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Classic Locomotives: Steam and Diesel Power in 700 Photographs by Brian Solomon
Category: Transport
For nearly two centuries, railroads have been crucial to North America's transportation system-perhaps never more so than today. Always at the forefront of this industryhas been a vast array of mighty locomotives in ever-evolving forms, pulling and pushing freight and passenger trains across plains and ...Show more
Electro-Motive by Brian Solomon
Category: Transport
Blending automotive manufacturing and styling techniques with state-of-the-art diesel-electric technologies, General Motors' Electro-Motive Division conceived and marketed America's first commercially successful road diesels: the fabulous E-Units and F-Units. This illustrated companion to Voyageur Pres ...Show more
Field Guide To Trains by Brian Solomon
Category: Transport | Series: Voyageur Field Guides
Now you can be the human Wikipedia page of trains--from locomotives to rolling stock. No Great American road trip would be complete without seeing trains streaming across wild prairies and through thick forests. All kinds of diesel and even a few steam locomotives can be seen, with everything from boxy ...Show more
Ireland - History and Landscape by Brian Solomon
Category: Travel
Ireland is a much-photographed country, whose lush beauty has been the subject of many pictorial books. This work features images of well-known locations and provides a view of town and country.
Modern Diesel Power by Brian Solomon
Category: Science | Series: Gallery S.
The 1960s onward witnessed unprecedented technological and horsepower developments in the field of diesel-electric locomotives. Spurred by market demands, EMD and GE have developed locomotives of ever-greater speeds and tractive effort, allowing the railroads to bring resources to market more quickly an ...Show more
Rails Around the World: Two Centuries of Trains and Locomotives by Brian Solomon
Category: Travel
Rails Around the World is a visually glorious history depicting trains and locomotives at work in scenic locations throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
Steam Power by Brian Solomon
Category: Transport
They steamed westward with America, carrying goods and people to the new frontier. They powered through the industrial revolution, moving with the times. And they transported a nation in motion, soldiers and settlers and immigrants, captains of industry and itinerant laborers. These were the steam locom ...Show more
Streamliners: Locomotives and Trains in the Age of Speed and Style by Brian Solomon
Category: Transport
See the streamlined trains of the 1930s in all of their sleek glory. In the 1930s, streamlined styling was applied to everything from kitchen appliances to farm tractors as it captured the American imagination. Keen to regain passenger traffic lost to automobiles and expanding roadways, railroads hired ...Show more
The World's Great Rail Journeys by Brian Solomon
Category: Transport | Series: 50 spectacular, luxurious, exhilarating
Each journey is accompanied by a route map and is described in terms of the technical challenges of the construction of the track as well as the stunning views to be seen while travelling on the trains. Some of the railway journeys featured include the Harz narrow-gauge railway in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany ...Show more
The World's Most Exotic Railway Journeys by Brian Solomon
Category: Travel
A portrait in words and photographs of 50 of the most scenic, remote and long-distance routes in Asia, Africa, Australia, North and South America, and Europe. Some, such as the "Orient Express" route from Paris to Istanbul, are historical and no longer possible as a single journey; for these, full detai ...Show more
The World's Most Spectacular Railway Journeys by Brian Solomon
Category: Travel
Each journey is accompanied by a route map and is described in terms of the technical challenges of the construction of the track as well as the stunning views to be seen while travelling on the trains. Some of the railway journeys featured include the Harz narrow-gauge railway in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany ...Show more
The World’s Greatest Rail Journeys 2/E: 50 of the Most Spectacular, Luxurious, Unusual Routes by Brian Solomon
Category: Travel
The World's Great Rail Journeys describes over 50 of the world's most exciting, unusual, and exotic railway journeys, including North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia, updated to include photographs of new trains travelling on the same spectacular routes. Each journey is accompanied by a r ...Show more