Railroad Books

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Books F - G - H

  • FACES OF RAILROADING: Portraits of America's Greatest Industry
    By Carl Swanson. This book is a glorious photographic tribute to the people who made railroading the greatest industry America has ever known. Althoug h its magnificent machines and inventions are often romanticized and celebrated alongside its most eccentric pioneers and tycoons, it's the faces of an unsung workforce that best personify this great industry. Readers will glimpse their own family histories as they join train crews in the locomotive cab and at the back of the caboose. They'll ride the rails in the luxury of great passenger trains, stride through grand terminals and small depots, and visit the bustling backshops and yard offices in the wee hours of the morning. This book brings these and many more scenes symbolic of America's industrial age.
    160 pages, black and white photos, hardbound. $29.95

  • FASTER THAN THE LIMITEDS
    By Dr. Thomas R. Bulland and William M. Schapotkin. The story of the Chicago-New York Electric Air Line Railroad and its transformation into Gary Railways. In 1905, a group of Chicago-based railroad promoters unveiled a daring proposal to build an arrow-straight or "air line" railroad between Chicago and New York. The promoters of the Chicago-New York Electric Air Line Railroad proclaimed that their high-speed electric trains would be able to cross the 743 miles in only 10 hours, making them faster than the Limiteds. In less than a decade, the promotion had collapsed. However, out of the ashes of the hopelessly flawed railway scheme came the development of one of Indiana's most successful urban street railway systems - the Gary Railways.
    280 pages, black and white photos, hardbound. $55.00
  • A FIELD GUIDE TO SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND RAILROAD DEPOTS AND FREIGHT HOUSES
    By John H. Roy Jr. At the height of the railroad era, nearly every community in New England had at least one depot and freight house around which the town center grew. With the decline of the railroads, scores of these historic structures have been lost, including many architectural gems. This all-new handbook is a guide to 467 such structures that survive today. Each entry includes a photograph of the structure, the date it was built, its use today, and brief historical and architectural notes. 
    352 pages, 479 photos, 6 x 9", softcover. $19.95

  • FIFTY YEARS OF UNION PACIFIC STEAM EXCURSIONS
    By Lloyd E. Stagner and James J. Reisdorff. This book details all known railfan or promotional steam excursions that have taken place on the Union Pacific Railroad since 1953. This publication provides an insightful look as to how Union Pacific's steam heritage program was developed over the last half century. It is otherwise a helpful guide for steam enthusiasts wanting to review as to exactly when they either rode or photographed an excursion featuring 4-8-4 Northern type #844 (8444) or 4-6-6-4 Challenger type #3985. A pictorial review highlighting the last 50 years of excursions, as provided by several name railfan photographers, is included in this tribute to the love of Union Pacific steam.
    64 pages, black and white photos and illustrations, softbound. $19.95

  • FIRING: A Passion For Steam
    By Darrell Tilcock and Eric Dunn. In this book, the author describes the feel and joy of properly firing oil-burning steam engines. The technical aspects are all there. Chapters include: Boiler Components and Controls, Firing Technique Underway, Preserving the Legacy, and more.
    56 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2, softbound. $7.95
  • FIRING ON THE PENNSY
    By Paul C. Dietz. A classic first-party account of firing steam locomotives, written by a 90-year-old fireman. He worked on the Pennsylvania Railroad during the last hurrah of the steam locomotives 1943-1947. You ride the engine with him as he explains the duties of a fireman. You'll learn about the Westinghouse airbrakes, the reverse lever (Johnson Bar) stokers and the art of handfiring. He fired the small B6 yard, the K4 passenger and the huge Q2 freight locomotives. He fired the 6200 direct drive steam turbine locomotive, which was the only one ever built. There are many entertaining anecdotes in the book.
    97 pages, 45 black and white photos and illustrations, softbound. $12.95
  • FIRST CALL TO (A MILWAUKEE ROAD) DINNER
     Compiled by the Milwaukee Road Historical Association. A collection of recipes from the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. This book covers breakfast through dessert and then some.
    154 pages, spiral bound, softcover. $12.00
  • THE FLORIDA KEYS OVERSEAS RAILWAY
    By Warren Zeiller. The core of this book is the collection of photographs made by William Asa Glass, one of the construction engineers on the Overseas Railway to Key West, an extension of the Florida East Coast Railway. His views, many never duplicated elsewhere, show both the engineering and human sides of the great project in a unique way. Supplementing it are the recollections of many who were there. In combination, it makes for a vivid and engrossing story, rich in unfamiliar details. Also included is a retrospective of the route today.
    156 pages, 166 black and white and color photos, maps, artwork and drawings, hardbound. $55.00
  • FOLLOW THE FLAG: A History of the Wabash Railroad Company
    By H. Roger Grant. This is the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once-vital interregional carrier. Like most major American carriers, the Wabash grew out of an assortment of small firms, including the first railroad to operate in Illinois, the Northern Cross. Thanks, in part, to the genius of financier Jay Gold, by the early 1880s what was then known as the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway reached the principal gateways of Chicago, Des Moines, Detroit, Kansas City and St. Louis. Immortalized in the popular folksong "Wabash Cannonball", this midwestern railroad has left important legacies.
    304 pages, 88 illustrations, hardbound. $49.95
  • FREIGHT CAR EQUIPMENT OF THE PITTSBURGH & LAKE ERIE RAILROAD: Volume 1 - P&LE's Gondola Cars
    By Jerry Gorzoch, Jack Polaritz and Joe Sparico. This book is the most complete record of Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad gondola cars ever published, containing historical, operational and construction details. It is an authoritative history largely based upon the railroad's own documents and photographs. It contains photographs and drawings of the cars, along with supporting documents from the company files detailing various reconstructions taking place with this equipment. The reader is provided a background relating to gondola operation and the evolutions of this type of car on the railroad, in addition to rosters and photographs of the various types of this equipment by the P&LE.
    80 pages, 170 black and white photos, softbound. $24.95
  • FREIGHT CAR MODELS: Volume 2 - Box Cars, Book 1
    By Robert Schleicher. From Railmodel Journal. Building from the prototype for better models. The prototypes for 40-, 50- and 60-foot boxcar kits from Athearn, MDC, Con Cor, and many more.
    106 pages, black and white and color photos, softbound. $8.96
  • FREIGHT TRAINS OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER PHOTO ARCHIVE
    By John Kelly. The upper Mississippi River route is a nonstop parade of heavy tonnage freight trains carrying intermodal containers, piggyback trailers, coal taconite, grain, and automobiles. Magnificent scenery, delightful river towns and plenty of trains are shown along the historic upper Mississippi routes. Included are the rail lines of Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Canadian Pacific Railway, Iowa, Chicago & Eastern, and predecessor lines Burlington Northern, Milwaukee Road, and Soo lines.
    128 pages, 123 black and white photos and illustrations, softbound. $29.95
  • FRISCO IN COLOR
    From the mid-fifties until the end of independent existence, the Frisco operated its main lines as fast freight properties, while the various branches and lighter traffic lines were judiciously employed to feed the mains. Motive power purchases are outlined in roster form. Operating practices over the diesel years are noted in photo captions and comments throughout.
    128 pages, color photos, hardcover. $49.95
  • FRISCO/KATY COLOR GUIDE TO FREIGHT AND PASSENGER EQUIPMENT
    By Nicholas Molo. The various freight rosters of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (Frisco) and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (Katy) are reviewed in full color. There's even a handful of passenger cars used jointly by these fallen flags.
    128 pages, color photos, hardcover. $59.95
  • FROM THE DINING CAR
    By James D. Porterfield. The author presents a vibrant, delicious collection of chefs' recipes from today's luxury rails. Covering private luxury trains such as the American Orient Express, the Montana Rockies Rail Tour, the Old Kentucky Dinner Train, the Napa Valley Wine Train, and others. This book presents great recipes, chefs' first-hand accounts, portraits of classic railroad style, and historic details. Featuring memorabilia and photographs along with descriptions of the romantic rail experience they bring to life.
    304 pages, 25 black and white photos and 40 line illustrations, hardbound. $32.95
  • THE FRUIT BELT ROUTE: The Railways of Grand Junction, Colorado 1890-1935
    By William L. McGuire and Charles Teed. A history of the the horse car, trolley, and interurban route to Fruita, Colorado. By the Rio Grande chapter of the National Railway Historical Society.
    56 pages, black and white photos, softcover. $19.95
  • FUNDAMENTALS OF THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
     First published in 1949. Illustrations of components and early locomotives and information on building the locomotive.
    42 pages, 6 x 9, softbound. $12.00
  • GE EVOLUTION LOCOMOTIVES
    By Sean Graham-White. For the first time, readers are given a full account of the GE Evolution Series locomotives and their GEVO powerplants. Here are the technologies that answered the EPA's more stringent "Tier 2" emissions regulations and yielded no fewer than 25 US patents. The author provies the complete story behind Evolution Series' design, manufacture, testing, and sales; gives readers a rare look inside General Electric's Erie, Pennsylvania, facilities; and relates interviews with key GE and railroad personnel.
    144 pages, color photos, hardcover. $36.95
  • GEORGIA & FLORIDA RAILROAD ALBUM
    By Al M. Langley Jr. This book contains the complete history of this railroad, including Central of Georgia, Southern Railway, and Seaboard associations. With detailed steam and diesel and passenger car rosters.
    56 pages, 125 photos, maps and timetables, album format, softbound. $19.95
  • GEORGIA SHORT LINE RAILROAD ALBUM
    By Albert M. Langley Jr. Brief histories of over 65 Georgia short lines, including the Macon, Dublin & Savannah Railroad, Milledgeville Railway, and the financially plagued Macon & Birmingham Railroad. Thoroughly researched by one of the leading Georgia railroad historians.
    60 pages, over 175 black and white photos, horizontal format, softcover. $21.95
  • GHOST RAILROADS OF NEBRASKA: A Pictorial
     By Michael M. Bartels and James J. Reisdorff. This book gives the reader the flavor of the rail era in Nebraska and guides them down lines that have been abandoned.
    96 pages, black and white photos, softcover. $19.99
  • GHOST STORIES OF COLORADO
    By Dan Asfar. The rich and rugged history of Colorado is filled with both spectacular successes and dashed dreams. It is a land of Native Americans, pioneers, miners, ranchers, and soldiers. Against this backdrop, the author explores the ghosts, poltergeists and other residual spiritual inhabitants of the Centennial State.
    223 pages, softcover. $12.95
  • GHOST TOWNS, COLORADO STYLE: Volume One - Northern Region
    By Kenneth Jessen. This is volume one of a three-volume set which is the most complete ghost town guide ever published on Colorado. Includes: Boulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Jackson, Larimer, Moffat, Routt and Summit counties. Over 150 town histories.
    508 pages, 60 detailed maps and 220 historic and contemporary photographs, 6 x 9, softbound. $24.95
  • GHOST TOWNS, COLORADO STYLE: Volume Two - Central Region
    By Kenneth Jessen. The second volume of "Ghost Towns, Colorado Style" forms part of the most complete ghost town guide ever published on Colorado. This volume covers the central region of Colorado and includes 250 town histories. It is illustrated with over eighty detailed maps and over 225 historic and contemporary photographs. Garfield, Eagle, Pitkin, Lake, Park, Teller, Chaffee and Gunnison counties are included in Volume Two.
    616 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2, black and white photos, softbound. $29.95
  • GHOST TOWNS, COLORADO STYLE: Volume Three - Southern Region
    By Kenneth Jessen. The third volume completes this set. This volume covers the southern region of Colorado and includes 289 town histories. It is illustrated with over 150 detailed maps and over 230 historic and contemporary photographs. Custer, Fremont, Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Rio Grande, Saguache, Hinsdale, Mineral, Ouray, San Juan, Dolores, Montezuma, San Miguel, La Plata, Huerfana and Las Animas counties are covered.
    632 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2, black and white photos, softbound. $29.95
  • GHOST TOWNS OF COLORADO: Your Guide to Colorado's Historic Mining Camps and Ghost Towns
    By Philip Varney and John Drew. Colorado is filled with historic ghost towns and mining camps that contribute much to the romantic and celebrated legends of the American West. An engaging, anecdotal, yet historical guidebook to the ghost towns and former mining camps of this state, this book shows you more than 90 towns and sites - from Cripple Creek to Leadville; from Silverton to Georgetown and Crested Butte - capturing the spirit of what was once the Wild West by combining captivating exterior photos and eerie interior shots with lively descriptive text.
    160 pages, color photos, softcover. $19.95
  • GHOST TOWNS OF THE COLORADO ROCKIES
    By Robert L. Brown. Designed for the explorer without a four-wheel-drive vehicle, this book features information and travel directions for sixty of Colorado's ghost towns and mining camps.
    401 pages, 136 black and white photos, 6 x 9, softcover. $17.95
  • GILPIN GOLD TRAM
    By Mallory Hope Ferrell. New printing of this book on the Gilpin Tramway, which was the only two-foot gauge railroad in Colorado. Though short-lived, this colorful 24" line served as the main artery for the flow of ore from the mines above Central City to the smelters at Black Hawk. The Tram twisted and turned its way over some 26 miles of track pulled by small Shays.
    120 pages, 120 historic black and white photos, hardcover. $39.95
  • GOLDEN, COLORADO: Images of America
    By Golden Pioneer Museum. "Where the West Lives!" Golden's motto sums up the colorful history of the small town set at the entrance to the storied gold fields of Colorado. The scenic valley that shelters Golden caught the notice of some of the most famed pioneers of the West: explorer Major Stephen Long, world traveler Isabella Bird, showman Buffalo Bill Cody, and brewer Adolph Coors. Golden served as the territorial capital from 1862 to 1867. Chronicled here is the history of this quintessential 'rough and ready' western town.
    128 pages, black and white photos, softbound. $19.99

  • THE GOLDEN AGE OF RAILROADING IN AMERICA'S HEARTLAND: The Photography of Otto C. Perry
    By James L. Warsher. Amateur photographer Otto C. Perry, a Denver, Colo. postman, was born in 1894 and died in 1970. His hobby was taking photographs of locomotives and trains, and his legacy of more than 20,000 negatives reposes in the Western History Collection of the Denver Public Library. The photographs published here represent the exuberance of the 1920s, the disillusionment and despondency of the early 1930s, as well as the renaissance of the late 1930s and post World War II 1940s.
    176 pages, black and white photos, horizontal format, hardbound. $50.00

  • GOLDEN CITY TASTES AND TRADITIONS: Golden, Colorado
    From the Golden Cultural Alliance. This cookbook contains more than 250 recipes submitted by the residents and organizations of Golden as well as many snippets of history and lore about Golden and Colorado.  
    256 pages, spiral-bound, color photo section, hardcover. $13.95
  • GOLDEN DECADE OF TRAINS: The 1950s in Color
    By Robert R. Malinoski. Just the name Malinoski is indicative of masterful, expert camera work, as exhibited in national rail magazines for more than fifty different roads during the decade when the best of steam and early diesels worked hand in hand.
    128 pages, all-color photos, hardbound. $45.00
  • GOLDEN SPIKE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
    By Rose Houk. The completion of America's first transcontinental railroad is commemorated by this park, which also operates faithful replicas of the Jupiter and 119 locomotives that were present for that historic event in 1869. Photos by George H.H. Huey.
    16 pages, all-color illustrations, softbound. $3.95
  • GOOD THINGS TO EAT, AS SUGGESTED BY RUFUS
    Author Rufus Estes was born a slave and grew up to be one of the best chefs of his time, serving Presidents Harrison and Cleveland, European royalty, Pullman private car travelers, and barbed wire tycoon John "Bet-A-Million" Gates. In this version of "Good Things to Eat", Estes' 1911 text has been meticulously reproduced in facsimile, and 52 new photographs, illustration and advertisements from the late 1800s and early 1900s have been added to help illuminate Estes' life and culinary times. Recipes for culinary wonders as well as easy mainstream meals, some Southern delights, and a few Creole dishes are included.
    146 pages, 6 x 9 format, softbound. $19.95
  • GP40: The First 645 Geep
    By George Melvin. This CD book contains the exceptional series on EMD's GP40, the first Geep powered with the 645 engine. It documents the GP40's use by original owners and many of their subsequent owners and provides a photographic record of these engines. Designed to be an invaluable tool for both modelers and historians, the CD presents this series in PDF format. The text is fully searchable, and all photos can be zoomed in on for close examination of every detail. Pages can be printed for personal use. This series was first published in Model Railroading magazine between August 2000 and September 2002.
    116 pages, 212 photos, 135 in color, 300 dpi PDF images on CD format. $18.95
  • GRANDE MOUNTAINS: The Standard Gauge 4-8-2s of the Denver & Rio Grande Western
    By Robert Grandt. This is the first in a series of books on the standard gauge motive power of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, featuring Mountain type locomotives. Includes photographs of each of the locomotives, folios and charts.
    192 pages, black and white photos, horizontal format, softbound. $35.00
  • THE GRANDLUXE EXPRESS: Traveling in High Style
    By Karl Zimmermann. This book invites readers aboard the glamorous renovated cars of the GrandLuxe railway train. In 1989, the American-European Express, a stylish train created in emulation of Europe's Orient Express, commenced operation between Washington and Chicago. Forced to close down two years later, it was reborn in 1994 as the American Orient Express. The AOE, as this luxury streamliner was often known, matured under the tutelage of various owners until 2006, when under new ownership it acquired a new name, the GrandLuxe Express.
    112 pages, 10 black and white and 96 color photos, hardcover. $39.95
  • GREAT AMERICAN RAIL JOURNEYS
    By John Grant. There are few people who don't find the idea of embarking on a rail journey appealing, and no better way exists to gain an appreciation of a country's history and geography than from the seat of a first-class train. This beautiful book, like the television programs it parallels, takes readers on location to some of North America's most scenic and historically rich landscapes, evoking the sense of romance and excitement that begins the moment the train leaves the station. Illustrated with color photographs, some taken during filming of the television shows, with numerous color maps showing details of the train route, this book will be a treasure for anyone whose imagination is fired by the idea of a scenic train adventure.
    192 pages, 8 color maps, 150 color photos, 10 black and white photos, hardcover. $34.95
    Softbound - $24.95
  • GREAT MACHINES: Poems and Songs of the American Railroad
    By Robert Hedin. Gathered here are work songs, ballads, spirituals, hymns, blues lyrics and hobo songs, as well as poems by many of our premier poets, past and present. This entertaining and evocative anthology presents the amazing variety of poems and songs written about the American railroad in the last century and a half.
    256 pages, softbound. $17.50
  • GREAT NORTHERN PICTORIAL: Volume 7 - Faster Schedules - Great For Freights
    By John F. Strauss Jr. Featured is GN's freight train operations between 1966 and 1970. Included also is Great Northern's eastern connection with the Burlington Route and GN's western connection with the Oregon Trunk/Western Pacific. Also included is the transition for Great Northern to Burlington Northern's early years of freight train operations.
    169 pages, many previously unpublished color and black and white photos, hardbound. $64.95
  • GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY: Ore Docks of Lake Superior Photo Archive
    By Douglass D. Addison Sr. See the world's largest iron ore docks and how they were constructed and operated through the historic photographs and illustrations in this book. Detail photos show these fascinating docks in operation (trains loading ships) as well as accurate drawings made from original Great Northern blueprints. The majority of the photos cover the 1920s to the 1970s, which includes the Golden Age of railroading. The remaining docks are falling apart and partially stripped.
    128 pages, 161 black and white photos, softbound. $29.95
  • GREAT TRAIN ROBBERIES OF THE OLD WEST
    By R. Michael Wilson. Rails reached the West toward the end of the 1860s, and it wasn't long before road agents graduated from robbing stagecoaches to robbing trains. For outlaw gangs, there was no venue riskier than a train robbery. But then again, no other line of work offered such potential for instant wealth. This book is an action-packed collection of gangs too notorious, hauls too large, and murders too cold-blooded to fade into obscurity.
    167 pages, softcover. $12.95
  • GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
    By Kenneth Jessen. The Great Western Railway was a subsidiary of the Great Western Sugar Company. The railroad was designed to bring freshly harvested sugar beets in from the fields of north-central Colorado to selected Great Western factories for processing. It also hauled raw materials to the factories and delivered refined sugar to common carriers. With such a specialized purpose, it is a tribute to the short line that it still survives today. This book provides an overview of the railroad from its beginning to modern times.
    160 pages, softcover. $24.95
  • THE GREEN LINE
    By Terry W. Lehmann and Earl W. Clark Jr. Locally referred to as the Green Line, the Cincinnati, Newport & Covington Railway's fleet of single and double truck cars provided fast and convenient transportation between Cincinnati and the smaller communities located across the Ohio River in northern Kentucky.
    240 pages, black and white photos, hardbound. $55.00
  • GUIDE TO NORTH AMERICAN RAILROAD HOTSPOTS
     By J. David Ingles. Indispensable for railfans who travel, this guide takes you to 100 of the busiest, most interesting train-watching sites across the U.S. and Canada. Each spread includes a color photo and authoritative text about the site, written by train-watching experts all over North America.
    208 pages, 100 color photos, 8-1/4 x 5-1/2, softbound. $24.95
  • GUIDEBOOK TO AMTRAK'S CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR: Chicago to Denver
     By Eva J. Hoffman. This book is designed to help the passenger on the Zephyr understand and appreciate the passing sights outside the windows. The chapters are organized by station stops and the sights are noted by railroad mileposts and other landmarks, starting at Chicago, Illinois and ending in Denver, Colorado.
    130 pages, color photos, maps and index, spiral-bound, softcover. $8.95
  • GUIDEBOOK TO AMTRAK'S CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR: Denver to Salt Lake City
     By Eva J. Hoffman. This book is designed to help the passenger on the Zephyr understand and appreciate the passing sights outside the windows. The chapters are organized by station stops and the sights are noted by railroad mileposts and other landmarks, starting at Denver, Colorado and ending in Salt Lake City, Utah.
    118 pages, color photos, maps and index, spiral-bound, softcover. $7.95
  • GUIDEBOOK TO AMTRAK'S CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR: Salt Lake City to San Francisco
     By Eva J. Hoffman. This book is designed to help the passenger on the Zephyr understand and appreciate the passing sights outside the windows. The chapters are organized by station stops and the sights are noted by railroad mileposts and other landmarks, starting at Salt Lake City, Utah and ending in San Francisco, California.
    169 pages, color photos, maps and index, spiral-bound, softcover. $10.95
  • HAWAIIAN RAILWAY ALBUM WWII PHOTOGRAPHS BY VICTOR NORTON, JR.: Volume 2 - Along the Main Lines of the Oahu Railway & Land Co. and the Hawaii Consolidated Railway
    By Gale E. Treiber. This volume shows Norton's scenes taken along the Oahu Railway's main line, which extended some seventy miles from downtown Honolulu to Kakahu on Oahu's north shore. After leaving Honolulu, the line passed Pearl Harbor and continued to the junction at Waihapu, where OR&L's major branch line to the pineapple fields in the center of the island left the main line.
    72 pages, black and white photos and maps, softcover. $21.95
  • HAWAIIAN RAILWAY ALBUM WWII PHOTOGRAPHS BY WWII SERVICEMEN: Volume 3 - Plantation Railways on Oahu
    By Gale E. Treiber. This is a rare collection covering seven railway systems in Oahu during World War II. The vintage scenes in this book include steam locomotives, rolling stock, right-of-ways, engine facilities and much more. The railways featured in this volume are: Honolulu Plantation Co., Aiea; Oahu Sugar Co., Waipahu; Ewa Plantation Co., Ewa; Waianae Sugar Co., Waianae; Waialua Agricultural Co., Waialua; Kahuku Plantation Co., Kahuku; and the Waimanalo Sugar Co., Waimanalo.
    72 pages, 105 black and white photos, rosters and maps, softcover. $23.95
  • HAWAIIAN RAILWAY ALBUM WWII PHOTOGRAPHS BY BY VICTOR NORTON, JR.: Volume 4 - Plantation Railways on Kauai and the Remaining Islands
    By Gale E. Treiber. This volume features plantation railroads on Kauai, Maui and the Big Island of Hawaii, plus photos from Victor Norton's return home after the War. Photographs include the Port of Nawiliwili, Ahukini wharf, loading operations out in the field, cane flumes, sugar mills, rare diesels and lots of steam.
    64 pages, 73 black and white photos, 19 rosters, maps, softcover. $21.95
  • HENRY FORD: When I Ran the Railroads
    By Scott Trostel. This book is acclaimed as an extraordinary depiction of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad for the years 1920 to 1929. The reader is instantly drawn into a fascinating chronicle of one of the most interesting incidents in twentieth century American railroading. Detailed are Ford's application of his automotive style management on the railroad and the net effect. This book explores such topics as railroad electrification, labor relations, traffic relations and Ford's efforts to thrust the railroad into a position as a primary function of the automotive assembly line, years ahead of his time. Learn how Ford was challenged by competitive railroads and strangled by government regulations in a most unstable era in American transportation history.
    152 pages, black and white photos and illustrations, hardbound. $34.95
  • THE HIAWATHA STORY
    By Jim Scribbins. First there was a single experimental coach, then an entire fleet. Soon Hiawatha was a railway legend. Loved for their radically new, streamlined look, the Hiawatha's Art Deco engines were a hallmark of American industrial design - a genre of passenger cars from Tip Top Tap to Touralux to the glass-encased Skytop. For Midwestern passengers from Chicago to Aberdeen, the Hiawatha represented speed, comfort, and luxury, offering spectacular views of the rolling landscape. From 1935 to 1970 it carried countless passengers and even more memories.
    272 pages, 356 black and white photos, softcover. $29.95
  • HIGH LINE TO LEADVILLE: A Mile By Mile Guide for the Leadville, Colorado & Southern Railroad
    By Doris Osterwald. Gives a brief history of the line that has now become the Leadville, Colorado & Southern, the last remaining section of the old Denver, South Park & Pacific. Includes detailed maps of the line and a milepost by milepost guide with special attention to the history, geology, geography, flora and fauna of the line.
    160 pages, black and white and color photos, 6 x 9, softbound. $9.95
  • HISTORICAL INVENTORY OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD 1946
    By Intermountain Chapter NRHS. A list of agencies, stations, and equipment of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, January 1, 1946. This reprint lists just about everything the railroad owned, from locomotives to depots, to passenger cars, to interlocking plants.
    144 pages, a few black and white photos, spiral-bound, softcover. $12.95
  • HISTORY OF CLEAR CREEK COUNTY: Tailings, Tracks and Tommyknockers
    By Historical Society of Idaho Springs. This book is the story of the families who shaped Colorado's premier mining district. It tells about the county, communities, ghost towns, mining, logging, Public Service Company of Colorado, ranches, transportation, recreation, school history, churches, societies and lodges, family histories and more. This is general history at its best. 
    503 pages, black and white photos, softcover. $49.95
  • THE HORSESHOE CURVE: Sabotage and Subversion in the Railroad City
    By Dennis P. McIlnay. The Nazi plot to destroy the Horseshoe Curve - a mission that Hitler himself conceived - was one of the world's deadliest terrorist acts. Had the Nazis succeeded in demolishing the Horseshoe Curve, they could have crippled the American war machine and changed the course of history. Part spy story and part historical epic, this book seamlessly blends information from 300 sources, including diaries, biographies, military records, histories, engineering studies, court briefs, and FBI files.  
    455 pages, black and white photos, hardcover. $29.95
  • HOUSTON NORTH SHORE
    By Charles C. Robinson and Paul L. DeVerter II. Electricity, diesel and steam power: Texas' Houston North Shore Railway used them all to serve the oil refineries and communities lying east of Houston. The story of the nation's last totally new interurban railway and its diversified fleet is related in these pages. Also included are the unusual Twin Coach railbuses which handled passenger operations in later years.
    164 pages, black and white photos, hardcover. $35.00