Author: Peter E. Lynch
Publisher: MBI
Keywords: railroad, history, color, penn, central
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-06-03
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0760317631
ISBN-13: 9780760317631

In describing Penn Central’s operational history and the factors that led to its formation and downfall, author and former PC employee Peter Lynch offers a collection of the best Penn Central color imagery from the archives of photographers Thomas McNamara, J. W. Swanberg, David P. Oroszi, and others. These region-by-region collections depict freight and passenger operations, motive power, rolling stock, and facilities along 20,000 miles of trackage in states from New England to Illinois.

Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Keywords: railroad, history, color, mbi, southern, pacific
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-11-15
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0760329311
ISBN-13: 9780760329313

More than just a railroad, the Southern Pacific was an empire, anchored in San Francisco but stretching from Portland, Oregon, to several ports on the Gulf of Mexico. From austere western roots, the "Espee" grew into a far-flung railroad of some 17,000 route miles. In fact, for many years, it was the nations only true transcontinental railroad. This illustrated history tells the tale of SP’s development from 1861 through its 1996 acquisition by Union Pacific. Through some 150 archival photographs, route maps, period ads, and timetables, readers are treated to the history of steam and d

Author: William Deverell
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: railroad, californians, crossing
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 1996-03-22
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520205057
ISBN-13: 9780520205055

Nothing so changed nineteenth-century America as did the railroad. Growing up together, the iron horse and the young nation developed a fast friendship. Railroad Crossing is the story of what happened to that friendship, particularly in California, and it illuminates the chaos that was industrial America from the middle of the nineteenth century through the first decade of the twentieth.Americans clamored for the progress and prosperity that railroads would surely bring, and no railroad was more crucial for California than the transcontinental line linking East to West. With Gold Rush prosperi

Author: Peter E. Lynch
Publisher: MBI
Keywords: railroad, history, color, new, haven
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2003-02-28
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0760314411
ISBN-13: 9780760314418

Captured in rare archival imagery, readers can explore the New Haven, the legendary railroad of New York, New Haven, and Hartford. From 1872 to 1969 this railroad connected Boston and Providence with New York City. New Haven’s four-track electric mainline across the Hell Gate Bridge into New York Citycarried millions of commuters and travelers and is one of the most recognized railroad images in the world. The book includes a large selection of New Haven print advertising featuring the famous Shore Line Route as well as the memorable orange, black, and white color scheme. The book is a d

Author: Tom Murray
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Keywords: railroad, history, color, mbi, illinois, central
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-12-15
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0760322546
ISBN-13: 9780760322543

One of America’s greatest railroads, serving the Midwest and the South for more than 150 years before being acquired by Canadian National in 1999, the Illinois Central ran some of the nation’s most famous passenger trains (most notably the City of New Orleans), as well as a freight service renowned for its quality. This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated history of the "Main Line of Mid-America"-the railroad that brought us engineer Luther "Casey" Jones-looks at Illinois Central’s motive power and rolling stock, its good old reliable passenger service and crack freight

Author: James Griffin
Publisher: MBI
Keywords: railroad, history, color, rio, grande
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2003-07-26
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 076031442X
ISBN-13: 9780760314425

Travel west through the Rocky mountains on the legendary "Rio Grande" railroad. Also known as the D&RGW, it is a favorite among rail fans and modellers for its breathtaking scenery and its fascinating narrow-gauge legacy. On it’s journey from Denver to Salt Lake City the "Rio Grande" ran through the six-mile-long Moffat Tunnel, one of America’s miracles of railroad engineering. This book treats the reader to a wealth of information including overviews of steam and diesel locomotives as well as famous passenger trains such as the Vista-domed California Zephyr (Chicago to Oakl

Authors:Mike Schafer, Brian Solomon,
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Keywords: railroad, history, color, mbi, pennsylvania
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-03-18
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 0760329303
ISBN-13: 9780760329306

From humble beginnings in the 1800s, the Pennsylvania Railroad grew to be one of the most powerful, influential railroads in American history--a railroad that Fortune Magazine called “a nation unto itself.” It owned its own shops, coal mines, hotels, communications system, and power plants, not to mention hundreds of depots (including the famous Penn Station in Manhattan), thousands of passenger cars, tens of thousands of freight cars, and a vast fleet of steam, electric, and diesel locomotives. The Pennsy’s 10,000 route-miles served thirteen of the most populous and most industrialized