Penn Central Railroad: The Pioneer Merger Road, 1968-1976 (MBI Railroad Colour History) - Hardcover

Peter Lynch

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0760317631 ISBN 13: 9780760317631

Publisher: Motorbooks International, 2004

Synopsis

In describing Penn Central's operational history and the factors that led to its formation and downfall, author and former PC employee Peter Lynch offers a collection of the best Penn Central color imagery from the archives of photographers Thomas McNamara, J. W. Swanberg, David P. Oroszi, and others. These region-by-region collections depict freight and passenger operations, motive power, rolling stock, and facilities along 20,000 miles of trackage in states from New England to Illinois.

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Review:

This book is not ahistory of the failure of the merger. rather, it is more of a photographic and written record of some of the trains that were in the Penn Central. it focuses on the daily operation of those trains, where they went and what they did. --Model railroad

About this edition

• Publisher: Motorbooks International
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0760317631
• ISBN 13: 9780760317631
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160