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Author | : Karl R. Zimmerman |
Publisher | : Motorbooks International |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780760314227 |
This authoritative history of the 20th Century Limited from 1902 to its 1967 demise examines the train; its steam, electric, and diesel motive power; and its swank passenger cars, services, and amenities. The Century was a train of magnates and movie stars, with a red carpet rolled out for departure from Chicago to New York City. With the finest of food in the diner and a full array of amenities - barber, secretary, shower, maid - the 20th Century Limited set the standards against which all other passenger trains would be measured. This book tells the complete story of this extraordinary train, from its illustrious beginning in the days of opulent wooden cars through its demise in the era of passenger-train cutbacks that lead to the formation of Amtrak.
Author | : Richard J. Cook |
Publisher | : Motorbooks International |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1996-08-01 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9781883089269 |
The story of America's most famous train. In 1938 the Twentieth Century Limited was equipped with all-new steel cars and introduced a spectacular fleet of streamlined steam locomotives. Includes information on the locomotives, the cars, schedules, and great photography of the 20th Century on route.
Author | : Jeffrey Meikle |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2010-06-04 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 1439904715 |
Classic, indispensable introduction to industrial design in the last century.
Author | : Matthew Mills Stevenson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780970913364 |
In this new collection essays, Matthew Stevenson weaves together a historical tapestry of the last hundred years. From the battlefields of Gallipoli and those around Armenia, to Cold War Washington and modern Beirut, he has written a compelling, yet often humorous and always accessible account of persons and places encountered in his travels.
Author | : Joe Welsh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Broadway Limited (Express train) |
ISBN | : 9781610600101 |
Author | : Lucius Beebe |
Publisher | : Berkeley, Calif. : Howell-North |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : DVDs |
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"During a chance encounter on a train, the elderly Miss Pinkerton confides in Miss Marple that she is going to Scotland Yard to report a murderer who has already struck several times in the peaceful village of Wychwood-under-Ashe. When she later reads that Miss Pinkerton died in a tragic accident before making her report, Miss Marple determines that it is now up to her to find out who the killer is".
Author | : Steve Barry |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2014-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0747814937 |
For the century after 1865 all the largest railroad companies had flagship luxury trains, spectacularly appointed steamliners offering unrivaled standards of service and thoughtful amenities including ladies' perfume and carnations for gentlemen. These luxury trains transported well-heeled passengers in grand style across spectacular American landscapes in an atmosphere of privilege and elegance. Including the iconic Super Chief of the Sante Fe Railway and New York Central System's fabled 20th Century Limited, they became legends in their day and for decades after their last runs. This beautifully illustrated book allows readers to experience the exhilarating journeys, the exquisitely designed train cars and the vintage advertisements and posters that together made up the passenger's experience during this golden age of train travel – an age still remembered and celebrated today.
Author | : Alex Ross |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 2007-10-16 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1429932880 |
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
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ISBN | : 9781627003742 |
Author | : Ken Ludwig |
Publisher | : Samuel French , Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Actresses |
ISBN | : 9780573602993 |
Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche starred on Broadway in this hilarious adaptation of the classic play. Bankrupt, with his career on a downslide, egomaniacal Broadway director Oscar Jaffe boards the Twentieth Century Limited and encounters his former discovery and ex-chorus girl Lily Garland, now a tempermental Hollywood star on the train between NY and Chicago. He pulls out all the stops in persuading her to return to Broadway in his upcoming show.