Steam steel & limiteds
"For over a century the passenger train was the basic mode of transportation for America. As the vast network of rails grew across the country, the train supplanted virtually every other form of transportation. Despite the cliche that the "public be damned," the railroads actually offered to the traveler every comfort and convenience possible on rolling wheels. Between 1880 and 1907, the standard train was wooden, but many of these trains operated at speeds that would put modern steamliners to shame. It was also an era of thousands of lesser trains running between obscure terminals and stopping at every country crossing. It was a day of iron men and wooden cars, but 1907 changed all that. The first all-steel sleeping car rolled fresh and bright from the giant Pullman Company works at Pullman, Illinois. But an industry isn't changed overnight and it wasn't until the end of World War I that it could be said that most trains featured all-steel cars. So it was left to the twenties and thirties to formalize the new concept of the passenger train. The great war had changed many things in America, and most of these changes eventually appeared in the railway train and its equipment."--Inside of book jacket
History
413 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
1301983
The wonderful steel train
Yankee Flyers
Alleghenies to the seaboard
In the Blue Ridge
Hello sunshine!
Down to Dixie
Extra fare, extra fast, extra fine
Lake Michigan to Lake Erie
The busy triangle
Prairie plush
To the lake country
To the wide Pacific shore
Pullmans in the Rockies
From the Gulf to Gila Bend
West Coast
Canadian luxury
Car name index
Includes index