Reviews for Bridginess: More of the Civil Engineering Life

The average rating for Bridginess: More of the Civil Engineering Life based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-10-23 00:00:00 Nicholas Eiesland Enjoyable, relaxing book to read. Wiatrowski notes that his book is by no means a comprehensive review of the railroads in North America. This is correct. There are so many railroads then and now, that he can only touch on them with a brief 1 - 3 page history in the briefest of text, with accompanying snapshots of rails, trains, locomotives, and other rail-related oddities. The book is still quite thick, despite the brief nature of discussion per railroad. In essence, this is a very good intro book for an interested person who knows little about North American rail history. Fun to peruse, a great conversation starter, and an excellent resource to look into topics of interest more deeply on one's own time.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-05-05 00:00:00 Christopher R X With the exception that Mexico has been excluded from North America, we have a wonderful railroad history here, an over sized coffee table book, of course. Divided into chapters titled for individual railroad companies, interspersed with specialized chapter topics such as "Fishy Trains", "Mail by Rail" and "Dinner in the Diner", the text, while informative and detailed, takes second place to the well selected and excellently reproduced photographs. Yes, we have pictures of trains---steam, diesel, electric and so on---but also posters, postcards, menus, schedules, maps and more, so well printed that almost all the print is legible. The history includes mergers right up to publication in the mid aughts, an Index, and Appendices listing Railroad Societies and preserved Railroads, as well as rail Museums and Historical Sites. One advertisement tells us we could travel from NYC in 1958 to Miami Beach, with the fare including travel between the station and the beach front hotel. Between May 1 and November 15 this round trip ticket cost...$89.81. Yes, there have been changes. Recommended.