North American Railroads. Part-Two.

1930's to the 1950's Boom Time.

Despite the depression of the 1930's passenger travel across the United States was improving year by year and the standards were too. The transition from steam to diesel was more to do with clean air and speed, but the rail cars where becoming more comfortable even for the ordinary passenger.

Black people were still segregated to poorer standard of travel, which even today despite the many changes and civil rights there is a return in many areas to the white dominated past.

In these years of prosperity for the U.S. something of the grandeur was lost to the more sleekness of the Art Deco designed cars. In fact the railroads were more luxurious than automobile and air travel, it was in a way on par with the cruise liners, but on a smaller scale.

By the 1950's many of the pre-World War-II (1940-45) trains still retained their names, but as time has progressed this has been lost to more of a standardisation.