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Rail Life.(books on trains and rail travel)(Bibliography)
In TRAVEL BY TRAIN (Indiana), Michael E. Zega and John E. Gruber show how the spread of railroads across America coincided with the birth of modern advertising techniques to produce a blizzard of railway posters. Early, wordy efforts based on circus posters gave way to the big pictorial landscapes of the eighteen-nineties. As cars became dominant, graphic designers resorted to an increasingly stylized approach to glamorize the idea of travel itself, a trend that reached its apogee with the posters of streamliner trains of the thirties.
The romance of railways is almost exclusively connected to the steam era. VANISHING STEAM (Abrams) is a record of Eric Langhammer's remarkable quest, begun in the seventies, to photograph "steam locomotives at work in a natural everyday environment" before they disappeared altogether. Langhammer relates with ...
- Wandrian Launches ItaliaRail.com for Easily Booking Rail Travel Across Italy.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 29, 2005 700+ words
...rural destinations, rail travel makes it simple to get...facilitate the booking of rail travel throughout Italy and...booking an air ticket from New York to Chicago." Consumers...stop shop for planning rail travel and buying international...
- United Airlines, Amtrak offer air/rail travel plan.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 10, 1990 700+ words
...UNITED, AMTRAK OFFER AIR/RAIL TRAVEL PLAN NEW YORK, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire...stopovers. Amtrak's Air-Rail Travel Plan can be a transportation...the summer. Amtrak's Air-Rail Travel Plan is designed for use in...
- ENOUGH PLANNING, ACT ON RAIL TRAVEL.(Opinion)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 30, 2009 700+ words
...improvement in intercity passenger rail travel in New York over several decades. He notes...personnel. It almost appears that New York's policy is to just have a plan...Speaker Sheldon Silver, a dozen New York representatives and both U.S...
- An icon of European rail travel is finally killed off
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Simon Calder August 22, 2009 700+ words
...of words in European rail travel: Orient Express. Seventy...middle-distance" rail travel is enjoying a revival...of Interstate 80 from New York to San Francisco. Life...many more than Paris, New York or Tokyo. No surprise...
- RAIL TRAVEL BOOM ONLY PARTLY DUE TO FLYING FEARS.(Getaways)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) October 4, 2001 700+ words
...way - was to assess the state of rail travel (quite civilized) and gauge the...acts in Washington, D.C., and New York. Ironically, though, in Atlanta, she planned to hop a tour bus to New York with other musicians for an appearance...
- Off the rails.(rail travel)
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Clausen, Christopher October 7, 1996 700+ words
...it was possible to travel between New York and Chicago in some style, with...automobile travel as free enterprise and rail travel as big government. Amtrak costs...out whether the afternoon train to New York was expected to be on time. In...
- Tourism to Atlantic City Bucks National Trend: Showed Growth In 2008 with Air,...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 5, 2009 700+ words
...8% in 2008 as compared to the year before. Rail travel on Amtrak was also down by 1.8%. Room demand...accessible than ever in 2009 due to new air and rail travel services from New York City, Boston, Atlanta and Orlando. The deluxe...
- AMTRAK PARTNERS WITH GOOGLE TRANSIT TO OFFER RAIL TRAVEL AS AN OPTION FOR TRIP...
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News August 14, 2009 700+ words
...travel planning tool while introducing rail travel to a whole new audience," said Matt...available include: Empire Service (New York - Albany - Buffalo - Niagara Falls) Ethan Allen Express (New York - Albany - Rutland) Hiawatha Service...
