A Field Guide To Trains Of North America
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Author | : Gerald L. Foster |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780395701126 |
Identifies more than 170 locomotives and cars, grouped by visual similarity for ease of identification and including statistical data, manufacturing history, and usage by railroads.
Author | : Brian Solomon |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press (MN) |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2016-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0760349975 |
The ultimate guide for train lovers, Field Guide to Trains is fully loaded with pictures and fun facts on all the machines that ride the rails
Author | : Brian Solomon |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016-05-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0760351260 |
Now you can be the human Wikipedia page of trains--from locomotives to rolling stock. No Great American road trip would be complete without seeing trains streaming across wild prairies and through thick forests. All kinds of diesel and even a few steam locomotives can be seen, with everything from boxy frontends to curving streamlined bodies. The containers, flat cars, and boxcars pulled by these locomotives carry diverse freight, and the variety of these cars is wide. Field Guide to Trains: Locomotives and Rolling Stock is the source for easy-to-digest information on locomotives and cars. Model railroaders will also find this book indispensible, as it offers myriad ideas for realistic train systems. The book is divided by diesel-electric locomotives, self-propelled passenger trains, passenger cars, freight cars, rail transit, and preserved equipment at museums and excursion steam locomotives. It also touches on historic diesels, vintage trams, maintenance trains, snowplow engines, and circus trains. Featuring North American and world examples of trains, Field Guide to Trains includes just about any type of locomotive and train car you are likely to see on the rails today, making this book the only available comprehensive guide to locomotives and rolling stock out there. Bring Field Guide to Trains: Locomotives and Rolling Stock along on family trips to see what rolls the rails as you're traveling. Make a game of how many locomotives and car types you can identify. Buy locomotives and certain car types for your model layout. This is simply the handiest field guide for families and railroad buffs that you'll ever find.
Author | : Jim Loomis |
Publisher | : Prima Lifestyles |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
This is the definitive guide to North American train travel, complete with booking procedures, on-board etiquette, maps, floor plans for typical coach and sleeping cars, and more. This new edition reflects all the recent changes at Amtrak, North America's largest passenger rail system.
Author | : Casey McFarland |
Publisher | : Peterson Field Guides |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0544963385 |
A comprehensive field guide to the nests and nesting behavior of North American birds Beyond being a simple reference book, the Peterson Field Guide to North American Bird Nests is a practical, educational, and intimate doorway to our continent's bird life. The diversity of nests and nesting strategies of birds reflect the unique biology and evolution of these charismatic animals. Unlike any other book currently on the market, this guide comprehensively incorporates nest design, breeding behavior, and habitat preferences of North American birds to provide the reader with a highly functional field resource and an engaging perspective of this sensitive part of a bird's life cycle.
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Total Pages | : 1186 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Railroads |
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Author | : M. R. Montgomery |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780618411276 |
Describes and illustrates over four hundred different airplanes likely to be seen in North America, grouped in the categories of biplanes, agricultural planes, low-wing singles, amphibians, low-wing twins, high-wing twins, twin-boom and canard twins, four-engine props, business jets, jet airliners, military aircraft, recently retired military aircraft, and helicopters.
Author | : Roger Tory Peterson |
Publisher | : Peterson Field Guides |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 1328771431 |
A new edition of the classic, best-selling field guide from Peterson Field Guides For decades, the Peterson Field Guide to Birdsof Eastern and Central North America has been a popular and trusted guide for birders of all levels, thanks to its famous system of identification and unparalleled illustrations. Following the Spring 2020 update to Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, this guide will feature updated text and range maps, and art updated to reflect current knowledge in ornithology.
Author | : Karl B. McKnight |
Publisher | : Peterson Field Guides |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0544236114 |
A new approach to identifying mushrooms based on five key features that can be observed while in the field. Toadstools, truffles, boletes and morels, witches' butter, conks, corals, puffballs and earthstars: mushrooms are both mysterious and ecologically essential. They can also be either delicious or deadly. Thousands of different species of mushrooms appear across North America in the woods, backyards, and in unexpected corners. Learning to distinguish them is a rewarding challenge for a naturalist or chef. Covering most of the common edible and poisonous species readers are likely to encounter, this portable-sized field guide takes a new, simple approach to the method of mushroom identification based on key features that do not require a microscope or technical vocabulary. In addition to the watercolors from the original edition, hundreds more illustrations have been added. These paintings make use of the limited space available in a field guide and focus on the distinguishing details of each species, thereby serving as an ideal tool for beginner and intermediate mycologists alike.
Author | : Jim Loomis |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2023-05-16 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1641608676 |
“ This comprehensive guide will assist the traveler in planning an excursion and executing it with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.” — Library Journal All Aboard— first published in 1995, and here completely revised and updated— is much more than just a mile-by-mile scenery guide for train travelers. It will make any trip smoother and more enjoyable with its insightful travel trips and information about how railroads operate. With trains attracting new riders in record numbers, the time is perfect for a new edition of All Aboard. All Aboard is more than an ordinary travel guide. The author tells us how and why the first railroads came about, describes the building of America' s trans-continental railroad, and explains how individual trains are operated. He also offers advice that can only come from a veteran traveler: booking trips, finding the lowest fares, avoiding pitfalls, packing for an overnight trip, what to do on board, whom to tip and how much. This new, fourth edition includes a new chapter about eight major railway stations, and is updated throughout with new information and photographs. It discusses Amtrak' s new locomotives and Viewliner sleeping cars, changes in rules regarding pets and bicycles on American trains, and much more. Jim Loomis writes frequently about train travel for Sunday newspaper travel sections and has ridden every one of Amtrak' s long-distance trains multiple times, logging nearly 200,000 miles. He is a member of the board of directors of the National Association of Railroad Passengers.