Mansions on Rails Folklore Of The Private Railway Car by Lucius Beebe For Sale

Another epic work from Beebe showcased the day's luxury train cars and the personages who rode them. (He owned two, so he was the perfect author for this.) Illustrated throughout with black and white photos and schematic diagrams of the cars. Tipped in the full-color frontispiece of The Virginia City, one of Beebe's cars, done up in styledescribed as "Venetian Renaissance baroque." With an Appendix of Pullman business & private cars built at Pullman from 1882 through 1930,as well as a list of private vehicles handled by the Florida East Coast Railway in 1894. 382 pages.
Seller Inventory-Aurora-Box #17-004