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Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. So many railroaders and managers thought that the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads would merge that quite a few locomotives and some cabooses were prepared for the merger by being painted in a new merger-ready paint scheme. The Reagan administration rejected the merger as anti-competitive. The selected paint scheme was colorful and attractive. Since the merger was not approved, the paint scheme did not last long. Quite a few photographs show the equipment freshly painted or still in excellent condition. The equipment wasn't around long enough to get grungy. The Southern Pacific Railroad and Santa Fe Railway were so sure their proposed merger would be approved by the Federal Government, that they went ahead and painted over 400 locomotives in the new company's paint scheme. The merger never happened, but their wishful thinking resulted in a colorful and unique period in the history of these two venerable railroads. Morning Sun Books, 128 pages, standard… Read More

Colorado Railroad Museum. Hardcover. New. The San Luis Valley is an interesting little short line located in southern Colorado and overlooked by rail enthusiasts on their way to the narrow gauge railroads. The chapters include a discussion of the geography, history of ownership and the challenges of the future. The Greeley Branch of the Union Pacific chapters include data such as mileages, some color pictures of Union Pacific steam, and some B&W images of depots. The Arkansas Valley Railway was a branch of the Kansas Pacific Railroad and connected Kit Carson, Colorado with Las Animas, Colorado. This is a very lonely area on the high plains of eastern Colorado. In this title are detailed three unusual ""Colorado Railroads Without Mountains."" The 15-mile San Luis Central has faithfully served a rich agricultural district in the San Luis Valley for over a century, owning only three locomotives during its lifetime. Having outlived many more famous lines, its full history is presented here for the first… Read More

Stonybrook Press. Hardcover. New. From the author/publisher: This edition unfortunately has 44 photograph captions with scrambled text. Two correction sheets are included inside the book. The printer will not acknowledge their error and the author had no choice but to accept the captions error as he had already placed a 50% deposit for the books. The price to Arizona Hobbies has not changed and therefore the book is priced as is. Volume 6 in the series takes a comprehensive look at the facilities of the Sandy River, Franklin & Megantic and SR&RL railroads in the towns of Freeman, Salem and Strong. Coverage includes the depots, turntables, water tanks, freight houses, section houses, engine house, coal sheds, bridges, trestles, and other major structures. Industries and activities associated with the railroads are presented along with track diagrams and maps. The Mt. Abram branch is included. Features nearly 300 photographs, many of which are previously unpublished. Hardcover with jacket, large… Read More

Stonybrook Press. Hardcover. New. The complete title of this volume is: The Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad and Predecessors, The Railroad, Towns and Related Industries Volume 5: The Town of Farmington. In Volume 5, this series on the SR&RL and predecessors, takes a new direction from focusing on equipment (Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4) to focusing on railroad structures, the right-of-way, and industries related to the railroad. Many unpublished photographs, primarily of the railroad and online industries, are presented. Contents: Corrections and Additions to volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4. Farmington, A Brief History, pp. 1-3, Sandy River Railroad, Construction, Maintenance, Scrapping, pp. 4-16, Maine Central Railroad, Sandy River Railroad Yard, pp. 17-19, Maine Central Railroad Facilities - Pre-1900, pp. 20-36, Maine Central Railroad - Sandy River Railroad Joint Facilities - Pre-1900, pp. 37-42, Sandy River Railroad Facilities - Pre-1900, pp. 43-66, Maine Central Railroad Facilities Post-1900, pp. 67-83,… Read More

Stonybrook Press. Hardcover. New. Volume 4 completes the presentation of the equipment: SR and SR&RL built equipment, ""Snowplows"" built by Joseph M. Whittier, unknown builders and miscellaneous builders and rosters: Eustis, F&M, P&R, SR, SR&RL. Contents: The Snowplow and Flanger Dilemma, The Roster Dilemma, Corrections and Additions to volumes 1, 2 and 3. Equipment Manufacturer Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad, pp. 1-42, Miscellaneous Builders, pp. 43-59, Unknown Builders, pp. 60-200, Equipment Photograph Gallery, pp. 201-221, Railroad Equipment Rosters, pp. 222-240, Appendix (handcars and motorized cars, snow plowing equipment), pp. 24-264, Index, pp. 265-266. Stonybrook Press, 284 pages, large portrait format pages 11 x 8.5 in., over 400 Black and White photographs.

Stonybrook Press, 2022. Hardcover. New. Hardcover with jacket, large portrait format 10 x 8 x 3 in., Black and White photographs. Features nearly 300 photographs, many of which are previously unpublished. Volume 7 of the series takes a comprehensive look at the facilities of the Franklin & Megantic, Kingfield & Dead River, the SR&RL railroads in the towns of Kingfield, Carrabasset and Bigelow. Subjects includes the depots, turntables, water tanks, freight houses, section houses, engine houses, coal sheds, bridges, trestles and other major structures. Industries and activities associated with the railroads are presented along with diagrams and maps. The Hammond Field spur and private mill tracks are included.

Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. Santa Fe had something not easily translated to the bottom line. It had style. No other road cultivated a regional identification as assiduously as Santa Fe. When its rails reached California in 1897, Santa Fe was the only railroad whose tracks stretched all the way back to Chicago. Thus a slogan was born: Santa Fe - all the way. Travel this famous road from the 1940s to 1966 in this Color book of vintage photography. Many pictures of clean new power, dirty steam, and bright silver and red passenger locomotives! Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., Color photographs with captions.

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. At the end of the steam locomotive age, the Santa Fe Railway was among the foremost of American railroads that responded generously to requests for steam locomotives to be placed on display in city parks and museums. Renowned steam locomotive historian Lloyd E. Stagner documents the service history and current locations of all 51 AT&SF steam locomotives on display or held for future exhibition. Noted railroad preservation writer Bob Yarger then comments on what action can and must be taken in order to assure the future survival of these treasured artifacts of Americas rail heritage. Filled with 62 photographs and illustrations, this book is a call to action for railroad enthusiasts and history preservationists everywhere. South Platte Press, softcover, 48 pages, standard portrait book 8 x 10 in., B&W photographs of locomotives in service and on display.

Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. For many years, six-axle Electro-Motive road-switchers were the backbone of Santa Fe's mainline freight service. Volume 4 features them all, from the SD24s of 1959 to the ""Warbonnet"" SD75Ms of Santa Fe's final days! Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., Color photographs with captions.

Santa Fe Railway H&M Society. Hardcover. New. This book continues the work of the late Robert E. Pounds and William W. Childers in documenting Santa Fe Railway depots. It contains a route-by-route and station-by station look at the depots of the Eastern Lines Grand Division of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway system, using a format developed by John McCall for the listing of stations and the arrangement of accompanying data, that has been used in four previous books on Santa Fe depots. The Eastern Lines of the Santa Fe covered by this book ran from Chicago on the east end to Boise City, Oklahoma on the far west. Lines also ran from Ottawa, Kansas to Tulsa, Oklahoma, from Superior, Nebraska through Wichita to Wellington, Kansas and from Newton to Arkansas City, Kansas, and Purcell, Oklahoma. The Santa Fe had depots or towers at more than 620 stations in this territory ranging from small one-room wood frame boxes to large masonry edifices with more than 20 rooms. Santa Fe Railway Historical… Read More

Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. Santa Fe's Electro-Motive cab units are icons of American Railroading. Just about every model train manufacturer that produced a model of an EMD cab unit painted them in silver with the red warbonnet. In this volume, we explore the company's E, F, and cowl locomotive types. Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., Color photographs with captions.

Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. A true Santa Fe classic! See rare DL109s in Kansas City and then spend a day in 1946 as everything from 2-10-2s to FTs pass by. Watch as 2-10-4s help F7s thru Abo Canyon and E1s glide over Raton Pass. Plus, joint-line steam and early diesels in abundance. Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., Color photographs with captions.

Morning Sun Books, 1992. Hardcover. New. This is the first in a four-Volume series of the finest vintage AT&SF color available. This series shows Santa Fe steam at its best and at least one of every diesel class the road had during this period. This first Volume features such rarities as 'The Blue Goose', E3s, Baldwin center cabs, FTs in Passenger Service, and much more, all in full color. The captions in this title are more extensive than other Morning Sun titles. Lloyd was a Santa Fe employee and knew the assignments of the locomotives. Morning Sun Books, hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all Color photographs with captions.

Santa Fe Railway H&M Society. Spiral Bound. New. This new Volume on Santa Fe's modern box cars starts where John Dobyne's Santa Fe Railway Rolling Stock Reference Series Volume 4 Santa Fe Boxcars 1869-1953 left off. Beginning with the 500 cars Bx-66 Class cars of 1954 - one of the last classes of box cars to come lettered from the builders with name train slogans on the car sides - it completes the story of box car development up to the BNSF merger of 1995. This was the colorful Shock Control and Super Shock Control era. Topeka shops installed a 10-inch travel 'Shock Control' sliding center sill under frame in a Bx-66 Class box car in June 1958. Numbered, 10001 and re-classed as a Bx-77 with a new Indian red and black paint scheme with a large Santa Fe herald and new advertising slogan 'DF with Shock Control' splashed across the car side, this car ushered in a new era in box car construction. From then on, nearly all new classes of Santa Fe box cars were fitted with either a Shock Control, or a… Read More

Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. Over 280 Color photographs of stations, signals, shops, yards, and other segments of the physical plant along the right of way Chicago to Los Angeles from the late 1950s to 1990. Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., Color photographs with captions.

Santa Fe Railway H&M Society. Softcover. New. Lee Berglund was a prolific photographer from Larned, Kansas, who documented the Santa Fe on the Great Plains encompassing Kansas, eastern Colorado - as far west as Trinidad and Denver - western Oklahoma, and northwest Texas as far south as Slaton. We see, through Lee's lens, the history of the Santa Fe's last 30 years in this territory at the heart of the Santa Fe. During Lee's active years - 1964 to 1995 - the railroad experienced great changes. In 1964 Santa Fe's famous passenger service was in its final years, the all-purpose boxcar dominated freight trains, First-Generation diesel locomotives - although downgraded to secondary service - could still be seen and second-generation units were new and pulled the highest priority trains. The familiar way car was in regular use. The small town depot was very much in evidence and a dense web of branch lines characterized the Santa Fe on the Great Plains. Over the next 30 years, all this would change,… Read More

Morning Sun Books. Hardcover. New. The final volume features the many General Electric locomotives operated by Santa Fe. Included is a review of Santa Fe locomotives as they were assimilated into the BNSF system! Hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, standard portrait size, Color Photographs.

Santa Fe Railway H&M Society. CD book. New. The DVD version is the only version of this title Arizona Hobbies could obtain. This is a CD-ROM copy of the book of the same title which catalogs the known steam locomotives operated by one particular railroad business enterprise over the course of its corporate existence, commonly known as the Santa Fe Railway. It is the first of two volumes, addressing the locomotive wheel arrangements used on the Santa Fe beginning in the 19th Century. In effect, this publication is a database - a formal collection of tables, summarizing and cross-referencing the more than three thousand steam locomotives owned and operated by the Santa Fe between 1869 and 1983. These tabulations are the result of dozens of man-years of labor, beginning with the efforts of anonymous clerks in the offices of forgotten locomotive manufacturers and railroad corporations. Eventually Professor Sylvan R. Wood, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, Stillwater, Oklahoma created a… Read More

Santa Fe Railway H&M Society. Hardcover. New. This book brings to print the late Robert Pounds' work on the Gulf Lines depots. Published in the same style as his Western Lines Depots book of 1984, it includes sections on Station Name Sources, a basic history of 'The GC,' Depot Construction and Evolution, Depot Operations and Services, and is then broken into chapters on the Main Line, covering the 1st District of the Galveston Division, 1st and 2nd Districts of the Southern Division, and 1st and 2nd Districts of the Northern Division. The Galveston Division sections covers the Galveston Terminal, Houston, Matagorda, Garwood, Bonus, Hall and Nash Dome Districts and the Texas City Terminal Railway Co. The Southern Division section covers the Lampasas, Sweetwater, San Saba, San Angelo, Paint Rock, Sterling City, Dublin, Menard, and Waco Districts. The Beaumont Division section covers the Somerville, Conroe, San Augustine, Longview, Port Bolivar, Silsbee, Saratoga, Grigsby, Oakdale and Ore City… 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