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Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946
Volume 1: The Mid-Atlantic States
Inbunden, 2003
1148 kr
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A pair of gleaming rails embedded in a farmhouse driveway. A wooded cycling trail that traces an oddly level path through suburban hills. An abandoned high fill that briefly parallels the interstate. Today, little remains of the vast network of passenger and freight railroad lines that once …
Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946
Volume 3: Indiana, Lower Michigan, and Ohio
Inbunden, 2009
1176 kr
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A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 recalls an era when steam locomotives were still king and passenger trains stopped at nearly every town in America. Railroad companies employed over a million workers, on the trains and along the tracks. Everything moved by rail: travelers, mail, and …
Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946
Volume 4: Illinois, Wisconsin, and Upper Michigan
Inbunden, 2012
1190 kr
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With his meticulously crafted, hand-drawn maps of America's complex and extensive railroad network, Richard C. Carpenter recaptures a time when steam locomotives were still king and passenger trains stopped at nearly every town. Before railroad mergers forced the abandonment of thousands of miles …
Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946
Volume 2: New York & New England
Inbunden, 2005
820 kr
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Whistle-stop posts along a picturesque cycling trail. An abandoned roundhouse in a new industrial park. A piece of "Black Diamond" anthracite coal lying in the grass. These are silent witnesses to the golden age of American railroading, 1946, when the steam locomotive's sonorous whistle could be …
Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946
Volume 5: Iowa and Minnesota
Inbunden, 2014
752 kr
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Driving across Iowa nowadays, one sees acres and acres of flat cornfields and hears little but the leaves stirring. But in the golden age of railroading, tracks crisscrossed the prairies and steam engines thundered by, carrying goods and people across the country. The sounds of the train could be …
