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Subways by Lorraine B. Diehl (Hardcover, 2004)

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Manhattan, 1870. As overcrowded horse carts and weary pedestrians push through the clogged city streets, a man named Beach secretly works by candlelight 2112 feet beneath Devlin's clothing store on Broadway, carving out New York's very first subway tunnel. In Subways, her highly anticipated follow-up to The Automat, Lorraine Diehl sets off on another sentimental journey, recounting the true story of a city transformed by underground passageways. Through archival photographs, Interviews with New Yorkers who remember when, and an assortment of rare memorabilia, Diehl introduces us to the entertaining characters who conceived, built, and rode the city's subways, then travels to the familiar destinations shaped by their tracks. From the last days of the horse cars to the remarkable excavation and construction of the tunnels, from an age of elegant wood-and-brass cars to the streamlined stainless-steel rolling stock of the 1940s, from the once-remote reaches of the boroughs to the bustling metropolis of today, to tell the story of the Subways is to tell the story of New York City.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House USA Inc
ISBN-13
9781400052271
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96589223

Product Key Features

Book Title
Subways
Author
Lorraine B. Diehl
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Railway, History
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
128 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
195mm
Item Width
195mm
Item Weight
500 g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Lorraine B. Diehl
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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