More Classic Trains

More Classic Trains by Dubin, Arthur D.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780890240243.

This is one of the great books on the golden era of passenger trains, capturing in beautiful photos and drawings the comfort and variety of travel by train. With dazzling end papers showing paintings by Walter F. Greene of the Twentieth Century Limited (front) and by Grif Teller of the Pennsylvanias experimental S-1 6-4-4-6 (back); frontispiece is the Missouri Pacifics Sunshine Special by William Harnden Foster. Illustrated with over 1500 photos. Includes car floor plans, menus, timetables, and travel folders. Chapters include A Pullman Postscript; In the Northeast Corridor; The American Flyer Cars; The Great Steel Fleet and the Fleet of Modernism; A Twist on the Tuscan Red; The Black Diamond Express; On the Monon; On the Pere Marquette; The Rebel Route; The Seaboard Coast Line Route to the South; The Pan American; The Frisco and Katy; Thru the Rockies, Not Around them; The Great Race to Chicago and to the Twin Cities; Il Camino Real -- The Highway of the King; Great Trains of the Great Western; The Olympian; The Golden State Limited; The Finest Trains on Earth; the Canadian Pacific Railway; Across Canada; Mexicano de Lujo; Some Exotic Trains; Amtrak; Wagons-Lits. 512 pages with index.