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Used and Out of Print Books : Passenger and Transit
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Railroad Stations offers not just a history of the station building but discusses how each place came to be built and the role each station has played in its community, from grand stations in the urban centers of the world to humbler ones in the small towns across North America.
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This book is a reprint of bulletins issued by the dining car department to the dining car staff: recipes, plating directions, and serving instructions. In addition there is a description of the evolution of railroad dining car operations with photos and history. Among the favorite recipes are Beefsteak and Mushroom Pie, Old Fashioned Vienna Roast, and Erie Lackawanna style Brown Betty with hard sauce. Over 50 never before published recipes in all.
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Here is the new, expanded edition of William D. Middleton's much-admired book on the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad. In more than 250 photographs, maps, and schematic drawings, the rising and sinking fortunes of this technological triumph are chronicled from the first decade of the 20th century to the present day.
Using the same technology that produced the electric street railway, the interurbans helped bridge the gap between the horse-and-buggy era in rural America to the modern age of paved highways and family automobiles. The Chicago South Shore Line is unique among the nearly 10,000 lines operating at the end of World War I, not because it didn?t suffer the same triumphs and tragedies, but because it is the only one to have survived. It still provides electric transportation over precisely the same route it has served since the first decade of the 20th century.
South Shore: The Last Interurban is essential reading for all those interested in rapid transit, railroads, railroad history, and the impact of America's last interurban.
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St. Louis's street railways served St. Louis city and county from 1859 until 1966, when the last car ran. A huge network of city lines stimulated the gorwth of new streetcar suburbas from the 1870s to the 1920s, while the later county lines did the same for the towns and villages of St. Louis County. Public transit's monopoly was broken in the 1920s by the automobile and since then city and suburban growth has been dictated by proximity to roads and highways, not transit routes. With over 120 rare and unusual photographs, this book looks back at the final forty years of street railways in St. Louis, the buses that replaced them and the automobile which marginalized all forms of public transit.
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Thousands of railroad enthusiasts regret never having the chance to cheat the wind aboard trains like Santa Fe's Super Chief or Burlington's California Zephyr. Packed with period color photos throughout, this book covers the heyday of streamliner travel from 1930 to 1970, and celebrates the most memorable aspects of streamliner travel--elegant dining cars, cozy lounge cars, breathtaking views from massive Vista-Domes, and retiring to private Pullman sleepers.
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Subway Author: Bruce Davidson Publisher: St Ann's Press (May 1, 2004)
Since the ground was broken, New York City???s subway system has been the stuff of legend as well as a source of inspiration and fear. Originally published in 1986, this dark, democratic environment provided the setting for photographer Bruce Davidson???s first extensive series in color. Subway riders are set against a gritty, graffiti-strewn background, displayed in tones Davidson described as an iridescence like that I had seen in photographs of deep-sea fish. Never before has the subway been portrayed in such detail, revealing the interplay of its inner landscape and out vistas. The images include lovers, commuters, tourists, families, and the homeless. From weary straphangers to languorous ladies in summer dresses to stalking predators, Davidson???s compassionate vision illuminates the stubborn survival of humanity. From the spring of 1980 to 1985, Davidson explored and shot six hundred miles of subway tracks. In his own words, I wanted to transform this subway from its dark, degrading, and impersonal reality into images that open up our experience again to the color, sensuality, and vitality of the individual souls that ride it each day. Now nearly 25 years later, and on the eve of the subway???s 100th anniversary, St. Ann???s Press is publishing a new edition of Davidson???s classic book. This edition adds forty unseen images to the original book, and includes a new introduction by Arthur Ollman of the Museum of Photographic Art in San Diego, and a foreword by Fred Braithwaite (aka Fab Five Freddy), the original graffiti artist. It also includes Bruce Davidson and Henry Geldzahler???s original essays. Foreword by Freddy Braithwaite (Fab 5 Freddy) Texts by Arthor Ollman, Henry Geldzahler and Bruce Davidson. Hardcover, 9.75 x 12 in. /132 pgs / 102 color
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Manhattan, 1870. As overcrowded horse carts and weary pedestrians push through the clogged city streets, a man named Beach secretly works by candlelight 21 feet beneath Devlin???s clothing store on Broadway, carving out New York???s very first subway tunnel.
In the years following the Civil War, New York City experienced unprecedented growth. Commerce boomed as immigrants and tourists poured onto the tiny island in huge numbers. But at a time when commuting distance was measured by the strength of one???s legs and the soles of one???s shoes, the city was unable to expand alongside its population. All of that would change with a few miles of track and a nickel fare.
In Subways, her highly anticipated follow-up to The Automat, Lorraine Diehl sets off on another sentimental journey, recounting the true story of a city transformed by underground passageways. Through archival photographs, interviews with New Yorkers who ??śremember when,??Ń and an assortment of rare memorabilia, Diehl introduces us to the entertaining characters who conceived, built, and rode the city???s subways, then travels to the familiar destinations shaped by their tracks.
From the last days of the horsecars to the remarkable excavation and construction of the tunnels, from an age of elegant wood-and-brass cars to the streamlined stainless-steel rolling stock of the 1940s, from the once-remote reaches of the boroughs to the bustling metropolis of today, to tell the story of the Subways is to tell the story of New York City.
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