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Railroaded : A Motorman's Story of the New York City Subway.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Naiden, Fred S.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (274 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- The New York City subway system is one of the largest and oldest in the world, still carrying traces of the transport systems that came before it.Some of its elevated tracks are remnants of steam railroads, and some tunnels run where canoes served as ferries.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1. A Motorman's Work
- 2. The Strikes and Deficits That Plague the Subway
- 3. My Life in a Downtown Railroad Flat
- 4. A Railroad Porter's Work
- 5. My Time as a Shop Steward
- 6. A Locomotive Engineer's Work
- 7. My Life as a Rider-and Yours
- Epilogue
- Two Centuries of Subway Maps
- Photographs and Illustrations
- Chronology
- Glossary
- Acknowledgments and Bibliographical Essay
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-9788-4410-7
- OCLC:
- 1591758555
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