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Author : Bill Bradley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781563420030
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Last of the Great Stations written by Bill Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janet Greenstein Potter
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471143895
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Great American Railroad Stations written by Janet Greenstein Potter and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1996-04-20 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[S]ociety so often allows masterpieces of architecture...to be destroyed or altered as though real estate ownership supersedes any other value system....The best railroad stations were conceived in the dreams of architects and civil engineers, and then brought to life by talented craftspeople....This guidebook is a tribute not only to those who built these stations, but also the railroaders who worked within the depots and on the platforms...." — Janet Greenstein Potter Bustling nerve centers of a dynamic young society on the move, grand last farewells and first welcomes for millions of weary travelers, enduring monuments to the birth of the world's first truly modern nation, railroad stations played a central role in the shaping of the United States and its unique culture. Now, in this, the definitive guide to America's great railroad stations, writer and architectural historian Janet Greenstein Potter tells the stories of more than 700 of these masterpieces. An excellent resource for on-site and armchair travelers alike, this lavishly illustrated guide provides a generous mix of historical and practical information. Potter provides a detailed biographical profile of each station, covering the year of construction, name of original railroad, designer, style, and materials. Focusing on buildings that are still standing, she discusses depots that have been restored as well as those on the verge of distinction, explains what the station is used for today, and describes its current condition from a preservation/restoration standpoint. And, with the help of more than 500 beautiful archival photographs and detailed drawings, she helps you to gain a fuller understanding of what these structures were like in their heyday. For quick, easy reference, the book has been organized by region. Stations in all 50 of the United States are covered, and the street addresses of each building have been provided. Offering an unparalleled opportunity to experience the grandeur and vitality of a bygone era, Great American Railroad Stations is an indispensable resource for travelers, architects and design professionals, preservationists, and train and transportation enthusiasts.
Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 1627887784
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (278 download)
Download or read book Railway Depots, Stations & Terminals written by Brian Solomon and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the railway's beginnings, the station building, itself, had civic importance greater than ordinary structures. Let historian Brian Solomon show you how beautifully it filled that role. Railway Depots, Stations & Terminals is a unique book about some of the finest, most interesting, and most famous railway stations. Contemporary photographs, historic images, and postcard views provide an in-depth look at the architectural gems that dot the railroad landscape. The railway station has a special role in people's lives. Stations have served as the gateway to the world's great cities and the point of contact for remote towns. The inherent nature of the station is different from that of other buildings; it is an entrance, an exit, a place to rest, and a stop along the way. It can be the first thing a traveler sees and the last memory of a favorite city. Facing both the street and the tracks, the station is naturally a point of departure and a face of the city it serves. Brian Solomon, one of today's most accomplished railway historians, leads you through a one-of-a-kind exploration of the history and architecture of depots, stations, and terminals.
Author : Oliver Green
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 0711266611
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)
Download or read book London's Great Railway Stations written by Oliver Green and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavish photographic history of all the key railway stations of London for transport buffs and anyone interested in the rich history of London.
Author : Bill Bradley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780916374365
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (743 download)
Download or read book The Last of the Great Stations written by Bill Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Lischer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 110191047X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Stations of the Heart written by Richard Lischer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father’s heartbreaking and hopeful story about his beloved son, in which a young man teaches his family “a new way to die” with wit, candor, and grace. "A book after my own heart, profound, gorgeous, deeply spiritual and human, beautifully written, heartbreaking, but also, because of the writer's wisdom and spirit, triumphant." —Anne Lamott As the book opens, Richard Lischer’s son, Adam, calls to tell his father, a professor of divinity at Duke University, that his cancer has returned. Adam is a charismatic young man with a promising law career, and that his wife is pregnant with their first child makes the disease’s return all the more devastating. Despite the cruel course of the illness, Adam’s growing weakness evokes in him a remarkable spiritual strength. This is the story of one last summer, lived as honestly and faithfully as possible. Deeply moving and utterly lacking in sentimentality or self-pity, Stations of the Heart is an unforgettable book about life and death and the terrible blessing of saying good-bye.
Author : Ben Pedroche
Publisher : Capital Transport
ISBN 13 : 9781854143525
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Do Not Alight Here written by Ben Pedroche and published by Capital Transport. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned tunnels, derelict stations, old trackbeds and much more. All are included in this entertaining and informative book that guides the reader through London's many remaining disused railway structures.
Author : Roger Straus
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101545313
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book America's Great Railroad Stations written by Roger Straus and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative and stunning photographic tribute to America's railroad stations. For much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the railroad station or depot was the communal hub of every American town that could boast of train service. There, citizens gathered before they sent loved ones off to college, marriage, or war-and where they greeted them on their return. Most of these buildings were architectural gems, and while many are still in service, certain others now house museums, banks, restaurants, and more. In fact, in cities like Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, renovated stations are destinations unto themselves even for those not boarding the train. And in other places, whole sections of towns have been remade around these structures, restoring their vitality in novel and interesting ways long after the last train has left the station. In America's Great Railroad Stations, award-winning photographer Roger Straus III, and two lifelong railroad buffs, Ed Breslin and Hugh Van Dusen, join forces to tell the astonishing story of these enduring structures and the important role they still play in the country's landscape. Journeying from the Pennsylvania Railroad to the Union Pacific to Michigan Central and more, readers will be dazzled by the Beaux Arts monuments of New York and the adobe buildings of the Southwest. Filled with both new and archival photographs and drawings, this volume is a glorious salute to the institution that transformed our nation.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Transfer of Agricultural Dry Land and Irrigation Field Stations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Jenkins
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241978998
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations written by Simon Jenkins and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect new gift from the bestselling author of Britain's 1000 Best Churches It is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting, greeting and parting. It is an institution with its own rituals and priests, and a long-neglected aspect of Britain's architecture. And yet so little do we look at the railway station. Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of Great Britain, from Waterloo to Wemyss Bay, Betws-y-Coed to Beverley, to select his hundred best. Blending his usual insight and authority with his personal reflections and experiences - including his founding the Railway Heritage Trust - the foremost expert on our national heritage deftly reveals the history, geography, design and significance of each of these glories. Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs throughout, this joyous exploration of our social history shows the station's role in the national imagination; champions the engineers, architects and rival companies that made them possible; and tells the story behind the triumphs and follies of these very British creations. These are the marvellous, often undersung places that link our nation, celebrated like never before.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1670 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Limit Power of Radio Stations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Central Station written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Limit Power of Radio Stations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin D. Culp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Stations West written by Edwin D. Culp and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most of us have felt the fascination of seeing a steam locomotive with smoke drifting back over the line of cars it pulled, as the whole train wound through tall Western mountains. Whether we have actually experienced it or not, and many have, we know such a thing existed and that it is now part of a past that we can't touch again. But in Stations West, Edwin Culp comes close. With four hundred eighty photographs, carefully collected over a period of more than twenty years, he presents an exciting graphic history of Oregon railways from their beginnings to the present. Following the tracks as they were laid, from the Willamette Valley to the Oregon desert, he illustrates, in all its many facets, a heritage which has passed"--
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Daily River Stages at River Gage Stations on the Principal Rivers of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Weather Bureau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Daily River Stages at River Gage Stations on the Principal Rivers of the United States written by United States. Weather Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Forest Experiment Stations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
