The American Railroad Passenger Car 2 Vols. by White John John Hopkins, 1978, 4th printing, Softcover in good condition. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight. Cover are clean. vol. 1: ISBN: 0801827221 covers in 8 chapters the following. Day Coach in the Wooden Era 1930-1930, Day Coach era of metal car, First Class travel sleeping cars, First Class travel Parlor, Dinning, and Private Cars, Passenger Car Accommodations from Decoration to Vestibules, Head-end Cars: Baggage, Express, ?Combination, Emigrant and Mail cars, Running Gears, Self-propelled cars and motor trains. Appendix's A-C, Bibliography, Index, B&W illustrations and photos, 373 pages. vol. 2: ISBN: 0801827477, lst vol. 2. Same 8 chapters as in vol. 1. Appendix's A-C, additional notes, bibliography, index, B&W photos and illustrations, pages 374-690. This set is nice and clean. Seller Inventory # 002987

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Title: The American Passenger Car 2 Vols.

Publisher: John Hoplins

Publication Date: 1978

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Edition: Later Printing.

Book Type: Book

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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

About the Author:

John H. White, Jr., formerly Curator of Transportation at the Smithsonian Institution, has written eight books and more than one hundred articles on American railroad technology.

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