An authoritative history of the american railroad passenger car, illustrated with nearly eight hundred photographs, engravings, and line drawings, examines interior designs and costs and recreates a lost age of elegance in rail travel. This is an excellent book for the prr enthusiast and modeller,and very competitively priced. Overregulated and displaced by barges, trucks, and jet aviation, railroads fell into decline. Their misfortune was measured in lost market share, abandoned track, bankruptcies, and unemployment. Cassie, who flew above new york in tar beach,soars into the sky once more. Railroaders is an outstanding comment on how railroading was. This book is a comprehensive overview of the development of railroads in canada and the united states from 1830 to the present day. This book is a must for every historians book shelf because it is truly history. Richard whites railroaded is my first book on postcivilwar railroad construction in the us, and it impressed me favorably. The procedures shown give a great feel for what it must have been to be a railroad man back in the day. This book chronicles the advent as well as the passing of steam. The main virtue of this work is the focus on all the different classes of people who stood behind the magnificent system. The west the railroads made recounts the stories of visionaries such as henry harmon spalding, samuel parker, and asa whitney, who imagined the railroad as a new northwest passage, an iron road through the west to the orient.
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