The President Travels by Train: Politics and Pullmans

The fascinating story of railroad travel by presidents of the U.S. from the very earliest period when John Quincy Adams was the first to ride a train to Bill Clintons recent journeys aboard the rails. At one time the private Pullman car on a special train was for the president what Air Force One is today allowing him freedom to make important trips campaign for re-election and to do the nations business wherever he was needed. A superbly researched text is supplemented with many rare photographs of the golden age of presidential travel under Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman in the 1930s and 40s.