| A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946: Volume 2: New York & New England Contributor(s): Carpenter, Richard C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801880785 ISBN-13: 9780801880780 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $70.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Transportation | Railroads - History - Reference | Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (see Also Travel - Maps & Road Atlases) |
| Dewey: 385.097 |
| LCCN: 2002031038 |
| Series: Creating the North American Landscape (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 8.78" W x 11.24" (2.91 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - New England - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Carpenter, Richard C.: - Richard C. Carpenter, now retired, was the executive director of the South Western Regional Planning Agency in Connecticut. |