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America's Rail Pictorial by Russ Porter with Dust jacket
Americas Rail Pictorial By Russ Porter
Hard cover with Dust jacket
Copyright 1997 FIRST EDITION
151 Pages Approx 10 X 11 inches 340 color illustrations
Table of Contents:
Foreword4
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe6
Baltimore & Ohio10
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy13
Chicago & Eastern Illinois26
Chesapeake & Ohio27
Chicago Short Line31
Chicago Great Western32
Canadian National34
Canadian Pacific38
Chicago & Western Indiana42
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range43
Duluth & Northeastern48
Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific52
Elgin, Joliet & Eastern54
Erie-Lackawanna57
Green Bay & Western61
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio67
Great Northern71
Grand Trunk Western76
Greater Winnipeg Water District Railway82
Illinois Central83
Lake Superior & Ishpeming88
Manufacturers Railway of St. Louis92
Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern93
Monon95
Nickel Plate Road96
New York Central100
Norfolk & Western104
Northern Pacific106
Northwestern Steel & Wire115
Pennsylvania116
Rock Island124
Soo Line132
Terminal Railroad Association143
Toledo, Peoria & Western144
Union Pacific146
Wabash150
Looking back on railroading in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, there was a dramatic move to upgrade rail property and equipment. This caused great change in railroading, and change is what is reflected in this colorful book.
From big blue and white Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern 2,000 hp Baldwins shown in 1948, to a husky Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 4-6-4 near Rock Island, Illinois in 1958, to U25Bs hauling freight on the Erie-Lackawanna near Griffith, Indiana in 1968, this book is a tribute to America's rails, and an overview of the streamlining railroads have accomplished in this period.
Author Porter takes you on a picturesque ride where you capture steam and diesel locomotives, freight and passenger trains, as well as gas-electrics, RDCs and oddities such as Whitcomb 44-tonners. For more than half a century, Russ has followed America's railroads, capturing their moods and their tracks, and now brings you a sampling of what he found.
From the small Chicago & Western Indiana and the Terminal Railroad Association to the main line roads such as the Pennsylvania, Northern Pacific and Santa Fe, America's Rail Pictorial offers up the flavor of each line during different decades. And if you enjoy the really unusual, the Greater Winnipeg Water District Railroad should be of interest.
Russ started taking photographs of trains in the 1930s, and once the bug bit, there was no stopping him. He has seen the whole spectrum of railroading, and now invites you to take a front row seat and relax as the camera takes you on a guided tour of railroads in America. As the slogan used to say, "Nothing could be finer."
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