Car Builders Cyclopedia of American Practice - Fifteenth Edition 1940 (1973 Reprint )

Hardcover, no dust jacket, bound in black cloth with gold gilt lettering on spine. Text block edges stained red. Facsimile reprint of 1940 edition. Very good condition, 1352 pages. Incomparable reference work on industrial and passenger railroad cars just before World War II. The extensive sections on Pullman and sleeping cars, private cars, motor trains, lighting, provide excellent details on the railroads of the period. Hundreds of detailed photos and dimensioned construction drawings. All types of rolling stock is covered: Box, Hopper, Gondola, Reefer, Stock, Flat, Passenger-Pullman, etc. Details of braking systems, draft gear, trucks, coupler styles and more. Distributorstamp on front fly leaf otherwise tight and clean. Record # 378594.