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TANANA VALLEY RAILROAD: The Gold Dust Line
By Nicholas F. Deeley. In its heyday, the railroad ran 44.7 miles from Chena,
a small settlement on the north side of the Tanana River, to Fairbanks and
a slew of drift mining camps in the hills north of town. A gradual decline
followed until a trust company foreclosed on the line in 1917 and sold it
to the Alaska Engineering Commission. It became part of the Alaska Railroad
in 1923, and the last train ran to Chatankika seven years later. The author
includes many details about the railway's origin and construction.
172 pages, black and white photos, softbound. $50.00
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TEN TURTLES TO TUCUMCARI: A Personal History of
the Railway Express Agency
By Klink Garrett, with Toby Smith. From its founding in 1929, Railway Express
Agency dominated the transportation industry until the 1960s. In return for
a monopoly on passenger train service, the express company was obligated
to accept any and all shipments within the United States. Radioactive material
moved on regular schedules for the Atomic Energy Commission. When companies
or individuals wanted to ship something (even ten turtles) to any place in
the world (even Tucumcari, New Mexico), they called REA.
192 pages, 36 halftones, hardbound. $27.95
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TENNESSEE CENTRAL RAILWAY: History, Locomotives
and Cars
By Cliff Downey. A full history of this important 296-mile railroad
that ran from western Kentucky through Nashville to eastern Tennessee. It
had the best routing to and from the city of Nashville, and was an important
gateway route as well as connector. It was an important coal hauler as well,
and had the full range of passenger and freight services and facilities.
It fell on bad days after WWII and eventually its trackage was taken over
after 1968 and operated by the Southern, Louisville & Nashville, and
Illinois Central.
164 pages, over 200 photos and maps, hardbound. $30.95
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TEXAS & NEW ORLEANS COLOR PICTORIAL: Southern
Pacific Texas & Louisiana Lines 1944-1961
By Steve Allen Goen. This book takes an in-depth look at the trains and
operations of Southern Pacific subsidiary Texas & New Orleans. Featuring
photos of T&NO trains such as the Sunbeam, Hustler, Sunset
Limited, Owl, Argonaut and Border Limited, all prior
to the 1961 merger with the present company. Steam and diesel operating on
both passenger and freight trains are featured, as well as classic advertising
and chapters on T&NO depots, as well as the El Paso & Southwestern
of Texas.
128 pages, all color photos, hardbound. $59.95
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THOSE AMAZING RAILWAY PATENTS: Volume 1
By Scott D. Trostel. This book is about the inventive spirit that propelled
railroads to the forefront of the industrial revolution in the United States.
It was the need to solve everyday problems that caused a lot of ordinary
people to accept the challenges and find unique ways to overcome them, leading
to the invention of safer train couplers and the air brake. This book has
many drawings and history on many more items used by the railroad.
150 pages, black and white photos and illustrations, softbound.
$29.95
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THE THUNDER OF THEIR PASSING: A Tribute to the
Denver & Rio Grande and the Cumbres & Toltec Railroads
By Robert D. Turner. This beautifully-produced book presents an insightful
portrait of one of the last great steam railroads in North America. Included
are reminisces of those who knew the railroad as employees, travelers, and
residents. The meticulously researched text explores the history of the railroad,
its impact on the region, the circumstances and struggles that led to its
long life and eventual preservation, and the unique qualities that have endeared
it to so many people.
288 pages, over 500 color and black and white photos, illustrations and
reproductions, index, hardbound. $55.00
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TICKET TO TOLTEC: A Mile by Mile Guide to the
Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
By Doris Osterwald. A completely new edition of this popular guide to "America's
Longest and Highest Narrow Gauge Steam Railroad". More information and additional
modern and historic photographs make this a revised edition a must for those
who are interested in the C&TS and those who plan to ride the line.
127 pages, softbound. $10.95
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TOMBOY BRIDE: A Woman's Personal Account of Life
in Mining Camps of the West
By Harriet Fish Backus, with foreword by Pam Houston. Around the turn of
the twentieth century, Harriet Fish, at the age of twenty, hopped on a train
in Oakland and headed to Denver to begin a new life with her fiancé
George Backus. After the young couple was married, they excitedly began their
new lives together. Their first journey took them above the town of Telluride
near the Tomboy Mines at 11,880 feet, where they made their first home. The
author writes about her life as an assayer's wife and true pioneer of the
West with heartfelt emotion and vivid detail. Share her amusing and often
challenging experiences in the San Juan Mountains, on the coast of northern
British Columbia, in the heart of Idaho and in Leadville, Colorado, the city
in the clouds.
306 pages, some black and white photos, softbound. $16.95
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TOURIST TRAINS 2007
By Empire State Railway Museum. You can experience the adventure at tourist
railroads and railroad museums all across North America. Dedicated railfans
have preserved and restored railroad equipment so you can relive the days
when railroads were the fastest and best way to travel. In this book, you'll
find all the information needed to enjoy rail travel, including: steam engines
and diesels, railroads and trolley cars you can ride, and displays, including
model railroads you can visit. Nearly 500 attractions by state and Canadian
province. Operating schedules of the trains and directions to the sites.
277 pages, black and white photos, softbound.
$18.95
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TRACKSIDE ALONG THE B&O 1957-1958 WITH ED
GRIFFITH
By Walter Appel. Travel Chicago to New York City with a young B&O management
trainee, who camera in hand, recorded this great railroad when both steam
and early diesel ruled the mainline.
128 pages, all-color photos, hardcover. $54.95
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TRACKSIDE ALONG THE NEW HAVEN 1950-1956 WITH ARTHUR
E. MITCHELL
By Carl Byron. "Trackside" book 26 tours the New Haven in its Hunter Green
pre-McGinnis years after WWII. Photographer Art Mitchell shows us a little
steam and marine operations, and plenty of early diesels and heavy
electrification.
128 pages, all color photos, hardbound. $59.95
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TRACKSIDE AROUND CHICAGO 1957-1965 WITH
GEORGE SPEIR
By Ed DeRouin. Visit with the 38 railroads that served the Windy City 1957-1965
through the camera lens of George Speir. Almost exclusively first generation
diesel, but there's a little steam and traction too!
128 pages, all-color photos, hardcover. $54.95
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TRACKSIDE AROUND KANSAS
1950-1975 WITH LLOYD E. STAGNER
By Lloyd E. Stagner. The author's name is very familiar in the railroad
literary world, and his color photography and biographical data is shared
with us in this book. First and second generation diesel is captured on Santa
Fe, Rock Island, Union Pacific, and Missouri Pacific. There's also a little
on CGW, KCS, CB&Q, SLSF and MKT.
128 pages, all-color photos, hardbound. $59.95
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TRACKSIDE AROUND THE NIAGARA PENINSULA 1953-1976
WITH REG BUTTON
By Stephan M. Koenig. Reg Button was a very active photographer, capturing
day-to-day railroading and every unusual event in the spit of Ontario land
that extends toward Buffalo, New York. Of course, CNR, CPR and TH&B are
represented, along with C&O, Wabash/N&W, and NYC, but expect to see
visiting power from roads as diverse as UP, B&LE, IC and B&M.
128 pages, all color photos, hardbound. $59.95
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TRACKSIDE AROUND ONTARIO 1953-1960 WITH DON
McCARTNEY
By John Riddell. An eclectic look at Ontario railroading in the late 1950s,
including CP, CN, TH&B, ET, electric lines, equipment and railroad ferry
operations. Included in a rare 1940s look at Ontario Northland steam and
side trips to other provinces.
128 pages, all color photos, hardbound. $59.95
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TRACKSIDE AROUND ST. LOUIS 1952-1959 WITH JIM
OZMENT
By James Sandrin. A railroad hub second in importance only to Chicago is
examined during the 1950s, road by road. See A&S, B&O, C&EI,
C&NW, CB&Q, RI, NYC, GM&O, IC IT L&N, MKT, Frisco, PRR, MP,
Cotton Belt, TRRA, Southern and Wabash when their first generation diesels
gleamed in their newness. A little steam, too.
128 pages, all-color photos, hardbound. $54.95
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TRACKSIDE EAST OF THE HUDSON 1941-1952 WITH BILL
McCHESNEY
By Jeremy F. Plant, with Brian D. Plant. Bill McChesney is a hertofore never
recognized master color photographer whose color work has been hidden away
for over fifty years. Now you can witness New Haven steam still in its prime.
If you don't believe this is vintage material, wait until you see the 1941
views of the legendary NH Eastwind in all its yellow glory.
128 pages, all-color photos, hardcover. $49.95
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TRACKSIDE IN THE ALBANY, NY GATEWAY 1949-1974
WITH GARRIT BRUINS
By Jim Odell and Len Killan. This book takes you to Albany, New York, a busy
fulcrum of railroad activity during the period when steam was vanishing and
first generation diesels ruled the rails. Mostly NYC and D&H, but some
B&M and Rutland also. Circus trains, experimental paint schemes, unusual
movements: they're all here.
128 pages, all-color photos, hardcover. $49.95
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TRACKSIDE IN APPALACHIA
WITH GENE HUDDLESTON
By Gene Huddleston. The author relates his Appalachian roots and experiences
on the C&O, N&W, and other routes in the mountainous regions that
produced this country's coal. Many obscure shortlines.
128 pages, all-color photos, hardbound. $59.95
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TRACKSIDE IN SEARCH OF
NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND STEAM WITH JOHN T. MORRISON
By John R. Canfield. In the late 1940s, it was readily apparent that
steam was quickly being displaced by new diesels on the likes of B&M,
CV, MEC, Rutland, and BAR. John Morrison, George Dimond and several other
notable photographers began a systematic quest to record the vanishing breed
on color film, the results of which are shown in this book. There's early
diesel, too.
128 pages, all-color photos, hardbound. $59.95
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TRACKSIDE ON NEW YORK CENTRAL'S WESTERN DIVISION
1949-1955 WITH SANDY GOODRICK
By Jerry A. Pinkepank. The Korean War years on the NYC were a life-or-death
race with inflation and loss of business to competitors. An all-color tour
of the steam-diesel operations on the Western Division, this book is an excellent
look back at those turblent years on the Central.
128 pages, all color photos, hardbound. $59.95
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TRACKSIDE ON THE PENNSYLVANIA:
Volume 1 - Standard Plans of the Standard Railroad of the World, Structures,
Bridges, Signals and Signs
By Jeff Scherb. The CD version of this book features redrawn PRR standard
plans of trackside structures, bridges and culverts, signals, and signs.
Working from original drawings and photos, the author recreated these historical
drawings using CAD software so they could be compiled into a practical and
comprehensive format useful to both the PRR historian and modeler. CAD drawings
can be printed in any scale, and all text is fully searchable.
95 pages, PDF images on CD format. $16.95
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TRACKSIDE ON THE PENNSYLVANIA:
Volume 2 - Structures of the Standard Railroad of the
World
By Jeff Scherb. The CD version of this book features redrawn PRR standard
plans of trackside structures such as signal and switch buildings, passenger
stations, combination stations, yard and shop buildings and freight houses.
A "must own" for PRR enthusiasts and modelers, this book is also a great
resource for any modeler interested in scratchbuilding or detailing structures.
Working from original drawings and photos, the author recreated these historical
drawings using CAD software so they could be compiled into a practical and
comprehensive format useful to both the PRR historian and modeler. CAD drawings
can be printed in any scale, and all text is fully searchable.
95 pages, PDF images on CD format. $16.95
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TRACKSIDE ON THE PRR IN CENTRAL
PENNSYLVANIA
By Jeremy F. Plant. Many photographers featured in the Trackside series ventured
into the traditional heart of the PRR in the Fifties and Sixties to capture
steam and early diesel operations. The very best of their efforts are shown
canvassing an area roughly from Pottsville to Horseshoe Curve.
128 pages, all color photos, hardbound. $59.95
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TRACKSIDE ON THE PRR NORTH OF WASHINGTON, DC WITH
WAYNE SHERWIN
By Michael Murray and Robert J. Yanosey. First-hand recollections and photography
from an on-the-ground Pennsy employee during the 1950s and 60s. Brakeman
Wayne Sherwin took his camera along on his varied assignments between Potomac
Yard and the Meadows and Enola.
128 pages, all-color photos, hardbound. $54.95
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THE TRAIN STOPS HERE: New Mexico's Railway
Legacy
By Marci L. Riskin. To begin the examination, the author includes a brief
history of railroad development in New Mexico, a description of the
architectural features of the state's railroad buildings, and an overview
of how railroads work. This background will help answer questions that may
arise on a visit to the railyard: what is that strangely-shaped train
car carrying? How is that twisted piece of metal used? The bulk of the
book is an account of what is left of the state's railroad heritage,
organized geographically within each rail system; the Santa Fe system from
Raton to Silver City, the Denver & Rio Grande, the Colorado & Southern,
the Southern Pacific, and the El Paso & Northeastern, among others.
416 pages, 90 halftones, 16 maps, softbound. $24.95
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TRAIN TIME IN NEBRASKA:
The Post Card Era
By Michael M. Bartels and James J. Reisdorff. Jotting a message on a
penny postcard was an American tradition at the turn of the twentieth
century. A plain card was inadequate for many travelers, who wished to share
something of their journey or destination with the recipient. In addition
to carrying messages, picture postcards became an art form themselves, sought
by collectors then and now. Railroad depots became one of the most popular
images, as they were one of the first things an arriving traveler saw of
a town, and were otherwise busy portals for communities which depended
on the daily experience of 'train time' for essential transportation
services.
96 pages, over 100 historic black and white postcard images, horizontal format,
softbound. $24.95
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THE TRAIN OF
TOMORROW
By Ric Morgan. Completed in 1947, the Train of Tomorrow became a postwar
symbol of American know-how and promised a bright future for the railroads.
This book restores the Train of Tomorrow to its rightful place in history.
It includes photographs, drawings, and documents, as well as the diary kept
during its inaugural tour.
240 pages, 189 black and white photos, hardcover. $49.95
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TRAINS ACROSS THE CONTINENT
By Rudolph Daniels. With this new edition, Daniels adds to the wonderful
usefulness of the first edition by bringing us up to date on the recent
developments in North American railroading. He turns a discerning historian's
eye to previously unexplored topics, such as the problematic freight breakdown
in the merger of the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific, and he explores
such contemporary issues as the implications of NAFTA for North American
railroads, the breakup of Conrail, and the electrification of the Northeast
corridor.
257 pages, 176 black and white photos, 11 line illustrations, 7 maps, index,
hardbound. $45.00
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TRAINS TO YOSEMITE
By Jack A. Burgess. A complete history of the remarkable Yosemite Valley
Railroad, including passenger and freight operations.
372 pages, 416 black and white photos, 45 maps and drawings, hardbound.
$65.00
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TRAVEL BY TRAIN: The American Railroad Poster
1870-1950
By Michael E. Zega and John E. Gruber. This book focuses on the artists,
railroad men, and advertising agencies that created and produced the work.
It presents the work in the context of the historical trends and competeitive
strategies that shaped the development of the railroad industy. It also follows
the development of the advertising business and graphic design in the United
States and Europe.
156 pages, index, 55 black and white and 110 color photos, hardbound.
$49.95
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TRAVELING THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD: The Photographs
of William H. Rau
By John C. Van Horne and Eileen E. Drelick. In the 1890s, Philadelphia's
preeminent commercial photographer, William H. Rau, was commissioned to take
more than 450 photographs along the routes of the Pennsylvania Railroad in
order to promote leisure travel to the general public. The remarkably detailed
and texturally-rich prints display a harmony between the railroad and the
natural and industrial landscapes through which the lines passed.
272 pages, 107 tritone illustrations and 5 maps, hardbound. $49.95
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TRIUMPH III: Philadelphia Terminal 1838-2000
By David W, Messer and edited by Charles S. Roberts. Now the third volume
in the epic "Triumph" history series of PRR, presenting the complex and
fascination subject of Philadelphia Terminal with unprecedented thoroughness
and clarity, including comprehensive studies of the Stations, the Main Line,
Schuylkill Division, dramatic Junction Railroad battles, collapse of Penn
Central, the Rise and Fall of The PRR as well as the myriad other lines and
wars endemic to PRR's home citadel… a Philadelphia Story in railroad
history.
400 pages, 644 maps, illustrations, black and white photographs, 76 in color,
hardbound. $75.00
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TRIUMPH IV: Harrisburg to Altoona 1846-2001
By David W. Messer and edited by Charles S. Roberts. Now the storied Middle
Division, the fourth volume in our monumental "Triumph" history series of
PRR. The serpentine Middle Division from Marysville west to Altoona and
Hollidaysburg, a tribute to Edgar Thomson's genius, was often improved but
never replaced. This 155-year saga includes the full history of the fabled
Altoona shops and yards, Thomson's seminal 1848 and the Ghost railroads that
never made the cut.
400 pages, 565 maps, illustrations , black and white photographs, 65 in color,
hardcover. $65.00
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TRIUMPH VI: Philadelphia, Columbia, Harrisburg
to Baltimore and Washington DC 1827-2003
By David W. Messer and Charles S. Roberts. The titanic struggle for the Ohio
River and Maryland that kindled the creation of a vast superpower. The first
"war between the states" encompassed Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania
as B&O and PRR battled for supremacy in the dramatic high adventure story
complete with giants, geniuses, knaves and blunderers. PRR won by acquiring
fabled railroads like PW&B, NC, B&P and a host of others, tumbling
B&O from first to third place in the great trunkline conflict. Yet, after
150 years, PRR's crown has grown thorns.
399 pages, 685 black and white illustrations, maps, and photos, 28 in color,
hardbound. $75.00
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TRIUMPH VII: Harrisburg to the Lakes, Wilkes-Barre,
Oil City and Red Bank
By Charles S. Roberts. Surrounded by a plethora of competing railroads, canals
and waterways, PRR's skill, boldness and daring led to dominance in this
critical area of central Pennsylvania. Ultimately acquiring Northern Central,
Philadelphia & Erie and WNY&PA, PRR created the nation's premier
trunkline railroad. The catharsis of change over 177 years has sadly reduced
the Northern Region to shadows, but the glorious past shines in these pages.
400 pages, black and white and color photos and illustrations, over 600 maps,
hardbound. $75.00
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TRIUMPH VIII: Pittsburgh
- Eye of Two Storms, 1749-2006
By Charles S. Roberts. The first truly World War began in 1749 and was
actually triggered by we feisty Americans in a bid for control of the Upper
Ohio River Valley. The Great Railroad War, in the event a struggle between
B&O and PRR for dominance of the same valley, began in 1827. Pittsburgh
became the focus of these two conflicts. This book tells the dramatic adventure
story of these history-changing events.
400 pages, 557 photos, maps and illustrations, 13 in color, hardbound.
$80.00
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TROUBLE WITH GOLD: A Promising Treasure From Cripple
Creek
By Jim Davis. This historical western fiction book starts on November 24,
1914 in Cripple Creek, Colorado. A room-sized caved, encrusted with gold,
is discovered in the Cresson mine. A more wondrous sight than any fable could
conceive of, the gold stimulates the imagination and greed of the mine boss,
a notorious district highgrader, and two former outlaws from Butch Cassidy's
Wild Bunch. Aided by the conspiracy of the highgrader, the outlaws hold up
a train and get away with the gold skimmed off by a crooked mine boss. The
outlaws have quite different dreams for their shares of the loot. The trouble
is, the gold seems to have a destiny of its own.
237 pages, softbound. $14.99
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TURBINES WESTWARD
By Thomas R. Lee. For almost twenty years, the Union Pacific Railroad operated
a fleet of gas turbine electric locomotives in their motive power stable.
This is the story of that unique chapter in railroad history.
184 pages, softbound. $32.00
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TWILIGHT OF THE MONONGAHELA
By Harry Stegmaier and Jim Mullison. A detailed study of the history and
operation of this notable mine-serving railroad. All utility trains of the
CSX, P&LE, Conrail, Detroit Edison and more are covered. All types of
motive power past and present are on views, as well as a complete emplyoee
roster. The foreword is by the last president of the railroad, Paul
Reistrup.
88 pages, over 130 color photos, maps and track diagrams, album format,
softbound. $32.95
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TWIN CITIES BY TROLLEY:
The Streetcar Era in Minneapolis and St. Paul
By John W. Diers and Aaron Isaacs. At its peak in the 1920s and early 1930s,
the Twin City Rapid Transit Company (TCRT) operated over 900 streetcars,
owned 523 miles of track, and carried more than 200 million passengers annually.
This book offers a rolling snapshot of Minneapolis and St. Paul from the
1880s to the 1950s, when the streetcar system shaped the growth and character
of the entire metropolitan area. Follow the tracks from Stillwater to University
Avenue to Lake Minnetonka, through Uptown to downtown Minneapolis.
368 pages, 422 black and white photos, 70 maps, hardcover. $39.95
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TWO FEET TO TOGUS: The Kennebec Central Railroad
By Robert C. Jones. This book tell the story of the shortest of Maine's
two-foot-gauge railways. Only five miles long, the Kennebec Central existed
for one reason only - to transport passengers and goods to and from the huge
home for veterans at Togus, Maine. This book contains everything a modeler
needs to reconstruct the entire railroad from Randolph to Togus.
198 pages, more than 100 period photographs, hardcover. $39.95
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