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Pennsy Streamliners by Joe Welsh The Blue Ribbon Fleet with dust jacket
Pennsy Streamliners by Joe Welsh
Hard cover with dust jacket
Copyright 1999
160 pages indexed.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 5
Introduction 1
One A Fleet of Modernism 11
Interview with Retired Pullman Porter John Tibbs 54
Two A New Postwar Blue Ribbon Fleet 61
Three Through Cars and Trains of the Blue Ribbon Fleet 91
Four Home from the Road: Sunnyside - The Largest Coach Yard in the World 115
Five The Long Good-bye 115
Notes 158
Glossary 159
Index 160
Once upon a time not so very long ago, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest and most important rail passenger carrier in the nation. Its fleet of more than 700 trains, spanning the eastern one-third of the country and serving half the nation's population, linked the mid-Atlantic states with the great cities of the Midwest. Penn, sylvania's fleet carried world leaders to the White House, soldiers to war, commuters to work, and millions of everyday travelers to destinations all across the land.
In this book, based chiefly on the railroad's own files, Joe Welsh authoritatively describes the transition of the Pennsylvania's premier east-west Blue Ribbon Fleet from the era of heavyweight cars to the end of the "lightweight" era. He also traces the eventual decline and death of that fleet in the 1950s and '60s-a time when the plight of the Pennsylvania Railroad's trains reflected the fate of the American passenger train itself.
You will look over Pennsy president Martin Clement's shoulder as he decides how to counter the competition of the New York Central Railroad, find yourself at the drafting table with designer Raymond Loewy as the Fleet of Modernism comes to life, and spend time in smoke-filled boardrooms as the red ink spreads and the fate of the Blue Ribbon Fleet is decided.
Filled with rare color and black-andwhite photographs of trains and equipment, this book also contains actual train consists, employee interviews, and period advertising that will explain operations as well as convey the feeling of a time when America traveled by train.
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