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Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. The first in a multi-Volume set that will cover the Milwaukee Road from one end to the over during the period when one could see Hiawathas propelled by everything from 4-4-2s to Bi-Polars to Erie-builts. This Volume covers the territory east of the city of Milwaukee and showcases many varieties of the roads steam and diesel operations centered around the Chicago area. Contents: Around the Windy City, pp. 5-25, Bensenville Yard, pp. 26-43, Terre Haute Division - The Southeastern, pp. 44-53, Downtown Chicago, pp. 54-69, Western Avenue Coach Yard and Station, pp. 70-78, Commuter Operations, pp. 79-93, Davis Junction, pp. 94-101, Ladd-Oglesby, pp. 102-107, Savanna, pp. 108-112, Rondout, pp. 113-121, Roundout North to Wisconsin, pp. 122-128. An eclectic mix of power including steam and early diesels and later diesels and passenger power in yellow. Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., Color photographs with captions.

The Garbely Publishing Company. Spiral Bound. New. The Pennsylvania Railroad's dining cars were renowned for their service and food quality. The PRR's well-trained chefs and waiters provided some of the world's finest cuisine while rolling along the eastern seaboard's steel highways. The procedures and, more importantly, the recipes used to provide that service were compiled into a single volume for the staff's reference and guidance on board the train. This exact reprint of the PRR's Cooking and Service Instructions from April 1947 is a collaborative effort between the Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania and The Garbely Publishing Company. From uniquely exotic 1940s recipes (like a chicken shortcake) to the exacting specifications for the PRR's famous club sandwich or renowned salad bowl, this book contains hundreds of recipes that were originally prepared aboard a PRR dining car, including sauces, salads, sandwiches, entrees, sides, and desserts. Simplicity was key aboard a rolling… Read More

Kratville Publications, 1980. Hardcover. New. A comprehensive history of the Union Pacific Streamliners. Five years of research covers every aspect of these famous trains including 43 timetables, 17 menus, 73 diagrams of locomotives and cars, profit and loss statements, operating contracts with partner railroads, equipment values, over 1200 photographs and 56,000 words of text. Contents: Part 1: In The Beginning.., the early trains from the M-10000 to the Treasure Island Special including Painting and Lettering, Part 2: Then They Ran Daily. Including Motive Power After 1938 to the Train of Tomorrow, City of Las Vegas and Braking Systems, Part 3: Equipment 1948-1971, all classes of equipment up to the Amtrak Era, Part 4: Streamliner Memories, Index. Auto-Liner, hardcover with dust jacket, 592 pages, 8.5 x 11 x 2 in., B&W photographs, diagrams, equipment rosters, data.

Golden West Books. Hardcover. New. The streamline style, which began by rounding corners of immobile objects, ushered in the Moderne era across America in the 1930s. Railroads decided to streamline with the coming of the diesel locomotive. Featured is the influence of designers such as Cret, Dreyfus, Bel Geddes, Kuhler, and Lowey. The evolution of semi-streamlining took place as depression-poor railroads attempted to modernize. The coming of Burlington's Zephyr and Union Pacifics M-1000, started a mad dash by Americas railroads to streamline passenger trains. There is also a chapter on streamlining of trains around-the-world. Some aircraft and automobiles of the era are also presented. Contents: The Streamline Style, pp. 9-20, Early Experiments Toward Streamlining, pp. 21-34, The Evolution of Semi-Streamlining, pp. 35-46, The Streamline Era: The Pioneers 1933-1935, pp. 47-88, Streamlining: The Middle Years 1936-1937, pp. 89-140, The Peak Years: Zenith and Decline, pp. 141-154, Diesel Invasion:… Read More

Kalmbach Publishing. Softcover. New. Collectors of Lionel toy trains and accessories eagerly await the latest edition of this definitive annual guide. With current pricing and invaluable reference information for prewar, postwar, and modern trains, this is the guide they need when buying, selling, or trading any Lionel toy train or accessory. Kalmbach Publishing, softcover, 424 pages, 4 x 8.5 x .75 in.

Colorado Railroad Museum. Hardcover. New. A history of Colorado kilns, ovens, furnaces and rails The first detailed study of Colorado's coke and ore smelting industries and their importance to the state's mountain railroads. Individual histories of dozens of historic sites including GPS locators for exploration. Five full color, full page reproductions of Otto Kuhler paintings. Over 240 historic and contemporary photographs, drawings, maps and charts. Steam locomotive rosters of the major smelters. Contents: Acknowledgments, Introduction and Preface, pp. 9-12, Ch. 1: Betsy from Pike, pp. 13-46, Ch. 2: Coke and Smoke, pp. 47-128, Ch. 3: Brick Beehives, pp. 129-178, Ch. 4: Silver Furnaces, pp. 179-216, Ch. 5: Iron Horses, pp. 217-237, Appendix A - List of Smelters, pp. 238-247, Appendix B - Locomotive Rosters, pg. 248, Appendix C - GPS Locations, pg. 249, End Notes, pp. 250-254, Glossary, pg. 255, Bibliography, pg. 256-258, Index, pp. 259-264. Colorado Railroad Museum, hardcover with dust jacket, 264… Read More

Colorado Railroad Museum. Hardcover. New. Colorado Railroad Water Tanks is a historical tour of the water tanks of Colorado's steam railroad era. Steam locomotives required a large quantity of water to generate the required amount of steam for motive power. Colorado railroads operated over six hundred tanks located along the approximately 6,000 miles of track. The six hundred tanks and their locations are listed in an index and documented with construction dates, sizes, water sources and pumping equipment, when the information is available. The process and history of bringing water from its source to the locomotive's tender is explained and illustrated. Included are 289 pages with over 260 color and black & white photographs (about 95% B&W), maps and illustrations of tanks and water equipment! Drawings, illustrations, maps and photographs in digital form are also included on a CD. Tanks that still remain are listed and located with GPS data for those wishing to visit these reminders of Colorado's… Read More

Colorado Railroad Museum. Softcover. New. Ice houses were a new concept when the country's railroads finally began to use them to replenish the ice necessary to keep their customers' perishable items from spoiling in transit. Railroads were reluctant users of refrigerated cars in the first place, but large shippers such as meat packers, breweries, and produce suppliers demanded they use this method to ship perishable goods. In Colorado Ice Houses the author uses photographs, drawings and maps to skillfully explore this unique subject. Contents: Colorado Railroad Ice Houses, pp. 5-37, List of Ice Houses, pp. 38-40, Folio Sheets of Railroad Reefers (reefer car diagrams both standard and narrow gauge), pp. 41-43, Bibliography, pg. 44. Colorado Railroad Museum, softcover, 44 pages, standard portrait book 8 x 10 in., over 60 B&W images, 1 color page of Rio Grande reefers at the CRA.

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. This is a study of the last years of operation by the former Burlington Northern Railroad of its once-extensive agrarian branch line rail system across the prairie regions of southeast Nebraska. The authors explain how these branch lines were operated during the late 1950 era by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and again during the Burlington Northern era of the 1970s-1980s. Included are co-author Hedgpeth's first-person account of working on these branch lines as a CB&Q brakeman. Some 95 rare and large format images, most in color, illustrate how the BN continued to provide freight service to many small town shippers just prior to abandonment of many of the lines depicted. Also included is a detailed map of past and remaining branch lines in the area. Contents: Acknowledgements, Introduction, pp. 2-6, Nebraska's BN Branch Line Era, pp. 7-9, CB&Q Branch Epitome, pp. 10-14, BN Branch Transition, pp. 15-20, Competitor With Branch Lines, pp. 21-22,… Read More

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. Photography by Forrest H. Bahm. Across the United States, a large number of new short line or regional railroads have been formed from trackage formerly operated by larger railroad companies. One example of this type of rail service in the Midwest, the Nebraska Central, has since 1993 continued to move mostly agrarian-related traffic over a series of former Union Pacific Railroad branch lines. This book serves as a case study of how rail service on one branch line has dramatically changed between the decades of the 1960s and the 1990s. It is also a pictorial study in B&W of how one railroad photographer, Forrest H. Bahm, documented both of these eras. It is ultimately a story of regional railroading for today. Only one steam photograph but includes many interesting subjects including passenger specials, detour trains with main line power (including a U50C) and a Jordan Spreader. The photo reproduction is excellent on high-quality glossy paper. Contents:… Read More

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. This new edition features a new cover and a new foreword detailing recent events regarding the Canteen. Just 10 days after Pearl Harbor, the residents of North Platte, Neb., learned that their own Company D, Nebraska National Guard, which had been training in Arkansas, was going to pass through the city en route to the West Coast. About 500 family members and friends hurried to the Union Pacific Railroad station with cookies, candy, cakes and cigarettes. After a long wait, a troop train rumbled into the station - with a unit from the Kansas National Guard. The residents were disappointed until someone in the crowd said, Well, what are we waiting for ""Welcome to our city, sons, and here's a little something for you."" They then passed out to these boys the gifts they had arranged for their own. This was the beginning of the North Platte Canteen. Every day, from 3,000 to 5,000 soldiers, sailors and marines visited the North Platte Canteen in the Union Pacific… Read More

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. For well over 100 years, there was a close and usually mutually beneficial relationship between the City of Parsons, Kansas, and what became the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company (M-K-T or -the Katy-). Parsons, located on rolling prairie land near the southeast corner of Kansas, depended largely on the Katy for its basic employment, those jobs which brought money into the community. In fact, during the first half of that period it was almost a textbook example of a railroad town. Covering the years 1865 to 2012, the authors relate the fascinating story of how Parsons was the site of the Katy's main locomotive repair shop until its merger with the Union Pacific in 1988. Railroad historian I.E. Quastler has previously authored a number of Midwest railroad history topics, including Rock Island Line In Focus. Co-author James Reisdorff has authored or co-authored books such as The Man Who Wrecked 146 Locomotives. South Platte Press, softcover, 168 pages, 115 B&W… Read More

South Platte Press, 2022. Softcover. New. Softcover, 88 pages, 8.5 x 11 in, 30 B&W illustrations. In June 1905, two-year-old Paul Ussary was playing on the railroad tracks of the St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway near Powell, Nebraska. Tragedy seemed certain when a freight train suddenly rounded the curve. However, the locomotive's fireman, George Poell, suddenly leaps into action. Little Paul is saved, but George is maimed for life. Hailed a national hero, George becomes the first recipient of a new Congressional medal for railroad valor. It's a long-forgotten story of hero worship, political scandal and bonds of eternal gratitude between two men. It's also a historic account of what is now the A-B-C line of the Union Pacific Railroad in Nebraska. Contents: Preface, Introduction, pp. 5-10, Grand Island and Hanover, pp. 11-14, The St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad, 15-20, The A-B-C Railroad, pp. 21-23, A Town Called Powell, pp. 24-26, Just Another Day at Work, pp. 27-31, To Save a Child, pp. 32-36,… Read More

Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. The Southern was the modern railroad of the South while at the same time operating some backwoods lines. The entire system is illustrated in the days when F3's were working side-by-side with SD24's. Contents: The Southern Railway - A Personal Remembrance, pp. 4-8, Richmond and Danville, pp. 9-45, Western North Carolina, pp. 46-83, East Tennessee and Virginia, pp. 84-99, Cincinnati Southern, pp. 100-128. Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., Color photographs with captions.

Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. The first in a series of books on CSX locomotives this volume covers four-axle diesels built by EMD that were originally purchased by predecessor railroads that later became components of the CSX system. Photographs show the units in many stages of their careers, and in many paint schemes, including shots of them as Chesapeake & Ohio, Baltimore & Ohio, Atlantic Coast Line, Louisville & Nashville, Durham & Southern, Georgia Railroad and other various original colors. Some F-unit photographs show the units without the yellow nose. Contents: Introduction, pp. 3-4, F7A, pg. 5, F7B, pp. 6-7, FP7, pp. 8-9, GP9, pp. 10-13, GP7, pg. 14, GP18, pg. 15, SW1500, pp. 16-17, MP15DC, pp. 18-19, MP15AC, pp. 20-25, MP15T, pp. 26-27, GP11 (GP16), pp. 30-31, GP16, pp. 32-35, GP38, pp. 36-45, GP38AC, pp. 46-49, GP38-2, pp. 50-67, GP30, pp. 68-70, GP30M, pp. 71-75, GP39, pp. 76-79, GP35, pp. 80-85, GP40-2: #6000-6392, pp. 86-105, GP40-2: #6400-6499-6987, pp. 106-109, GP40, pp. 110-127,… Read More

Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. A look at the Southern's diesel roads-switcher fleet ranging from ALCO RS1's through the many EMD Geeps and SD's, FM Train Masters and GE U33C's. Contents: Introduction and Notes, pp. 3-5, ALCO Four-Axle Road Switchers, pp. 6-18, Fairbanks-Morse Four-Axle Road Switchers, pp. 19-20, EMD Four-Axle Road Switchers, pp. 21-76, General Electric Four-Axle Road Switchers, pp. 77-88, Baldwin Six-Axle Road Switchers, 89-91, Fairbanks-Morse Six-Axle Road Switchers, pg. 92, EMD Six-Axle Road Switchers, pp. 93-122, General Electric Six-Axle Road Switchers, pp. 123-126, Addenda from Volume 1, pp. 127-128. Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., Color photographs with captions.

Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. This third volume of CSX Power in Color features six-axle locomotives of CSX predecessor railroads built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors. Photography includes examples of the units throughout their entire careers beginning with 1960s original paint schemes like ACL, SAL, L&N, B&O, C&O, and WM. Outstanding action photos are liberally combined with many comparative roster shots in a colorful multitude of paint schemes. Contents: Introduction, pp. 3-4, H15 (SD35M), pp. 5-6, SD18, pg. 7, SD20-2, pg. 8, SD35M, pg. 9, SD38-2, pp. 9-11, SD40-2, pp. 12-13, SD38-2S, pg. 14, SD35, pp. 15-28, SD40 and SD40-2, pp. 29-97, SD50, pp. 98-113, SD45, pp. 114-120, SD45-2, pp. 121-127, Addenda from Volumes 1 and 2, pg. 128. Morning Sun Books, 128 pages, standard portrait size, Color images with captions.

Morning Sun Books, 2020. Hardcover. New. A medium-sized, mostly North Carolina regional railroad was merged with the Southern Railway System in the mid-1970s. This volume features action photos along the entire railroad with a choice selection of locomotive shots, coverage concludes with an extensive illustration of what became of the Norfolk Southern Railway's lines after 1982. Hardcover, 128 pages, standard portrait format, Color photographs.

Morning Sun Books, 2020. Hardcover. New. Southern Railway in Color, Volume 4, cuts across the deep south despite starting in Illinois and Indiana. It then skips to eastern Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana before turning north to include Georgia, Florida and parts of the Carolinas. There's a horough treatment of the crossroads of the Southern Railway, Atlanta. Exceptional photographs are mostly from the 1970s and 1980s and feature some out of the way locations and unusual operations. Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, standard portrait format, Color photographs.

Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society, 2021. Softcover. New. Softcover, 112 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., B&W photographs, illustrations and maps. Contents: East to Newport News and Hampton Roads, pp. 5-8, The Military-Industrial Complex, pp. 9-17, Newport News to Williamsburg, pp. 18-40, Virginia's Historic Triangle, pp. 41-62, Williamsburg to Beulah, pp. 63-84, Around the Confederate Capital, pp. 85-108, A Hole in the Sinking Ground, pp. 109-112.