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| The Railroad Passenger Car: An Illustrated History of the First Hundred Years With Accounts by Contemporary Passengers |
| By : August Mencken, Courtney B. Wilson (Introduction) |
In The Railroad Passenger Car August Mencken offers a fascinating look at the achievements and contradictions of this key period in railroad history. Drawing on a wide assortment of materials--including a wealth of drawings from the U.S. Patent Office, first-hand accounts of contemporary passengers, and his own experience as a young civil engineer active in railroad construction--Mencken presents the roster of cars in which nineteenth-century travelers rode and suffered. Here are the weird and ingenious inventions designed to increase both the passengers' comfort and the owners' revenue; and here are the passengers' own comments, both angry and humorous--thirty-five accounts written by passengers from 1831 to 1891 and bearing such titles as "An Inhuman Conductor," "The Baggage Smashers of Omaha," and "Cows on the West Chester Line."
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr List Price: 32.00 Customer Rating: 5 / 5.0 
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