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The world the trains made : a century of great railroad architecture in the United States and Canada /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dilts, James D., 1936- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lebanon, New Hampshire : ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England, [2018]
Subjects:
Railroads > Buildings and structures > United States.
Railroads > Buildings and structures > Canada.
Architecture and society > United States.
Architecture and society > Canada.
Table of Contents:
  • A railroad suite of buildings (terminal complexes)
  • Terminus
  • City gateways
  • Down by the station
  • Room streets (train sheds)
  • The big storehouse (freight depots, warehouses, grain elevators)
  • The office
  • Grand hotels
  • The back shop
  • Where they lived (railroad towns and suburbs)
  • How they lived
  • Crossing over and under
  • Moving structures (locomotives and coaches)
  • Monuments.