Station to Station

This thoroughly readable, irresistible volume on railroad-stationarchitecture is so inclusive that it even has a still fromHitchcock's The LadyVanishes. Filled with such memorabilia, Station toStation is like a long, wonderful journey in which the stationsthemselves--our destinations--are simply the high points. There areearly timetables, plans, and elevations for many of the most famousstations; antique baggage-claim checks; and sepia prints ofribbon-cutting ceremonies. The volume also includes such mementos as a shot ofthe Howrah Station in Calcutta, India, with the note that the architect"was well-known for English suburban housing," andpainful-to-see photographs of New York's Pennsylvania Station--with "thelargest and most monumental single room in the world today," asthe grand, light-strewn space was advertised--before its remodeling.