American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated

Mark Wegman

Voyageur Press, Nov 17, 2008 - Transportation - 160 pages

The period from the 1890s to the mid-1950s is generally considered the golden era of passenger rail travel in America. It was a time of celebrated locomotives and luxurious passenger service, a time when rail technology saw its greatest advances and railroads became the nation s favored mode of transportation. These glory years come alive in American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated, 1889 1971. For this volume, author and illustrator Mark Wegman has researched original railroad drawings and in some cases even paint chips to render more than 160 profiles, front and top views, and interior layouts depicting the steam, diesel, and electric locomotives, along with passenger cars, of three dozen of the nation s most celebrated trains of the golden age. Accompanying the author s drawings are histories of each train, period photographs, postcards, menus, luggage stickers, vintage print ads, and detailed captions. The book is a lavishly appointed journey back in time to the bygone heyday of passenger-train travel.

Contents

• Contents: 7
• The 20th Century Limited Pennsylvania Limited: 21
• The Olympian: 28
• The Crescent Limited: 36
• 1930s: 42
• The George M Pullman: 53
• The Royal Blue Capitol Limited: 62
• The 20th Century Limited and: 70
• The Chief and Super Chief: 78
• The Hiawatha and the 400s: 84
• The Silver Meteor: 90
• 1940s1950s: 98
• The Tennessean and the Southerner: 100
• The City of Miami and the Panama Limited: 105
• The Banner Blue and the Blue Bird: 107
• The Empire Builder: 108
• The North Coast Limited: 114
• The 20th Century Limited and the Broadway Limited: 116
• The Meteor Firefly and Texas Special: 120
• The Sunshine Special Eagle and Texas Eagle: 124
• The California Zephyr: 128
• The Shasta Daylight: 130
• The Sunset Limited: 132
• EN PACIFIC The VistaDome North Coast Limited opens a new panorama of scenic beauty 31 The Powhatan Arrow: 134
• to travelers in the Northern Pacific West 32 The Olympian Hiawatha: 137
• The Phoebe Snow and the Capitol Limited: 142
• The City Streamliners: 144
• The Super Chief: 148
• El Capitan: 153
• The Silver Meteor: 156
• Epilogue: 158
• Index: 159

About the author

Lifelong railfan Mark Wegman is a project engineer in the defense industry. Trained as a civil engineer at Pittsburg State University, he combined his professional background with his railroad avocation to produce the artwork and history in this volume over the course of a 12-year period. He resides in Columbia, Missouri.

Bibliographic information

• Title: American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated; Great Passenger Trains Series
• Author: Mark Wegman
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Voyageur Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0760334757, 9780760334751
• Length: 160 pages
• Subjects: Transportation / Railroads / General; Transportation / Railroads / History; Transportation / Railroads / Pictorial