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9781421410357 Academic Inspection Copy
  • A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946

  • Volume 5: Iowa and Minnesota
  • Driving across Iowa nowadays, one sees acres and acres of flat cornfields and hears little but the leaves stirring. But in the golden age of railroading, tracks crisscrossed the prairies and steam engines thundered by, carrying goods and people across the country. The sounds of the train could be heard for milesthe clickety-clack of the jointed ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781421410357 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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  • Local release date: 13/02/2014
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  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
9781421401461 Academic Inspection Copy
  • A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946

  • Volume 4: Illinois, Wisconsin, and Upper Michigan
  • With his meticulously crafted, hand-drawn maps of America's complex and extensive railroad network, Richard C. Carpenter recaptures a time when steam locomotives were still king and passenger trains stopped at nearly every town. Before railroad mergers forced the abandonment of thousands of miles of line and passengers chose to hop behind the ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781421401461 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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    AUD $167.00
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  • Local release date: 13/02/2012
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9780801890024 Academic Inspection Copy
  • A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946

  • Volume 3: Indiana, Lower Michigan, and Ohio
  • A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 recalls an era when steam locomotives were still king and passenger trains stopped at nearly every town in America. Railroad companies employed over a million workers, on the trains and along the tracks. Everything moved by rail: travelers, mail, and freight -- whether a massive electric generator or a ......
  • ISBN-13: 9780801890024 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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    AUD $165.00
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  • Local release date: 13/02/2009
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  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
9780801880780 Academic Inspection Copy
  • A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946

  • Volume 2: New York & New England
  • 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 ......
  • ISBN-13: 9780801880780 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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    AUD $161.00
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  • Local release date: 14/07/2005
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9780801873317 Academic Inspection Copy
  • A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946

  • Volume 1: The Mid-Atlantic States
  • A pair of gleaming rails embedded in a farmhouse driveway. A wooded cycling trail that traces an oddly level path through suburban hills. An abandoned high fill that briefly parallels the interstate. Today, little remains of the vast network of passenger and freight railroad lines that once crisscrossed much of eastern and midwestern America. But ......
  • ISBN-13: 9780801873317 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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    AUD $161.00
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  • Local release date: 14/10/2003
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  • Categories: General studies [GTG]
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