New Haven Passenger Trains (Great Passenger Trains) |
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Author:
Peter E. Lynch
By MBI
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List Price: $36.95
Our Price: $18.95
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Product Description
Day and night for well over 100 years, the New Haven Railroad plied the rails between New York City and Boston, its mere 1,800 miles of track carrying more passengers than any other railroad in the history of the U.S. rail industry. This illustrated history revisits the days when New England’s fortunes were inseparable from the New Haven’s—when trains like the Merchants Limited, Yankee Clipper, Cranberry, and Quaker carried tourists and commuters to the great cities of the East Coast, and to destinations like Cape Cod, Hyannis, and Woods Hole, boat connections to Martha’s Vineyard, and ski slopes in the Berkshires. 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.
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Home library used book., 2008-11-02
Good company to deal with.
Used book was exactly as described, priced very reasonable and in excellent condition
Disappinting, 2007-09-29
Maybe I was expecting a book up to the standard set by the first book in this series, on Amtrak. I am not familiar with the New Haven's service area, and was often lost when reading the text. The McGinnes era seems to have few pictures. For example, there is only one of the Talgo trains and none of the converted RDC trains. Instead of being a snapshot of the trains of the later years, as shown on the cover, it attempts a history without the photographs or maps to make satisfy a reader new to the history of the NH.
Good book, 2007-01-04
I found the book to have a great deal of information on the New Haven Rail road that I did not know. Having grown up on the main line of the New Haven it let me know about the route that I was not aware of.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 385.220974
EAN: 9780760322888
ISBN: 0760322880
Label: MBI
Manufacturer: MBI
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: 2005-12-18
Publisher: MBI
Studio: MBI |
