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Chargement... Connecticut Whistle-Stops (CT) (Images of America)par Lennie Grimaldi
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I don't like the title of the book; properly speaking, a whistle-stop is used for stations that are only stopped at upon request, even if in slang terms it's used for small stations, like these stations of Fairfield and New Haven Counties. Considering that the author was supposed to be working with railroad experts and buffs, not something the editor should have allowed. Very good pictures, if a trifle heavy on wrecks, which makes me wonder about the author. Also, the text is a bit more flippant than you normally see in Images of America books. For Connecticut buffs. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieImages of America [Arcadia] (Connecticut)
Richly illustrated, Connecticut Whistle Stops: Greenwich to New Haven tells the fascinating history of a rail line and the communities it serves. The motto of the state of Connecticut is Qui Transtulit Sustenet, which translates loosely from the Latin as "He who commutes thrives." The state was founded by commuters of a sort: itinerant preachers looking for congregations. Much later, when the railroads finally came along, the state bloomed. Today, Connecticut's rail line from Greenwich to New Haven is a thriving transportation network for Manhattan-bound commuters. Each workday, roughly 85,000 commuters ride the New Haven Line into Grand Central Terminal in New York. Profiled in Connecticut Whistle Stops are ten rail communities along the coast. Full of eye-catching photographs, the chapters highlight the impact that the rail line has had on Greenwich, Stamford, Darien, South Norwalk, Westport, Fairfield, Bridgeport, Stratford, Milford, and New Haven. The history offers all the elements of an award-winning movie: laborers building the railroad, America's best-known tycoons financing a rail monopoly and then running it into the ground, bankruptcy, and rebirth. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)385.0974Social sciences Commerce, Communications, Transportation Trains and Railroads Subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography North America Northeastern U.S.ÉvaluationMoyenne:
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