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Yesterday's Trains by Patrick Dorin Hard Cover 1981 47 Pages
Yesterdays Trains by Patrick Dorin Hard Cover 1981 47 Pages
The first trains
Yesterday's locomotives
Classic passenger trains
Yesterday's freight trains
Enjoying yesterday's trains
INTRODUCTION
Imagine a scene on the main street of a small American town during the late 1800s. All the people of the town are quietly going about their business until a few minutes before 11 A.M. Then something happens. Children stop their playing to run to the train station. Even adults put aside their work and hurry over to the tracks. They have all come to see the 11 o'clock train steam into the station. The huge steam locomotive huffs, snorts, and belches great clouds of smoke into the sky. Sparks and cinders scatter all around, making the engine look like a fire-eating black dragon.
Why did the people of days gone by get so excited when the train chugged into town? It wasn't just because the arrival of a steam locomotive was such a thrilling sight. In those days, the train was the center of everyday life. It brought food, mail, and other things that people needed. Because of the train, distances between places seemed shorter. Americans were no longer separated from one another by miles of empty space. They could send and receive mail on a regular basis, visit relatives who lived far away, and even order goods from distant cities. It is no wonder that people were excited by the arrival of yesterday's trains.
Railroads got started in the United States during the early 1800s, but steam locomotives did not begin pulling trains until the 1830s. from that time until the early 1900s, the locomotives and the freight and passenger cars they pulled became bigger and better each year. From 1900 to about 1935, the design of American trains did not change very much. The trains of this period are often referred to as "classic trains."
After 1935, something new began to happen. The diesel locomotive was invented, and soon it took the place of the steam locomotive. Streamlined passenger trains were also built about the same time. The streamliners replaced the classic trains in the same way that the diesel replaced the steam locomotive. A new period had begun for American railroads, and it has continued until today.
This book is not about the sleek, fast trains of today but about yesterday's trains-the steam locomotives and the passenger and freight cars they pulled. These old trains are part of a fascinating period of American life that has not been forgotten.
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