Amtrak: An American Story
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (930 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0871164442 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorThe Staff of Amtrak is based in Washington, D.C.
This book is created from four decades of archival photographs highlighting the employees, trains, and technology that made it possible. Amtrak is the uniquely American public/private corporation that has been providing American rail passenger service since 1971. This book is truly a 40 year story told by Amtrak.. Amtrak: An American Story includes decade by decade chapters, an introduction for each chapter, a timeline of when events occurred, personal vignettes from employees of Amtrak, and a final chapter on a day in the life of Amtrak
Amazon Customer said Fantastic. This book is awesome, tons of great facts and pictures and came just in time very happy. Kris said Great picture book with rare photographs. This is a great picture book with rare photographs. Like it or not, it is published by Amtrak folks, but the pictures don't lie. This is a worthwhile, historical record of the same caliber of the Making of the Washington DC Metro book. It's has several photographs of rare scenes, including one of the infamous Union Station Washington DC Visitors' Center, something that has . Not quite what I was expecting but a good piece regardless John Wondolowski When I ordered this I was expecting it to be similar to another Amtrak book called All Aboard Amtrak: 1971-1991 in that it would cover the overall history of Amtrak, it's routes, rolling stock and the challenges the people of Amtrak had to face. I was both right and wrong in believing this. I was was right in the sense that this book did just that. However, I was wrong in t
The Staff of Amtrak is based in Washington, D.C.