Product Description: This book covers the AT&SF's passenger trains at the dawn of the streamlining era through to Amtrak in 1971. Exterior and interior photographs, many taken from the railway's own public relations collection, as well as many other sources, give fresh insight into Santa Fe passenger service, its philosophy, operations, name trains and secondary runs, cars, locomotives, timetables, advertising, and much more...read more

Product Description: The Vista-Dome North Coast Limited was the premier passenger train of the Northern Pacific Railway from 1954 to 1970. Dressed in Raymond Loewy's two-tone green paint scheme, deemed by many to be the most attractive ever applied to a passenger train, the Vista-Dome North Coast Limited featured glass-topped dome cars, which allowed passengers a sweeping view of the scenic territory between Chicago and Seattle...read more

An authoritative history of the American railroad passenger car, illustrated with nearly eight hundred photographs, engravings, and line drawings, examines interior designs and costs and recreates a lost age of elegance in rail travel

An authoritative history of the American railroad passenger car, illustrated with nearly eight hundred photographs, engravings, and line drawings, examines interior designs and costs and recreates a lost age of elegance in rail travel