Review - The American
Streamliner - Postwar Years
An impressive look at the history of postwar streamliners, with
numerous large-format color & B&W photography (many
shots from
EMD) as well as an interesting assortment of railroadiana items such as
period
ads,
postcards, and timetables.
some highlights:
Union Pacific
Color shot of the City of Portland
in
the Columbia River Gorge
City
of San Francisco
color ad
B&W shot of E-6 9-M-1
Color shot of #106 leading the City
of Portland
Color shot of E-9 #962
Color shot of UP-painted buses at East Los Angeles
#104 leading the City
of
Los Angeles
- color
2-page color spread of #s 928 + 936
AT&SF
Warbonnets leaving Chicago just prior to Amtrak
El
Capitan color ad
E-6A #13 at Chicago
F-7A
#314 1971
#338 at Joliet
PA-1 #51 B&W
Missouri Pacific
B&W E-3 leading Pacific Eagle
#41 at Kansas City, 1970
MP Playing Card
PA-2 #8013
Great Northern
B&W E-7A #501
Empire
Builder cars -
interior layout
Pullman-Standard color ad for Empire
Builder cars
Illinois Central
2 B&W shots - E6 leading City of
Miami
B&W 2-page spread of IC coachyard at Chicago
B&W E-6 #4002 on Panama Limited
Central
of Georgia
B&W E-7A #810
EMD ad- CoG E-units
Milwaukee Road
Hiawatha
color ad
Olympian
Hiawathas
Dining car service sheet
MR #32C at Milwaukee Station
Skytop lounge cars + B&W interior shot
June 1952 timetable
#5700 1964 color
B&W #5901 leaving Union Station
The
Senator/Congressional
color ad
Liberty
Limited ad
GG-1 #4938 color
#2900 on the Tennesssean
(B&W)
The
Crescent color ad
color shot of E-7 #2929
color shot of #2926 at Washington
Seaboard Coast Line
2-page color illustration Seaboard
Silver Meteor #3060
#549 pulling the Silver Star
(small, color)
Rock Island
B&W #601 leading the Peoria
Rocket
cover of an RI timetable for Feb 1953
B&W DL-109
#621
Jet
Rocket color
illustration
DL-109 "Christine" color
RI #2 color
Golden
Rocket - color ad
B&W E-3 #625
Baltimore & Ohio
2 B&W shots of EA #51
Royal
Blue color postcard
Royal
Blue ad
observation sleeper Wawasee
observation car Washington
Pullman Dreamland
American
Streamliner: Postwar Years
Book purchased by myself