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Features: "Trackside Around Youngstown 1962-1982" is a railroad-by-railroad tour of railroads serving this steel making center in northeastern Ohio. Many mainline and shortline roads served the steel mills and related industries along the Ohio River during these years including the EL, P&LE, PC, CR, B&O and others, including switching roads owned by the mills. Photographer and railfan Dave McKay captured the action on film and author Stephen Timko has brought it all together with informative captions and text.
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Features: "Canadian Railways Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment Volume 1: Ontario and East, Regionals and Short Lines" is a colorful look at the equipment owned and operated by Canada's eastern lines other than giants CP and CN. Included are Quebec Central; Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo; Quebec, North Shore & Labrador; Essex Terminal and others including private owner equipment. This book is a must for any modeler or fan of Canadian railroading.
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Features: An all-color look at stations, towers, shops and more, plus the road's branches west of Meadville, PA., on the Erie's west end in the days before the 1976 Conrail merger.
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Features: Photographically covers the fall of the LV through photos from its Annual Reports. Over 250 color images from just after W.W.II to the 1976 Conrail merger give modelers and fans a look at the colorful LV.
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Features: A unique look at North American railroading and life along both mainsteam roads like CP, DL&W and NYC as well as shortlines right after WWII.
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Features: Follow the Wabash as its eclectic diesel fleet highballs hotshot auto traffic and fabled passenger trains. This volume features the color work of the fabled photographer Emery Gulash and continues into the years after the 1964 N&W merger.
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Features: The Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis is a busy switching road that once serviced St. Louis Union Station and connects the numerous yards and induustrial trackage in the area. Many trunk lines (PRR, NYC, MP, MKT, Wabash, etc.) used the TRRA's facilities making for some colorful railroading. The material in this book dates back to the 1950s.
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Features: This all-color book looks at the popular railroad controlled by BN predecessors GN and NP. A chronological look at the road's motive power development, the images take the reader right up to, but not including, the BN merger. It's a must-have for Alco and Pacific Northwest railroading fans.
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Features: Norfolk & Western Steam In Color is a systemwide look at steam that illustrates why it lasted so late on the railroad. Includes action and terminal scenes along with informative captions by noted railroad authors William McClure and Jeremy Plant.
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Features: Trackside Around Montreal 1955 - 1979 is a great look at the final days of steam and the classic diesel era along CP and CN lines around Montreal. Images of classic trains through the lens of Peel Steven Sr. are accompanied by his informative captions.
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Features: The late 1940s-50s tour of the visits the Lackawanna, B&O, Reading, CNJ, EBT, VGN, C&O, PRR, N&W when steam ruled and early diesels were just arriving from the builders.
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Features: A year-by-year chronology of the B&M from just after World War II through the troubled McGinnis years, bankruptcy and eventually Guildford.
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Features: "Trackside with Mr. Alco" features the photos and anecdotes of railfan and former American Locomotive Co. employee George W. Hockaday. He loved the locos his employer constructed and photograped them in the plant and out on the various railroads that bought them. It's a must-have for Alco fans and modelers across the continent.
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Features: "Wabash/Nickel Plate/DT&I Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment" features large color images that make great references for model building. These roads all served the industrial midwest and operated colorful cars serving large customers, so there was plenty of equipment mixing. The book also has photos of affiliated carriers Ann Arbor, ART, M&LS and NJI&I.
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Features: Chicago, South Shore & South Bend in Color: Volume 2 is a great reference for anyone interested in the busy Chicago and northern Indiana area. Volume 2 is a look at the colorful interurban line from the late 1940s onward through the images of noted traction photographer Sandy Goodrick.
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Features: Erie Lackawanna Through Passenger Service In Color: Volume 2 1965-1970 is a look at the last years of EL passenger train operations including the Phoebe Snow, the Lake Cities and several lesser-known trains.
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Features: New England was home to many colorful, but obscure, shortlines. In the years before Conrail, these diminutive pikes operated varied motive power through bucolic settings making them perfect modeling subjects.
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Features: Follow the Pennsy with noted railfan photographer John Dziobko, Jr. as he methodically covers lines stretching from New York to Columbus, Ohio. With many images taken between 1951 and 1961, you'll see steam, diesel and electric action on "The Standard Railroad of the World.".
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Features: The images of this colorful New England railroad give a glimpse of the trains, stations and surroundings reaching back as far as 1941. Noted area railroad expert George Melvin lends his expertise to this all-color book.
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Features: Noted rail author Jim Boyd brings together the three volume set covering the colorful Bulington Northern system in its transition years. This volume covers the "green" years leading up to the BNSF merger.
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Features: Pre-1950s color railroad photography in the Deep South is exceptionally rare and this book contains a lot of it!
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Features: Detailed captions along with rare color photography of the early Milwaukee electric operations make this a must have book.
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Features: Stations, towers, yards, shops all put in context with trains and operations on the eastern end of the LV.
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Features: This fascinating all-color book takes readers out of the suburban zone and into the New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania for a colorful look at DL&W stations, servicing facilities and more.
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Features: This handy volume is a great reference to regional railroads and shortlines in western Canada. A few roads covered include BC Rail, government hoppers, Northern Alberta Railways and more--but no CP or CN!
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Features: This all-color book takes us on a journey up the mighty Mississippi River into St. Louis, Chicago, the Twin Cities and elsewhere in the transition era.
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