{"product_id":"grand-trunk-western-railroad-an-illustrated-history-by-i-e-quastler-hard-cover","title":"Grand Trunk Western Railroad an Illustrated History by I E Quastler Hard Cover","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003c!-- HTML Generated by Auction Wizard 2000 - http:\/\/www.AuctionWizard2000.com\/ --\u003e\n\n\n   \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n   \u003cmeta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\"\u003e\n\n\n\u003c!-- AW2KLOT#:199361 --\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:98%;padding:2px;margin:auto;border:5px outset #673434;background-color:#FDF3D0\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"border:1px inset #673434;margin:5px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border:0px;padding:5px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"padding:5px\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eRailroadTreasures\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eoffers the following item:\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\";padding:5px\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eGrand Trunk Western Railroad an Illustrated History by I E Quastler Hard Cover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eGrand Trunk Western Railroad an Illustrated History by I E Quastler \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eHard Cover \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eCopyright 2009 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e256 Pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eContents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eIntroduction and Acknowledgments9\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e1. The Detroit, Grand Haven \u0026amp; Milwaukee Railway: From the Beginnings Until 1917          15 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e2. Port Huron to Detroit, 1858-1917 45\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e3. Michigan Air Line55\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e4. Main Line: Port Huron to Chicago to 191767\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e5. Pontiac, Oxford \u0026amp; Northern 105\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e6. The Toledo, Saginaw \u0026amp; Mackinaw Railroad123\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e7. The Toledo, Saginaw \u0026amp; Muskegon Railroad131\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e8. From the USRA Years to 1970  147\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eColor Section\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e9. The Grand Trunk Corporation Years to 1995197\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eGM-1947 Locomotive Roster233\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eGTW-CN North America Diesel Roster 1994-1995234\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eEndnotes235\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eBibliography        247\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eIndex249\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eAppendix253\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eAbout the Author256\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eWhat a magnificent corporate moniker, Grand Trunk Western Railroad! Many people I knew just called it the Grand Trunk, but that always seemed incomplete to me, almost sacrilegious. After all, it was the \"Western\" that added elegance to an already impressive name from Canada. It was also (along with \"Railroad\") what made it sound more American, for dozens of railroad names in the United States ended with that word, reflecting the general national development from east to west. In retrospect, I believe it was largely the chance factor of living in Grand Trunk Western territory during my formative years, plus that magnificent name, that made me a GTW enthusiast for life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eDuring my first 12 years, my family moved often, but in 1953 we settled in suburban Detroit. I remained there throughout my high school years and until graduation from Wayne State University in 1962. It was during these years that I had my first close and sustained contacts with American railroads. In particular, between 1955 and 1962 I got well acquainted with Grand Trunk Western, and, to a lesser degree, with some of the other railroads in the area (including Canadian National and Canadian Pacific). In 1962 I left the Detroit area, first to earn a Master's degree at Northwestern University, then to the University of Kansas for my Ph.D. In 1967, I got my first academic appointment at San Diego State University, and that job and environs were so satisfying that I stayed there until retirement in 2002.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eI like to think that my strong interest in railroads came \"naturally,\" as no parent, other relative, or friend encouraged me in that direction. Admittedly, I was born virtually next to a railroad track in 1940, in Tokyo, Japan (of European parents), but I'm not convinced that started my fascination. Going to grade school in postwar Japan, my sister and I rode to school on an electric suburban railway, but that couldn't have been a great influence, as I've never had a special interest in such lines. During GTW days, it was the steam engine that was at the crux of my interests, a focus that later expanded to most aspects of railroading.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eWhile moving to the United States in 1951, my family took a train from Portland, Oregon to Oakland, California. My earliest recollection of seeing a steam engine is of looking forward through a window of our coach as we left Portland Union Station and seeing a Southern Pacific Mountain-type locomotive (as I later deduced) pulling our train. My earliest vivid encounter with steam occurred when, drawn to the fence by a distant whistle, I watched a New York Central Mohawk pulling a northbound freight train at speed past Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, probably in late 1954. The engine was about a quarter mile away, and she made a dramatic sight, drivers churning -- I was greatly impressed. By then I knew enough about steam to realize that she was a 4-8-2. That was the only live NYC steam I ever saw.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eMy awareness of wheel arrangements, and my rapidly growing interest in railroads in general, can be credited largely to Trains magazine and its articulate (at times even poetic) editor, David P. Morgan. One day in downtown Detroit, probably in mid-1954, I saw Trains for sale. I asked my father to buy it for me, and what I saw and read was fascinating. In late 1955 I used money earned on a paper route for a subscription to Trains, and in 1961 I bought a lifetime subscription for $100. I've been reading it for over half a century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eHow did I start to become acquainted with Grand Trunk Western? On certain warm summer nights in the mid-1950s, while drifting off to sleep in suburban Oak Park, I could hear the whistles of steam engines as they encountered a succession of grade crossings a few miles away in Ferndale, Pleasant Ridge, and Royal Oak. I wanted to investigate the source of those melodious sounds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eBy late 1955, when I was about to turn 15, it occurred to me that the trains I heard were close enough (a bit over two miles) that I could bicycle there. On one fateful day, a friend and I rode to the tracks in Ferndale, where we waited and waited (was it a weekend?) without any action. I had my simple 35 mm. camera along, and to pass the time, we drifted northward along the tracks where I took some black and white pictures of work-train equipment. We were close to the Royal Oak station when I finally saw what I most wanted to see, an approaching steam engine. I took a few pictures (my hands unsteady from excitement) as the locomotive, an attractive 2-8-2 numbered 3757, passed by southbound pulling only a caboose. My appetite whetted, soon bike trips to the tracks became regular events.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eIn the next six to seven years, I became well acquainted with Grand Trunk Western. After getting my driver's license at 16 my railroad interests were reinforced by increased mobility, as well as by membership in the Michigan Railroad Club, which met once a month in the Michigan Central Depot in Detroit. That organization ran a memorable series of steam-powered excursions on GTW which I rode whenever possible. At the club I met a supportive older gentleman named Ken Utter, and I started a friendship with another member my age, Eric Newberg (now of Midland, Michigan) which continues to this day.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThroughout my last two years of high school and my first two undergraduate years, I regularly visited Grand Trunk Western hot spots to see steam in action, with the full appreciation (thanks to Trains) that such power was fast disappearing all over the country, and that \"my railroad\" was one of America's last to use steam. Those visits included trips to Pontiac, Durand and Milwaukee Junction (site of the Detroit roundhouse), as well as to various line side locations. I was there on Sunday, March 27, 1960, at the official end of scheduled steam, when Grand Trunk Western \"did it right\" by operating two long sections of trains 21 and 56 from Detroit to Durand and return, powered by big 6300-series Northerns.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eMy interest in railroads hardly stopped when regular steam power disappeared. Diesels too had their fascination, as did passenger and freight trains, operating practices, facilities, and equipment, and I remained an avid photographer through the 1960s (and owned a decent camera starting in 1962) and beyond. But having moved out of the Detroit area, I saw little of Grand Trunk Western. Instead, I came to appreciate the likes of Chicago Great Western, and the Union Pacific, Santa Fe, Rock Island, Kansas City Southern, and Katy. Still, I could hardly forget my railroad, an interest reinforced by occasional visits to Michigan.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eI published my first railroad book in 1979, an academic venture into a topic of interest only to a few. After that, I took \"time off\" to write several books about airlines, but railroads were never forgotten. I returned to them in 1994 with the publication of a history of the Kansas City Northwestern, followed by three more books on Kansas railroad topics, all published by Jim Reisdorffs South Platte Press. After that I wanted to change direction and to focus on Grand Trunk Western, which led to the publication, in 2005, of Where the Rails Cross: A Railroad History of Durand, Michigan. As Michigan railroads were outside Jim's area of specialization, I brought the book out myself under the R\u0026amp;I Publishing imprint.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe current volume is the third from R\u0026amp;I. The era covered is from the start of construction in the 1830s to the time when GTW was operationally absorbed into Canadian National (CN) in 1995. Grand Trunk Western still exists as a corporation, but since its separate public identity is fast disappearing, rail enthusiasts now consider it a \"fallen flag\" carrier.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eWhy write a book about Grand Trunk Western when several others have been published? This effort differs from the other books in three important ways: 1) it is the first to cover the company's entire history in reasonable detail, 2) it gives appropriate attention to the vital role Chicago played in that history, and 3) it has greater depth and breath of photo coverage. Those pictures cover about 150 years, from the first known images taken in the 1850s to a few from several years into the 21\" century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eBoth these gentlemen had spent many years collecting historic GTW photos, and each had no hesitation in letting me scan hundreds of them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eAs is only common courtesy, I have tried to give credit to those who took the photographs. Unfortunately that's not always possible, for many images in both institutional and private collections do not identify the photographer. Therefore, if I missed a credit that somebody can identify, I apologize in advance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eGiven the many helpful individuals, as well as the library and commercial collections mentioned, gathering photographs was relatively easy. In contrast, writing the corporate history was difficult and at times frustrating, for much information that the historian wants to tap is simply not available. I believe this is importantly because Grand Trunk Western and some of its predecessors were subsidiaries of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada (GTR) and\/or of Canadian National Railways (CNR). These owners were not always eager to maintain completely open books about their subsidiaries. Thus, at times they released information only in aggregate form combining the parent company and the subsidiary, so that it is impossible to determine an individual railroad's role in the data. Further, there is a widespread suspicion that GTW's more recent records were discarded when the Detroit offices closed a number of years ago. In any case, I have been unable to discover what happened to them. Overall, this is the most difficult history I have ever attempted to write, and because of a lack of complete information, I could not answer all the questions I wanted to address.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eStill, much information on the earliest GTW predecessors (as I found out from author Paul Trap) has been preserved in Canada. This includes such irreplaceable items as minute books, contracts, legal agreements, and correspondence, all available at the Library \u0026amp; Archives Canada in Ottawa. Because of the costs of consulting these sources, to say nothing of the degree of detail I thought was reasonable in a book covering 175 years of history I did not go to Ottawa. I believe that the history presented in this book will satisfy the curiosity of more than 95% of potential readers. Nevertheless, I hope that in the future some historians will see the value of these untapped sources and write detailed histories of the companies. All of the smaller firms deserve an article, and there is plenty of room for a book about the Chicago-Port Huron and the Detroit-Grand Haven lines, as well as the ferry operations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eI should add a few comments here about the somewhat unusual organization of this book. In particular, I divided the former GTW network into two parts, the \"core system\" that has survived to the present, and the branch lines that have been abandoned or sold. For each branch line, I wrote chapters that cover their whole histories from organization to abandonment or sale. This makes it possible to devote the last two chapters (covering the years since 1917) almost entirely to the lines that continue in operation, and that hopefully have a considerable history in front of them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eAll pictures are of the actual item.  There may be reflection from the lights in some photos.   We try to take photos of any damage.    If this is a railroad item, this material is obsolete and no longer in use by the railroad.  Please email with questions. Publishers of Train Shed Cyclopedias and Stephans Railroad Directories. Large inventory of railroad books and magazines. 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