Description: Altoona Action by Thomas A. Biery This is a NEW BOOK (not used). We handle all books with white gloves (no fingerprints on your book). A Railroad Bookmark is included with each book. Book is wrapped and mailed in a top-quality, durable container. We try hard to be the NUMBER 1 Railroad Book Dealer on ebay with 1,500+ titles. Order before 3:00 pm (ET) for same-day postal mailing.Book has many color photos Altoona Action is a hardcover book featuring 30 years of railroading in and around the city of Altoona, Pennsylvania. Brilliant black & white and color photography, taken between the mid-1960s and the mid-1990s, presents the Pennsylvania Railroad, Penn Central and Conrail. In addition to Altoona, the book covers Horseshoe Curve, Gallitzin, Cresson, Tyrone and Spruce Creek.To complement the beautiful photographs are histories of Gallitzin and the long-forgotten industrial town of Bennington. You will also learn of two ways in which the Pennsylvania Railroad harnessed the power of the atom for their own use! Additionally, there are old and new maps of the area and excerpts from timetables. At the end of the book is a complete index and bibliography that will come in handy for those who wish to research related topics. There is also a story written by a gentleman who came to Altoona to work for the P.R.R. in 1885, and recorded many details of what life in Altoona was like more than 100 years ago!Thomas A. Biery took most of the photographs used in Altoona Action. Tom is a graduate of Penn State University and has a background in logistics. He has been published in many national magazines, including The Railroad Press, Time, Newsweek and Traffic World. Hardbound, 8.5x11, 128 pages, 50/50 mix of b&w and color photographs with the color being from the later years. Book is printed on heavy high-gloss paper which gives the photos a very crisp look and allows you to see all of the details! Visit our ebay store to view other books of interest. We add new books regularly so check back often. We sell books: Railroad, Aviation, and Modeling books of the Golden Age Era. WE PACKAGE OUR BOOKS EXTREMELY WELL SO THE BOOK WILL NOT BE DAMAGED IN THE MAIL. No one packages books better than we do.
Price: 44.95 USD
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
End Time: 2025-01-13T23:17:59.000Z
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