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Great Trains of all Time by Freeman Hubbard Hard Cover 156 pages
Great Trains of All Time by Freeman Hubbard
Hard Cover
156 pages
Copyright 1962
TABLE OF CONTENTS
In the Beginning9
GREAT NAMES RIDE AMERICAN RAILS 15
The Peak of Steam17
The Most Publicized Locomotive27
Ladies of the Rails 34
The Sunset Limited43
Roll out the Red Carpet51
The Panama Limited54
Great Trains of Canada57
The Super Chief62
1000 Miles Non-Stop66
FAMOUS TRAINS THE WORLD OVER73
The World's Fastest Train 75
A Century-Old Train81
Adventure Rides the Orient Express86
The Trans-Siberian Express94
Two Great African Trains100
GREAT TRAINS FOR SPECIAL JOBS103
Paul Bunyan's Toothpicks105
Famous Excursion Trains 113
Seven Cars Painted Black 118
The Greatest Show on Rails127
Train, Ahoy!134
37,000 Miles for Freedom144
The World's Best-Loved Train149
ON THE TRAIN-SHEET This book is based on a statement by James J. Hill, who built the Great Northern Railway: "Most men who have really lived have had, in some shape, their great adventure. The railway is mine." I, too, regard the railway as a "great adventure." My father gave 43 years of his life to the Pennsylvania Railroad and as a youth I traveled many thousands of miles on his passes. After growing up, I worked briefly for that road myself and still later latched onto the job I now hold, editor of Railroad Magazine. My earliest recollection is that of a small boy riding a Pennsy train of wooden coaches pulled by a coal-smoking engine from Philadelphia to the white sandy beach of Ocean Grove, New Jersey. I sat on a red plush seat, with a warm wind blowing tiny cinders from the locomotive stack through an open window onto my white knee-length pants, and I was filled with ecstasy.
Now, however, passenger trains are slowly fading from the American scene. In 15 years or so most of them may be gone forever. I am writing this book as a tribute to some of the Great Trains of All Time. Note the word "some." No book covers its subject completely. There is always more to be said. The best I could do in this case was pick out a few trains. There are many, many others, both in the United States and abroad. For example, I have not touched on South America, Mexico, Sweden, Italy, Germany, India, China, Japan, and so on.
My material was gathered in years of personal travel, from talks with railroad men, from old scrapbooks and newspapers, from history books, from railroad publicity directors, and from the files of Railroad Magazine dating back to 1906. I thank all who helped in this project, including Popular Publications, Inc., which permitted me to adapt certain Railroad Magazine articles of mine for use in this book. For many fruitful years Herb Mott has been an illustrator for Railroad Magazine. Few artists know as much about trains as he does.
FREEMAN HUBBARD
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