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Mainline Steam Revival by Ron Ziel 1990 w/dust jacket
Mainline Steam Revival by Ron Ziel 1990 w/dust jacket
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
By Ron Ziel
Copyright 1990
208 pages
Within a decade after the mainline railroads of the United States and Canada had replaced the last of their steam locomotives with diesel power in 1960, virtually the only working iron horses were employed by short tourist railways. The despair of those who loved the old engines reached abysmal depths in the mid-sixties when it seemed that steam on the high iron - pulling heavy trains at high speeds - was indeed extinct. Their mourning proved premature, for although the "big show" of regular service steam was gone beyond all recall passenger excursion use was to stage a remarkable and spectacular comeback.
From just a half-dozen locomotives available for mainline service in mid-1966, over fifty others have since been resurrected from parks and museums. More have been refurbished to run on preserved lines and could easily go into mainline service. The past quarter-century has fled so quickly that a dozen big engines have been returned from oblivion, run for years and have since gone back into retirement! As the 1990s begin, there is no sign of let up in the steam locomotive restoration craze, with close to thirty more mainline standard-gauge engines being actively worked on. Add to these the score of former class-1 narrow-gauge locomotives that have been restored and the total approaches 120 - all of which are covered in Mainline Steam Revival.
Introduction6
Foreword8
The Last Veterans Retire16
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range17
Reading18
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy28
Union Pacific32
Resurrection of Steam40
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe41
Chesapeake & Ohio42
Cotton Belt48
Clinchfield52
Chicago & North Western54
Florida East Coast56
Frisco64
Great Western72
Grand Trunk Western78
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio86
Louisville & Nashville88
Nickel Plate Road92
Northern Pacific102
Nevada Northern106
Norfolk & Western108
Pennsylvania118
Southern126
Southern Pacific134
Pere Marquette142
Texas & Pacific146
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