Fascinating history of the Rock Island Railroad and its 43 year effort to bring streamlined service to its customers. The author provides a detailed look at the Rock Island's fleet of streamliners which came from just about every major car and locomotive builder and embraced a diverse array of rolling stock. The author also analyses the valiant effort that the Rock Island and its employees made to succeed and how several external factors defeated them. With locomotive and passenger car rosters. Illustrated throughout with color photos. With bibliography. 176 pages with extensive index.
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Seller: Goodwill of Greater Milwaukee and Chicago, Racine, WI, U.S.A.
Condition: good. Book is considered to be in good or better condition. The actual cover image may not match the stock photo. Hard cover books may show signs of wear on the spine, cover or dust jacket. Paperback book may show signs of wear on spine or cover as well as having a slight bend, curve or creasing to it. Book should have minimal to no writing inside and no highlighting. Pages should be free of tears or creasing. Stickers should not be present on cover or elsewhere, and any CD or DVD expected with the book is included. Book is not a former library copy. Seller Inventory # SEWV.0965904008.G
Seller: Goodwill of Greater Milwaukee and Chicago, Racine, WI, U.S.A.
Condition: acceptable. Book is considered to be in acceptable condition. The actual cover image may not match the stock photo. Book may have one or more of the following defects: noticeable wear on the cover dust jacket or spine; curved, dog eared or creased page s ; writing or highlighting inside or on the edges; sticker s or other adhesive on cover; CD DVD may not be included; and book may be a former library copy. Seller Inventory # SEWV.0965904008.A
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. 175 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm. Seller Inventory # 2401310085
Seller: The Denver Bookmark, Aurora, CO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The pages are crisp, white and clean. No creases, writing or underlining. The jacket has light edgewear and a few nicks on the edges, but it still looks very good. The binding is straight and strong. Heavily illustrated with black-and-white and color photos, 175 pgs. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Seller Inventory # 040954
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Finein a Fine jacket. 1st Printing. 175pp 4to. Seller Inventory # 166438
Seller: Spenlow & Jorkins, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. *With a 30 p 1945 Route of the Rockets Time Table in sleeve* Fine book in Very Good dustcover. Clean, glossy, and solid. Dustcover has light scuffs and some inoffensive pen impression ghosts. No marks! Cloth over boards; 176 pp; illustrations throughout. Seller Inventory # 004058
Seller: Black Gull Books (P.B.F.A.), St Leonard's on Sea, United Kingdom
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Seller Inventory # 18-B11745
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Seller: Olmstead Books, Port Dover, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Still in manufactures shrink wrap, no bumps or marks. The dust jacket is unmarked, will include a Brodart cover. Seller Inventory # 12564
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Seller: Post Horizon Booksellers, Nokomis, SK, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 175pp. bw and color photos, maps, reproductions. Red boards w crisp gold lettering and goldstamp figure to cover, gold lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and tight. Photo illustrated DJ is clean and without wear. Quarto. Seller Inventory # 049763
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Seller: Robert Gavora, Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Talent, OR, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. first printing. The streamlined era on the Rock Island lasted 43 years, beginning with the delivery of the first reborn Rockets in 1937 and ending well beyond Amtrak. 175 pages with color photographs, maps, car floor plans, rosters, and index. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 37767