Canadian Pacific Scenic Domes 152
Chapter 15The Canadian National Sceneramic Domes161
Chapter 16The Southern Pacific Daylights 168
Chapter 17The Rio Grande's Royal Gorge176
Chapter 18Norfolk and Western Domes Over The Blue Ridge 181
Chapter 19The Chesapeake and Ohio's Chessie 187
Chapter 20The Rock Island Railroad 191
Chapter 21AMTRAK Domeliners 193
Chapter 22The Turbo Train 202
Chapter 23The Auto-Train Corporation 209
Chapter 24The Alaska Railroad 213
Epilogue 216
Appendix 218
Index 221
Referring to the "Automobile," author Doris says, "The Americans have fallen in love with this creature." It is true, he concedes, that to some extent this love affair has some justification because of the great things it has accomplished, but he cautions us to remember that the automobile has brought more death and destruction than any machine man has ever invented. It kills more than 50,000 people a year in the U.S. alone and has been doing it for years. It has been, in a large part, responsible for the movement of healthy rural life to the crowded pollution of the big cities, and while it was doing this it was adding insult to injury by creating much of that very same pollution.
One may now ask what has this to do with domeliner passenger trains? As fuel supplies dwindle, America has a giant transportation problem to face. Although the solution is obvious and at hand, the automobile lover seems to wish to ignore it.
That solution is our vast rail system. Our highways and airways cannot hope to handle our traffic needs of the future.
"Amtrak," the author says, represents America's last chance for a sound, safe, balanced and economical system. If "Amtrak" fails, and it may well do so because of public apathy, we are in trouble. Doris believes that if this happens the passenger train will eventually have to be reinvented anyway, and when it is it will be a very costly job. He hopes that this will not be the case, but offers this book to show us how it was done in the good old days, in the event we need it in the future.
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