Chesapeake & Ohio's Pere Marquettes: America's First Post-War Streamliners
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (818 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1883089883 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 88 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Eventually affected by the continued erosion of passenger traffic, the trains experienced a slow decline, but lasted as a shadow of themselves down to Amtrak on May 1, 1971. Over the next year they reversed the passenger losses on this line and actually built up traffic. Young, as a test bed for his ideas on how to cure the passenger train problem in America. He ordered two diesel-powered 7-car lightweight trains that went into service in mid-1946 on the Detroit-Grand Rapids corridor. Many of these things were later tried on C&O's mainline trains, and the equipment showed the way for the huge re-equipping of the name trains on the old C&O in 1950. C&O's subsidiary Pere Marquette Railway was used by C&O's pro-passenger Chairman, Robert R. The story is told in great detail from original documents and illustrated with great photos, many of them from C&O official files.. The trains were the first to emerge all-new from the clogged car builder's shops after WWII. The new trains were of latest design and the on
M. FUSCO said Good text, great photos. The C&O was always associated with my childhood, as I lived in Columbus, Ohio, and traveled at least once a year to Virginia.I can never forget the pleasure of my roomette, dinner and breakfast in the diner on heavy, monogrammed china and silverware. I always wondered why cereal in the morning tasted so good, and different, on the train. I later realized it was because they served it with heavy cream instead of milk!Anyway, I will buy just about any book which deals with this superb railway at its. Five Stars Jerry a Great. "Five Stars" according to don hipperson. Very informative book on one of the lesser known passenger trains of the 19Five Stars don hipperson Very informative book on one of the lesser known passenger trains of the 1940s.. 0s.