Author: Rehor, John A.
Title: The Nickel Plate Story.
Description: (Milwaukee, WI): Kalmbach Publishing Co. (1965). (1965). - 4to, dark blue cloth (very lightly bumped; 3 tiny marks to front cover; rear cover lightly rubbed) titled in silver on spine & in blind on front cover, in dw (lightly rubbed & chipped; top edge of front panel & head of dw spine lightly creased). 483 pp. Blue & black pictorial endpapers, B&W pictorial title & profuse B&W illustrations. Near fine in very good dw.

First edition.

"Throughout its tumultuous 83-year career the late Nickel Plate Road was never really regarded as an enduring institution..Constructed in a matter of 500 days, the Nickel Plate connected Chicago and Buffalo with a 513-mile road characterized by long tangents, mild grades, and impressive bridges. It was built at great cost through a well-developed region already tapped by many railroads..Lacking even a modest reservoir of captive business, the railroad grubbed out a living in an intensely competitive transportation arena purely on the strength of the service it rendered. Hence this became a proposition dedicated to the science of moving high-grade freight with dependability and dispatch."--From the author's Introduction. Very good .

Keywords: TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; RAILROADIANA; RAILWAYS; LOCOMOTIVES; TRAINS; FREIGHT TRAINS; NICKEL PLATE ROAD; FIRST EDITION; ILLUSTRATED.

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