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Passenger Trains

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The Milwaukee Road Olympian: A Ride to Remember ^{ed pick}
Author: Stanley Johnson
Publisher: Museum of North Idaho; ISBN: 0964364778

This book is different than anything ever written about luxury trains and is capable of making the oldest train fan remember and the youngest truly envious of such memories, as it describes in detail what it was like to ride more than half-way across the country?Chicago to Tacoma?in 1941, the last year such trains ran before the effects of global conflict and change made them disappear forever.

No detail is overlooked that might help satisfy the hunger of today?s reader for such an experience. The personalized story of the trip is augmented by hundreds of photographs, charts, diagrams, floor plans, dining car menus, and reproduced timetables of the time. All related by the man who actually experienced them. The book is probably best described by a reader who said, I rode that train at almost that time and when I read these pages I recalled things long since forgotten. It has made forgotten things live again and cherished things still remembered even more treasured as I fit them once more into a past that I thought was gone forever.
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(Added: 7-Jan-2001) - Customer Rating: 8.33 Votes: 3

The Milwaukee Road Passenger Train Services: From the Hiawatha Era to Amtrak and Beyond
Author: Patrick C. Dorin
Publisher: Motorbooks International (October 30, 2004)

Author Pat Dorin gives an excellent overview of The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific passenger trains starting with the streamlined, steam-hauled Hiawatha and following the story through to the introduction of Amtrak and beyond. Cars are covered in detail as well as motive power. Reproduced timetables and ads give a good feel for the passenger era. Modellers, Milwaukee Road fans, and passenger train devotees will all find material of interest in this general overview of the period and the great service of the Milwaukee Road.
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(Added: 17-Nov-2004) - Customer Rating: 0 Votes: 0

The Railroad Passenger Car : An Illustrated History of the First Hundred Years With Accounts by Contemporary Passengers
Author: August Mencken, Courtney B. Wilson (Introduction)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Press

Drawing on a wide assortment of materials--including a wealth of drawings from the U.S. Patent Office, first-hand accounts of contemporary passengers, and his own experience as a young civil engineer active in railroad construction--Mencken presents the roster of cars in which nineteenth-century travelers rode and suffered. Here are the weird and ingenious inventions designed to increase both the passengers' comfort and the owners' revenue; and here are the passengers' own comments, both angry and humorous--thirty-five accounts written by passengers from 1831 to 1891 and bearing such titles as An Inhuman Conductor, The Baggage Smashers of Omaha, and Cows on the West Chester Line.
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(Added: 4-Feb-2001) - Customer Rating: 0 Votes: 0

Travel by Pullman: A Century of Service
Author: Joe Welsh, Bill Howes
Publisher: Motorbooks International (September 1, 2004)

Every evening for much of the twentieth century, 50,000 or more travelers snuggled under crisp Pullman linens, falling asleep in one state and awaking in another.
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(Added: 16-Nov-2004) - Customer Rating: 7 Votes: 2

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