Author: Robert L. FreyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780870950926
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Northern Pacific Railway: Supersteam era, 1925-1945
Author: Robert L. FreyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780870950926
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Atlantic Coast Line Passenger Service
Author: Charles Lawrence GoolsbyPublisher: TLC Publishing (VA)
ISBN: 9781883089450
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story of the Atlantic Coast Line's wonderful postwar passenger trains is told in a readable narrative supported by scores of company publicity photos that depict the trains inside and out. This book not only covers the great New York-to-Florida streamliners, but also the locals and workaday passenger trains that crisscrossed the ACL system. Also featured are car and locomotive rosters, diagrams and drawings, and other material useful to modelers in constructing and painting ACL passenger cars.
Orphan Road
Author: Kurt E. ArmbrusterPublisher:
ISBN: 9781636821221
Category : Puget Sound Region (Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Seattle residents were bitterly disappointed in 1873 when the Northern Pacific selected rival Tacoma as the future Puget Sound terminus for Washington Territory's first transcontinental railroad. This book depicts the growth of railways across the Puget Sound region, including Tacoma's frantic quest for a saltwater terminal of their own, descriptions of individual lines, and the colorful personalities and urban aspirations that eventually brought Seattle to the forefront of Washington commerce"--Provided by publisher.
Railscapes
Author: Jim FredricksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Packed with spectacular photographs and a trainman's vivid memories, Railscapes reflects the author's unbounded enthusiasm, love, and respect for the whole world of trains. Once again, Jim Fredrickson opens the shutter wide on more than six decades of American railroading, and offers an insider's insights on the business of moving men and materials via the great steel ribbons that connected the Pacific Northwest with the rest of the world. For 39 years, the author worked for the Northern Pacific Railway in Washington state as a telegraph operator--a brasspounder--and dispatcher. He had the good fortune to travel in some of the most beautiful parts of the United States, and his camera covered it all--from the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana and Idaho to the Cascade Range of Washington, to the Puget Sound coastal region. Since his teens, Fredrickson has been ready to capture by a shutter's click both ordinary workhorse engines as well as special, magnificent, vintage, or futuristic trains. Drawn from an immense collection of railroad images, Railscapes features more of Jim's favorite photographs of train wrecks, premier passenger trains, the last of the steam engines, railroad folks, and more.
Railroad Shutterbug
Author: Jim FredricksonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780874221978
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Practially growing up with a camera in hand, Jim Fredrickson of Tacoma, Washington, took his first picture of a steam locomotive in 1936. In a few years, railroad men were regularly seeing the "kid with the camera" alongside the tracks and in the rail yards." "Then one day in 1943, one of the men said, "You're always hanging around here, kid, you might as well go to work."" "The chief dispatcher at Tacoma's Union Station hired the sixteen-year-old high school student to serve as a "callboy," telephoning conductors, brakemen, engineers, and firemen an hour-and-a-half in advance of when they were scheduled for duty. Thus began Fredrickson's thirty-nine year career with the Northern Pacific Railway's telegraph and dispatching departments." "Fredrickson continued to take exceptional photographs - his many pictures depict the last great glories of the steam era as coal-fired locomotives were replaced by diesel engines in the 1940s and 1950s. His photos and yarns tell of the NP's men and women as well as the steam engines, depots, diners, cabooses, sidings, yards, shops, bridges, and tunnels. Today, whether it is a BNSF freight train with containers or a silvery AMTRAK passenger train, the engineers all know Jim Fredrickson.--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Southern Pacific Passenger Trains
Author: Brian SolomonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610605076
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Adequacies, Passenger Service, Southen Pacific Company Between California and Louisiana
Author: Passenger Train Service
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and AeronauticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Oregon in Color
Author: Dining Car to the Pacific
Author: William A. McKenziePublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 145290734X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
William A. McKenzie offers an illustrated and detailed account of hospitality on the Northern Pacific - a service that many considered the best in the industry - drawing on sources ranging from railroad records of the 1860s to anecdotal accounts from the people who were there. In addition, McKenzie includes more than 150 authentic recipes used on the line, such as the Great Big Baked Potato, Washington Apple Pan Cake, and Northern Pacific Fruit Cake. Dining Car to the Pacific will be a treasured addition to the libraries of historians, cooks, and any one with nostalgia for the dinning car experience.