<p>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.</p>

Seaboard Air Line Passenger Service: The Streamlined Era

Engineering & Transportation

Goolsby, Larry

Transportation

TLC Publishing

<p>The dynamic story of ACL's wonderful postwar passenger trains. Told and supported by scores of nostalgic company publicity photos of the trains and equipment, inside and out, with car and locomotive rosters, diagrams and drawings, and material useful to modelers in construction and painting of ACL prototype passenger cars. Highlighted are not only the great New York to Florida streamliners but also the locals and work-a-day passenger trains that crisscrossed the ACL's system.</p>

Atlantic Coast Line Passenger Service: The Postwar Years

Tlc Pub Inc

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Seaboard Air Line Passenger Service: The Streamlined Era

Atlantic Coast Line Passenger Service: The Postwar Years