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Century of Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives, A by Guy L Dunscomb Damaged
A Century of Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives by Guy L Dunscomb
Hard Cover with dust jacket. (has damage) BOOK had damage back cover. Contents are okay.
Copyright 1963, SECOND EDITION 496 pages
CONTENTS
PREFACEPage
The Southern Pacific Company5
The Steam Locomotives10
SECTION 1 - STEAM LOCOMOTIVE PHOTOGRAPHS
American(4-4-0)19
Switcher(0-6-0)77
Switcher(0-8-0)91
Mogul(2-6-0)95
Prairie(2-6-2)115
Ten Wheel(4-6-0)121
Pacific(4-6-2)163
Consolidation(2-8-0)181
Twelve Wheel(4-8-0)205
El Gobernador(4-10-0)225
Atlantic(4-4-2)227
Mikado(2-8-2)243
Berkshire(2-8-4)253
Santa Fe(2-10-2)257
Decapod(2-10-0)263
Articulateds(Various)265
Mountain(4-8-2)289
General Service(4-8-4)301
Southern Pacific(4-10-2)319
Miscellaneous(Various)323
Narrow Gauge(Various)349
SECTION 2 - CORPORATE HISTORY
General363
Pacific Lines364
Texas and Louisiana Lines422
SECTION 3 - MISCELLANEOUS
Electric Cars434
McKeen Cars443
Gas Electric Cars446
Miscellaneous Pictures448
Supplemental Locomotive Photos463
Historical Dates477
List of Companies491
Last Minute Developments494
Personal Remarks495
Finis496
800 illustrations, 2 color plates, 18 division maps.
The historic Southern Pacific, the road whose rails extend from the Pacific Ocean to the Great Salt Lake, and from the forests of Oregon to the Mississippi has operated or controlled over 16,000 miles of railroad. It operated in eight states and the Republic of Mexico; it had the longest north-south route of any railroad on the North American continent; it operated nearly a thousand miles of electric lines, and over a thousand miles of narrow gauge lines, San Francisco Bay and Mississippi River ferry boats, Sacramento and Colorado River steamers, and oceangoing steamships, and now operates, in addition to its rail properties, fourteen hundred miles of pipe lines and twenty-five thousand miles of truck lines.
It was in February, 1863, that active construction started at Sacramento on the SP's parent Central Pacific, and was carried on under the management of the famed "Big Four," Huntington, Hopkins, Crocker, and Stanford, until a connection was made with the Union Pacific at Promontory, Utah, in May, 1869. Since that date nearly three hundred railroad organizations have been consolidated to form what is known today as the Southern Pacific Company, and over four thousand steam locomotives have appeared on the scene, and have now forever departed.
It is of these locomotives and companies that this book is written, for of all that has previously appeared in print, nothing has presented the pictorial coverage of the steam locomotives that is found here, nor has there ever before been a systematic listing of all the companies, well-known and obscure, that took their place in the forming of the west's largest transportation system. Included as a supplement to the book is a set of eighteen maps covering the SP empire when it was at its greatest, and by the use of these maps and the text in the book, the reader may trace the development of practically every mile of railroad now or previously under Southern Pacific.' control.
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