Railroads played a key role in developing resorts during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, few North American transportation museums emphasize this. This exhibition chronicles how rail links led to the development of amusement parks at an urban beach resort in New York.
Five Cents to Dreamland: A trip to Coney Island New York Transit Museum
The journal of transport history ; 38 , 1
2017
Article (Journal)
English
Local classification TIB: | 275/1910/4535/7000 | |
BKL: | 55.01 / 55.01 Geschichte des Verkehrswesens |
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