New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1965. Very Good condition. NOT a library discard. A bright, shiny, clean copy. The spine is square and flat. Previous owner's name. Text is unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Oversize Softcover. 7.75" wide by 10.5" tall. A history and photographic essay on The Long Island Rail Road. Contains an Introduction and 14 chapters: 1) Laying the Rails Eastward; 2) The LIRR Emerges from Chaos; 3) The Halcyon Nineties; 4) The White Boats; 5) Crossing the River; 6) Astride the Boiler; 7) City and Suburbia; 8) Way Out East; 9) Steel Rails to Manhattan; 10) Great Men of the LIRR; 11) Juice-Jack Heaven; 12) The Standard Era; 13) Efficiency in Gray Paint; 14) Deluxe Varnish Eastward. Appendix. Illustrated with maps, figures, and HUNDREDS of old photographs. Appendix. Fleet list. Chronology. Roster of all locomotives ever to operate on the LIRR. Recommended reading list. Bound in the original blue pictorial wraps. Third printing. Oversize Softcover. Very Good condition. 320pp.

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Title

Steel Rails to the Sunrise : The Long Island Rail Road

Publisher

Hawthorn Books, Inc., New York

Publication Date

1965

Language

English

ISBN 10

0801571472

ISBN 13

9780801571473

Binding

Paperback

Edition

Third printing.

Condition

Very Good condition

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Here, in a magnificent photographic essay, is the complete story of one of America's oldest and most unusual railroads, whose operations once included far-flung steamboat and ferry, as well as trolley services, and whose roadbed runs from the black tubes under the East River to the sandy wilderness of Montauk, NY. The Long Island Rail Road hauls more commuters than any other system in the US.

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After reviewing hundreds of railroad books . . . [this reviewer] finds that this great volume has them all beat . . . The thoroughness . . . sets a high standard for future railroad historians to follow. --Railroad Magazine

. . . delightful . . . the photo discovery of the year . . . informative, anecdote-studded . . . absorbing . . . a comprehensive, frequently spectacular delivery of the promise on its dust jacket of 'a magnificent photographic essay". Ziel and Foster have placed a provincial railroad in the public domain. --Trains Magazine

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