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McMillan Publications, 2010. Hardcover. New. Rio Grande: A Last Look Back 1974-2010. The independent Rio Grande Railroad, a spirited railroad with incredible pride, managed to cut a fine niche for itself as a regional and bridge route in the transportation market. There's lots of D&RGW action in this book at all the familiar places: Tennessee Pass, the Moffat Route, the Utah desert, Ruby Canyon, and other locations, includes more than a dozen track charts and maps that will bring the Rio Grande to life. A great deal of change has occurred in Rio Grande territory over the past 36 years. This nice book features the Rio Grande and the changes made to this popular road under Southern Pacific and Union Pacific ownership. All these changes did not go unrecorded, and are nicely covered in this spectacular volume. This book was produced by Richard Farewell. Contents: Introduction, pp. 6-7, The Moffat Line: Denver to Winter Park, Colorado, pp. 8-91, The Western Slope: Winter Park to Dotsero, Colorado, pp.… Read More

Colorado Railroad Museum. Hardcover. New. Some of the most magnificent main line railroading anywhere can be found in the western Colorado-eastern Utah desert country. A detailed and photographic history of the route is presented for the first time in R.C. Farewell's Rio Grande Secret Places, Volume II, which portrays both the desert and its Ruby Canyon in spectacular fashion. Pictorial emphasis is on Rio Grande, Southern Pacific and Union Pacific operations in recent years, but a few rare D&RGW steam views are included. Three-dimensional maps highlight key areas. There is coverage of many miles of alignment that were graded but never used, and of obscure desert tidbits such as the Ballard & Thompson Railroad. Colorado Railroad Museum, hardcover with dust jacket, 208 pages, standard portrait book 8 x 10 in., 42 color and over 200 B&W photographs.

Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. The Atlantic Coast Lines flamboyant purple, silver and gold trim stood out in a sea of boxcar red and hopper black. Yet in many respects its equipment was quite conservative, much like the philosophy of this railroad giant based in Florida. Study the Atlantic Coast Line's passenger and freight roster through the hundreds of vintage photographs in this 128-page Color book. Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., Color photographs with captions.

Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. The railroad that ran 'Through the Heart of the South' was known as an innovator and effective competitor against its two larger neighbors. The attractive equipment of the Seaboard was no small part in this battle. Enjoy this varied roster in the more than 300 Color photographs of this railroad which disappeared in 1967. Contents: Office Cars, pg. 6, Head End Passenger, pp. 7-14, Combines, pp. 15-16, Coaches, pp. 17-24, Diners, pp. 25-29, Observation Cars, pp. 30-31, Sleepers, pp. 32-36, Boxcars, pp. 37-64, Refrigerator Cars, Stock Cars, pg. 65, Ventilator Cars, pg. 66, Covered Hoppers, pp. 67-76, Open Hoppers, pp. 77-83, Gondolas, pp. 84-90, Flat Cars, pp. 91-95, Pulpwood Cars, pp. 96-99, Autorack Cars, Tank Cars, pg. 100, Piggyback Trailers, pg. 101, Cabooses, pp. 102-112, Derricks, pg. 113, Equipment Cars, pp. 114-116, Camp Cars, pp. 117-125, Company Service Cars, pg. 126, Miscellaneous, pp. 127-128. Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., Color… Read More

Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. The end of steam and the entire diesel roster from Centipedes and FTs to C420's and GP40s all in vivid color. This book is organized chronologically beginning in 1938 and going up to the ACL merger. Not too many steam locomotive shots as steam was gone on the SAL in the early 1950s. Most of this book is first-generation diesels. Oh, what beautiful paint schemes! Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., Color photographs with captions.

Santa Fe Railway H&M Society. Softcover. New. Laminated cover, coil bound, 398 coated pages. The 1950 System-wide Employee Time Tables for all active divisions of the Santa Fe Railway is bound together in this title. The effective date is April 2, 1950, when many divisions issued new time tables. Divisions are listed in Grand Division order and the complete time table is presented - including blanks where blanks were found in the original. This ensures that you will see them as the appeared to the original user. The complete timetable is presented including covers, maps, special instruction and other data. Many passenger trains and motor cars were still running and it is interesting to see their times over the districts.

Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. This second Pennsylvania Railroad Color Guide by noted PRR rolling stock historian Ian S. Fischer, features the early 1960s photography of Paul Winters around Columbus, Ohio in beautiful color. See former N&W hoppers now PRR class H2A, round-roof K9 stock cars which were converted from automobile cars, unusual M of W equipment and much more. Hardcover with jacket, 128 pages, standard portrait size, Color images with captions.

Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. Volume 2 of New York Harbor Railroads is a systematic Color tour of the waterfront terminals focusing intensely on some characteristic rail-marine operations of the Port of New York. Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., Color photographs with captions.

Old Line Graphics. Hardcover. New. A black & white photographic tour of the Louisville & Nashville's Cumberland Valley Division from the early days to second-generation diesels. Acknowledgements, Dedication, Introduction, pp. 4-7, CV Division Map, pp. 8-9, A Capsule History, pp. 10-12, The Power and the Glory, pp. 13-26, Passengers, Mail and Express, pp. 27-32, The Best Engines We Ever Had: RS3s, pp. 33-40, Tidewater Connections, pp. 41-49, Appalachia: No Place Like Home, pp. 50-67, Roaring Branch, pp. 68-73, Pennington (But No Gap Please), pp. 74-80, The Hagans Switchback, pp. 81-89, The Mule Train, pp. 90-95, Loyall, Baxter and Harlan, pp. 96-114, Big ALCOs on Poor Fork, pp. 115-122, Loyall Varilla Mine Run, pp. 123-128, The Old CV, pp. 129-133, The Big Show: Corbin, pp. 134-155, Out on the Road, pp. 156-179, The Good Old Days Recalled, pp. 180-183, Addendum, pp. 184-192. Old Line Graphics, hardcover, 192 pages, standard portrait book 8 x 10 in., B&W photographs with text, maps and track diagrams.

Santa Fe Railway H&M Society. Hardcover. New. Sleeping Cars of the Santa Fe is the final installment in the SFH&MS Passenger Car Reference Series. A comprehensive overview of Santa Fe sleeping cars from the wood car era through the heavy-weights to the end of the lightweight era. Contents: Wooden Sleeping Cars, Wooden Sleepers Acquired from the Pecos Valley and Northeastern, Wooden Emigrant Sleeping Cars, Wooden All-Section Tourist Sleepers, Wooden Sleeping Car Assignments, pp. 1-59, Heavyweight Sleeping Cars, Heavyweight Cars Purchased for Work Service Only, Heavyweight Cars purchased for Business or Special Purpose Use, Foreign-Line and Pullman-Owned Heavyweight Sleepers used on AT&SF Scheduled Trains, 1950-1959, pp. 60-181, Lightweight Sleeping Cars, Lightweight Sleeping Cars Not Built, Lightweight Sleeping Car Assignments, Foreign Road Sleepers on the Santa Fe, Santa Fe Sleepers on Foreign Roads, pp. 182-367, Dormitory Cars, pp. 368-382, Appendix, Glossary of Santa Fe Lightweight Sleeping Car… Read More

Santa Fe Railway H&M Society. Softcover. New. At first glance, this is an album of the photography of the late Gerry Salsig. But is more than that. It is a labor of love, written by a friend who grew up with the photographer - a testimony of an eye witness and his friends as they made a journey typical of that made by many of us who, while growing up, became fascinated with the railroad known as The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Not only does this book describe the innocence of several friends from the East Bay area of San Francisco as they began to explore their railroad world and experience the sights, sounds and people connected with it, but the author, Patrick D. Flynn - who later became a dispatcher employed by the Santa Fe - adds considerable depth from an insider's point of view as to how Santa Fe operated the west end of the Second District of the Valley Division. This division was operated under time table and train-orders over a three-decade period beginning in the mid-1960s and on into the… Read More

Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society, 2015. Softcover. New. Softcover, 80 pages, B&W photographs and illustrations. Contents: Emergence of the Railroad Maintenance-of-Way Industry, pp. 5-14, Development of Motorized Rail Maintenance Cars, pp. 15-22, Motor Car Design Evolves, pp. 23-32, Brief History of Fairmont Railway Motor Cars, pp. 33-44, C&O Inspection Cars, pp. 45-56, C&O Section Cars, pp. 57-68, C&O Gang Cars, pp. 69-80.

Weekend Chief Publishing. Hardcover. New. This book is about the formation of Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. (forerunner to TWA), the emergence of air travel in the United States, and for awhile, the blending of air service with the dominant mode of the time, rail travel. More about the airline than the coordinated rail service, this book provides great insight into the early days of passenger aviation. Numerous photographs accompany the text. Most photographs are of the airline's equipment and personnel but also rail accommodations are presented. Includes a 6-page color section of ephemera relating to this service. Contents: Ch. 1. Gestation, pg. 2-17, Ch. 2. Shopping List, pg. 18-33, Ch. 3. A Period for Planning, pg. 34-61, Ch. 4. Takeoff, pg. 62-91, Ch. 5. Setback, pg. 92-107, Ch. 6. Comes the Revolution, pg. 108-119, Epilogue, pg. 120-125, Ephemera, pg. 126-131, Index, pg. 132-133, Photo Index, pg. 134, Acknowledgments and Bibliography, pg. 135-136, Fleet List, pg. 138. Weekend Chief… Read More

Santa Fe Railway H&M Society. CD book. New. From 1974, this long out-of-print and widely sought book has been digitized into Adobe PDF form, with bookmarking, into DVD form. The book is based on 19 passenger train consist books issued between 1946 and 1971 by the Santa Fe for the use of its officials. It tells what cars would have made up the standard company passenger trains at any given point and date on the railroad. It shows where cars would have been dropped and where picked up along their journey. When the book was originally published, some of the floor plans did not reproduce well. In digitizing this book an attempt has been made to make the diagrams more clear. An index of photographs and drawings has been added to this publication. SFRH&MS (originally RPC Publications), CD-Rom.

Center for Railroad Photography and Art. Hardcover. New. J. Parker Lamb broke new ground in railroad photography. His exceptional collection came to the Center for Railroad Photography & Art in 2015, and his work is now the subject of a book, published by the Center. The text comes from Kevin P. Keefe and Fred W. Frailey. Frailey wrote a foreword that presents Lamb's life story while contextualizing his work within the pantheon of railroad photography. Keefe served as editor, writing captions as well as an afterword focused on the singularity of Lamb's photography in the South. Jeff Brouws and Wendy Burton did the design work, while Scott Lothes assisted with photo editing and digital prepress production. Hardcover, 208 pages, 10 x 11 inches, 160 duotone photographs (B&W).

Santa Fe Railway H&M Society, 2022. Hardcover. New. The contents page of this book is missing page numbers for some of the chapters. A corrected, but separate, title page is included which shows the page numbers. Hardcover, 132 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., B&W photographs There haven't been too many books published regarding the hard-working men of the railroad maintenance-of-way work and life. This is a good title regarding the life and times from a southwest US and Santa Fe experience. Naylor, a track maintenance and construction supervisor for the Santa Fe Railway in New Mexico from 1921 to 1961, upon his death left a fascinating story of his time with the railway. He was an on-the-ground eyewitness to many of the changes on the Santa Fe, making this book a time capsule for both early railroading and life in New Mexico. His narrative provides rare glimpses into the hard life of a railroad track gang working as well as his difficulties as a supervisor and married man with family responsibilities. Naylor… Read More

Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. These two regional railroads headquartered in Green Bay became part of Wisconsin Central. With exotic motive power, both railroads are missed today, but well remembered in this Color book. Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., Color photographs with captions.

Grenadier Publications. Hardcover. New. This book is more than a book about the first locomotives of the Northern Pacific Railway, it is an early history of the line for it's first two decades of existence. Included with this early history are the first locomotives of the NP, the reasons for their purchase, their operating assignments, and the problems the company experienced with them. There are many illustrations (not all locomotives) and extensive text. This is not another picture book with captions. Contents: Introduction, Preface, pp. 3-8, Railroad to the Pacific: Before the First Spike, pp. 11-26, The Mechanical Department, pp. 27-32, The Locomotive Class and Numbering System, pp. 33-42, East and West: The Railroad Begins 1870-1879, pp. 43-74, The Northern Pacific's First Locomotives: 1870-1879, pp. 75-100, Completing the Mainline: 1879-New York, pp. 101-142, The Standard Locomotives: 1879-New York, pp. 143-170, The Experimental Engines: 1879-New York, pp. 171-182, Expanding the Roster:… Read More

Four Ways West Publications, 2022. Hardcover. New. Hardcover, 144 pages, Color photographs with captions. Being from the Twin Cities (aka ""The Cities""), this book will have photographs from my favorite railroads and locations. With the many large bridges crossing the rivers there, and with the bluffs south of St. Paul, there should be some very scenic shots in this title. The cover images alone look great. This book is a mix of old and contemporary photos. Contents: The Burlington Northern, The Building Blocks, pp. 5-11, Burlington Northern, By and By, pp. 12-24, BNSF, The Brand-New Steel Freeway, pp. 25-32, Chicago & Northwestern's Precedent, pp. 33-35, Chicago & Northwestern's Past, pp. 36-42, Chicago & Northwestern's Posterity, pp. 43-52, The Heart-Rendering Rock, pp. 53-58, Milwaukee Road Documentation, pp. 59-65, Milwaukee Road Dominated, pp. 66-73, Milwaukee Road Descendance, pp. 74-80, Soo Line's Summary, pp. 81-88, Soo Line Segmentation and Sequel, Wisconsin Central and Canadian National,… Read More

Four Ways West Publications. Hardcover. New. Having spent my early childhood in Minneapolis, I appreciate the photographs of the author who, as an employee, was able to get closer to many railroad locations than I could. The Twin Cities, known in Minnesota as ""The Cities"" are the 4th largest railroad hub of the United States. There are many locations from all over this huge metropolitan area the author visited and worked and brought his camera along with him. Study and savor many colorful, dramatic images of Soo Line and CP Rail operations in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis - St. Paul and outlying terminals from 1985-2015. A former employee who worked the extra board for ten years examines many of the locomotives and most of the jobs and the routes over which the crews hauled freight, interchanged cars with other railroads and serviced customers throughout the beautiful Twin Cities and busy railroad transportation service area. Contents: From the Prairies, pp. 5-8, Humbolt Yard, pp. 9-12,… Read More