Heimburger House Publishing Company 2014 A Message from the Publisher Contents

New Books...... 3

Favorite Heimburger House Titles ...... 4 Dear Friends,

“With a book in my hand, I feel as though I am Cookbooks ...... 7 holding something special,” I heard someone say the other day. Construction Equipment...... 7, 31 At Heimburger House we feel the same way: books are great and have a special feel to them, they’re easy to hold in your Model Railroading ...... 7, 31 hand, you can quickly turn back to a page for reference, and the size of a book makes it spectacular for viewing photography and illustrations. Let’s face it, books have a lot going for them Railfan Titles ...... 8 that Kindles do not. - You can count on Heimburger House to provide the finest Children’s Railroad Books ...... 28 books available on your favorite railroad transportation sub jects. And we’ve just released America’s Greatest Circus Regional History ...... 31 Train and Garratt Locomotives, a 1925 reprint of the Garratt catalog. Bruce Nelson has gathered detailed information and photographs for years for his new circus book, and the Garratt Model Magazines...... 32 catalog depicts what this United Kingdom firm once offered in their line-up of “stretch-limo” locomotives.

Also, our children’s railroad book line continues to grow, and has become very, very popular: it’s a way to get young children involved with trains! Sincerely,

Don Heimburger Publisher

HH Heimburger House Publishing Company

• Phone: (708) 366-1973 • Fax: (708) 366-1973 • E-mail: [email protected] • Mail: 7236 W. Madison St., Forest Park, Illinois 60130 USA See our entire book selection at www.heimburgerhouse.com New Books From Heimburger House America'sHH Greatest Circus Train Garratt Locomotives By Bruce C. Nelson rom 1855 to 1966 merica’s Greatest Circus Train is a new, F nearly 8,000 railroad A208-page 10 x 10" hardcover book locomotives were built at that brings back the days when the popular Gorton Foundry, near Great Circus Train ran from the Circus World Manchester, England, Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin, through by Beyer, Peacock & Wisconsin and Illinois, delighting thousands Co. Ltd. Some of these of trackside spectators. steam locomotives were In detailed text and 335 photographs, this the famous elongated volume captures the color and excitement Garratts which have of the Great Circus Train, its origins, fascinated railfans for years. contents, loading and unloading of wagons, rail routes This beautiful 11¼ x 8½" softcover reprinted catalog features and planning, and finally, how it faded away. a four-color cover, and shows Garrett locomotives that were delivered to the Argentine North-Eastern Railway, Burma The train was the source of the historic circus wagons used in the Milwaukee Railways, Benguella Railway, Indian State Railway, London and Chicago circus parades that drew millions of spectators between 1965 & North-Eastern Railway, Mauritius Government Railways, and 2003. Over the years, the train consisted of as many as 29 vintage Rhodesia Railways, South African Railways and the Victorian cars and nearly 90 historic horse-drawn wagons. Pulled by restored steam Government Railways, along with others. locomotives or by modern diesels, the train operated over six railroads including the Milwaukee Road, the Chicago & North Western, the Wisconsin The Garrett locomotive allowed railroads to increase tonnage Central, the Canadian Pacific, the Canadian National and the Wisconsin & and reduced operating time between stations and the number Southern. The new book contains a foreword by Fred Dahlinger Jr., one- of trains run on a line. In the 1925 catalog, the Garratts time director of collections and facilities at the Circus World Museum, and shown had tractive effort capabilities of between 7,950 a well-known circus historian. $54.95 pounds and 69,150 pounds at 75% boiler pressure. $18.95 Also featuring these other popular titles Nevada Central Robert W. Richardson’s Rio Grande Southern Sagebrush Narrow Gauge Chasing the Narrow Gauge, Vol. III By Mallory Hope Ferrell By Robert W. Richardson his deluxe narrow ob hones in on the town of Ridgway, the various T g a u g e v o l u m e B RGS “oasis” towns in the wilderness, mine- traces the amazing rich Telluride, high-in-the-sky Ophir and the RGS’ story of this three-foot- locomotive fleet. He also talks about important old gauge railroad that ran RGS records and how he obtained copies, relates through the heart of humorous insights about hunting season on the the great American line, the Montezuma Lumber Company operations Basin. at McPhee, and the last runs of the famed RGS trains. The Galloping Goose Era deserves a special chapter as the author intrigues and delights readers with The railroad began memorabilia and photographs from the daily 102-mile Goose trips (Ridgway-Dolores) construction in 1879 to help open up the over the line. The 9 x 12" hardcover, 224-page volume features 345 photos and vast and virtually unpopulated area of the illustrations and a Gil Bennett cover painting. $58.95 A deluxe slipcase cover Silver State. Running through some of the edition (now available to dealers) is also available for $72.95. most barren and remote high desert sagebrush and mountain country in the West, the Nevada Trains to Victory America’s Railroads in WWII Central rolled down through the years with By Donald J. Heimburger and John Kelly much of its original equipment, mainly because he book discusses the implications of the war on the it could never afford to purchase anything railroads, embarkation of troops and materiels, how newer. T the Military Railway Service joined the fight and what was The narrow gauge equipment that forms a happening on U.S railroads during the war. It describes major part of the California State Railroad how railroads aided in the return of wounded troops and Museum collection came from the Nevada equipment, and the atmosphere on the railroads immediately Central. In 1938, the late Disney artist Ward after the war. Hardcover, 8½ x 11", 380 pages, 825 Kimball purchased the Nevada Central’s illustrations, 32-page all-color photo section, extensive 1881-built #2 Mogul for $400. Hardcover, historical military/railroad documentation. $59.95 Deluxe 8½ x 11", 204 pages, 299 photos and slipcase cover limited edition with gold foil imprint: $74.95 illustrations, 13 chapters. $43.95 (now available to dealers)

3 Colorful East Broad Top By Mallory Hope Ferrell All-color, 88-page 8½ x 11" book depicts this unique 3-foot-gauge coal Favorites hauler in the ’40s and ’50s. For 83 years, the EBT connected a remote region of south central Pennsylvania with the outside world. This deluxe book features vintage locomotives, freight and American Streamliner, passenger cars, mines, facilities and more. Postwar Years $26.95 (softcover); $32.95 HH (hardcover—special dealer terms) By Donald J. Heimburger and Carl Byron When World War II came to an end in 1945, America was on the verge of an Desert Railroading unprecedented economic boom that By Steve Schmollinger carried over to its vast rail transportation This deluxe, 172-page, coffeetable system. Railroads placed orders for new hardcover book is filled with a large variety streamlined passenger trains. Passengers of spectacular modern-day images of wanted new, fashionable trains with sleek railroading in the desert, including a range cars and locomotives. In addition, steam of states and railroads, both large and was out, diesels were in. Railroads saw small. With detailed historical commentary good times coming, and they prepared this book is a colorful tribute to past, well for them. This 200-page color book present and future railroads that serve this features 335 photographs in a 10 x 10" region. 11½ x 10". $46.95 hardcover volume. Covers numerous name trains. $46.95 Fiddletown & Copperopolis American Streamliner, By Carl Fallberg Prewar Years This delightful collection of railroad By Donald J. Heimburger and Carl Byron cartoons by Carl Fallberg of Walt Disney Focusing on the years between 1933 and fame is a 144-page, softcover, 10 x 6¼" 1942 when America rose to the forefront book illustrating the trials and tribulations of deluxe passenger train travel, this book of a narrow gauge “uncommon” carrier. To explores the colorful history of numerous anyone familiar with the lore of America’s famous passenger trains such as the three-foot railroad lines, the feeling persists Burlington’s Zephyrs, the Santa Fe’s Super that within these pages lies a disguised Chief and El Capitan, the Illinois Central’s pictorial history of prototype narrow City of Miami and Green Diamond and gauge railroads in a very humorous vein. New York Central’s Twentieth Century The key word in Fallberg’s illustrations is Limited. This 10 x 10", 176-page hardcover exaggeration. $14.95 includes 200 color and black and white photographs. $44.95 Glover Steam Locomotives: America’s Rail Pictorial The South’s Last Steam Builder By artist and photographer Russ Porter By Richard L. Hillman Featuring 362 all-color photographs of The rich history of this century-old firm steam, diesel, freight and passenger trains that made small industrial engines is from the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s, this compiled in this 128-page hardcover 10 x 11" hardcover 152-page book covers book including 230 illustrations covering 37 different rail lines across the country. the company’s history, the manufacturing It focuses on large and small railroads, facility at Marietta, Georgia and the including Santa Fe, B&O, CB&Q, C&O, various steam locomotives it produced CN, CP, E-L, GM&O, GN, GTW, IC, NKP, from 1902 and on. $41.95 NYC, NNW, Pennsy, RI, Soo, UP and Wabash among others. $44.95 Illinois Central: Chasing Trains Main Line Of Mid America By Robert W. Richardson By Donald J. Heimburger This 432-page, 8½ x 11", hardcover Heimburger relives the history of this covers such railroads and subjects as the major north-south 6,700-mile railroad Ohio River & Western, the crookedest in 350 color photos. The 128-page railroad in the world; the Aliquippa & 10 x 11" deluxe hardcover book highlights Southern; the East Broad Top; Tionesta IC’s extensive steam and diesel, freight and Valley Railway; Edaville; the Tweetsie; passenger trains, old and new suburban woodburners in the woods; Live Oak, electric commuter cars and maintenance Perry & Gulf; and winter at Crested Butte, of way equipment, mainly from the late among others. $62.95 1940s through the 1960s. $43.95 4 John Norwood’s Railroads Narrow Gauge Country By John Norwood 1870-1970 Recounting his experiences and the By Mallory Hope Ferrell historical background of numerous In this sophisticated volume, Ferrell standard and narrow gauge lines in the writes about early Colorado cameramen U.S., Norwood has packed this book with and their struggles; the glory days of hundreds of photographs and vivid text. the Narrow Gauge; how photography In remarkable detail he unfolds numerous came of age in the West; following the Limited railroads in this 192-page, hardcover railfan era on the Narrow Gauge; and Quantity book. $44.95 the Third and Fourth divisions of the Denver & Rio Grande. The book focuses Mason Steam Locomotives on narrow gauge lines in Colorado, New By Arthur W. Wallace Mexico and Utah. Some of the more William Mason’s beautiful steam prominent photo locations in the book locomotives were considered the finest include Marshall Pass, Alpine Tunnel, in form and function, the “Rolls Royces” Chalk Cliffs, Lizard Head, Georgetown of the day. More than 700 of these Loop, Ophir Loop, Silverton Branch, locomotives were built at the Taunton, Clear Creek Canyon, Trout Lake, Cerro Massachusetts factory beginning in Summit and Forks Creek. Hardcover, 1853. Mason locomotives have captured 9 x 12", 372 pages, 632 black and white the eye of railfans, engineers and photos, hardcover. $59.95; deluxe historians for decades. 192 pages, slipcase cover edition, $72.95, now 8½ x 11", 200 black and white available to dealers photographs. $53.95

Milwaukee Road 1928-1985 Nevada County Narrow Gauge By Jim Scribbins By Gerald Best This huge deluxe 312-page, 8½ x 11" The text recounts the story of this hardcover book tells the story of The short line which served California’s Milwaukee Road in 10 chapters of northern mines. There are at least authoritative text, a system map and 10 pictures per mile of track, including 435 quality black and white and color the mines, the colorful mining towns, photographs! Special Locomotive and the personnel of the railroad and a Passenger Train chapters are included! complete photographic roster of all An informative Appendix and complete its locomotives, freight and passenger Index are also included for convenient cars. Hardcover, 8½ x 11", 284 photos, reference. $59.95 224 pages, maps, diagrams, rosters, action album. $41.95 Monon Route By George W. Hilton North Shore / South Shore This 324-page 8½ x 11" hardcover with 468 illustrations brings to light incredible By Russ Porter details on the shortest line between In no section of the country has the Indianapolis and Chicago. Best known interurban electric railway been brought for its high quality passenger service, and to a higher point of development than long associated with higher education in in the Midwest. In this 140-page, Indiana, this railroad was founded in 1847. beautifully designed, 11 x 8½" hardcover Originally a facility for interchange with book, Porter chronicles his 50-year- steamboats on the Ohio River and Lake old coverage of these two interurban Michigan, its principal function proved stalwarts in more than 220 color to be northbound freight haulage from photographs. $42.95 Louisville. $49.95 Rayonier N & W Coal Car Equipment By James Spencer Norfolk and Western Railway This 164-page hardcover details This 8 x 10½" softcover summarizes the steam at its height when trains ran type of equipment supplied to customers daily out of Railroad Camp near of the Norfolk & Western Railway in the Hoquiam, Washington, and through 1920s. This 20-page book contains black the treacherous Clallam Branch, near and white photographs of hoppers and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The Rayonier gondolas, general arrangement drawings logging story is told in text, train crew of cars with capacity specifications, car stories that “tell it like it was,” and series numbers and car classifications. 233 action and roster shots of men and $6.95 equipment. $42.95 5 Rio Grande Memories Search For Steam By John B. Norwood By Joe G. Collias The third in a series of Norwood’s This 360-page, hardcover contains a memories of life on the Rio Grande, collection of superb photographs from this hardcover book continues with the the greatest rail photographers, with fascinating stories of special operations, names like C.E. Prusia, Charles Kerrigan, equipment and events on the railroad. An Richard Wallin, Russ Porter, Richard eight-page color photo section and 271 Kindig and Rover J. Foster. From freight black and white photographs in 192 pages to passenger action to rail facilitates this illustrate incidents throughout the entire book has it all. Lines depicted include history of the Rio Grande. The author was Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, New employed by the Rio Grande for almost 40 York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Wabash, years and is a recognized authority on the Milwaukee Road, Pennsy, and many more. history of the railroad. $42.95 $45.95 Rio Grande Steam Locomotives: Standard Gauge By Don J. Heimburger Train Country This 9 x 12" hardcover book traces the By Donald MacKay and Lorne Perry Denver & Rio Grande Western’s standard This book illustrates the history of the gauge steam locomotives from the early Canadian National Railways created days to the last of steam when locomotive after World War I with a combination of fires were dropped and diesels took over resources from five financially troubled Limited hauling tonnage through the rugged Rocky railroads. Canadian National played a Quantity Mountains. In addition to the informative central role in the population growth text, 140 photographs and 26 folio drawings of the more remote northern areas of are included, as well as maps, timetables and Canada, moved passengers between major equipment rosters from 1891 to 1956 from cities in style, and was instrumental in the the D&RGW Railroad. $43.95 movement of goods both to market and to the country’s smaller towns. $28.95 Robert W. Richardson’s Rio Grande: Chasing the Narrow Trains Of America Gauge, Vol. I Alamosa to Durango By Donald J. Heimburger By Robert W. Richardson This exciting large 10 x 11" hardcover A thoroughly engaging chronicle of the book highlights the late steam and early Narrow Gauge as told by the co-founder of the Colorado Railroad Museum, Robert diesel era of the railroads during the W. Richardson. This deluxe, oversize book ’50s and ’60s. Its 204 pages contain details Bob’s Narrow Gauge Motel venture; nearly 400 large, all-color freight and Alamosa in 1948; the Chili Line; Cumbres passenger train photos taken on 85 and Snow; Rio Grande Locomotives and different railroads throughout the U.S. Rolling Stock; Chama: Hardship Location; and Canada. $45.95 and Plotting to End the Narrow Gauge. Includes full text of Finance Docket #24745, Wabash seeking line abandonment between Alamosa By Donald J. Heimburger and Durango. 200 pages, 9 x 12", 16 pages The 2,500-mile mid-America Wabash of color; maps, charts, ephemera. $55.95 Railroad is thoroughly detailed in this large volume. The Wabash was the only east- Robert W. Richardson’s Rio west railroad from the eastern end of Lake Grande: Chasing the Narrow Erie to Kansas City. In 13 chapters, this Gauge, Vol. II 8½ x 11", 320-page hardcover book gives Durango, Silverton, Farmington & a complete history of the Wabash Railroad the Third Division with 550 photos, an all-time locomotive By Robert W. Richardson roster and a large appendix. $43.95 With 50-year-old photographs and firsthand accounts, Richardson offers Wabash Standard the most authoritative chronicle yet on this portion of the Denver & Rio Grande Plans & Reference Western’s Rocky Mountain narrow gauge By Donald J. Heimburger railroad empire. This 208-page hardcover In its heyday, the Wabash operated more book features color covers and an all-color, than 2,500 miles of track in the heart 16-page photo section with photos taken of the U.S. This 124-page, 8½ x 11" as far back as 1950. This deluxe edition book contains 54 official drawings of features 100-pound glossy, enameled Wabash trestles, bridges and signboards paper and a beautiful Gil Bennett color and nearly 50 pages of historic black and painting on the cover. $55.95; deluxe white photographs of steam and diesel slipcase cover edition, $65.95 locomotives. Official Wabash equipment (now available to dealers) paint guidelines are also included. $22.95 6 West Side Pictorial By Mallory Hope Ferrell America’s best-loved narrow gauge author Cooking concentrates on the visual aspects of the John Norwood’s Western Cookbook West Side Lumber Company of California in this 8½ x 11", 312-page deluxe hardcover This cookbook serves up more than 150 delicious volume. The text, photos, maps, plans and and mouth-watering recipes from the West Side model pictures, and a complete trailside and indoor kitchen of hunter- locomotive and car roster all combine to cook-railroader-adventurer-writer make this a thorough, engaging book. John Norwood. Recipes for soups, Features nearly 700 black and white and breads, meats, fish, chicken, desserts color illustrations from Ferrell’s extensive and Harvey House’s famous lemon photo collection. $53.95 meringue pie recipe are all included. John also tells his true-life stories in this 8½ x 11", 76-page, softcover Model book. $10.95 Railroading Construction Equipment

A.C. Gilbert’s Famous American Classic Vintage Crawlers & Dozers Vol. 1 By Roger V. Amato and Donald J. Heimburger Flyer Trains By Paul Nelson; edited by HH This first volume, which includes Don Heimburger Allis-Chalmers and Case, as well as Since 1946, the A.C. Gilbert Company Caterpillar from the 1920s, 1930s has been recognized as a pioneer in the and 1940s, takes a long colorful development of 1:64 S gauge trains. For look at the development of the a 21-year period, it produced some of crawler tractor and bulldozer. The the most realistic looking and operating crawler photographs and text are model trains of any manufacturer. Chapters arranged chronologically so the One, Two and Three focus on steam reader can follow development locomotives, diesel locomotives and rolling of the machines through the years. stock while Chapters Six and Seven detail Throughout the research period for this book, hundreds of marketing and publicity, from newspapers black and white and color photographs were taken at shows, to television. This 8½ x 11", 200-page and numerous illustrations were gathered from libraries, hardcover book includes hundreds of black machinery manufacturing companies and from private and white photographs and 24 pages of collections, and this first volume includes nearly 400 of them. color photos, period advertisements and This hardcover book is 11 x 10" and has 188 pages, and a useful reader indexes, including a numerical complete index. $54.95 index and an alphabetical index. $43.95 American Flyer Instruction Book Classic Vintage Crawlers & Dozers Vol. 2 For operating and assembling By Roger V. Amato and Donald J. Heimburger 3/16" scale trains and accessories Classic Vintage Crawlers & Dozers The original instruction book published Vol. II focuses on Caterpillar models in 1952 by the A.C. Gilbert Company. from 1950 through 1979, Cletrac, This softcover, 5¼ x 8½" book contains John Deere, Eimco, Euclid, Terex 64 pages of advice and helpful hints on and International Harvester, as well planning and operating an American Flyer as smaller manufacturers, wheel model railroad. A great resource! $7.95 dozers, blade makers, crawler Man Who Lives In Paradise attachments, circus and railroad By A.C. Gilbert with Marshall McClintock crawlers. From mini-dozers to Inventor, magician, athlete, world- super dozers—and everything renowned manufacturer, builder and in between—this all-color volume, and volume one of sportsman, Gilbert was best known for this book, covers the entire United States landscape of the the American Flyer 1:64 scale train sets fascinating world of crawlers and dozers. The 256-page and the famous Erector sets. A.C. Gilbert’s 11 x 10" softcover volume II edition includes 12 chapters, autobiography reveals a warmhearted, tracing the evolution of the bulldozer, and describing the friendly man with a sense of humor. different makes and models through the years. The book Above all, it gives the reader a share of features hundreds of color photos of crawlers and dozers and the excitement and the enjoyment A.C. their related equipment, concentrating on the horsepower, Gilbert found in his life. Hardcover, engine types, weights, blades and special attachments. $36.95 5½ x 8", 388 pages. $26.95 7 All Aboard! By Karl Zimmermann The author’s train travels have taken him Also Available... across North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and into Asia—and RAILFAN TITLES also along those tracks where passenger rails still thrive. Young readers will learn how passenger trains developed from The 400 Story the Baltimore & Ohio’s horse-drawn, stagecoach-like cars to France’s trend- By Jim Scribbins setting TGVs, the world’s fastest trains. 400 miles in 400 minutes . . . the fastest They’ll discover the magic of sitting train on the American continent. Three in a dome car, sleeping in a Pullman, Midwestern railroads introduced luxury dining on rails, and riding such grand passenger service in 1935, competing trains as the Canadian, among the for Chicago–Twin Cities business and world’s finest. 11¼ x 10½" hardcover leisure travelers. Chicago & North 48 pages. Ages 12-18. $19.98 Western’s modern, sleek and fast rail line began with a conventional steam- American Freight Train powered train dubbed the “400” and Equipment By Patrick Dorin named after its ambitious schedule: “400 miles in 400 minutes.” In 1939, This book is the most comprehensive it evolved into an even faster diesel- guide to the freight car equipment of the railroads that service North America. Car powered streamlined train, eventually designs are based on the type of commodity expanding into a fleet of streamliners that would be shipped. This book covers, that served Wisconsin, Minnesota and in detail, each type of specialized freight upper Michigan. Softcover, 232 pages, car and the commodities it is designed to 341 black and white photos, 18 color haul, including box cars, refrigerator cars, photos, 11 x 8½". $29.95 covered hopper cars, open top hopper cars, ore cars, flat cars, tank cars, intermodal cars, auto racks and cabooses. This guide is 722 Miles a great reference for modelers and railfans. The Building of the Subways and Softcover, 8½ x 11", 128 pages, 265 black How They Changed New York and white and 40 color images. $34.95 By Clifton Hood Clifton Hood traces the complex and An American Journey fascinating history of the New York Images Of Railroading During The City subway system in this 352-page, Depression By Mark S. Vandercook 6 x 9¼" softcover with 36 illustrations This book takes you on a photographic and 5 maps. At its opening in 1904, the journey through the Great Depression, tracks covered the 22 miles from City beginning in 1935, and ending just prior Hall to 145th Street and Lenox Avenue, to the U.S.’s entry into the war in 1941. the longest stretch ever built at one The photographs, taken by President time. From that initial route through the Roosevelt’s Farm Security Administration, completion of the Independent Subway were originally intended to document in the 1940s, the subway grew to cover the effects of the Depression. Through 722 miles. $22.00 143 black and white photographs this hardcover book depicts life during a time of great hardship, but also a time when the Alco Locomotives railroad was a significant part of American By Brian Solomon culture. 164 pages, 11½ x 8¾". $24.95 Once the second-largest steam locomotive builder in the U.S., American Locomotive American Passenger Train Company (Alco) produced 75,000 Equipment By Patrick Dorin locomotives, among them such famous Beginning in the late 1930s in North examples as the 4-6-4 Hudsons and America, new streamlined, lightweight 4-8-4 Niagaras built for the New York passenger equipment was being designed by Central, and the 4-6-6-4 Challengers and a number of companies including Pullman 4-8-8-4 Big Boys built for the Union Standard, American Car and Foundry Pacific. Alco Locomotives is the first and the Budd Company, among others. book to tell the full story of this company After being sidetracked by WWII, new central to American railroad history—and streamlined passenger equipment came beloved by railfans for its rich heritage and rolling off the assembly lines. Includes car its underdog appeal. Hardcover, 11 x 9", dimensions, passenger-seating capacities, 176 pages, 100 color and 100 black and heating and air-conditioning systems, and white photos. $40.00 types of train services. $34.95 8 American Passenger Trains Amtrak Across America WWII to Amtrak By Patrick Dorin An Illustrated History This historic book provides railroad By John A. Fostik hobbyists, historians, museum operators Amtrak is an essential part of America’s and transportation instructors and planners transportation system today for over with information about the types of train 28 million passengers. From the legacy services and operations; the overnight of streamliners of the pre-Amtrak era to and daytime long distance service; today’s modern Acela Express and future transcontinental trains; and the various plans for more high speed ‘’corridor trains,’’ types of local trains on both main lines and this book covers all the lines from past branch lines. The equipment and service to present. Through the use of evocative such as vista dome coaches, dining and photos, postcards, memorabilia and other lounge cars, sleeping accommodations and collateral material, this book is a journey coach seats including reclining and leg rests through the past 40 years of Amtrak across were drawing cards for passenger traffic. America and all the preceding rail lines Softcover, 128 pages, 8½ x 11". $29.95 that transformed the nation. Softcover, 8½ x 11", 128 pages, 260 black and white American Railroad China: and color photos. $32.95 Image and Experience By Charles G. Kratz, Jr. Amtrak in the Heartland In American Railroad China there are By Craig Sanders more than 100 colorful images from A complete history of Amtrak operations The Christopher Transportation China in the heartland, this volume describes Collection, one the rarest and largest conditions that led to the passage of collections ever assembled. Author Kratz the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970, draws upon these images and takes the the formation and implementation of reader back in time to the heyday of the Amtrak in 1970-71, and the major American railroads. The book includes a factors that have influenced Amtrak variety of recipes used by the railroads and operations since its inception. This essays from Richard W. Luckin, a noted 8½ x 11" hardcover book contains more historian and expert on the topic of railroad than 140 illustrations and three maps in china. This is a must-have for railroad 344 pages. $49.95 enthusiasts and a great coffeetable book for conversation. Softcover, 72 pages, Atlas of North American 100 color photos, 11½ x 8". $29.95 Railroads By Bill Yenne At its postwar peak, the North American The American Railway railroad industry comprised as many Its Construction, Development, as 100 lines. The classic system maps Management and Trains produced by the railroads of the day, By Curtis Clarke collected for the first time in this volume, The American Railway is an exciting look offer a sweeping view of the industry’s at the railroad industry in the 1880’s and remarkable reach in the period of its how it developed as the business boomed. greatest power. Each railroad’s routes Discover detailed texts about how railroads unfold in multi-page spreads featuring were built, the types of railways, the lives a capsule history, all detailing the mid- of railway workers, the various ways the 20th-century might of North American railroads affected political and business railroads. Hardcover, 176 pages, economics, as well as the safety precautions 8 x 11". $36.95 of people who rode or worked with the railways. Softcover, 6 x 9", 480 pages, Baldwin Locomotive Works 200 hand-drawn illustrations. $14.95 By John K. Brown The largest maker of heavy machinery America’s Fighting Railroads in Gilded Age America and an important A World War II Pictorial Memoir global exporter, the Baldwin Locomotive By Don DeNevi Works of Philadelphia achieved renown This softcover book tells how railroads as one of the nation’s most successful shipped raw materials during WWII by the and important firms. Baldwin built millions of tons and transported troops thousands of standard and custom by the hundreds of thousands. A total steam locomotives. Brown analyzes of 200 photos capture a wide variety railroad demand, Baldwin’s management of steam and early diesel locomotives in systems, shop-floor skills and the action, including trains loaded with tanks, evolution of production methods. This guns and troops and depots filled with 7¼ x 10¼", 208-page softcover includes soldiers on their way to battle. 142 pages, 82 halftone photos and 6 line drawings. 8½ x 11". $14.95 $26.00 9 Baltimore & Ohio Capitol Lim- Built to Move Millions ited and National Limited By Craig R. Semsel By Joe Welsh At the beginning of the 20th century, In 1923 the Baltimore & Ohio’s Capitol the street railway industry was one of the Limited started its travels between largest in the nation. Ohio was home to Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. several large streetcar systems, especially Two years later the B&O’s National in Cleveland and Cincinnati, and had Limited linked the nation’s capital to St. more interurban tracks than any other Louis. Almost at once the two lines became state in the union. Thus, Ohio served as household names. This authoritative, one of the street railway industry’s greatest illustrated history takes readers back centers of manufacturing. In addition to to the B&O’s glory years, including discussing the five major car builders that the inside story on the frugal railroad’s were active in Ohio between 1900 and means of streamlining its equipment with 1940, the book addresses Ohio companies innovative and aesthetically striking results. that manufactured the various components Hardcover, 160 pages, 8½ x 11", 89 color that went into these vehicles. Hardcover, and 93 black and white photos. $36.95 312 pages, 117 black and white photos, 7 x 10". $49.95 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Color History The CSX Clinchfield Route By Kirk Reynolds and David P. Oroszi By Jerry Taylor and Ray Poteat This 8½ x 11", 128-page hardcover title CSX’s Clinchfield Railroad follows one of covers the B&O’s entire history from the most scenic routes in the country and 1828 through its absorption by CSX runs through the most rugged mountain Transportation. An ideal reference for barriers in the Eastern United States. More B&O enthusiasts and modelers with than 3,000 laborers built the Clinchfield modern and period photography and rare using construction standards unheard of at archival imagery depicting memorabilia, the time. Because of its enduring innovative promotional materials and the trains construction, engineers have yet to enlarge its themselves. 100 color and 50 black and tunnels or strengthen its bridges. In its heyday, white photos. $37.00 the Clinchfield was not well known outside its territory, but its history, including its genesis Baltimore Street Cars and challenging assembly, has fascinated railfans for years. Softcover, 200 pages, 185 By Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. color photos, 6 maps, 8½ x 11". $27.95 Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. gives a glorious picture of the streetcar in Baltimore, combining the story of lines Caboose By Brian Solomon and equipment with a nostalgic view of With the help of nearly 300 marvelous modern Baltimore when so many of its people and historical images depicting cabooses of all relied on street railways. From the late colors, this collection traces the development 1800s through World War II, streetcars of this iconic, bygone rolling stock from the transported Baltimore’s population to 19th century to their almost total demise by the and from work, play, and just about mid-1990s. Bobber, cupola, bay window, and everything else. Bankers and clerks, transfer cabooses are shown at work across factory workers and managers, domestics, the United States. Softcover, 192 pages, school children, shoppers, all rode side 8½ x 6½", 300 color and black and white by side on the streetcars. Hardcover, photos. $19.99 184 pages, 8½ x 11". $32.00 The Call of Trains By Jeff Brouws Before The North Shore Line This collection features photographs The Early Years 1894-1916 taken between 1946 and 1988, with an By Edward Tobin emphasis on the American railroad culture Waukegan was the birthplace of the of the 1950s and 1960s. Jeff Brouws, Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee a railway authority and photo historian, Railroad, one of the nation’s premier has contributed a biographical essay interurban electric railways. Author Ed that traces Shaughnessy’s beginnings Tobin recounts the railroad’s humble origins photographing steam locomotives in as the Bluff City Electric Street Railway Troy, New York, to his documentation and traces its rapid evolution into the of the dramatic steam-to-diesel transition high speed Chicago & Milwaukee Electric where the concentration of railway action Railway, taking the story up to the time and often deep snow resulted in beautiful the company came under Insull control. and unusual images. This book covers the Hardcover, 249 black and white and trains, tunnels, viaducts, station yards and 6 color photos, 17 hand-colored postcards, more. Hardcover, 224 pages, 12 x 11", 224 pages, 8¾ x 11¼". $55.00 170 duotone photos. $65.00 10 Canadian PacificBy Greg McDonnell Chicago & North Western This landmark tribute to one of North Passenger Trains of the 400 Fleet America’s oldest still running railway By John Kelly companies, the Canadian Pacific Railway, The C&NW was well known for its features the work of many of North Chicago-Twin Cities 400 passenger train. America’s top rail photographers. Encouraged by the success of that train, the Remarkable photography and essays NorthWestern established an entire fleet of cover the entire CPR system, from the regional streamliners that brought people East Coast to the West Coast including from Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay and Nova Scotia’s Dominion Atlantic lines and the north woods of Wisconsin and Michigan Vancouver Island’s Esquimalt & Nanaimo. into the big city of Chicago. This 128-page Some of the best steam and diesel 10¼ x 8½" softcover chronicles the history photographs ever published appear along of these Midwestern favorites. $29.95 with 1950s-vintage photos of steeple-cab electrics and passenger trains on the Chicago & NorthWestern Railway Electric Lines subsidiaries. Softcover, By Tom Murray 240 pages, 8½ x 11", 100 color and 50 black and white photos. $35.00 This illustrated history chronicles how C&NW emerged from a collection of regional carriers to become a strategic The Cars of Pullman By Joe Welsh link between Eastern railroads and the This illustrated history examines Pullman’s West. As fascinating as the story are the diverse fleet, from its spectacular custom- hundreds of accompanying illustrations, built wooden cars of the 19th century historical photographs, archival images, to steel heavyweight cars in the prewar route maps and period print ads. The years and on into the lightweight result is an entertaining and informative streamlined era. Welsh includes period history of an iconic Midwestern railroad photos, many in rare color, as well as and takes in steam and diesel motive car diagrams and ads that help trace the power, freight and passenger operations, development, composition and evolution and all the key characters, events and of the historically and culturally significant deals that figured in the Chicago & Pullman fleet, including the gamut of NorthWestern’s rise and eventual demise. sleeper, parlor and restaurant cars. Hardcover, 160 pages, 100 color and 50 Hardcover, 176 pages, 8¼ x 10½". black and white photos, 11 x 8½". $36.95 $40.00 The Chicago & West Towns Cash, Tokens and Transfers Railways By James J. Buckley A History of Urban Mass Transit in Eight miles west of Chicago’s Loop is a North America By Brian Cudahy cluster of 17 long-established communities This 6 x 9" softcover 472-page book is that were served by a street railway and the first comprehensive history of public bus system whose roots can be traced back transportation in North America to be to the late 19th century. The West Town’s published in more than 60 years. Traces blue and white streetcars provided area the growth of urban mass transit from residents with transportation to school, the horse-drawn streetcars of the 1830’s work and shopping. The Chicago & West through the cable cars, electric streetcars, Towns Railway served as the “family car” subways and buses to the new light rail in the era before automobile ownership systems of today. $26.95 and traffic congestion became the norm. Hardcover, 250 pages, 311 black and Chessie System white photos, 8½ x 11". $60.00 By David Ori In 1972 three great railroads, the Chicago Postwar Passenger and Chesapeake & Ohio, the Baltimore & Commuter Trains Photo Archive Ohio, and the Western Maryland joined By John Kelly forces as the Chessie System. Their diesel In 1948, track was everywhere as engines were resplendent in a brilliant passenger trains and commuter trains new yellow, blue, and vermillion scheme crowded the approaches to the terminals sporting the stylized Chessie logo based near the Chicago Loop, undisputed on the C&Os familiar mascot, Chessie railroad capital of the world. This volume the kitten. Ori traces the railroad’s origins captures the spirit and challenges of the from the first affiliation of the B&O and post-World War II era, as streamlined C&O in the early 1960s to the inclusion passenger trains arrived and departed of the WM a decade later, securing routes from Chicago’s six celebrated stations that spanned the Northeast and Midwest. during the pinnacle years of intercity train Hardcover, 160 pages, 138 color photos, service. Softcover, 10¼ x 8½", 128 pages, 8½ x 11". $34.95 143 illustrations. $34.95 11 Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis Classic Locomotives & Omaha Railroad 1880-1940 By Brian Solomon Edited by P. A. Letourneau This massive collection of 700 color This 10¼ x 8½" 128-page softcover photographs (comprising the previously chronicles the history of one of the published volumes Steam Power, Vintage Upper Midwest’s foremost freight and Diesel Power, and Modern Diesel Power) passenger lines which eventually merged traces the development of North American into the Burlington Northern. It features locomotives from the early 19th century a collection of 121 black and white right up to the present, spanning dozens of photographs from the State Historical engines. Softcover, 6½ x 8½", 700 color Society of Wisconsin including steam photos, 560 pages. $22.99 engines, rolling stock, depots, ships, yards, tunnels and line construction. $29.95 The Classic Western American Railroad Routes Chicago Stations & Trains By Bruce Clement Cooper Photo Archive By John Kelly With mile by mile of full color route maps This book highlights Chicago’s six major and hundreds of postcards, contemporary railroad stations and the trains that served paintings and ephemera, this 4½-pound them. Chicago’s railroad stations featured volume is the perfect scrapbook collection. superb architecture with marble floors and Includes fascinating historical essays on staircases. Steel latticework beams helped the engineering of the Sunset, Northern support glass-domed roofs, and public Pacific, Santa Fe, Rio Grande, Shasta, address systems echoed train information Coastline and Canadian Pacific routes. throughout the high-ceiling stations. Huge Hardcover, 12 x 10", 319 pages, full color station clocks loomed above the brass and photos. $32.99 neon train bulletin boards that listed “On Time” trains. Softcover, 128 pages, black The Complete Book of North and white photos, 10 x 8½". $29.95 American Railroading By Kevin EuDaly and Mike Schafer Chicagoland Commuter Railroads This book, spanning nearly two centuries, By Patrick C. Dorin and Andrew T. Roth offers an exhilarating tour of the railways’ Commuter train services have been an inroads into the economy, society and important part of the Chicago Metro culture of North America. Hardcover, area for well over 100 years. The Metra 10½ x 12", 352 pages, 250 color and 150 Commuter Rail Service and the Indiana black and white photos. $40.00 Commuter Transportation District (South Shore) services have provided a Cotton Belt Locomotives crucial life line for the many Chicago- By Joseph A. Strapac suburban corridors. Softcover, 128 pages, In the days of steam, the Cotton Belt 8½ x 11". $32.95 Railway owned a distinctive roster based on 2-8-0s for freight, 4-6-0s for passenger, Civil War Railroads and Moguls for switching, and by 1930, By George B. Abdill superpower had arrived in the form of 10 With more than 220 black and white Baldwin 4-8-4s which were later copied in photographs from the National Archives, the road’s own shops. This hardcover book the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian includes every steam and diesel locomotive Institution, and private collections across up to 1977 owned by the Cotton Belt the country, this is the essential pictorial and its predecessors. Hardcover, 160 guide for those interested in the role of pages, 329 black and white photos, the Iron Horse in the Civil War. This 37 illustrations and 4 maps. 8½ x 11". 10¼ x 7¾" hardcover book contains $59.95 192 pages of remarkable photos. $49.95 Dining by Rail Classic American Locomotives By James Porterfield By Charles McShane With 150 photographs and illustrations, With detailed examinations of the the author takes readers through the engineering of the classic steam engine, history of the dining car from its inception you will be able not only to understand as an alternative to railroad station and admire the outer workings of these eateries. The book also contains 250 locomotives, but also to learn what a recipes from 48 railroad lines, featuring side valve, steam injector, and pressure early 20th-century fare like Lobster gauge are, and how they work. Softcover, Newburg (New York Central), Poinsettia 6 x 8½", 720 pages, 435 black and white Salad (Merchant’s Limited) and the Baked New! and color photos. $16.95 Potato (Pennsylvania). $22.99 12 Dining Car to the Pacific Electro-Motive E-Units and By William A. McKenzie F-Units By Brian Solomon William A. McKenzie offers a lavishly Blending automotive manufacturing illustrated and richly detailed account and styling techniques with state-of- of hospitality on the Northern Pacific the-art diesel-electric technologies, Railway. McKenzie includes authentic General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division recipes used on the line such as the Great conceived and marketed America’s first Big Baked Potato and Washington Apple commercially successful road diesels. Pan Cake. Dining Car to the Pacific will Here is a comprehensive history of the be a treasured addition to the libraries most recognizable locomotives ever built. of historians, cooks and anyone with Hardcover, 11 x 9½", 160 pages, 113 color nostalgia for the dining car experience. and 31 black and white photos. $45.00 176 pages, softcover 11 x 8½". $24.95 Encyclopedia of North Dining on the B&O American Railroads By Thomas J. Greco and Karl D. Spence By William D. Middleton, George M. Passengers who dined on the Baltimore Smerk and Roberta L. Diehl & Ohio during the heyday of American Lavishly illustrated and a joy to read, this railroading received five-star service: white authoritative reference work on North tablecloths, china, silver, food cooked from America’s railroads covers the U.S., scratch, and the undivided attention of Canadian, Mexican, Central American and skilled waiters. The B&O’s cuisine won wide Cuban systems. The encyclopedia’s over- acclaim as the finest railway food in the arching theme is the evolution of the railroad country. Hardcover, 10 x 10", 208 pages, industry and the historical impact of its 16 color and 25 halftone photos. $34.95 progress on the North American continent. Hardcover, 8½ x 11", 1,312 pages. $99.95 The Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway By John Gaertner Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway, The rise and fall of the Duluth, South Volume I Shore & Atlantic Railway from 1887 to its The Canadian Pacific Steam Years, merger with the Soo Line in 1961 is the 1905-1949 By Robert D. Turner subject of this thoroughly researched book. During the days of steam power on the The DSS&A was organized in the hope railway, Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway that it would become a transcontinental was a distant and often rustic outpost link between the Canadian Pacific and the of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s vast New! Northern Pacific at Duluth, but later was system, but it was a profitable one. The New! forced to merge because of competition E&N carried soldiers off to two world wars, from more efficient lake vessels on Lake toured royalty on Vancouver Island and Superior. 135 black and white photos, carried hundreds of passengers in stately 304 pages, 7 x 10", hardcover. $49.95 parlour cars or rickety day coaches. The mail was sorted on the trains and could be Edwards Railway Motor Car delivered “Up Island” in a matter of hours. Company By Cary Franklin Poole Hardcover, 11 x 9", 304 pages, more than A contemporary of Brill and EMC, the 475 photos, including 8 pages of color, Edwards Company produced gasoline- with maps and timetables $49.95 powered motorcars for railroads in the U.S., Mexico, and Central and South Vancouver Island’s Esquimalt & America. The Edwards Company and Nanaimo Railway, Volume II the Edwards car, is examined in detail. The Canadian Pacific, Via Rail & Hardcover, 198 pages, 8½ x 11", Shortline Years, 1949-2013 185 black and white photos. $49.95 By Robert D. Turner The E&N faced rapid changes in the The Electric Pullman post–WWII years. In the late 1940s, in a By Lawrence A. Brough dramatic modernization, the E&N became Entering an already crowded and established the first railway in Canada to begin using New! industry, the Niles Car & Manufacturing new, more efficient diesel locomotives. In Company in Ohio began business with 1955, the streamlined Dayliner arrived surprising success, producing cars so and replaced the well-worn wooden durable they rarely needed to be replaced. passenger cars. In spite of increasing That durability essentially put the company competition from the automobile, the train out of business, and it vanished from the somehow survived more than 50 years, scene as quickly as it had appeared, leaving New! attracting people from all over the world little behind except its sturdy railway to explore Vancouver Island on the scenic, cars. Hardcover, 7 x 10", 136 pages, leisurely railway. Hardcover, 320 pages, 112 black and white photos. $30.00 11 x 9", 475 photos. $49.95 13 Evolution of the American The General & The Texas Diesel Locomotive By J. Parker Lamb By Stan Cohen and James G. Bogle The diesel locomotive sent shock waves In April 1862, Union soldiers hijacked a through rigid corporate cultures and Western & Atlantic Railroad train powered staid government regulators. This book by a locomotive named the General. discusses the important technological The Confederates gave chase in several advances that gave rise to diesel engines, engines, including the Texas. Two films examining not only their impact on and numerous books have been dedicated locomotive design, but also their impact to this event, but this 8½ x 11", 154-page on the economic and social landscapes. softcover book is the first pictorial history Hardcover, 184 pages, 8½ x 11". $39.95 of the incident. $17.95

Fairs and Railroads Grand Central Terminal By Thornton Waite By Kurt C. Schlichting This book tells of the participation of the In Grand Central Terminal, Schlichting railroads at the larger world’s fairs and traces the history of this spectacular railroad expositions in the United States, building, detailing the colorful personalities, describing how the railroads addressed the bitter conflicts, and Herculean feats transportation of large numbers of people of engineering that lie behind its to the fairs and describing railroad exhibits construction. Construction is shown at the fairgrounds. Hardcover, 8½ x 11", in 82 halftone photographs and 6 line 214 pages, and 175 color and black and drawings. Schlichting concludes with an white illustrations. $29.95 account of the New York Central’s decline. Hardcover, 7¼ x 10½". $30.00 Freight Trains of the Upper Mississippi River By John Kelly The GrandLuxe Express: The upper Mississippi River route is a Traveling in High Style non-stop parade of heavy tonnage freight By Karl Zimmermann trains carying intermodal containers, This lavish book invites readers aboard piggyback trailers, coal, taconite, grain the glamorous renovated cars of the and automobiles. Magnificent scenery, GrandLuxe passenger train. In 1989, the delightful river towns and plenty of trains American-European Express, a stylish are shown along the historic upper train created to emulate Europe’s Orient- Mississippi routes. Softcover, 128 pages, Express, commenced operation between 10¼ x 8½". $29.95 Washington and Chicago. Forced to close down two years later, it was reborn in From Plantation to Theme Park 1994 as the American Orient-Express. The Ward Kimball By Steve DeGaetano The AOE, as this luxury streamliner was In June, 2005, Disneyland guests were known, matured under the tutelage of treated to something not seen at the park various owners until 2006, when under for more than 40 years—a new steam new ownership it acquired a new name, locomotive, resplendent in red enamel the GrandLuxe Express. Hardcover, 10 and polished brass. Steve takes us along black and white and 96 color photos, on ride through time as he recounts the 8½ x 11", 112 pages. $39.95 history of the little 1902 Baldwin first known as “Maud L.” That tiny plantation Great American Scenic teakettle eventually became Disneyland Railroads Railroad No. 5. Hardcover, 112 pages, By Michael Swift 100 color photos, 8½ x 11". $32.95 This book does not pretend to be a comprehensive account of each of the From Small Town to Downtown scenic railroads in the United States, but By Lawrence Brough and James Graebner it provides a history of many of the most In the 1890s, the Jewett Car Company significant. Many are steam operated gained an excellent reputation for its but others, traversing some of the most New! elegant, well-built wooden cars for street stunning scenery that the country can railway companies, interurban lines, offer, are diesel-operated. There are lines and rapid transit service. The company in most parts of the country and many was offered to produce munitions for offer a wide range of themed special or WWI, but refused when a German dining services. In an era when we should nationalist banker who was a major source be increasingly conscious of our impact of financing for Jewett refused to do on the environment, these scenic railroads anything that would harm Germany. As a have much to offer in allowing access result, the Jewett Car Company died, but to the countryside without destroying their reputation of their product survives. it. Hardcover, 12¼ x 9¼", 192 pages, Hardcover, 208 pages, 7 x 10". $49.95 160 full color photos. $14.99 14 Great Lakes Ore Docks and Hiawatha Story Ore Cars By Patrick C. Dorin By Jim Scribbins This book lists all of the ore docks The illustrated history of one of the constructed on the Great Lakes, as well most spectacularly successful passenger as their operational life span up to the trains of all time. First there was a single present. Each chapter for each railroad experimental coach, then an entire fleet. includes the types of ore docks operated, Soon the Hiawatha was a railway legend. as well as a roster of ore cars from the Loved for their radically new, streamlined 1940s to the present, and includes photos look, the Hiawatha’s Art Deco engines of the ore docks and ore cars, ore car were a hallmark of American industrial schematics and pertinent data. Softcover, design. For Midwestern passengers from 225 black and white photos/illustrations, Chicago to Aberdeen, the Hiawatha 128 pages, 8½ x 11". $29.95 represented speed, comfort and luxury, offering spectacular views of the rolling Great Northern Railway landscape. Softcover, 272 pages, A History By Ralph W. Hidy, Muriel E. 356 halftones, 11 x 8½". $29.95 Hidy, Roy V. Scott and Don L. Hofsommer This book highlights the changes brought The History of the J.G. Brill Co. on by economic, political, social and By Debra Brill technological advances, including world From a small horsecar-building firm wars and tighter government restrictions. established in 1868, the J.G. Brill This volume also includes appendixes Company grew to be a world leader in listing the original track laying history, a rapidly-evolving industry. Besides its track removals, ruling grades on main successful line of trolleys and other electric freight routes, and main line ruling grades cars, Brill built horsecars, cable cars, from Minneapolis to Seattle. Softcover, narrow gauge and gas propelled cars for 376 pages, 10¾ x 8¼". $29.95 railroads and even buses. Brill’s policy was Great Northern Railway to build whatever the customer wanted, which resulted in some delightfully wacky 1945-1970 Photo Archive cars. This 8½ x 11", 276-page, hardcover By Byron D. Olsen features 295 black and white photographs Almost 30 years since it has passed out and line drawings. $49.95 of existence, Great Northern Railway continues to be a favorite of railroad The History of North American enthusiasts. This 10¼ x 8½" 128-page Steam softcover book contains an impressive new collection of historic photos illustrating the By Christopher Chant life of the Great Northern Railway, with a This book charts the history of steam focus on the Midwest in the 1960s. $29.95 locomotion and travel in the United States. It describes the earliest engines and Great Northern Railway: how they were refined into the powerful Route of the Empire Builder locomotives which were still in use in the By John Kelly early 20th century. It also tells the story of the pioneer railroad builders who achieved Founded by James J. Hill in 1889, Great “the impossible” in spanning a railroad Northern was in the forefront of developing across the vast plains and mountains of and promoting Western tourism to Glacier the United States. Lots of photos and National Park. The railroad’s slogan, well laid out—a real bargain for the price! “See America First,” was featured along Hardcover, 11½ x 9", 445 pages, 500 with the mascot “Rocky” on freight cars black and white and color photos. and advertising. Today, Amtrak’s Empire $24.99 Builder offers daily service between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest. Illinois Central Railroad 1854- Softcover, 128 pages, 175 black and white 1960 Photo Archive and 20 color 8½ x 11". $36.95 By Kim D. Tschudy The Illinois Central was arguably the Harvey House Cookbook most interesting and colorful railroad By George H. Foster and Peter C. Weiglin in America. Begun in 1851, the IC was In the 1870s, people traveling west of the first land grant railroad in the United the Mississippi by locomotive were still States. While other railroads ran east to venturing into the wild. In that rough west, the IC ran north and south, so when environment, entrepreneur Fred Harvey the Civil War began, the IC was able to began establishing high-quality dining move 30% of all war material, supplies and rooms along the Santa Fe Railway, and his troops to the battlegrounds of the South. Harvey Houses helped change the entire This 10¼ x 8½" 128-page softcover is a picture of the American West. Softcover, look at the railroad that called itself the 7 x 9", 194 pages. $16.95 “Mainline of Mid-America.” $29.95 15 The Indiana Rail Road Company Island Timber By Christopher Rund, Fred Frailey and By Richard S. MacKie Eric Powell This 8½ x 11" softcover charts the history This is the extraordinary story of the of one of the largest logging concerns on scores of successful independent short coastal British Columbia—the Comox line and regional railroad born of railroad Logging Company­—from the turn of deregulation. The INRD, once a part of the century to the devastating Great the Illinois Central, has become a model Fire of 1938. With 450 employees, six for the new American regional railroad. huge steam-powered skidders, a dozen This newly-revised edition has four new locomotives, hundreds of miles of track, chapters, 264 pages, 25 color photos, 256 and sole access to the Douglas fir forests black and white photos, 8½ x 11". $39.95 between Courtenay and Campbell River, Island Timber is also the first social and Indiana Railroad Lines community history of a logging company By Graydon M. Meints in British Columbia. The book is packed Railroads played a major role in the with stories and dozens of stunning black development of Indiana, and this book is and white photographs and maps in its a comprehensive account of the railroads 309 pages. $39.95 that operated in Indiana between 1838 and 1999. Includes charts, maps and a variety Katy Northwest: The Story Of A of statistical information; a great resource Branch Line Railroad for railfans and historians. 434 pages, By Donovan L. Hofsommer 6 x 9", softcover. $35.00 The first and finest in-depth study of a branch line railroad. This book is full of Intermodal Railroading strong historic writing by Hofsommer as By Brian Solomon well as solid facts and figures about the For the first time ever, intermodal Katy Northwest which served the area of railroading—perhaps the most Wichita Falls, Texas and into the Oklahoma revolutionary development in freight panhandle until 1973. The 336-page, railroading, if not the freight industry—is 8½ x 11" hardcover book contains examined in a concisely written and 295 black and white photos, bringing back completely illustrated history showcasing to life the trains and the people who made 200 vintage and modern photographs. the trains run. $59.95 Hardcover, 192 pages, 8 x 10½". $36.95 Kinsey Photographer: Interurban Trains to Chicago The Locomotive Portraits By John Kelly Photo Archive By Dave Bohn and Rodolfo Petschek Interurban Trains to Chicago follows This 144-page hardcover book features Samuel Insull’s Great Chicago systems, a superb collection of photographs three superb interurban routes powered from the archives of renowned by electric traction that carried passengers photographers Darius and Tabitha from the north, west and southwest Kinsey. Also included is a concise and into downtown Chicago. They were the entertaining text highlighting the history Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee of each locomotive and the logging Railroad; Chicago, South Shore and South operation that used it, production Bend Railroad; and the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railroad. Vintage photographs, details from manufacturers’ catalogs, timetables and poster advertising. Softcover, plus photos of and reminiscences from 128 pages, 122 black and white photos, men and women involved with the 10¼ x 8½". $29.95 logging industry. Hardcover, 144 pgs, 13 x 10½". $22.95 Iowa’s Railroads By H. Roger Grant and Don L. Hofsommer The Lake Shore Electric At one point in time, no place in Iowa was Railway Story more than a few miles from an active line By Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. and Robert of rail track. With more than 400 black S. Korach and white photographs, a solid inventory of This 8½ x 11" hardcover book tells the depots and locations, and new information entire story of the fascinating Lake Shore that is sure to impress even the most well- Electric in interurban transportation, versed railfan, this detailed history of the even including missed opportunities that state’s railroads is an essential reference might have saved “The Greatest Electric for railfans. Softcover, 320 pages, Railway in the United States.” 288 pages, 461 black and white photos, 6 maps, 250 black and white photographs, 15 line 8½ x 11". $45.00 illustrations, 12 maps. $59.95 16 Landmarks On The Iron Road Locomotives of the Upper By William D. Middleton Midwest Photo Archive The story of building a transportation By Marvin Nielsen system that civilized and settled America, Featured in this 10¼ x 8½" softcover supported an industrial revolution and are various makes and models of diesels created world power is told by Middleton, used by the Soo Line, Chicago & North one of the country’s foremost railroad Western, Burlington Northern, Milwaukee historians. Includes development of the Road, Wisconsin Central, Green Bay & new profession of civil engineering in the Western and other railroads operating in 19th century and how it fostered modern the Upper Midwest. 128 pages, 121 black structural engineering practices and and white photos. $29.95 advanced the development of structural materials. 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This Contains hundreds of vintage photographs, 6 x 9" softcover contains 400 black and detailed rosters and schematic drawings white illustrations. $15.95 and is an invaluable resource for railroad buffs and historians. In this 8¼ x 10¾", Locomotive By Brian Solomon 216-page hardcover book, Prince traces In these pages, rail enthusiast Brian the growth and diversification of the Solomon describes the development of L&N as it expands. Updated maps, the locomotive, from the early steam new appendices, a greatly expanded designs to the latest in modern high- bibliography, detailed discussions of the speed trains. Informative text explains proposed mergers of the Canadian Pacific all the features of locomotive design and and the Burlington, of diesel locomotives functions over the years and traces the and more make this second edition different manufacturers and operators extremely useful. $59.95 of these mighty machines. The rich collection of historic and contemporary Ma and Pa images brings to life these workhorses of By George W. Hilton the rails. Hardcover, 12 x 11", 160 pages, Affectionately known as the “Ma & Pa,” the 10 black and white photographs, 171 color Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad was photographs. $16.99 one of the country’s longest running and best known “archaic” railroads, holding on Locomotives, The Modern to steam locomotion and other outmoded Diesel & Electric Reference technologies well into the 20th century. By Greg McDonnell Connecting Baltimore and York, the line had picturesque equipment, marvelous The essential photographic reference to scenery, antique passenger trains and modern North American locomotives, small-scale locomotives. Softcover, this large-format reference is a revised, 244 pages, 6 x 8¾". $24.00 updated and expanded work based on the author’s Field Guide to Modern Diesel Locomotives. 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Letourneau By Steve Glischinski This softcover features photographs from Minnesota Railroads is a history of Minnesota the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. railroads from the romance of steam A fine collection of black and white photos locomotives and luxurious passenger travel of Milwaukee Road steam, diesel and to the prosperous engines of transportation electric locomotives, rolling stock, workers, today. This illustrated volume offers an depots, rail and tunnel construction and enlightening—and entertaining—look at more. 10¼ x 8½" and 128 pages. $29.95 Minnesota railroads from near the end of New! the romantic era of steam locomotives and Milwaukee Road Depots luxury passenger lines to the reemergence By Kim D. Tschudy of railroads as one of the few profitable transportation industries. Hardcover, 11 x 10", In photos dating from the 1850s to 296 pages, 178 black and white photographs, the early 1950s, view depots from the 190 color photographs, 2 maps. Midwest to the upper Northwest regions $39.95 of America. Follow the development of depots starting with expansion of Missabe Road By Frank A. King railroads across America all the way In this history of the ore boom on the through railroading’s heyday. Railfans and Iron Range and the role railroads played. modelers alike will be delighted by these Frank King tells the complete story of the photos. 10¼ x 8½", softcover. $29.95 DM&IR: its construction, early operation, line extensions, passenger service, rolling Milwaukee Road Remembered stock, steam locomotives, and today’s By Jim Scribbins modern diesels. Softcover, 8½ x 11", 224 pages. $25.95 The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific was a railroad with a big personality. For a time it offered the world’s fastest steam- Modern Diesel Power powered passenger trains. Extending By Brian Solomon from Indiana to Puget Sound, it crossed The 1960s onward witnessed five mountain ranges in Montana, Idaho unprecedented technological and and Washington. In Milwaukee Road horsepower developments in the field Remembered eminent railway historian of diesel-electric locomotives. Spurred Jim Scribbins provides a richly illustrated by market demands, EMD and GE have history of this storied railroad. 168 pages, developed locomotives of ever-greater 191 black and white photos, 10 color speeds and tractive effort, allowing the photos, 11 x 8½". $29.95 railroads to bring resources to market more quickly and cheaply. Softcover, 192 pages, Minneapolis and the Age of 6½ x 8", 254 color photos $19.99 Railways By Don L. Hofsommer This 11 x 8½" hardcover presents Modern Locomotives Minneapolis from the 1860s into the By Brian Solomon 1950s. Rails carried wheat and helped The book examines how the demands of make Minneapolis the flour milling capital of commerce spurred General Electric and the world; they brought logs to Minneapolis General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division to be processed into lumber that built to develop 25 remarkable locomotives towns and farms across the prairies; and capable of ever-greater speeds and tractive they delivered coal and all manner of effort. Fabulous photographs showcase manufactured goods and merchandise to these high-horsepower locmotives as they Minneapolis and its vast hinterlands. A total negotiate mountain grades, lonely stretches of 336 pages with numerous black and of desert, small towns, and major cities white historical photos. $39.95 across the United States and Canada. Hardcover, 12 x 10½", 164 pages. $29.95 Minnesota Logging Railroads By Frank A. King Monon: The Hoosier Line Frank King traces railroads such as the By Gary W. and Stephen F. Dolzall Duluth and Northern Minnesota and the The self-proclaimed “Hoosier Line” Alger-Smith from their beginnings in 1886 celebrated its heritage by naming its to the railroads’ disappearance around flagship passenger train The Hoosier, 1937 when the last of the giant sawmills featuring Indiana cooking in the dining closed down. King profiles every logging cars and offering homespun service. railroad in Minnesota and examines Monon explores the history of this their operations. Minnesota’s Logging magnificent railroad, from its inception Railroads contains maps, photographs, in 1847 to its merger in 1970 with postcards and engineering drawings. the L&N, and beyond. Hardcover, Softcover, 208 pages, 8½ x 10¾". $25.95 8½ x 11", 208 pages. $49.95 18 Moonlight in Duneland New York Central Railroad Illustrated Story of the Chicago South By Brian Solomon Shore and South Bend Railroad For decades the New York Central reigned as By Ronald Cohen and Stephen McShane one of America’s most important railroads. The Illustrated Story Of The Chicago, South Beginning with the 1853 consolidation of Shore and South Bend Railroad. This book a group of fledgling railways that formed highlights the artwork that came out of the a route from Buffalo to Albany, the New South Shore Calumet Region purchase York Central grew into a powerhouse by Samuel Insull’s Midland Utilities in transportation company with more than 1925. It was marketed aggressively with 10,000 route miles. This illustrated history booklets, movies, and in particular a set is of a New York City-to-Chicago line, with of colorful artistic posters that attracted archival photographs, route maps, period many from Illinois to Northwest Indiana’s ads and timetables. Hardcover, 160 pages, steel mills and sand dunes. These posters 8½ x 11", 100 color and 50 black and white as well as new poster art is featured in this photos. $36.95 160-page softcover book which also includes 65 color and 30 black and white photos. New York Subway 10½ x 13½". $24.95 Introduction by Brian J. Cudahy First published in October 1904 by the Mountain Timber Interborough Rapid Transit Corporation, By Richard Somerset Mackie the company that built New York’s first On one level the story of loggers and underground railway, this unique facsimile their machines—cold deckers, skidders, edition is a lavishly illustrated guide to geared lokies and many more—Mountain one of the century’s greatest engineering Timber is also a dense and engrossing feats. Here in 12 detailed chapters are the social history of Vancouver Island in the routes, stations, tracks, rolling stock, signal mid 20th-century. Softcover, 8½ x 11", systems and electric supply stations of the 320 pages, 350 black and white photos new subway that ran under the streets and maps. $42.95 of Manhattan and the Bronx. Softcover, 149 pages, 8½ x 11". $28.00 Narrow Gauge Railway Scenes By Adolf Hungry Wolf Next Stop Honolulu! A history of narrow gauge railroads in By Jim Chiddix and MacKinnon Simpson as seen through photographs. Softcover, This is the story of the Oahu Railway 11 x 8½", 225 pages, 432 black and white & Land Company, which ran a 3-foot- photos. $24.95 gauge line for 58 years. OR&L is a great modeling prototype, with a mix of ALCO, Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Baldwin and Shay locomotives, and more Louis Railway than 1,200 freight cars hauling raw sugar, By Richard E. Prince pineapples and local freight. Up to 38 “History And Steam Locomotives.” passenger trains a day trundled tourists Originally published in 1967, this and residents around Oahu. Hardcover, hardcover book retains its reputation Coker dustjacket painting, lots of color, as the foremost work on this railroad. packed with photos and documents. This long out-of-print encyclopedic 352 pages, 9¼ x 12¼". $59.95 study of the “Dixie Line” includes maps, schedules, rosters, diagrams and hundreds Norfolk Southern Railway of photographs supplementing historical By Richard C. Borkowski information on the company and technical With a quarter of a century behind it, information on the trains. 8½ x 11", Norfolk Southern is one of the oldest Class 196 pages. $65.00 1 railroads operating in North America. This illustrated history tells how Norfolk Southern New Haven Passenger Trains came to be what it is today, from the merger By Peter E. Lynch of two of American railroading’s most Day and night for more than 100 years, legendary roads—Southern Railway and the New Haven Railroad plied the rails Norfolk & Western—through its rise to the between New York City and Boston, its heights of the world’s leading transportation mere 1,800 miles of track carrying more companies. After a concise history of the passengers than any other railroad in roads that became Norfolk Southern, author the history of the U.S. rail industry. This Richard Borkowski explores the railroad’s 8½ x 11", 150-page hardcover illustrated corporate history and operating structure history revisits the days when New and details the specific operations that go England’s fortunes were inseparable from into the line’s customer-oriented approach. the New Haven’s. 100 color and 100 black 160 pages, 100 color and 50 black and white and white photos. $36.95 photos, 8¼ x 11". $36.95 19 North American Locomotives Northern Pacific Railway A Railroad-by-Railroad Photo History By John Kelly By Brian Solomon The Northern Pacific was the first to Spanning more than one and a half offer sleeping and dining car service centuries, this treasure trove examines from St. Paul to the Pacific Northwest. the steam, diesel, and electric Outstanding vintage photography, locomotives that have have kept North brochures, postcards, menus, timetables American commerce on the rails since and advertisements tell the story of the the middle of the 19th century. The book Northern Pacifc’s glory years from the New! is arranged alphabetically by railroads 1930s through the 1960s. Featured are from across the United States and the heavyweight North Coast Limited (the Canada to show the variant technologies finest passenger train in North America), that railroads ordered to best suit their the fast vista-dome passenger trains, specific needs, whether for freight or steam and diesel locomotives, freight passenger operations. The 75-plus cars, maintenance-of-way and cabooses. railroads covered in this title range from Softcover, 10¼ x 8½", 128 pages, the best known historical lines such 22 black and white photos. $29.95 as Canadian Pacific, Santa Fe, Union Pacific and Baltimore & Ohio to today’s Off the Main Lines giant Class I roads, commuter lines, By Don L. Hofsommer and selected short lines. Hardcover, In this visually stunning and comprehensive 10¼ x 12¼", 288 pages, 254 color and photographic essay, railroad historian and 161 black and white photos. $50.00 photographer Hofsommer records the end of branch line passenger service, the North American Railroad demise of electric railroads, the transition Family Trees: An Infographic His- from steam to diesel power, as well as the end of common carrier freight service on tory of the Industry’s Mergers and New! Evolution By Brian Solomon the Colorado narrow gauge. Off the Main Today’s nine U.S. and Canadian Class Line carries readers along out-of-the-way I railroads are the result of well over railways in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, a century of convoluted bankruptcies, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, Montana, mergers, acquisitions and expansions. and South Dakota to see the changes that North American Railroad Family Trees occurred on these lines from the 1940s to marks the first time in book form that the 1990s. $55.00 New! this major aspect of railroad history has been presented in a clear, graphic Pacific Coast Commuter Railroads format, helping the railfan make sense From San Diego to Anchorage of the many smaller train lines that By Patrick C. Dorin shaped North American rail as it is today. Take a ride on the Coaster in San Diego, Hardcover, 8¾ x 11¼", 160 pages, the MetroLink in Los Angeles, Amtrak’s 59 color and 25 black and white images. Surfliner Rail to Rail in Southern California, $40.00 San Francisco’s Caltrain, the Altamont Commuter Express between San Jose North American Railroads and Stockton, Amtrak’s Capitol Corridor The Illustrated Encyclopedia between San Jose and Sacramento, the By Brian Solomon Sounder in Seattle and the West Coast Express in Vancouver. Railfans, modelers, This richly illustrated encyclopedia of transportation planners, and residents classic and contemporary American living in the new rail service areas will find railroads features consise histories of 101 this book useful for travel, transit planning U.S. and Canadian railroads past and and modeling. Softcover, 8½ x 11", present. Illustrated with period and modern 112 pages, 123 color and 30 black and photography in both color and black and white photos. $29.95 white, evocative print ads, and system maps, each profile is also accompanied by New! one or more fact boxes offering details on Passing Trains the railroads’ geographic scope, hardware, The Changing Face of Canadian and freight and passenger operations. Railroading By Greg McDonnell Spanning more than a century and a This book examines Canadian railroading half, this giant compendium of “fallen over the past 50 years and features the flags,” Class I behemoths, classic regional work of more than two dozen of the carriers, and transportation icons is sure to finest railroad photographers. This become the go-to compendium for railfans 11½ x 10½" hardcover contains 192 of all stripes. Hardcover, 10¾ x 9¼", pages with more than 200 color photos 320 pages, 325 color and 114 black and as well as gallery-quality black and white white images. $40.00 photos. $50.00 20 Pennsylvania Railroad Portraits of Canada 1940s - 1950s By Don Ball, Jr. By Jonathan Hanna, Robert Kennell and The Pennsylvania Railroad’s slogan was Carol Lacourte “Standard Railroad of the World.” In 204 Few individuals have had as much pages of color photography, this book covers opportunity to traverse the breadth of the railroad’s dynamic history as well as the Canada as the photographers who rode iron, coal and steel America the railroad the rails for the Canadian Pacific Railway. served. Personal anecdotes and recollections Almost from the company’s beginnings in from ex-PRR employees supplement the 1881, CPR hired noted photographers, first text, adding a flavor of authenticity. The on contract, then later in its own in-house vast color photographic coverage of the photography and publicity departments. Pennsylvania Railroad’s great engines and Portraits of Canada presents the very best trains in this volume is the result of thousands of their work in a visual journey across of hours searching. The coverage follows Canada in space and time. 10¼ x 9", the PRR’s general north-to-south, east- 216 pages, hardcover, 50 black and white to-west structure. Hardcover, 308 color photos. $34.95 photographs, 11 x 10". $50.00 Rail Power Pennsylvania Railroad in Indiana By Steve Barry By William J. Watt Setting the pace for America’s The Pennsylvania Railroad’s “keystone” transportation system has been the once ranked among America’s most widely mighty American locomotive in all its ever- recognized corporate logos. Pennsy set changing, ever-evolving forms. Detailed the pace in freight tonnage, ridership, descriptions in this 192-page, 7 x 8½" excellence of service, and was the world’s book identify the more than 100 locomotive largest industrial employer. This 8½ x 11", types pictured and explain their roles in 208-page hardcover captures the history the history of American motive power. of the Pennsy and its Indiana predecessor Closely-annotated photographs—over 250 lines. This book features more than in all—reflect the grand geographic and 160 photos, advertising, promotional technological breadth of North American materials, and detailed maps, resurrecting railroading. $14.95 its speedy passenger trains and heavy- tonnage freights, and showing how it earned its slogan “The Standard Railroad A Railroad Atlas of the United of the World.” $49.95 States in 1946 Volume 5: Iowa and Minnesota Pennsylvania Railroad Locomo- By Richard C. Carpenter tives The fifth volume of A Railroad Atlas Photo Archive: Steam, Diesel & of the United States in 1946 provides Electric By John Kelly a comprehensive record of the railroad The Pennsylvania Railroad’s slogan was system as it existed in Iowa and Minnesota “Standard Railroad of the World.” Often in 1946—the apex of America’s post-war referred to as the Pennsy, the railroad rail network, when steam locomotives still was an early advocate of standardization, dominated and passenger trains stopped especially with motive power. This book at towns all along the rail lines. Eventually highlights its steam, diesel and electric railroad mergers, the automobile and the locomotives. Known for a “dog’s breakfast” airplane changed what many viewed as of locomotives, Pennsy experimented with the world’s premier rail system. Hardcover, different types of locomotives until they 8½ x 11", 232 pages, maps only. found the right design. Softcover, 118 illustrations, 128 pages, 8½ x 10¼". $29.95 Railroad Freight Car Slogans & Heralds By John Kelly Perfecting the American Steam After WWII railroads used freight cars to Locomotive By J. Parker Lamb create a public image of their company This 244-page 8½ x 11" hardcover and to sell passenger and freight services. documents the role played by mechanical That image was captured in a slogan, engineers in the development of locomotive some unforgettable word, phrase or design. Lamb traces the evolution of the iconographic trademark emblazoned in steam engine from the early 1700s through bold letters on both sides of the freight the early 1800s, when the first locomotives car. Vintage black and white and color were sent to the United States from England. photographs highlight freight cars, special Then he traces development of American service cars and cabooses with their steam locomotives, first by small builders, original slogans and heralds. Softcover, and then by major enterprises and a handful 10 x 8½", 128 pages, 86 black and white of railroad company shops. $44.95 and 56 color photos. $32.95 21 Railroad Rolling Stock Railroads Across North America By Steve Barry By Claude Wiatrowski For as long as locomotives have been From the first steam-powered locomotives the stars of North American railroads, of the early 19th century to the high- rolling stock has trundled and raced speed bullet trains of today, the American along behind, carrying raw materials, railroad has been a great engine powering finished goods and people. Illustrated the nations’s growth and industry. This with more than 250 photographs, book celebrates the glory and grandeur of Railroad Rolling Stock traces the that legacy with a lavish tour of the history evolution of various forms of rolling stock of American railroads. 9 x 12", 256 pages, from throughout the history of North hardcover, 350 color and 150 black and American railroading. Each chapter white photos. $29.95 features a specific type from box cars, gondolas and hoppers to tank cars, flat Railroads of California cars and auto racks, intermodal rolling The Complete Guide to Historic stock, passenger equipment and more. Trains and Railway Sites Softcover, 192 pages, 6½ x 8¼". $17.99 By Brian Solomon This wonderfully illustrated book Railroad Signaling celebrates Golden State railroading, By Brian Solomon offering a colorful look at California’s This 8¼ x 11", 160-page softcover legendary railroads, including excursion guide to railroad signaling in the U.S. railroads, museums; sites such as Donner simplifies the utterly bewildering array of Pass and Tehachapi; and railroad icons mechanisms, procedures and rules that such as Los Angeles’ Union Station. have evolved since the 1830s to promote Hardcover, 8½ x 11", 160 pages, safety, impose control and disseminate 150 color and 25 black and white photos. information on America’s railways. $30.00 Solomon also explains how trains on the same route are given precedence or Railroads of Pennsylvania placed in pecking orders and how routes By Brian Solomon are broken into “blocks.” $24.99 This illustrated book offers a colorful look at the Keystone State’s historic railroads, The Railroad That Never Was the men who built and ran them and By Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. the engineering feats that made them possible. Railway historian Brian Solomon Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. tells the story shows readers the legacy those railroads of one of the most infamous railroad have left in the form of today’s historic construction projects of the late 19th tourist roads, museums and destinations. century. Based on original letters, Illustrated throughout with beautifully documents, diaries, and newspaper detailed modern photographs, black reports, The Railroad That Never and white archival images, and specially Was uncovers the truth behind this commissioned maps, this book is a mysterious South Pennsylvania handy guide to Pennsylvania’s railroads. Railway. Hardcover, 184 pages, Hardcover, 160 pages, 8½ x 11", 7¼ x 10¼", 70 black and white photos. 160 pages, 150 color and 25 black and $42.00 white photos. $34.95

Railroad Stations Rails Across Canada The Buildings that Linked the Nation By Tom Murray By David Naylor Few stories in the annals of railroading Almost overnight railway lines sprawled are as compelling as the construction, across the United States, quickly evolution, and astounding successes of the assuming a key role in America’s rapid Canadian Pacific and Canadian National growth and development. Linking railways. This sprawling book combines these lines that crisscrossed the map two famous lines in one volume. Author were the stations themselves, the Murray presents fastidiously researched very centerpieces—physical and and concisely presented histories of metaphorical—of civic and cultural life each railroad, along with more than in America. In over 600 striking black 300 photographs, including rare archival and white archival plans, drawings, black and white images and modern and maps, and images, the stories of railroad period color photography sourced from stations big and small are presented in national archives and private collections. this chronicle of one of our nation’s Softcover, 320 pages, 8 x 10½", most iconic building types. Hardcover, 200 color and 100 black and white 336 pages, 8½ x 11". $75.00 photos. $30.00 22 Rio Grande Locomotives Photo The Sandy River & Rangeley Archive By John Kelly Lakes Railroad and Predeces- Founded in 1870, Denver & Rio Grande sors, Volume 2 By Jerry DeVos Railroad—also known as the Rio Grande— A comprehensive look at the locomotives, operated narrow gauge, standard gauge, passenger cars, freight cars and non- and diesel locomotives in the spectacular revenue equipment manufactured for or Colorado Rockies. Their slogan was by the narrow gauge lines in Franklin ‘’Through the Rockies, not Around Them.’’ County, Maine. Features more than 400 Featured is a special color photo section of photographs, many of which have never Denver & Rio Grande locomotives along been published. Equipment included is the scenic Royal Gorge Route and the from Hinkley Locomotive Works, Jackson magnificent Moffat Tunnel Route. Other & Sharp Co., Laconia Car Co. Works highlights include a system map, timetables (Ranlet Car Co.), Maine Central RR, and magazine advertising. Softcover, Miller’s Platform and Couplers, New York 102 black and white and 18 color photots, Air Brake Co. (Eames Vaccuum Brake Co.), 128 pages, 10¼ x 8½". $29.95 H. K. Porter Co., and Portland Co.. Also included are rosters, charts, specifications Rock Island Railroad By John Kelly and index. Hardcover, 282 pages, 8½ x 11", By 1937 this railroad had its own fleet 400 photos. $60.00 of Rocket passenger trains to herald the Streamlined Era. Rock Island’s stainless Sandy River and Rangeley steel trains were led by locomotives in Lakes Railroad and Predeces- ‘’art-deco’’ maroon and red, trimmed with sors, Volume 3 By Jerry DeVos black-edged aluminum stripes. Photos This third volume describes the locomotives include the Peoria Rocket, Des Moines and freight cars built by the Portland Rocket, Quad City Rocket, Texas Rocket, Company; the history of the shops of Kansas City Rocket, Rocky Mountain the Franklin & Megantic, Phillips & Rocket, the flagshipGolden State between Rangeley, Sandy River and Sandy River Chicago and Los Angeles in partnership & Rangeley Lakes railroads; the excursion with Southern Pacific, and suburban cars built by the Phillips & Rangeley; commuter service between Chicago’s La and the excursion cars, railcars and Salle Street Station and Joliet, Illinois. Also railbuses, and cabooses built by the Sandy included are a system map, timetables, River and SR&RL. Features a complete travel brochures and full-color section of bibliography and index. Hardcover, Rock Island depots and stations. Softcover, 10 x 12", 286 pages, 343 black and white 128 pages, 8½ x 10¼". $32.95 photos. $60.00 The Rutland Road By Jim Shaughnessy Santa Fe Railway By John Kelly Award-winning railroad photographer and Highlighted in this 10¼ x 8½" softcover authority Jim Shaughnessy thoroughly book are the Chief, Texas Chief, San discusses the Rutland Road’s entire history, Francisco Chief, El Capitan and Super from preconstruction in 1831 to the present. Chief. A full color chapter on Santa Fe The author covers the history of the three lines Chief trains is accompanied by vintage that continued to operate after the demise travel brochures and advertising. Photos of the Rutland Railroad—the Vermont include the California Limited, Chicagoan, Railway, the Green Mountain Railroad, Kansas Cityan, Navajo, Ranger, Scout, and and the Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Grand Canyon Limited with connecting Authority. Lavishly illustrated with more than service to Grand Canyon National Park. 500 incomparable photographs, this The Santa Fe partnership with Harvey 8½ x 11" 436-page softcover expertly House depot restaurants is shown in picture covers this scenic and historic railroad. postcards with the legendary Harvey Girls. 144 illustrations, 128 pages. $39.95 $32.95

Sampling Of Penn Central Show Trains Of The 20th Century By Jerry Taylor By Fred Dahlinger A SAMPLING OF PENN CENTRAL This is more than just a photographic Show trains have been transporting their documentation of the difficulties of the mysterious cargo across America for more merger: every nook and cranny of this than a century. Now the enchantment of vast region is explored in detail with these trains is captured for all to enjoy four maps provided to enable the reader in this fascinating softcover book. Rare to stay oriented. Major terminals— photographs presented by the Circus Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis— World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin, are thoroughly dissected. This 10 x 7", display the unusual construction and exotic 448-page hardcover includes 211 black cargo of traveling show trains. Softcover, and white photographs. $59.95 128 pages, 10¼ x 8½". $29.95 23 Southern Pacific Railroad Steam: An Enduring Legacy By Brian Solomon The Railroad Photographs of Joel Jensen The Southern Pacific was an empire, Essays by John Gruber and Scott Lothes anchored in San Francisco but stretching Steam: An Enduring Legacy is a timeless from Portland, Oregon to several ports on collection of photographs of current steam the Gulf of Mexico. This illustrated history railroading throughout the American West tells the tale of SPs development from 1861 that evoke this bygone era. These 150 through its 1996 acquisition by Union dramatic and intimate black and white Pacific. Hardcover, 160 pages, 8½ x 11", images celebrate the raw mechanical 150 archival photographs. $36.95 power of late 19th and early 20th-century New! technology. Working steam continues to Southern Railway By Tom Murray inspire awe, and the beauty of the surronding This illustrated account of the venerable landscapes captivates young and old alike. Southern is both the story of the railroad’s Hardcover, 160 pages, 12 x 11". $50.00 88-year tenure as a transportation force in the region and a fascinating chapter of Southern Steam Locomotives history. The Southern Railway—the first By Karl Zimmermann major U. S. railroad to completely convert to diesel—eventually incorporated some The once-familiar site of steam locomotives, 150 individual predecessor railroads into its the “whistling, chugging, smoking iron system. Hardcover, 160 pages, 106 color and horses of the past,” are the subject of this 10 x 11", 48-page hardcover aimed at 51 black and white photos, 8½ x 11". $36.95 educating young readers about a colorful Speedway to Sunshine era in history. Full color and archival photos of steam locomotives in the United By Seth H. Bramson States and Canada are complemented by This book tells the tales of the great Florida fascinating facts. $19.99 boom, the subsequent bust and ensuing bankruptcy, and the vicious hurricanes and equally vicious sabotage attempts Steam Locomotives of the B&O following the strike of 1963. In recent By Kim D. Tschudy years the railroad has evolved and is now The B&O, America’s first railroad, was the single most important element behind formed in 1827. In 1830 the B&O opened its the innovation of Florida’s transportation first 13 miles of rail between Baltimore and system. Softcover, 8½ x 11", 352 pages Ellicott’s Mills. By 1838 the B&O was hauling 450 photographs. $29.95 mail between Baltimore and Washington D. C. This book looks back at the steam St. Paul Union Depot engines that made America and served By John W. Diers the B&O from the Civil War to the end St. Paul Union Depot was among the busiest of the steam era. Softcover, 10¼ x 8½", and best-known places in the city—one 128 pages. $29.95 of the largest depots in the nation and St. Paul’s link to the world. At its peak in the Steam On The Kettle Valley 1920s, the Union Depot processed more By Robert Turner than 20 million pieces of mail each year. “A Railway Heritage Remembered.” This Construction of the new depot began in 9 x 7½", 120-page softcover compiles the New! 1917, among the burned remains of the recollections of Kettle Valley railroaders. previous depot, and was finally finished The story of this fascinating railway that in 1926 as both a monument to St. Paul’s faced topographical and climate obstacles urban growth and its gateway to the that would challenge even the toughest Northwest. 10 x 11", 328 pages, hardcover, railroaders is told in an engaging text and 235 black and white photos. $39.95 interesting pictures. $24.95 Steam Along the Boundary By Robert D. Turner and J.S. David Wilke Steam Power By Brian Solomon Steam Along the Boundary brings to life They steamed westward with America, one of the most fascinating eras of British carrying goods and people to the new Columbia’s railway and mining history: the frontier. They powered through the great copper boom that seized the Boundary Industrial Revolution and they transported District in the late 1890s and early 1900s. a nation in motion, soldiers and settlers The rival Great Northen and Canadian and immigrants, captains of industry Pacific railways, along with the fledgling and itinerant laborers. This book offers a Kettle River Valley Railway, were the major pictorial history of the evolution of steam players in a fierce competition for the rich power from the early 19th century to the ores and copper wealth from the region. demise of steam power after World War II. Hardcover, 11 x 9", 224 pages, 27 color Softcover, 6½ x 8¼", 192 pages, 239 color and 300 black and white photos. $49.95 and 5 black and white photos. $17.99 24 Steam Trains By James P. Bell Thunder of Their Passing Few images speak as clearly of a time By Robert D. Turner and a place as a dramatic black and This stunning hardcover chronicles the white photograph of an American steam story of the most spectacular preserved locomotive powering through that storied steam railroad in North America, era of railroad history. This beautiful from its origins as the Denver & Rio book meticulously recreate that original Grande’s San Juan extension to its style, capturing the bygone age of steam present-day operation as the Cumbres & railroads against the settings of its heyday, Toltec Scenic Railroad. 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Steam’s Last Season Tie Hackers To Timber Harvesters A Portfolio of Steam Locomotive By Ken Drushka Photographs 1955-1960 The complete history of logging in British By Burt W. Mall Columbia’s interior. This 8½ x 11", This huge photo album presents 286 240-page, hardcover tells the whole story, outstanding color and black and white from the days when mammoth trees were photographs, captured primarily in the cut by hand to the present day when trees New! upper Midwestern United States, when are cut, delimbed and bucked to size in steam locomotives were taking their last seconds via computerized machines. This breath in the country, from around 1955 book documents the characters, companies to the beginning of the 1960’s. Hardcover, and innovations that made B.C. a leader 13½ x 9", 296 pages, 286 photographs. in the forest products industry. $45.95 Limited quantity produced. $69.95 Tootin’ Louie By Don L. Hofsommer Steel Giants In The Tootin’ Louie, railroad historian By Stephen G. McShane and Gary S. Wilk Don L. Hofsommer offers a comprehensive At the turn of the 20th century, an army biography of the Minneapolis & St. of workers descended upon the northwest Louis Railway and its Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana dunes to forge a world-class steel South Dakota, and Illinois service areas. industry for America, and along the Incorporating primary research documents, way built a city. Steel Giants presents a including station records and dispatchers’ selection of these dramatic photographs reports, Hofsommer brings the M&StL to showing construction of the steel mills and life by portraying the lives and times of the steel towns and early production of steel people involved in the railroad. Softcover, in the Calumet Region. Hardcover, 278 8½ x 11", 396 pages. $39.95 black and white photos, 32 color photos, 11 x 10½", 304 pages. $39.95 The Train of Tomorrow By Ric Morgan Steel Rails & Silver Dreams The Train of Tomorrow was a concept By Darryl E. Muralt train built by General Mortors to promote This is the story of the Dolly Varden Mine the sale of diesel locomotives by its and the Dolly Varden Mines Railway, 18 Electro-Motive Division. The four-car miles of improbable narrow gauge iron train became a postwar symbol of reaching north from the little community American know-how and promised of Alice Arm to this rich silver property. a bright future for the railroads. The In the years between 1916 and 1922, the book includes nearly 200 photographs, Dolly Varden Mine was both the brightest drawings and documents and includes hope and the greatest disappointment of the diary kept during its inaugural tour. Limited the mining industry of Northwest Canada. Hardcover, 8½ x 11", 211 pages. $49.95 Quantity Hardcover, 9 x 11", 184 pages. $49.95 Now available to dealers. Trains Of The Upper Midwest By Marvin Nielson Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs Travel through the Upper Midwest during By Robert Turner the 1950s and 1960s as diesel power This is an illustrated history of the Canadian began to replace steam engines of an Pacific Railway’s British Columbia lake and earlier era. The Upper Midwest was river service. This 8½ x 11" 288-page, served by a wide variety of railroads both softcover book is filled with more than 320 large and small. Trains included in this black and white and color photographs, maps, 10½ x 8½", 126-page, softcover are timetables, and scale drawings along with Omaha Road, Missabe Road, Milwaukee detailed text telling the dramatic story of the Road, Great Northern, Soo Line, Northern sternwheeler steamboats that navigated the Pacific, Burlington Route, RI, IC, Green rivers of Western North America. $42.95 Bay Route and CGW. $29.95 25 Travel By Train Two Feet To Togus By Michael E. Zega and John E. Gruber By Robert C. Jones Between 1870 and 1950, America’s This 8¾ x 11½", 198-page hardcover railroads produced a body of poster work tells the story of the shortest of Maine’s significant both for the artists involved two-foot-gauge railways. Only five miles and for the range of images created. long, the Kennebec Central existed for American railroads commissioned posters one reason only—to transport passengers designed to spur the popular imagination and goods to and from the huge home for and thereby encourage travel. This veterans at Togus, Maine. More than 100 156-page hardcover features nearly photographs of the railroad operations 160 poster images, many in color, and equipment complement the text, personal photographs, and sketches, and richly illustrated appendices provide many of them never before published. images of Togus, maps and photographs Hardcover, 122 pgs, 12 x 9". $49.95 of the equipment. $39.95

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Sn3 Modeler S Gaugian A spectacular magazine Premier publication for S scale Devoted to 3-foot-gauge modeling in 1:64 Written by veteran modelers, articles are packed scale, this semi-annual magazine features with helpful ideas, hints and tips on how to how-to and technique articles, scale plans, maintain or expand your model railroad. Learn columns, large photos, and ads from major from the experts. manufacturers. Subjects covered include cars, locomotives, painting, weathering, detailing Topics covered include benchwork, trackwork and much more. Each issue is specially and turnouts, wiring and signals, repair and designed for narrow gaugers. Glossy paper cleaning, operating cars and locomotives, and four-color photos are featured. Published twice a year, scenery techniques and much more! spring and fall. $18 U.S., $30 Canada, $34 elsewhere; sample $11.50 postpaid in U.S. Regular departments include S Briefs, which details all the hot news in S; S Messages, a readers’ forum; Product Reviews, where new products “The magazine showcases S gauge are highlighted in depth; Club Car features local club news; American information and products. I love the articles...” Flyer Collector’s Column, where American Flyer trains are discussed; the Roundhouse, where American Flyer repairs are discussed.

Advertisements from major S scale manufacturers and suppliers, as well as Both Magazines Feature: classified ads from readers wanting to buy and sell trains, are in every issue. Published January, March, May, July, September and November. $38 U.S., ✱ Product reviews and news $72 Canada, $85 elsewhere; sample $11.50 postpaid in U.S. ✱ Helpful columns to answer your questions ✱ Informative ads from major S manufacturers ✱ How-to and technique articles ✱ Large, sharp photos of S scale trains and layouts ✱ Large color and black and white photos ✱ Scale 1:64 plans to help modelers