This richly comprehensive history by a self-proclaimed "low-brow" historian features more than 100 photographs and contemporary prints of America's railway system. Stewart H. Holbrook presents a dramatic, highly readable chronicle of the development of the backbone of the country's commerce and industry. Abounding in episodes of ingenuity and achievement, the growth of the railway system required constant improvements in techniques, devices, and machines, from the first wood burner that traveled on wooden rails to modern streamliners and diesel-powered giants.
- ISBN10 0486799220
- ISBN13 9780486799223
- Publish Date 26 February 2016
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dover Publications Inc.
- Edition First Edition, First ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 480
- Language English