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In this illustrated collection, H. Roger Grant, one of America's leading railroad historians, brings together a rich assortment of personal accounts of train travel in the United States since the dawn of railroading. The twenty-one accounts included here tell of the excitement, the romance, the difficulties, and sometimes the danger of traveling by train. Together they present a lively picture of the great changes that have taken place since the 1830s. Some describe wild rides on high-speed raceways, while others recount arduous trips on rickety branch lines. Rail travel at its most luxurious is recreated--the elegant Pullman sleeping berths, the fine parlor and observation cars--as are some of the more grim journeys of troops, itinerant workers, and prisoners of war in squalid boxcars. Binding these accounts together is an enduring fascination with the rails.

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Transport technology & trades Railway technology, engineering & trades

• Full title: We Took the Train
• Author: H. Roger Grant
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 205
• EAN: 9780875801568
• ID: 04749980
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Weight: 28 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 178 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. November 1990

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