Description

A 344 page volume by David Cooke, Don Estell, Keith Seckold and John Beckhaus. Illustrations by Dennis Toohey.

The title covers, in detail, the design, construction and operation of carriage stock on the railways of NSW. The groups covered in Volume 2 include:

• American sleeping and suburban cars – clerestory, Mansard, low and high elliptical and BOB sets.
• Other Truss-sided cars – AB41 dining car, Davis sleepers, branchline cars, Mann sleepers, Governor-Generals car and Pullman cars.
• Steel country cars – S and N non air-conditioned cars, H and S air-conditioned cars, stainless steel Brisbane Express, Southern Aurora, Gold Coast Motorail and proposed cars.
• Miscellaneous cars – Commissioners Car No.9, ex-Budd & Tulloch railcars, loco hauled double deck stainless steel electric cars, small bogie brake vans, power vans, goods brake vans, education vans, exhibition/mobile showroom vans, motor car carriers and Motorail wagons.
• Indian Pacific cars.
• Carriage miscellanea – special trains, rolling stock builders, lettering, ventilation and heating, lighting, brakes, bogies, colour schemes, car sets, coding systems and numbering.
• Appendices: Victorian Railways standard gauge cars, East Greta Coal Mining Co/South Maitland Railways, roofs and lighting.

Specifications:

Publisher: Eveleigh Press

Published: 01/06/2003

Pages: 344

Author: David Cooke, Don Estell, Keith Seckold and John Beckhaus

Format: Hardcover