Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 - Volume 2: New York & New England

Informationen zum Autor Richard C. Carpenter is the retired executive director of the South Western Regional Planning Agency in Connecticut. Klappentext Whistle-stop posts along a picturesque cycling trail. An abandoned roundhouse in a new industrial park. A piece of "Black Diamond" anthracite coal lying in the grass. These are silent witnesses to the golden age of American railroading! 1946! when the steam locomotive's sonorous whistle could be heard from Pennsylvania to Vermont! from New York to Chicago. The second installation of Richard C. Carpenter's highly acclaimed series covers an area criss-crossed by some of the oldest railroad lines in America. This volume includes over 191 beautiful! hand-drawn maps of rail systems in New York! Connecticut! Massachusetts! Rhode Island! Maine! New Hampshire! and Vermont. These masterpieces! accompanied by detailed sections on stations! track pans! tunnels! and viaducts! capture a time when rail was king in New England! before cars! trucks! and planes became dominant. Zusammenfassung These masterpieces, accompanied by detailed sections on stations, track pans, tunnels, and viaducts, capture a time when rail was king in New England, before cars, trucks, and planes became dominant.

Product details

• Authors: Richard C Carpenter, Richard C. Carpenter, Carpenter Richard C.
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.07.2005
• EAN: 9780801880780
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8078-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 286 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Creating the North American La; Creating the North American Landscape; Creating the North American La
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Rail vehicles; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Maps, city plans, atlases; HISTORY / Historical Geography, TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / General, c 1950 to c 1959, Trains & railways: general interest, Historical maps and atlases, Historical maps & atlases, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, Trains and railways: general interest, C 1945 To C 1960, US Northeast