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Train Depots And Roundhouses By Halberstad Soft Cover Motorbooks Classics
Train Depots And Roundhouses By Hans & April Halberstadt Reflections from the lights on some photos.
Soft Cover
Copyright 2002
192 Pages Indexed
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface9
Introduction13
Chapter 1Life at the Depot29
Chapter 2A Short Course in Railroad Architecture 49
Chapter 3Depot Architecture and75
What Makes Some Styles Good?
Chapter 4An All-American Style: The Santa Fe89
Chapter 5The Union Terminals-The Railroad99
Terminal as a Civic Monument
Chapter 6Nevada Northern Suspended in Time 127
Chapter 7Roundhouses and Shops145
Chapter 8Saving the Depots -A Short Course165
in Jams and Preserves
Appendices190
Bibliography191
Index192
A curious and wonderful thing has been happening over the last twenty or thirty years: we Americans have quietly, effectively, begun to husband our heritage in thousands of places and in dozens of ways. It wasn't long ago that an old building was an endangered building, no matter what its pedigree or its accomplishments. George Washington's Mt. Vernon home was once a candidate for demolition. It was saved, but tens of thousands of other structures have been torn down in the name of progress.
But that kind of progress stopped long ago, and we have progressively campaigned to save all sorts of remaining buildings, including many of America's railroad depots. This is a quiet success story, the gradual campaign to insure the preservation of significant buildings, public and private, all across the American landscape. The preservation movement is a public-private partnership that preserves, protects, and defends all kinds of buildings in all sorts of places.
In many American communities the railroad depot was the most important building in town. More than the court house, the school, the hospital, or the mansion on the hill, the depot touched the lives of people in the community. It was the portal to the rest of the world for people out on the Nebraska prairie or along the coast of Maine. It took whatever you had to sell off to market, it brought back whatever you wanted to buy. Everything that was important to a community-people, information, products, coin of the realm-came and went through America's railroad depots.
One authoritative source noted that approximately 140,000 railroad depots have been built in America, most of them in a span of about eighty years, from about 1850 to 1930. A substantial portion were depot replacements, structures built to replace depots lost to fire, flood, and other natural disasters. Another group of replacements covered structures that were rebuilt to replace a worn-out or inadequate smaller building. Some major American cities built three or four depots on the same site as the city grew and became more prosperous.
Most of these structures are gone, and the railway rights-of-way have been abandoned. The American frontier created hundreds of buildings and towns in the last century to suit a particular function, and when the function changed, the structure had to change, too. America has moved very quickly from an agricultural nation to a technological one, from rural farm life to urban city life, from depending on mass transit such as railroads to using personal transportation-the automobile. So it is only reasonable to expect that depots and railroads would mirror this trend away from small towns.
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