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Next Stop Grand Central By Stan Fishler A trip through time Metropolitan Area
Next Stop Grand Central By Stan Fishler DJ A trip through time on New Yorks Metropolitan area commuter railroads.
Hard cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1986
175 Pages
CONTENTS
SECTION I - BEGINNINGS
CHAPTER 1: The Roots of the Railroad- 9
CHAPTER 2: The Network Expands and Develops- 15
CHAPTER 3: The Great Bicycle-Long Island Rail Road Race - 23
CHAPTER 4: This Means War!- 27
CHAPTER 5: Commuting in the 19th Century -Only for the Hardy - 31
CHAPTER 6: About Locomotives and Passenger Cars- 39
SECTION II - INTO THE 20th CENTURY
CHAPTER 7: The Big Switch - From Steam to Electricity- 45
CHAPTER 8: The Hudson Tubes- 49
CHAPTER 9: Tunnels, a Super Bridge and a Mammoth Terminal- 65
CHAPTER 10: Grand Central Terminal- 73
SECTION III DISASTERS
CHAPTER 11: New York and New Haven Railroad, May 6, 1853- 83
CHAPTER 12: Double Disaster on the Long Island Rail Road, 1950 - 87
CHAPTER 13: The Broker Derails - 101
CHAPTER 14: The Mystery of the Open Bridge- 107
SECTION IV - ANATOMY OF A NETWORK
CHAPTER 15: Reaching Into the New Era- 115
CHAPTER 16: The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody- 125
CHAPTER 17: Rising From the Ashes- 135
CHAPTER 18: Stumbling Along With the LIRR- 141
CHAPTER 19: The Jersey Bounce - 147
A Guide To Knowing and Enjoying the Tri-State Commuter Rail Lines- 165
Postscript - Where Do We Go From Here?- 173
About the Book
The web of commuter nut mails that connects New York City with hamlets, towns and cities in Connecticut, Pennsylvania. New Jersey, Long Island and upstate New York is one of the most fascinating aspects of transportation in the United States Stan Fischler a long-time train buff tells the often gripping story of 1)011' this system came to be from its origins in the eighteenth century to its high-tech present. It is a story that involves manor and pathos tragedy and triumph. Such renouwed lines as the Long Island Rail Road, the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western, the Erie; the New York Mew Haven and Hartford and the Hudson Tubes are among the many railroads treat& in depth.
The trials and tribulations of constructing these lines their rise - and occasional fall - are told in livid anecdotal detail, including.
-History-making disasters
-Railroad rears
-The curious case of the Nett York-Westchester and Roston Railroad
-Construction of the monumental Pennsylvania and Grand Central Stations
-The grand Hudson River tunnels
-And much more including Fischler's guide to the best commuter railroad rides.
More than 100 photographs evoke the flavor of earlier tunes as aril as the recent past and the current scene.
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