Compare Trains and Technology: The American Railroad in the 19th Century : Cars

This series of four lavishly illustrated volumes provides a thorough grounding in the maturation of the American railroad through an exposition of railroad technology in an age of unprecedented technological expansion. Vol. 1: Locomotives details locomotive design and application from 1850 to 1900. Vol. 2: is devoted to passenger, freight, and non-revenue cars of nineteenth-century America.