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Zoellner, Tom.
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Zoellner, Tom -- Travel.
Railroads -- History.
Railroad travel -- History.
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Zoellner, Tom.
Zoellner, Tom -- Travel.
Railroads -- History.
Railroad travel -- History.
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Train : riding the rails that created the modern world : from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief /
Tom
Zoellner
.
by
Zoellner
,
Tom
.
Viking Adult, 2014.
Call #:
385.09 Z85t
Subjects
Zoellner
,
Tom
--
Travel
.
Railroads
--
History.
Railroad
travel
--
History.
ISBN:
9780670025282 (hc.)
0670025283 (hc.)
Description:
xx, 346 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-330) and index.
Contents:
Beginnings
--
The people, and all the people
--
Bound for glory
--
Blood on the tracks
--
The roof of the world
--
Over the mountain
--
Faster.
Summary:
"A revelatory, entertaining account of the world's most indispensable mode of transportation
Tom
Zoellner
loves trains with a ferocious passion. In his new book he chronicles the innovation and sociological impact of the railway technology that changed the world, and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the futuristic MagLev trains,
Zoellner
offers a stirring story of man's relationship with trains.
Zoellner
examines both the mechanics of the rails and their engines and how they helped societies evolve. Not only do trains transport people and goods in an efficient manner, but they also reduce pollution and dependency upon oil.
Zoellner
also considers America's culture of ambivalence to mass transit, using the perpetually stalled line between Los Angeles and San Francisco as a case study in bureaucracy and public indifference. Train presents both an entertaining history of railway
travel
around the world while offering a serious and impassioned case for the future of train
travel
"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Travel
memoirs.
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