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American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated Mark Wegman w/Dust Jacket
American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated Mark Wegman
American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated
Mark Wegman
Hard cover dust jacket
160 pages
Copyright 2008
Contents
Introduction7
PART ONE: 1890s-1920s
1. The Empire State Express, Pennsylvania Limited,10
Lake Shore Limited, and 20th Century Limited
2. The 20th Century Limited, Pennsylvania Limited,
and Broadway Limited18
3. The North Coast Limited22
4. The Oriental Limited24
5. The Olympian28
6. The Alton Limited30
7. The Crescent Limited34
8. The Empire Builder38
PART TWO: 1930s
9. The M-10000 and the Zephyr44
10. The George M. Pullman53
11. The City Streamliners54
12. The Green Diamond58
13. The Royal Blue, Capitol Limited,
and Abraham Lincoln62
14. The Rockets67
15. The 20th Century Limited and the
Broadway Limited70
16. The Chief and Super Chief78
17. The Hiawatha and the 400s84
18. The Silver Meteor90
19. The Daylight94
PART THREE: 1 940 s- 1 9 50 s
20. The Tennessean and the Southerner
21. The City of Miami and the Panama Limited
22. The Banner Blue and the Blue Bird
23. The Empire Builder
24. The North Coast Limited
25. The 20th Century Limited and the Broadway Limited
26. The Meteor, Firefly, and Texas Special
27. The Sunshine Special, Eagle, and Texas Eagle
28. The California Zephyr
29. The Shasta Daylight
30. The Sunset Limited
31. The Powhatan Arrow
32. The Olympian Hiawatha
33. The Phoebe Snow and the Capitol Limited
34. The City Streamliners
35. The Super Chief
36. El Capitan
37. The Silver Meteor
Epilogue
Index
The decades spanning the 1890s through the 1950s were the heyday of passenger rail travel in the United Statesa period when every engineer was a boyhood hero, every locomotive was a modern
marvel, and first-class service was offered aboard luxurious cross-country passenger cars.
These glory years are marvelously depicted in American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated. Over the course of 15 years, author Mark Wegman researched original railroad company drawings, records, and even paint chips to render 180 color profiles, front views, top views, and interior layouts representing the steam, diesel, and electric locomotives and the passenger cars of more than 40 of the most celebrated golden-age "name" trains across the nation.
Wegman's drawings are accompanied by histories of each train and dozens of period photographs, postcards, menus, luggage stickers, and print ads. The result is a lavishly appointed journey back in time to the zenith of U.S. passenger-train travel.
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