Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands
Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands

Author: Andrew T. Eldredge

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2003-03-01

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780738511573

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In 1848, the railroad extended to Cape Cod to serve the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company. By 1887, fourteen of the fifteen towns on Cape Cod were connected by the railroad. For a short time, even the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard had railroad lines. As the highways expanded in the years following World War II, the automobile became the primary mode of transportation. By 1959, year-round Cape Cod passenger service had been discontinued. Today, many miles of track have been removed to accommodate recreational bike paths.Using hundreds of historic images, Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands illustrates the rich heritage of passenger and freight rail transportation on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. Mainland connections once involved transfer between ship and rail at wharves in Provincetown, Hyannis, and Woods Hole. Since 1935, trains have crossed the Cape Cod Canal on the world's second longest vertical-lift bridge.

Cape Cod Railroads
Cape Cod Railroads

Author: Robert H. Farson

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780961674014

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This is a loving look at a special place and its railroads that carried people from small town to town, and sometimes to Boston. And from there on the Dude Train. The islands has railroads and they are here with the island steamers, the ferries. People came to New England on the famous night boats of the Fall River Line and on direct trains from New York. The Cape Codders and the Neptune. Hundreds of anectodes help the story. This heavily illustrated volume includes trains, locomotives, stations, bridges, wrecks, snow and storm damage, maps, railroad workers, broadsides and steamboats. A major book on trains that was thirteen years of research and writing,. Three paintings reproduced in color by Ted Rose America's finest railroad artist. Cape Cod Historical Publications Address: Winter: November-May, 3200 Binnacle Drive, C-1, Naples, Fl. 34103. Phone: 239-403-8224. Summer: May-November: P.O. Box 281, Yarmouth Port, MA 02675. Phone: 508-362-4761. Pay by check or money order. No credit cards accepted. Please add $4.75 for shipping/handling.

Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands
Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands

Author: Andrew T. Eldredge

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2003-03-12

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1439628610

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In 1848, the railroad extended to Cape Cod to serve the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company. By 1887, fourteen of the fifteen towns on Cape Cod were connected by the railroad. For a short time, even the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard had railroad lines. As the highways expanded in the years following World War II, the automobile became the primary mode of transportation. By 1959, year-round Cape Cod passenger service had been discontinued. Today, many miles of track have been removed to accommodate recreational bike paths. Using hundreds of historic images, Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands illustrates the rich heritage of passenger and freight rail transportation on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. Mainland connections once involved transfer between ship and rail at wharves in Provincetown, Hyannis, and Woods Hole. Since 1935, trains have crossed the Cape Cod Canal on the world's second longest vertical-lift bridge.

The Great Railway Bazaar
The Great Railway Bazaar

Author: Paul Theroux

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2006-06-01

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 054752515X

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The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: “Compulsive reading” (Graham Greene). In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental tour. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express—are the stars of a journey that takes Theroux on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.

Train
Train

Author: Tom Zoellner

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-01-30

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0698151399

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An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner—coauthor of the New York Times–bestselling An Ordinary Man—travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world—and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A masterful narrative history, Train also explores the sleek elegance of railroads and their hypnotizing rhythms, and explains how locomotives became living symbols of sex, death, power, and romance.

All Aboard the Polar Express
All Aboard the Polar Express

Author:

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9780618477920

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The Polar Express train visits the North Pole and passengers find out what the first gift of the season is going to be from Santa Claus.

The Old Patagonian Express
The Old Patagonian Express

Author: Paul Theroux

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2014-11-18

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 0547524005

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The acclaimed travel writer journeys by train across the Americas from Boston to Patagonia in this international bestselling travel memoir. Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Paul Theroux takes a grand railway adventure first across the United States and then south through Mexico, Central America, and across the Andes until he winds up on the meandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine. His epic commute finally comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes that reaches toward Antarctica. Along the way, Theroux demonstrates how train travel can reveal “"the social miseries and scenic splendors” of a continent. And through his perceptive prose we learn that what matters most are the people he meets along the way, including the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus priest of Cali, and the blind Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in having Theroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him.

Avon's 1876 Cape Cod Collection
Avon's 1876 Cape Cod Collection

Author: Debbie Coe

Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 9780764336799

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Avon's 1875 Cape Cod pattern glass dinnerware, made from 1975 to 1993, is one of the most beautiful deep ruby patterns. Over 130 photos show the shapes and the original mold drawings, and the captions relate the date each design was approved, the designers' names, and number of molds used.