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When Beauty Rode the Rails By Lucius Beebe & Charles Clegg w/ dust jacket
When Beauty Rode the Rails By Lucius Beebe & Charles Clegg A Pictorial album of old time railroading
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket (has plastic protective cover)
Copyright 1962 Inscription on first page
221 pages. FIRST EDITION
The early railroad period was replete with glamor, humor, and excitement. Here, in pictures and text, is a rich collection of the unusual and the bizarre, the wonderful customs, artifacts, and pieces of equipment, which, now forgotten in the modern age of chromium and plastic, were the stuff of railroading legend.
Engines had storm lanterns the size of doghouses for St. Bernards; cabs had windows of pure gothic design or were like hexagonal gazeboes, topped with domed roofs and gilded finials. In this setting the "starred performer was the brave engineer, who was destined in a few years to take his place in the national pantheon of god-images along with the cowboy and the baseball professional."
WHEN BEAUTY RODE THE RAILS presents a 'marvelous and exotic picture of early railroading, carrying the reader back to a gentler era, "to a land that was once and truly America the beautiful."
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