New Haven Passenger Trains (Great Passenger Trains)

Black-and-white archival images and period color photographs, along with Peter E. Lynch’s authoritative text, chronicle the trains and routes—in particular, the signature South Shore Line—detailing the various forms of motive power, rolling stock, and services that made the railroad’s passenger network unparalleled in its day. With pictures of ephemera, stations, and terminals—including Grand Central Terminal and Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan—advertisements, route maps, timetables, and interior views of cars, this book provides a dramatic visual account of train travel in its heyday, and an elegiac view of its subsequent decline.