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The Historical Guide to North American Railroads (Trains Books) Paperback – January 29, 2018
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- Print length319 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherKalmbach Pub Co
- Publication dateJanuary 29, 2018
- Reading age14 years and up
- Dimensions8 x 0.5 x 10.5 inches
- ISBN-100890249709
- ISBN-13978-0890249703
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- Publisher : Kalmbach Pub Co; 3rd edition (January 29, 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 319 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0890249709
- ISBN-13 : 978-0890249703
- Reading age : 14 years and up
- Item Weight : 1.9 pounds
- Dimensions : 8 x 0.5 x 10.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #308,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #51 in Model Trains
- #63 in History of Railroads
- #320 in Gardening Encyclopedias
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Unfortunately, the results should have been better. While the maps of all the current mega-railroads are excellent, those for many of the great "fallen flag" roads, such as the New York Central and Northern Pacific, are pretty poor. They are smaller, still in black-&-white, and devoid of detail, and seem to have been carried over from the smaller previous edition unchanged, which is a waste of the larger page size. Particularly bad are those for the New Haven and the Penn Central, which are virtually useless. Furthermore, some of the smaller roads listed in the second edition have been deleted; a few of these, like the Kettle Valley, made for interesting reads. Chapters on interurbans and narrow-gauge railroads have also been deleted, but that is a smaller loss.
I hope that Kalmbach improves a future fourth edition by making more maps larger and in color, particularly for the larger railroads of the past, and puts back some of the ones deleted in this third edition. For now, by all means get this new edition, but if you have the second edition already, I'd suggest hanging on to it.
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米鉄道雑誌やネットの記事などで知らない鉄道会社が出てきたらこの本で調べるとだいたいわかると思います。北米の鉄道に興味ある人は必携では。
基本的に載ってるのは大手(クラス1と2の一部)で、ヒストリカルガイドというだけに過去の鉄道がメインなので現代の小鉄道などは載ってませんので、その点は注意。
Sehr gut auch ein Aufsatz über die Geschichte der Bahngesellschaften von Mexico, so etwas ist eher selten zu finden.
Im Übrigen über Amazon ca. 10 € billiger als direkt vom Verlag !