A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946

Volume 2: New York & New England

Richard C. Carpenter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2005
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-8078-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Richard C. Carpenter is the retired executive director of the South Western Regional Planning Agency in Connecticut.

Inhalt

Introduction
How to Use This Atlas
Acknowledgments
The Atlas
Key Map
Map Symbols and Abbreviations
The Maps
Appendix: List of Railroads in the Atlas
Notes on the Maps
References
Indexes
Coaling Stations
Interlocking Stations and Former Interlocking Stations
Passenger and Non-passenger Stations
Tunnels
Viaducts

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.7.2005
• Reihe/Serie: Creating the North American Landscape
• Zusatzinfo: 191 Maps
• Verlagsort: Baltimore, MD
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 216 x 279 mm
• Gewicht: 1338 g
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 0-8018-8078-5 / 0801880785
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8078-0 / 9780801880780
• Zustand: Neuware