Category: Train

When it came to electric trains, no retail catalogue could match the excitement generated by the latest Lionel catalogue. This book features the grandest examples of Lionel catalogue and advertising art along with text on how the artwork reflected the culture and values of the times.
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Throttling the railroads

By: Carson, Clarence Buford

Price: $10.00

Publisher: published by Liberty Fund, for distribution by the Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y : January 1971

Seller ID: 97030

ISBN: B0006CJNW8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Railroads on Parade at The New York World's Fair and original seperate 'Bill of the Play' 1939

By: Edward Hungerford

Price: $25.00

Publisher: World's Fair : January 1939

Seller ID: 90377

ISBN: B015WWKHKI

Binding: Staple Bound

Condition: Used - Like New

Baltimore Streetcars: The Postwar Years

By: Harwood Jr., Herbert H.

Price: $22.20

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press : September 2003

Seller ID: 160700

ISBN-13: 9780801871900

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Herbert H. Harwood here gives us a glorious picture of Baltimore in the heyday of the streetcar, combining the story of lines and equipment with a nostalgic view of Baltimore when so many of her people relied on street railways. From the late 1800s through World War II, streetcars transported Baltimore's population to and from work, play, and just about everything else. Bankers and clerks, factory workers and managers, domestics, schoolchildren, shoppers, all rode side-by-side on the streetcars regardless of economic status, level of education, or ethnic background. In a city where residences ...
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Encyclopedia of North American Railroading: 150 Years of Railroading in the United States and Canada

By: Hubbard, Freeman H.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: McGraw-Hill : August 1981

Seller ID: 175288

ISBN-13: 9780070308282

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Night Trains: The Pullman Systems in the Golden Years of American Rail Travel

By: Maiken, Peter T.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press : October 1992

Seller ID: 179508

ISBN-13: 9780801845031

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Forty years ago, it was the way to travel. Back then, one could climb between crisp linens and soft blankets, adjust the oversized pillows, and watch America speed by in the night. With more than 300 photographs and 50 maps, Night Trains is a lively account of the Pullman enterprise during the golden years of its operation--from 1920 to 1955--when the remarkable sleeping car system routinely played host to more than 50,000 guests nightly."A compelling tribute to a bygone time when getting there was half the fun... An education for the young and a scrapbook for those who remember." -- Herald-Di...
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