Northern Pacific Diesel Era 1945-1970
The Northern Pacific entered the diesel era with a large fleet of modern, well-maintained steam locomotives....
more infoNorthern Pacific Supersteam Era 1925-1945
Main Street of the Northwest — a proud slogan for one of America’s most important transcontinental...
more infoPiggyback and Containers
Piggyback and Containers: A History of Rail Intermodal on America’s Steel Highway by David J. DeBoer...
more infoUlster and Delaware
The Catskill Mountains, located on the west side of the Hudson River in New York State, had long been a barrier to...
more infoElectric Railways Around San Francisco Bay Volume 2
Electric Railways Around San Francisco Bay Volume 2 presents a historical and pictorial survey of the electric...
more infoElectric Railways Around San Francisco Bay Volume 1
Electric Railways Around San Francisco Bay Volume 1 by Donald Duke presents a historical and pictorial survey of...
more infoIncline Railways of Los Angeles and Southern California
Webster’s Third International Dictionary defines an incline railway as one built on a slope in which cars...
more infoDinner Is Served
For those fortunate enough to have traveled on America’s great passenger trains, no part of such an...
more infoThe Railroad Caboose
Nearly everyone is familiar with the railroad caboose. Formally, it’s the punctuation mark that concludes...
more infoSanta Fe Volume 2
For over a century, the Santa Fe operated many first-class transcontinental passenger trains between Chicago, the...
more infoSanta Fe Volume 1
The name “Santa Fe” began with the early history of the Southwest, grew with the flow of commerce that...
more infoRailroad Photography Robert O. Hale
The railroad and steam locomotive has excited generations ever since the steel wheel rolled on the steel rail. To...
more infoRDC The Budd Rail Diesel Car
The self-propelled rail motor car was nearly extinct by the time the Budd Company’s Red Lion plant near...
more infoDonner Pass
The Southern Pacific tamed the great American deserts and crossed more mountain summits than any other railroad in...
more infoMount Lowe
Southern California’s Mount Lowe Railway, for nearly 40 years, lived up to its title “The Most Scenic...
more infoThe Beauty of Railroad Bridges
The story of the railroad bridge in North America is also a part of the history of the development of the railroad...
more infoWest Coast Interurbans
The Golden State of California was once a beehive of interurban electric railways, and the interurban played a...
more infoUnion Pacific in Southern California
Life for The Union Pacific in Southern California began with the franchise of the Los Angeles Terminal Railroad in...
more infoGrand Central
This richly illustrated work traces the colorful story of the present Grand Central Terminal constructed in 1913....
more infoBeaumont Hill
Mountain railroading in Southern California has always been synonymous with names like Tehachapi, Cajon Pass and...
more infoPacific Electric Railway Volume 4 Western District
Henry Huntington’s impact on the public transportation system of Southern California was far reaching. His...
more infoPacific Electric Railway Volume 3 Southern District
People rode the “Red Cars” in great numbers. It was faster than a horse and buggy, or a bicycle, or...
more infoPacific Electric Railway Volume 2 Eastern District
In 1901, Southern California was so vast and its population so dispersed, that Henry Huntington believed the only...
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