Train Wrecks: A Pictorial History of Accidents on the Main Line
In the mid-nineteenth century, American railroading was burgeoning--a growth too fast for safe operations. Despite the grim statistics of 19th and early 20th century train wrecks that resulted, one cannot help but find the photographs and public prints of the day interesting. Train buffs will see the antecedents of their hobby.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7643-0136-0
- EAN: 9780764301360
- Produktnummer: 1815312
- Verlag: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Masse: H27.6 cm x B21.6 cm x D1.6 cm 898 g
- Abbildungen: 298 b/w photos
- Gewicht: 898
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Robert Reed is an adjunct Professor of English at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. He lives in a nineteenth-century cottage in Old Town Alexandria and on Sideling Hill, near Paw Paw, West Virginia, where he pretends to live like Thoreau, but can't exist without satellite television and microwave popcorn. Mr. Reed has written earlier books about train wrecks, the era of streamline industrial design, the development of the New York City elevated railroad system, and nineteenth-century Washington, D.C. In recent years, he has written about architecture and urban design. Of his interest in the wreckage of voyage, Reed denies any obsession with the macabre. He argues that accidents are the reality of the every day.
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