Model Trains

Features: 113 miles of busy double track linking North and South symbolize the RF&P. Operations during the steam and diesel years as well as a chapter on equipment are illustrated in full color.
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Features: In August 1972, Chessie System burst on to the railroad scene in the eastern US with the daring paint scheme of yellow, blue and black freight cars emblazoned with a stylized cat logo. More than 300 color photos of Chessie's freight cars.
...more about the Morning Sun Books Inc Book -- Chessie System Color Guide to Freight Equipment

Features: From 1948 and into the 1950s, Lloyd Hall was shooting the LV, Erie, DL&W, and PRR around his neighborhood in the northern Pennsylvania - southern New York towns of Sayre and Towanda, PA and Waverly, NY. Some of the best LV steam, FT and PA color ever seen.
...more about the Morning Sun Books Inc Book -- Trackside Around Sayre-Towanda-Waverly w/Lloyd Hall

Features: Jim Boyd's motive power examination of the Espee continues in the 1960s as the road introduces second generation power and a new paint scheme.
...more about the Morning Sun Books Inc Book -- Southern Pacific in Color Volume 3- Classic Scarlet

Features: The steam and diesel operations of the DL&W are examined in more than 240 vintage color photographs.
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Features: 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 photographed by Sandy Goodrick and narrated by Jerry Pinkepank, this book is an excellent look back at those turbulent years on the Central.
...more about the Morning Sun Books Inc Book -- Trackside on New York Central's Western Division 1949-1955

Features: The varied freight rosters of the St.Louis - San Francisco Railway (Frisco) and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (Katy) are reviewed in full color in more than 300 photographs. There's even a handful of passenger cars used jointly by these fallen flags.
...more about the Morning Sun Books Inc Book -- Frisco/Katy Color Guide to Freight Equipment

Features: Volume 2 of this look at George Washington's Road takes a comprehensive look at the lines of the former Pere Marquete Railway before and after the C&O merger. Steam and diesel abound between Detroit and Chicago as well as the spider web of lines throughout the state of Michigan and the southern region of Ontario.
...more about the Morning Sun Books Inc Book -- Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in Color Volume 2

Features: Passenger and freight train operations are examined system wide on the KCS by former Railfan and Railroad Magazine editor Jim Boyd. Photography concentrates on the first and early second generations of diesels.
...more about the Morning Sun Books Inc Book -- Kansas City Southern in Color

Features: The fabled Rutland story is relived in full color in this new 128-page book. Lots of steam, RS1s, RS-3s and equipment are to be seen as the system is examined in detail from end-to-end.
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Features: * A fond look back at the "traditional" shortlines extant in Pennsylvania during the 1950s. This first of two volumes includes. * Aliquippa & Southern Railroad Allegheny & South Side Railway Bellefonte Central Railroad Cambria & Indiana Railroad Chestnut Ridge Railway Cheswick & Harmar Railroad Conemaugh & Black Lick Railroad Cornwall Railroad Coudersport & Port Allegany Railroad Donora Southern Railroad East Broad Top Railroad East Erie Commercial Railroad Everett Railroad Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain RR Ironton Railroad Johnstown & Stony Creek Railroad Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley RR Lake Erie, Franklin & Clarion RR Ligonier Valley Rail Road Maryland & Pennsy
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Features: The transition from steam to complete dieselization is illustrated in full color in this new hardcover book. From doodlebugs to SD24s, more than 250 vintage views tell the story of UP's revamp of its motive power.
...more about the Morning Sun Books Inc Book -- Union Pacific Diesels in Color Volume 1-1934-1959

Features: GTW was an interesting blend of Canadian and US railway practices. It had hotshot freights that serviced a burgeoning automobile traffic in the Detroit area while also operating a top-notch Chicago to Toronto mainline passenger operation.
...more about the Morning Sun Books Inc Book -- Grand Trunk Western in Color Volume 1-Steam & Green 1941-1961

Features: Follow the struggle of the New Haven out on the road during the 1950s as it makes a valiant effort to modernize its operations while enduring onerous financial burdens and dubious management.
...more about the Morning Sun Books Inc Book -- New Haven in Color Vol 1-The Battle for Profits 1945-1961

Features: During the decade of World War II, some pioneering color photographers were out shooting film on the last of Pennsylvania's traction: Phila Transp, Mkt St Elevated, Fairmont Park, Red Arrow, P&W, LVT, Scranton Tran, L&WV, W-B Ry, Conestoga, Hershey, A&LV, Jonstown Trac, West Penn and PGH Railways.
...more about the Morning Sun Books Inc Book -- Pennsylvania Trolleys in Color Volume IV-The 1940's

Features: Jim Boyd's Southern Pacific epic continues during the 1970s as the railroad enters a troubled period. The best SP color photography ever published!
...more about the Morning Sun Books Inc Book -- Southern Pacific in Color Volume 4- The Tunnel Motor Era

Features: An electric look at Ontario railroading in the late 1950s including CP, CN, TH&B, ET, eclectic lines, equipment and railroad ferry operations. Included is a rare 1940s look at Ontario Northland steam and sidetrips to other provinces.
...more about the Morning Sun Books Inc Book -- Trackside Around Ontario 1955-1960 with Don McCartney

Features: The "Old Reliable" is examined in more than 250 color photographs of steam and first and second generation diesels. "Big Emmas" and big Alcos, they're all here in this new hardcover book.
...more about the Morning Sun Books Inc Book -- Louisville & Nashville in Color Volume 1

Features: Follow the Wabash as its eclectic diesel fleet highballs hotshot auto traffic and fabled passenger trains. Our book celebrates the color work of fabled photographer Emery Gulash and continues as the N&W extends its paint and influence after the 1964 merger.
...more about the Morning Sun Books Inc Book -- Wabash Trackside with Emery Gulash 1954-1974

Features: Details the evolution of the legendary Clinchfield, detailing steam engines, cab units and second-generation power as they travel through heavy mountain terrain.
...more about the Morning Sun Books Inc Book -- Clinchfield in Color

Features: Tour Boston in its traction heyday 1940-1980 on the Cambridge, Lechmere, Watertown, Somerville, North Station, Revere, Braves Field and Reservoir/Cleveland Circle routes.
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