Santa Fe Streamliners
Author | : Karl Zimmermann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Railroad passenger cars |
ISBN | : 9780915276417 |
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Author | : Karl Zimmermann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Railroad passenger cars |
ISBN | : 9780915276417 |
Author | : Steve Glischinski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9781616731670 |
Author | : Mike Schafer |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780760313718 |
"Streamliners tells the steamliner story and takes you aboard a wide range of steamliners, from UP's historic M-10000 to America's most talked about train, the California Zephyr, whose descendant was still making tracks across the continent as late as the 1990s"--Back cover.
Author | : Mike Schafer |
Publisher | : MBI Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Express trains |
ISBN | : 0760303770 |
Richly illustrated with over 200 photos, this book tells the story of railroad streamliners, from their early days as short little articulated speedsters to their halcyon years as 20-car "cities on wheels"--Places that were going somewhere. And it also tells a story of a time of individuality, when streamliners reflected the personality of the regions they served.
Author | : Carl Byron |
Publisher | : Heimburger House Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780911581430 |
When World War II came to an end in 1945, America was on the verge of an unprecedented economic boom that carried over to its vast rail transportation system. Railroads placed orders for new streamlined passenger trains. Passengers wanted new, fashionable trains with sleek cars and locomotives. In addition, steam was out, diesels were in. Railroads saw good times coming and they prepared well for them. This 200-page color book features 335 photographs in a 10 x 10” hardbound volume. Covers numerous name trains.
Author | : TLC Publishing |
Publisher | : TLC Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005-06-09 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780976620198 |
Chronicles the history of the two most famous Santa Fe passenger trains in the last decades of passenger service: the Super Chief and the El Capitan.
Author | : Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 157441464X |
Perhaps no other industrial technology changed the course of Mexican history in the United States--and Mexico--than did the coming of the railroads. Tens of thousands of Mexicans worked for the railroads in the United States, especially in the Southwest and Midwest. Construction crews soon became railroad workers proper, along with maintenance crews later. Extensive Mexican American settlements appeared throughout the lower and upper Midwest as the result of the railroad. The substantial Mexican American populations in these regions today are largely attributable to 19th- and 20th-century railroad work. Only agricultural work surpassed railroad work in terms of employment of Mexicans. The full history of Mexican American railroad labor and settlement in the United States had not been told, however, until Jeffrey Marcos Garcílazo's groundbreaking research in Traqueros. Garcílazo mined numerous archives and other sources to provide the first and only comprehensive history of Mexican railroad workers across the United States, with particular attention to the Midwest. He first explores the origins and process of Mexican labor recruitment and immigration and then describes the areas of work performed. He reconstructs the workers' daily lives and explores not only what the workers did on the job but also what they did at home and how they accommodated and/or resisted Americanization. Boxcar communities, strike organizations, and "traquero culture" finally receive historical acknowledgment. Integral to his study is the importance of family settlement in shaping working class communities and consciousness throughout the Midwest.
Author | : Brian Solomon |
Publisher | : MBI Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2015-10-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0760347476 |
"An examination of the introduction of streamliners to American railroading, including the technology and styling trends"--
Author | : Jared V. Harper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9781933587233 |
Author | : Brian Solomon |
Publisher | : Voyageur Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2015-10-05 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1627887741 |
See the streamlined trains of the 1930s in all of their sleek glory. In the 1930s, streamlined styling was applied to everything from kitchen appliances to farm tractors as it captured the American imagination. Keen to regain passenger traffic lost to automobiles and expanding roadways, railroads hired industrial-design giants like Raymond Loewy, Otto Kuhler, Henry Dreyfuss, and Brooks Stevens to produce sleek, futuristic shrouds for locomotives. These streamlined locomotives and trains became the most iconic in American history. Even today, classic designs like stainless-steel Zephyrs, shrouded Hudsons, and EMD E-units remain the popular conception of what a locomotive "looks like." Streamliners : Locomotives and Trains in the Age of Speed and Style explores the historical and scientific context for the development of streamlined locomotives and trains, the designs that became standard-bearers of North American speed and luxury, and the contemporary popularity of the streamlined look in popular culture. Illustrated with rare historical photographs in both black and white and color, as well as period advertising, route maps, and patent design drawings, Streamliners elucidates the story of this fascinating design trend by following the various technologies and styling trends and how they changed the look of American railroading. Profiles of prominent designers and preserved streamliners in use today round out and complete this picture every railfan will want. Streamlining was the product of the last great era of American passenger trains, when elegantly styled, named trains connected cities across the continent on fast schedules. Streamliners thoroughly explores the connections between style, speed, and the rails.