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Over 30 years of meticulous research research has gone into this volume which details the caboose cars of America_s oldest railroad, one of the most extensive and interesting fleets of caboose cars in the country. This accurately researched work corrects many of the errors which currently exist in caboose history. Particularly useful to modelers. Each class of caboose features a dimensioned drawing and photographs showing the car in actual service.
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All styles, all vintages and all colors of the unique little cars that bring up the rear! For more than 100 years, the caboose has been a part of the railroad scene. Mike Schafer offers this full-color gallery filled with caboose history and development, plus interior and exterior design details, and discussion of the life of a railroad conductor who lives in cabooses. Tells of the ultimate demise of the caboose and its uses after retiring from the tracks.
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In the world of railway enthusiasts and modelers, freight carriers are every bit as technically involved and evocative as engines and cabooses. This color gallery pictures and describes, well, a trainload of rolling stock--boxcars, flatcars, hoppers, gondolas, tank cars, auto-rack transports and others--representing a variety of railways in action around the nation. Engines may provide the power and cabooses the sentimetal value, but without that which comes in between, both are moot.
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The American Freight Train Author: Jim Boyd, Mike Schafer Publisher: Motorbooks International; ISBN: 0760308330
As quickly as the first American railroads could lay tracks, enterprising businesses began utilizing them for their most obvious application-hauling freight. This extensive history examines the development and use of freight trains in America from the early 19th century to the present. A large selection of archival color photography depicts an array of rolling stock-boxcars, flatcars, hoppers, refrigerator cars, gondolas, tank cars, ore jennies, auto-rack transports, and more-as well as the steam and diesel engines that have pulled them across two centuries and countless miles. A thorough text describes the evolution of the various forms of rolling stock while describing how the freight train became the backbone of the American shipping industry, moving everything from minerals, lumber, and liquids to livestock, grains, automobiles, and even the occasional hobo. A variety of railroads are depicted in scenic locations across the nation.
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A history of the American railroads traces the evolution of the freight car, discussing the various types of specialized cars used to handle America's growing freight traffic, and examines the technological developments that influenced freight-car design.
From the former Curator of Transportation at the Smithsonian Institution. Illustrated with 530 photographs, drawings, and engravings. Includes plans, diagrams, and detailed specifications for model-builders. 665 oversized pages.
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The American Railroad Passenger Car recaptures the lost, but not-too-distant past when 98 percent of all intercity travel in the United States was by rail. It documents in extraordinary detail the ingenuity and splendor of the classic trains as well as the rattle and clatter, the dust and cinders of early rail travel. An unparalleled record of changes in taste and technology
With clarity and precision, White explains the methods of construction of wood, iron, steel, and aluminum cars. He traces the evolution of wheels and brakes, dining cars and sleeping compartments. And he follows the revolutions in taste and technology that dramatically altered the appearance of the railroad passenger car over the century and a half that it dominated American travel.
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