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Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
2006
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"Craig Sanders has done an excellent job of research . . . his treatment is as comprehensive as anyone could reasonably wish for, and solidly based. In addition, he succeeds in making it all clear as well as any human can. He also manages to inject enough humor and human interest to keep the reader moving." -Herbert H. Harwood, author of The Lake Shore Electric Railway Story and Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers
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Voyageur Press
Pub. Date
2008
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The period from the 1890s to the mid-1950s is generally considered the "golden era" of passenger rail travel in America. It was a time of celebrated locomotives and luxurious passenger service, a time when rail technology saw its greatest advances and railroads became the nation's favored mode of transportation. These glory years come alive in American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated, 1889"971. For this volume, author and illustrator...
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U.S. Govt. Print. Off
Pub. Date
1967-68
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pt. 1: Committee Serial No. 90-17. Considers S. 1175 and related bills, to change administrative procedure and requirements for discontinuance of passenger train service, allowing longer periods of investigative time, reassignment of burden of non-profitability proof to carriers, and making alternative transportation arrangement provisions rather than service continuance/discontinuance decisions.
pt. 2: Committee Serial No. 90-17. Continuation of...
19) Passenger train abandonment: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, first session. April 25, 26, May 8, 1967
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U.S. Govt. Print. Off
Pub. Date
1967
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