Author Name: Geoffrey H. Doughty
Title: New Haven Railroad, The - Streamline Passenger Fleet 1934-1953
Seller ID: TL158
The story of how New England's 'little giant' managed to order a fleet of streamline passenger cars and locomotives in the midst of two national crises, the Great Depression and World War II. In conjunction with the Roosevelt Administration and Pullman-Standard, President/Trustee Howard Palmer corrected the administrative and economic damage created by J. P. Morgan's financial empire, in collusion with previous management's, by applying a keen sense of direction and revolutionary tactics. Author Doughty also tells the railroad under Palmer, in the middle of World War II, prepared for the postwar period with passenger car and traffic research, revealing for the first time unpublished drawings, designs, and artistic renderings depicting the plans and dreams for the future, and how, in the span of one year, all these dreams vanished. Through engaging text and over 150 B&W and color photos and drawings, the author reveals what resulted, but also what might have been - had not other circumstances intervened. Retail $28.95.
Price = 22.00 USD
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