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  • Grand Central Terminal

    100 Years of a New York Landmark

    par Anthony W. Robins, NY Transit Museum ...
    Packed with extraordinary photos, illustrations, and historical facts, a celebration of the legendary Manhattan rail terminal's first century.Opened in February 1913, Grand Central Terminal—one of the country's great architectural monuments—helped create Midtown Manhattan. Over the next century, it evolved into an unofficial town square for New York. Today, it sits astride Park Avenue at 42nd ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • New York Art Deco

    A Guide to Gotham's Jazz Age Architecture

    par Anthony W. Robins ...
    Collections series Excelsior Editions
    The first guidebook devoted exclusively to New York City's Art Deco treasures.Winner of a 2017–2018 New York City Book Award presented by the New York Society LibraryOf all the world's great cities, perhaps none is so defined by its Art Deco architecture as New York. Lively and informative, New York Art Deco leads readers step-by-step past the monuments of the 1920s and '30s that recast New York ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Rails Across Canada

    The History of Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways

    par Tom Murray ...
    Few stories in the annals of railroading are as compelling as the construction, evolution, and astounding successes of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways. This sprawling volume combines two of Voyageur Press' most successful Railroad Color History titles into one volume taking in the grand scope of both railroads. Author Tom Murray presents fastidiously researched and concisely ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Fire and Steam

    A New History of the Railways in Britain

    par Christian Wolmar ...
    Now in paperback, Fire and Steam tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's first railway network, one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history. The opening of the pioneering Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the railways' vital role in changing the face of Britain. Fire and Steam celebrates the vision and ... En savoir plus

    $16.53 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Narrow Gauge Railways

    par Peter Johnson ...
    Collections Livre 772 - Shire Library
    Narrow gauge railways, so well suited to difficult, mountainous terrain, were built in many of the UK's most scenic locations.Their genesis was in mines and quarries where they replaced man- or horse-pulled wagons, but their adaptability meant that by the 1860s they were also carrying passengers, in some cases over quite considerable distances. Today a good proportion of all the important lines ... En savoir plus

    $12.19 CAD

  • The Lunatic Express

    par Charles Miller ...
    In 1895, George Whitehouse arrived at the east African post of Mombasa to perform an engineering miracle: the building of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Lake Victoria Railway – a 600-mile route that was largely unmapped and barely explored. Behind Mombasa lay a scorched, waterless desert. Beyond, a horizonless scrub country climbed toward a jagged volcanic region bisected by the Great Rift Valley. A hundred ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Dundurn Railroad 5-Book Bundle

    In Search of the Grand Trunk / Rails Across the Prairies / Rails Across Ontario / The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore / Rails to the Atlantic

    par Ron Brown ...
    Ron Brown is Canada’s leading literary authority on the history of Canada’s railways, particularly those now-lost branches from the golden age of steam that once ran like veins and arteries throughout the country. This special five-book bundle collects several of his titles, including: In Search of the Grand Trunk, which takes a close look at Ontario’s railway heritage in the late 19th and early ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Railway Accidents

    par Greg Morse ...
    Britain's rail network is now among the safest in the world, but the journey that brought it to that point has been long and eventful. Early incidents like the felling of William Huskisson MP by Stephenson's Rocket (1830) showed how new ideas could bring new dangers; yet from disaster came new safety measures, and within fifty years better signalling and braking methods had been made mandatory. ... En savoir plus

    $12.19 CAD

  • American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated

    par Mark Wegman ...
    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, ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Complete Book of North American Railroading

    par Kevin EuDaly, Mike Schafer, Steve Jessup, Jim Boyd, Steve Glischinski, Andrew McBride ...
    The year 1827 marked the completion of the United States’ first railroad--and the beginning of a transformation of American life. This book, spanning nearly two centuries, offers an exhilarating tour of the railways’ inroads into the economy, society, and culture of North America.Illustrated with more than 400 historical and modern photographs and period advertisements, The Complete Book of North ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Electro-Motive E-Units and F-Units

    The Illustrated History of North America's Favorite Locomotives

    par Brian Solomon ...
    Blending automotive manufacturing and styling techniques with state-of-the-art diesel-electric technologies, General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division conceived and marketed America’s first commercially successful road diesels: the fabulous E-Units and F-Units. This illustrated companion to Voyageur Press’ Alco Locomotives (2009) and Baldwin Locomotives (2010) is the most comprehensive history of ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The 1852 Guide to the Great Western Railway

    par George Measom ...
    When George Measom wrote his bestselling Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway in 1852, Brunel’s railway line between London and Bristol had been fully opened just eleven years. The Great Exhibition of the previous year had attracted six million visitors, many of whom had travelled to it by rail. This was the true Age of the Train. His guide is alive with an atmosphere of bustle and steam ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus