Atlantic Coast Line Passenger Service: The Postwar Years

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Summary: Atlantic Coast Line Passenger Service : The Postwar Years
Review: A major work on the passenger trains and streamliners of the ACL.A wonderful mix of art,photos,and history on the ACL. Anyone whos an Atlantic Coast Line Railroad enthusiast will treasure this book!

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Summary: Relive the Glory Days of the Passenger Train
Review: Ah, for the good old days of the passenger train! This book brings it all back. New York City's classic Penn Station (regretably demolished from 1963 to 1966, but that's another story) was the beginning of many a winter journey from the frigid Northeast to warm, sunny Florida, and the Atlantic Coast Line was the way to go! (Those who went via the Seaboard Air Line Railroad may take exception to that statement, but, once again, that's another story.) This book relives these halcyon days.

This book shows it all, from the revolutionary Champion to the lowly local and the mixed train which handled freight as well as passenger traffic. The text is easy to read; photographs are plentiful and of good quality. A roster of postwar passenger cars is included as well as representative consists of the passenger trains themselves.

This book is a good read and should be in the library of anyone who nostalgically remembers the American pre-Amtrak passenger train.

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Summary: Outstanding ACL Documentation
Review: Goolsby's book offers both intensive and extensive information about ACL service, with charts, photographs, and extremely interesting and informative narratives about passenger train service from the 1940's up to the time of Amtrak. For aficianados of passenger train service in the South, this book is a must.