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Railroading Coast to Coast Locomotive Cabs 1923-1950
Railroading Coast to Coast Riding the Locomotive Cabs 1923 - 1950 By S Kip Farrington Dust Jacket Copyright 1976 305 Pages
S. Kip Farrington, Jr., has spent a lifetime riding locomotives. He had his first ride at the age of four, and from the time he was fourteen, he was constantly on railroads all over North America and thirty-seven foreign countries.
His usual procedure was to write in a run on the operating timetable of the division on which he was riding. Although he kept very few of his transcripts, he has assembled over 200 detailed accounts for this book, his tenth on railroading (nine on the United States and one on Railroading Around the World).
The transcripts of these runs cover thirty-nine North American railroads and many of this country's foremost Grades, including the Continental Divide, the Sierra Nevada, the Alleghenys, and the Saluda, to name just four. The excellent photos, with statistics and comments on the locomotives, are of great interest to all students of locomotive practice. There are many action pictures with locations, divisions, and engine statistics with explanations. Many of America's leading railroad photographers have contributed these outstanding photographs.
There are also many pages on the Great Northern Railroad's ore move, Virginian coal move, and scooping water on the run. Complete sections on Western Maryland Dynamometer Car Tests (with Resulting Tonnage Ratings for Three of their great locomotives), Bridge Ratings, and Clearances include graphs, chants, and nine photographs. There is also a complete section on Passenger Train On Time Movements for over thirty railroads, 1962-1965, with twelve photographs.
All descriptive data are included in the transcripts, including the makeup of the trains, weather conditions, and on some runs even the names of the crew members. The Afterword is a complete coverage of the Freedom Train with photographs and a record of the top officers of six of America's leading industries that financed the train.
In the Introduction, Howard Fogg states: "'Railroading Coast to Coast is a totally unique and authentic record, amply illustrated, of U.S. locomotive performance during the finest years of steam and electric operation, and on into the diesel era of increased economy and efficiency. Nothing like this volume has ever been published before, for only Kip Farrington could do it!"
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