| Southern Pacific Passenger Trains (Great Trains) |  | Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: MBI
Category: Book
List Price: $36.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,047,107
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 076031795X
Dewey Decimal Number: 385.2620979
EAN: 9780760317952
ASIN: 076031795X
Publication Date: May 6, 2005
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Product Description
Well into the 1950s, the Southern Pacific operated an extensive fleet of colorful (a color scheme nicknamed "daylight") and highly-regarded passenger trains that became the preferred mode of travel for the West Coasts nouveau riche film stars and businesspeople. This authoritative illustrated history covers the various forms of motive power used, the rolling stock and the SPs services. Archival photographs depict the trains on their routes from Portland to the Bay Area, Los Angeles and on through the desert Southwest to Texas and New Orleans. Also depicted are SP uniforms, dinnerware, stations and terminals, and interior views of cars. Also featured are period advertisements, timetables, and route maps, and coverage of the SPs cooperative efforts with Chicago & North Western, Union Pacific, and Rock Island in forwarding trains overland to Utah, Chicago and St. Louis.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Passenger Trains Lite November 3, 2009
S. Warner (Gainesville, GA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book has some nice pictures and good color reproduction. If you want a book for SP passenger train research this is not it. There are no car engineering drawings nor consist lists for any of the name trains. I was hoping I would get some details on the Lark streamlined cars but no such luck. Interesting read with pleasant pictures but woefully short on historical details. But it is worth the price for building a library on the SP.
stanbw
 Southern Pacific Passenger Trains January 9, 2007
L. L. Darling (Michigan, USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Overall, a good volume for train enthusiasts. Photography is very good, in fact the entire series of these is above average. Book could provide more of a historical perspective, but for its size and relative cost, this is a good value.
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