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Classic Railroad Advertising Riding the Rail Again by Tad Burness W/ Dust Jacket
Classic Railroad Advertising Riding the Rail Again by Tad Burness
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 2001.
224 pages Indexed.
Contents:
A Note About the Ads4
Acknowledgments4
Introduction: By Brian Solomon6
Classic Railroad Advertisements12
Index223
Bibliography223
From the 1920s through the 1950s, the top American magazines-National Geographic, Life, Time, Saturday Evening Post, Look,
Collier's and others-featured beautiful and creative advertising extolling the virtues of railroads and traveling by rail. Today, we take trains for granted, but this book will change your view of railroads. It will open your eyes to their important role in 20th Century America and take you on a nostalgic ride aboard some of the world's great passenger trains.
Tad Burness has assembled a wonderfully varied and colorful selection of advertisements promoting many of America's great railroads-Pennsylvania, Santa Fe, New York Central, Southern Pacific and many others-along with some of history's great trains. Through these ads you'll experience the Super Chief, 20th Century Limited, California Zephyr, Empire Builder, and Broadway Limited, along with many wonderful trains that you may never have heard of. As you browse through these pages you will witness the debut of the streamliner, you will watch the evolution of locomotive power from steam to diesel, and you will experience the nation and its railroads pulling together to win a world war.
With nearly 200 stunning ads spanning 1917 to 2000-from early blackand-white pieces promoting Pullman sleepers to breathtaking marketing material for the latest Amtrak highspeed trains-Classic Railroad Advertising will never fail to entertain and educate. Each ad is accompanied by authoritative commentary on the railroads, the trains and the times, and an insightful introduction by railroad historian and author Brian Solomon puts the ads in the appropriate historical context.
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