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Seaboard Air Line Passenger Service: The Streamlined Era Hardcover – March 15, 2011

by Larry Goolsby (Author)
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Before the coming of Amtrak in 1971, the Seaboard Air Line Railroad was long recognized as having some of the best long-distance passenger trains in the country. Billing itself as “the Route of Courteous Service” Seaboard took great pride in running trains that the public would like the first time and would want to ride again and again. This book focuses on the last decades of Seaboard’s existence. The 1930s through the late 1950s in particular witnessed many dramatic changes – the replacement of steam with diesels, the ascendancy of lightweight trains, and the last hurrah of the once-familiar local passenger train. This is a chronological account, although special treatment has been given to Seaboard’s lightweight trains, other named trains and locals.

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  1. Print length
    176 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    TLC Publishing
  4. Publication date
    March 15, 2011
  5. Dimensions
    8.75 x 0.7 x 11.31 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0939487985
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0939487981
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Larry Goolsby is a southeastern railroad historian and author of two previous books, Atlantic Coast Line Passenger Service -- The Postwar Years and Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast. He is a board member of the ACL & SAL Historical Society and edits the Society?s quarterly magazine, Lines South. He works as legislative director for the American Public Human Services Association.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ TLC Publishing (March 15, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0939487985
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0939487981
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.75 x 0.7 x 11.31 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 5

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Stephen Harling
5.0 out of 5 stars great archival photographs
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2016
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Well researched, great archival photographs, and thoroughly comprehensive study of the railroad s history
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jc brunet
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2015
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good book
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Paul Meissner
5.0 out of 5 stars It captures the flavor of a really unique railroad.
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2013
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The photos and commentary give the reader a sense of the essence of this unique railroad and its passenger service.
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Samuel Augustus Jennings
5.0 out of 5 stars Blacks on Tracks
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2014
My hearty THANKS to Larry Goolsby for including the black railroad experience in this excellent pictorial and historical book on the Seaboard Air Line Railway passenger service.
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