The Northeast Corridor - David Alff

All aboard for the first comprehensive history of the hard-working and wildly influential Northeast Corridor.  Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be America’s most famous railway, but its influence goes far beyond the right-of-way. David Alff welcomes readers aboard to see how nineteenth-century train tracks did more than connect Boston to Washington, DC. They transformed hundreds of miles of Atlantic shoreline into a political capital, a global... Zobrazit více