Hardcover. Stated 1st edition hardcover with dustjacket. Very clean; no marks; pages bright; binding tight. Jacket has light crumpling at some edges. 406pp, Index, B/W photos. Language: English. NOTE: Cannot ship outside U.S. via Global Priority -- Surface or Airmail only. 'Vranich offers this narrative as a plea for the support in the United States of high-speed rail (on steel wheels; 150-200 mph) and high-speed magnetically levitated (maglev; 250-300 mph) trains. Germany, France, and Japan run high-speed trains now, and the maglev models are being tested in Germany and Japan. The author believes such supertrains would benefit public transportation by reducing congestion and pollution in certain population corridors (e.g., Los Angeles to Las Vegas; Chicago to Detroit; and New York to Washington, D.C.). He discusses the plans for supertrains in various states. Vranich claims that federal support for highways and air transportation resulted in a continuing neglect for improvement in train transportation...'--Christopher R. Jocius, Library Journal, 1992.