The Cable Car Book

Engineering & Transportation

Charles Smallwood

Warren Edward Miller

Don DeNevi

Automotive

Random House Value Publishing

The City of San Francico was the pride of the Southern Pacific fleet, a crack streamliner that carried passengers between Chicago and San Francisco in 39 hours. The first part of this book details the development, design and running of the train, detailing the engineering and design innovations it featured. The balance of the book is a real life thriller -- the derailment, the deaths and miraculous rescues, and the thorough investigation of who could have committed such a cruel act. SP cooperated with the author in the hopes that revealing the information that had been collected over the years might trigger an answer but the case still remains open. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos that show the train in all its beauty, the wreck and the various clues that were recovered. With maps and diagrams. 188 pages.

Tragic Train "The City of San Francisco": The Development and Historic Wreck of a Streamliner

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Superior Publishing Co.

Fascinating and detailed history of the Western Pacific from the days when it was just a dream of Arthur Walter Keddie through the years of  construction, growth, financial turmoil in the 1930s and its rebound during and after World War II. Invaluable reference for anyone interested in the Western Pacific or Western history. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos (many from famed photographer Ted Benson and also from official WP files), numerous maps, and gradient profiles. With steam and diesel locomotive rosters. 160 pages.

The Western Pacific: Railroading Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

In superb style, brutally dramatic, DeNevi has reconstructed the famous Battle of Alcatraz and brought back vividly the mind-searing experience of that tragic incident. The author has fused desperation, violence, tragedy, and death in a book that you can't put down.

Alcatraz '46;: The anatomy of a classic prison tragedy,

Philip Bergen

Leswing Press

San Francisco, creation of a city

San Francisco, Creation of a City

Tom Moulin

Celestial Arts

Beautifully done collection of black and white photos, many from the original glass negative and the earliest hers, showing San Francisco's cable cars. At one time there were eight different companies operating twenty different lines so the photos show many different parts of San Francisco over the years. Appendix lists other US cities that had cable cars. With bibliography. 152 pages with index.

Charles A Smallwood

High Steel: Building the Bridges Across San Francisco Bay

Richard H. Dillon

Thomas Moulin

Reference

Book by Richard Dillon, Thomas Moulin, Don DeNevi

Science & Math

Richard Dillon

Technology

This magnificent memoir is filled with photographs of various types of locomotives hauling military movements and wartime freight in the US, plus passenger trains turned troop carriers. Highly recommended.

America's Fighting Railroads: A World War II Pictorial History

History

Military

Pictorial Histories Publishing Co.

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