Christian Wolmar

Christian Wolmar appears in the following:

The History of Trains in America

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Christian Wolmar and tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the American railroads, and argues that we should reclaim and celebrate our rail heritage. In The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America, Wolmar tells how the opening of the first American railroad in the 1830s changed the way people lived. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the 1950s, the car, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads.

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