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Used and Out of Print Books : Passenger and Transit
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Former Amtrak official Joseph Vranich blows the whistle on his onetime employer. The federally financed passenger-train company is a complete waste of money, writes Vranich. Instead of subsidizing inefficient rail service, the government should liquidate Amtrak and allow market forces to exert more influence over the train business. This would provide the double benefit of improving service for commuters who depend upon railways and saving taxpayer dollars. Derailed is a surprisingly accessible book on public policy; it would make fine reading on the ride to work tomorrow morning, or at least on the platform while you're waiting for the train to show up.
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The luxurious dome cars delivered fabulous views to rail travelers in the 1950s. Hundreds of photos trace the history of dome cars from their earliest construction to the end of their era.
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Photographs, line drawings, and narratives record the development of the New York City subway system's rolling stock.
A collaborative labor of love by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the New York Transit Museum, Gene Sansone's Evolution of New York City Subways: An Illustrated History of New York City's Transit Cars, 1867-1997?now available from the Johns Hopkins University Press with a new foreword by Clifton Hood?offers an extensive array of photographs, line drawings, and stories about the city's most treasured railcars. Subway buffs, railfans, students of New York City history, and specialists in the history of technology will appreciate this authoritative account. MTA New York City Transit and Sansone provide a record of the rolling stock that helped make New York City one of the great cities of the world.
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This 8 1/2 x 11, 208-page softcover book goes on location to eight of North America's most scenic and historically rich landscapes. Each of the rail adventures profiled is a counterpart to the highly praised public television program. 250 color and 5 black & white photographs depict canyons, coastlines, world class cities and more seen from the windows of the railway coach. Also included in this book are 8 color maps and an appendix.
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You can still see Pennsylvania by train. From the nation's most famous battlefield to the world's first oil well, Pennsylvania's tourist railroads offer history and scenery as they roll slowly through the Keystone State. Enjoy the country's most authentic steam railroad at East Broad Top, where the same equipment has been working on the same line since 1910. Get weak in the knees as the Knox, Kane, and Kinzua crosses the 301-foot high Kinzua bridge. Enjoy a delightful meal on The Northern Central's Liberty Limited, the Strasburg, the M&H, or the Tioga Central. Watch the eyes of a child grow wide as a gigantic steam locomotive thunders into the station. Pennsylvania's tourist railroads have something to please everyone. Use this book to plan a great little vacation in the state where the first trip by steam locomotive in the United States took place in 1829.
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The definitive history of Louisville & Nashville passenger service spans the period from the booming Pan American era of the 1920s through the Amtrak days of the 1960s. Extensive original sources and an intimate knowledge of L&N operations combine to deliver the last word on L&N motive power and rolling stock, as well as a complete roster of equipment and reproductions of period advertising pieces. In addition, an entire chapter is devoted to modeling L&N passenger equipment and trains.
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In the 1950s railroads were looking for a new technology in passenger train design that would help them regain traffic lost to highways and airlines, and many experiments were conducted into lightweight, high-speed trains of radically new designs. NYC, the nations number one carrier of passengers, was at the forefront of this innovation. This book details the story of its attempts at a new passenger train. Profiled also are other experimentals of the era including C&Os Train-X, the Aerotrain, the Talgo, PRRs Tubular Train (The Keystone), as well as the NYCs X-Plorer.
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