The New York Subway: Its Construction and Equipment: Interborough Rapid Transit, 1904
ISBN: 9780823224012 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a complete facsimile of the 1904 edition originally published by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company to commemorate the opening of New York's first subway line. From the perspective of both urban history and the history of transportation, this book is an important primary source. Building the city's first subway in the early years of the twentieth century required delicate collaboration between public and private interests and called for the expenditure of considerable sums of both public and private money. The book introduces us to Abram S. Hewitt, a late nineteenth-century mayor...
This is a complete facsimile of the 1904 edition originally published by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company to commemorate the opening of New York...
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200,40 zł |
Steam: An Enduring Legacy: The Railroad Photographs of Joel Jensen
ISBN: 9780393082487 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timeless collection takes us back to the end of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, with captivating images evoking the past. Essays by John Gruber, the president of the Center for Railroad Photography, and Scott Lothes, the project director for the center, help to put these wonderful photographs in context.
This timeless collection takes us back to the end of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, with captivating images evoking the p...
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201,50 zł |
The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway: The Rise and Fall of a Rural Byway
ISBN: 9781526776174 / Angielski / 30-04-2024 Książka dostępna od: 30-04-2024 |
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Termin ukazania się książki: 30-04-2024
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191,42 zł |
Narrow Gauge in the Tropics: The Railways of the Dutch East Indies, 1864-1942
ISBN: 9780253060297 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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201,50 zł |
Empire Builders: An Illustrated History of the Rise and Fall of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers
ISBN: 9780253069825 / Angielski / 04-06-2024 Książka dostępna od: 04-06-2024 |
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191,42 zł |
PERYHS Monograph 2: John L. Whitmeyer, Remembrances of the Pacific Electric Railway
ISBN: 9781541376700 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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203,19 zł |
Lost Railways of the World
ISBN: 9781399096171 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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206,01 zł |
North Yorkshire Moors Railway Golden Jubilee 1 May 1973 - 1 May 2023
ISBN: 9781857946109 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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206,01 zł |
Railroads in the African American Experience: A Photographic Journey
ISBN: 9780801891625 / Angielski / Twarda / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This captivating book takes readers on an illustrated tour of the black railroad experience from slavery to Amtrak. With almost 200 images--many never before published--Theodore Kornweibel, Jr., examines the significant contributions of African Americans to the building, maintenance, operation, and profitability of the American railway system. The history of American railroads, Kornweibel makes clear, cannot be separated from African American history. For over a century, railroading provided the most important industrial occupation for blacks. Brakemen, firemen, porters, chefs,... This captivating book takes readers on an illustrated tour of the black railroad experience from slavery to Amtrak. With almost 200 images--many ne... |
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The Clayton Type 1 Bo-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives - British Railways Class 17: Development, Design and Demise
ISBN: 9781526762009 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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212,10 zł |
Narrow Gauge Panorama: Steaming Along the Rustic and Narrow
ISBN: 9781526776211 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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212,10 zł |
The B T H and North British Type 1 Bo-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives - British Railways Classes 15 and 16: Development, Design and Demise
ISBN: 9781526761965 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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212,10 zł |
Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives 1923 - 1959
ISBN: 9781399095303 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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212,10 zł |
Can't You Hear the Whistle Blowin': Logs, Lignite, and Locomotives in Coos County, Oregon
ISBN: 9781734804638 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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213,10 zł |
765, A Twenty-First Century Survivor: A little history and some great stories from Rich Melvin, the 765's engineer.
ISBN: 9781734903010 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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215,04 zł |
Locomotive Dictionary
ISBN: 9781935327967 / Angielski / Miękka / 686 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most significant documents of the steam locomotive age, the Locomotive Dictionary is the ultimate reference for the rail fan. In 1905, the American Railway Master mechanics Association adopted a resolution authorizing the creation of ..".an illustrated dictionary of each and every part used in the building of locomotives." The result, edited by famed technical writer George Fowler and published by the Railroad Gazette, was nearly 700 pages long, and richly illustrated with photographs, etchings, and blueprints. The Locomotive Dictionary was a triumph, and quickly became one of the...
One of the most significant documents of the steam locomotive age, the Locomotive Dictionary is the ultimate reference for the rail fan. In 1905, the ...
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215,04 zł |
Pennsy Power: Steam and Electric Locomotives of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1900-1957
ISBN: 9781635610185 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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216,73 zł |
The President Travels by Train: Politics and Pullmans
ISBN: 9781635610581 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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216,73 zł |
The Diesel That Did It: General Motors' FT Locomotive
ISBN: 9780253062789 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Wallace W. Abbey: A Life in Railroad Photography
ISBN: 9780253032249 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the late 1940s onward, Wallace W. Abbey masterfully combined journalistic and artistic vision to transform everyday transportation moments into magical photographs. Abbey, a photographer, journalist, historian, and railroad industry executive, helped people from many different backgrounds understand and appreciate what was taken for granted: a world of locomotives, passenger trains, big-city terminals, small-town depots, and railroaders. During his lifetime he witnessed and photographed sweeping changes in the railroading industry from the steam era to the era of diesel locomotives... From the late 1940s onward, Wallace W. Abbey masterfully combined journalistic and artistic vision to transform everyday transportation moments int... |
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226,68 zł |