Author Name: Kevin J. Holland
Title: The Steam Liners - Streamlined Steam Locomotives & the American Passenger Train
Seller ID: TL179
The evolution of railroad motive power and popular culture collided in the 1930's with spectacular results. Industrial designers like Norman Bel Geddes, Walter Darwin Teague, Otto Kuhler, Henry Dreyfuss, and Raymond Loewy introduced Art Deco and Moderne design to North America's railroads just as diesel locomotives were slowly but steadily encroaching on steam's dominance. With the public's fascination for headline-making streamlined trains like the Burlington Zephyr and Flying Yankee, steam, diesel, and electric locomotives all became objects of the railroads' streamlined affections. Author Kevin J. Holland chronicles North America's rich variety of streamlined steam locomotives against the backdrop of the trains they pulled and the men and women who designed them. It's a fascinating story. 33 US and Canadian railroads are presented in more than 200 illustrations, paintings by Ted Rose and Michael Kotowski, brochure and advertisements and selected diagrams and floor plans. Retail $29.95.
Price = 22.50 USD
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