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Trains in Transition by Lucius Beebe American Railroading Soft Cover
Trains in Transition By Lucius Beebe
Hard Cocver with dust jacket
Copyright 1941 Bonanza Books
210 pages
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION1
I HOT SHOT11
2 THE DIESEL DREAM 81
3 VARNISH VIGNETTES 143
4 SUPER DE LUXE165
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Spirit of St. Louis frontispiece
Pontchartrain title-page
Milk for Manhattan pagev
Texas Pacific Blueblood vii
With Booster Working ix
The Pause That Refreshes 1
Gulf, Mobile Action 4
Rolling into Altoona 7
Merchandise South 9
Nickel Plate Redball 11
Class S 2 on the Milwaukee 19
Wabash Superpower 20
On the Advertised21
Santa Fe Type, Burlington Owned 22
He's Got Green Ahead 23
High Cars, West 23
Tandem on the Colorado Hills 24
Frisco Hotshot, Carrying Green 25
Narrow-gage Archetype 26
Streamlined Freight Power26
Into the Sunset 27
Southland Superpower 28
White Flag for Loveland 28
Mikado Tandem 29
Light Monon Haul 3o
Carrying Green, Kaysee Bound 31
Rock Island Roundhouse Pride 32
Fast Burlington Merchandise 32
C. & E. I. Freight Power 33
Prototypal 2-10-2 34
First Section, B. & O. 35
The Railroad Redivivus 36
Working Steam out of Madison 37
Steel and Iron Camel 38
The Mopac Pulls Its Freight 39
Triple Shotted for the Grade 40
Drag on the Northern Pacific 41
Double Header in a Hurry 41
Almost to Timberline 51
Peddling His High Cars 52
In Tennessee Pass 53
Wintertime Pastoral 53
More Than a Mile of Train 54
At the End of the Run 55
"Noble and Nude and Antique" 56
Mike on the Inland 56
Memorial to an Empire Builder 57
Titan of the UP Trail 58
The Newsboy on Its Rounds 59
The Cotton Belt's No 1960
B. & O. Behemoth 60
St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain 61
Mike on the C. & E. I 62
Miniature Hotshot 63
High Cars East 63
Reading Superpower 64
Ready for Orders 65
Canadian Pastoral66
"A Mallet and a Million" 67
One-spot in Action 68
Rolling the Empties 68
Mighty Power on the Espee 69
Rare in Eastern Railroading 70
Big Power on the Big Four 71
Alton and Southern in Action 72
Ozark Dawn 73
Alton Auxiliary Tank 79
Rolling out of Denver 8i
This Train Sold the Bill of Goods 87
Transition on the Q . 88
Companion to the Dixieland 89
The Bluebonnet 90
Vintage Sprinter 90
Versatile and Sightly91
"Divides the Desert and the Sown" 92
"Made Up of Wheels, the New Mechanic Birth" 93
A Century of the Pony Express 93
The Merchant's Limited 94
Along the Lehigh Valley 95
Vanishing Race 96
Steam, Streamlining and Seacoast 97
"His Heart a Spinning Coil, His Juices Burning Oil-" 98
Wonder and Glory of the Mopac 99
Thunder on the Hudson 100
Sleek and Silver Trimmed 101
Diesel on the Alton 102
Seaboard at Sunset 103
Era's End 104
An Era Ends and Begins Here 113
The 400 in Transition 114, 115
Veteran of the Diesel Generation116
Study in Streamlining 117
Old Timer on the C&EI118
The Santa Fe in Colorado 119
Eastbound from St. Louis 119
A Veteran of the Iron 120
Reeling Off the Colorado Miles 121
Leaving Denver Behind 121
A Silver Greyhound Steps Out 122
Orange, Silver, Purple and Gold Trim 123
Graveyard Run 124
Rocky Mountain Blueblood 125
On the Commuting Run 125
No Pantograph Rises Here 126
Far Cry from Link and Pin 127
No Transcendent Beauty 128
High in the Raton 128
"Fleeter of Foot than the Fleet-foot Kid" 129
In Deepest Essex County 130
Cinderella of the Rails 131
The Prospector 141
Narrow Gage at Santa Fe 143
Collector's Item 147
Old Timer of the Rails 148
Veteran High Stepper 149
Ancient of Railroading Days 149
In a Class by Itself 150
Over the Top of the World 151
B. & M. Western Division 152
Right Out of Yesterday 152
Illinois Central's Crack Varnish 153
The Whistler of the Boxcars 154
Before the Streamliners Came 155
Illinois Pastoral 156
Santa Fe Smoke 157
Never Again to Georgetown 158
Crack Cotton Belt Varnish 159
99-I, Classic Pennsy Electric Power 160
Blue Bird in Flight 161
Camelback Fireboy 163
R. F. & P. Varnish North 165
Up from the Ozarks 169
These Made Railroad History 17o, 171
Doll House Train 172
The Super Chief 173
The Panama Limited 174
Speed for the Bankers and Brokers 175
In the Vale of Bethel 175
On the Banks of the Ohio 176
The Central's Southwestern 177
In the Legendary Sierras 178
Covers the Old Wild West 179
Rio Grande Local 180
The Robert E. Lee 181
Crack Texan Flyer 181
The Golden State Limited 182
Carrying White on the M & St. L 183
"She Was Working Steam with Her Brake Shoes Slack" 184
How Times Do Change ! 185
Monster of the Coal Pits 185
Modification on the Union Pacific 186
"In That New World Which Is the Old, And O'er the Hills and Far Away!" 191
Belle of the South 192
In the Modern Manner 193
Headed for Far Horizons 194
The Broadway Comes Home 195
Drifting into Palm Springs 196
Racing for Chicago 197
Mopac Superpower 197
Full of Years and Honors 198
Along the Alton 199
Kos in Modern Dress 200
Among the Latter-Day Saints 201
Main Line West 201
Service for the Chief 202
Big Power for the Big Four 203
The Vanishing Ten-Wheeler 204
Nearing Its Terminal 205
Louisville and Nashville Mike 205
Typical of Canadian Railroading 206
Headed South Rapidly 207
Ninety an Hour on the Milwaukee 210
"Trains in Transition," third volume in Lucius Beebe's trilogy of the saga of American railroading and companion volume to"High Iron, A Book of Trains," and "Highliners, A Railroad Album," is designed to survey the achievements of steam and steel in rail transport during the past decade and, with the aid of ample and dramatic illustrations, to chronicle the up-to-the-minute railroad practices which have made overland travel a part of the national legend.
Mr. Beebe's two previous volumes have dealt with the romantic interludes of railroading during the nineteenth century and with the speed, operations and de luxe devisings of the varnish flyers which have thundered over the high iron in recent times. "Trains in Transition" rounds out a century of motive power which has come to be known as the cycle of steam and recognizes in spacious detail the advent of a new form of power in the Diesel-electric locomotive and the light weight air-flow equipment which complements it. There are chapters on the technical aspects of Diesel-electric power, on the fabrication and operations of modern, high speed passenger trains and the evolution of the hotshot freights which today operate on schedules only yesterday sacred to extra-fare limiteds.
"Trains in Transition" is an authoritative and at the same time popular survey of American railroading of the current moment. Its 176 illustrations, a large percentage of them taken by the author and others contributed by acknowledged leaders in the specialized field of rail photography, cover the subject factually and ,geographically. Amateurs of the classic aspects of steam railroading as well as Diesel-electric enthusiasts will find esthetic and practical satisfaction in the contents of "Trains in Transition."
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