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Train Wrecks: A Pictorial History of Accidents on the Main Line - Softcover

Reed, Robert Carroll

 
9780764301360: Train Wrecks: A Pictorial History of Accidents on the Main Line
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0764301365 ISBN 13: 9780764301360
Verlag: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

American railroad history is filled with accounts of misadventure. Steam boilers blew up. Bridges collapsed under the weight of heavy engines. Locomotives crashed head-on because of signal failures. Passenger cars derailed, often with dire results. Lightly built wooden coaches splintered on impact, and the debris often ignited from the coals in the iron stoves used for heating. In the mid-nineteenth century American railroading was burgeoning--a growth too fast for safe operations. Despite the grim statistics of 19th and early 20th century train wrecks that resulted, one cannot help but find the photographs and public prints of the day interesting. When you pick up this wonderous book, you will have a hard time putting it down

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With Train Wrecks, Robert Reed presents a major historic work, amply illustrated to present the full impact of this developmental period of rail transport.

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Verlag
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0764301365
ISBN 13 
9780764301360
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
184
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