The American Railroad Freight Car: From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel

by John P. White and John H. White Jr.

Book Overview

? From the former Curator of Transportation at the Smithsonian Institution ? Illustrated with 530 photographs, drawings, and engravings ? Includes plans, diagrams, and detailed specifications for model-builders ? 665 oversized pages in a handsomely jacketed hardcover or specially priced paperback editionIn this sequel to his best-selling American Railroad Passenger Car, John White forever changes the freight car's lowly image. Including hundreds of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801844045
• ISBN13: 9780801844041
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 8.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 10.6" x 12.8"