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Model Trains → Books and Misc. → Books - Historical
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Features: * Railroad Color Histories are authoritative texts with dozens of images depicting engines, rolling stock, memorabilia, and promotional materials. Each is softcover with 128 pages, 80 color and 40 B&W photos, and measures 8-1/4 x 10-5/8". * This retrospective spans the B&Os entire history from 1828 to its absorption by CSX. Features modern and period color photography as well as detailed information about company history, trains, passenger cars, and rolling stock. Softcover, 128 pages, 80 color and 40 B&W photos, 8-1/4 x 10-5/8".
...more about the Motorbooks International Book - Motorbooks Railroad Color Histories -- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
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Features: Mike Schafer. This book features the histories, locomotives, rolling stock, and memorabilia of railroads like the Delaware & Hudson; Erie Lackawanna; Gulf, Mobile & Ohio; Lehigh Valley; New York, Chicago & St. Louis; Missouri Pacific; Southern Railway; Wabash; and others. Hardcover, 160 pages, 150 color and 50 B&W photos, 10 x 10".
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- More Classic American Railroads, 156 pages, Hardcover
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Features: Mike Schafer and Joe Welsh. This sprawling photographic history rambles through two centuries of passenger trains, presenting a wealth of archival imagery and modern and period color photographs. The variety of railroads and regions featured is staggering. Hardcover, 168 pages, 150 color and 50 B&W photos, 10 x 10".
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- The American Passenger Train
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Features: Patrick C. Dorin, TLC. Covers the Lake Superior & Ishpeming, Chicago & Northwestern/Union Pacific, Milwaukee Road, Soo Line, DSS&A, Canadian Pacific, Canadian National, Escanaba & Lake Superior, Wisconsin Central and Algoma Central. Hardcover, 8-1/2 x 11", 112 pages, 175 B&W photos.
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- Michigan-Ontario Iron Ore Railroads
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Features: Dorin, TLC. This volume overviews Missouri Pacific passenger trains in the years beginning with the first streamlined trains and ending with the arrival of Amtrak in May, 1971. It looks at operations and equipment of these trains and includes over 100 black-and-white and color photos, plus car diagrams, drawings, maps, reproduced timetables and advertising materials. Hardcover, 8-1/2 x 11", 128 pages, 175 B&W photos.
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- Missouri Pacific Passenger Trains- The Postwar Years
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Features: A beautiful tribute to all the great trains of yesteryear. Streamliners centers on various aspects of the trains such as their development, rolling stock, moitve power, interior design and operations. Photographs zero in on the lounges, dining-car china, sleeping-car cabins, and so forth. A softcover reprint of Classic American Streamliners. 10 x 10", 160 pages, 150 color and 80 B&W photos.
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- Streamliners,History of a Railroad Icon
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