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Just one restless rider : reflections on trains and travel / photographs and essays by Carlos A. Schwantes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schwantes, Carlos A., 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schwantes, Carlos A., 1945-.
- Railroad travel--United States--History.
- Railroad travel.
- Railroads--United States--History.
- Railroads.
- Travel.
- History.
- United States.
- United States--Description and travel.
- Schwantes, Carlos A., 1945---Travel.
- Schwantes, Carlos A.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 201 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- "A memoir, lavishly illustrated with the author's own photos, of train travel along the legendary rails of America reflecting a lifetime's love of observing and riding trains while tracing the evolution of American passenger trains from the 1950s to the present"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Not so long ago
- Where water meets rail
- The view from the American orient express
- Mother of all railways
- The train gods must be crazy
- Cathedrals of commerce
- Smokestacks, skyscrapers, and the railroad landscape
- Steel wheels on steel rails
- The trouble with trains
- Railroad art and the ephemera collector.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826218599
- 0826218598
- OCLC:
- 312097149
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