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128 all color pages, 8.5x11", cloth with dust jacket. "Some shortlines the average fan has never heard of are covered in this comprehensive look back well before Conrail. Includes Aroostook Valley Rr, Belfast & Moosehead Lake Rwy, Berlin Mills Rwy, Claremont & Concord Rwy, Clarendon & Pittsford RR, Connecticut Co, East Branch & Lincoln RR, Fore River RR, Grafton & Upton RR, Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington RR, Montpelier & Barre RR, Moshassuck Valley RR, Mt Washington Cog Rwy, Narragansett Pier RR, Ponemah Mills, Portland Terminal Rwy, St Johnsbury & Lamoille Co RR, Sanford & Eastern RR, Springfield Terminal Rwy, Suncook Valley RR, Union Freight RR, Warwick Rwy.

Lists nearly 600 shortline and regional railroads in the United States and Canada. Includes line history, locations, radio frequencies, and locomotive data.

Fascinating histories of over 20 Arkansas shortline railroads. Railroads covered include the Monte Ne, the Dardanelle & Russellville, the Yazoo & Mississippi, the Antoine Valley, the Mississippi, Ouachita & Red River, the Augusta Tramway and Transfer, the Hot Springs Railroad, the Eureka Springs Railroad, the Dardanelle, Ola & Southern, the Crosset Lumber Co., the Arkansas & Oklahoma, the Memphis, Paris & Gulf, the Ft. Smith & Western, the Prescott & Northwestern, and the Possum Trot Line (Reader Railroad). Illustrated with black and white photos, many of them rare and published here for the first time. With several maps, list of Arkansas shortlines as of 1912, and bibliography. 416 pages with index.

"Traditional shortlines of Pennsylvania extant in the 1950s are examined in full color: McKeesport Conn., Monessen SW, Monongahela Conn., Montour, N&B, PB&NE, P&S, PA&McKR, P&OV, PC&Y, S&H, Stewartstown, Strasburg, Unity Rwy., UMP, WAG, Western Allegheny, W. Pittston- Exeter, and Winfield RR." 8.5x11.5", clothbound with dust jacket, color throughout.

Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library. 0.93

Book is in NEW condition. 0.93

"Traditional shortlines of Pennsylvania extant in the 1950s are examined in full color: McKeesport Conn., Monessen SW, Monongahela Conn., Montour, N&B, PB&NE, P&S, PA&McKR, P&OV, PC&Y, S&H, Stewartstown, Strasburg, Unity Rwy., UMP, WAG, Western Allegheny, W. Pittston- Exeter, and Winfield RR." 8.5x11.5", clothbound with dust jacket, color throughout.

In the 1990s, a freight train rolling over a middle-of-nowhere feeder track on its way to or from a rural railroad town is almost an anachronism. These lines often host only one train a day or two trains a week. The branches and shortlines are evolving. Routes are drying up, being taken out of service, sold or leased to new owners. Many routes are endangered, and once gone will be gone forever....Throughout Oregon, the names of "outback" railroad stations read as if they belong in an atlas of obscure places: Tolo. Mountain Fir. Ashahr. Minto. Siltcoos. Canary. Narrows. Suver. Dry Creek. Timber. All that links these places is a network of remote rail lines. And as obscure as these locations are, they would be even more obscure without the railroads if they existed at all. Many towns in Oregon can trace their beginnings to the whims of railroad presidents and their surveyors... generations ago.

In the 1990s, a freight train rolling over a middle-of-nowhere feeder track on its way to or from a rural railroad town is almost an anachronism. These lines often host only one train a day or two trains a week. The branches and shortlines are evolving. Routes are drying up, being taken out of service, sold or leased to new owners. Many routes are endangered, and once gone will be gone forever....Throughout Oregon, the names of "outback" railroad stations read as if they belong in an atlas of obscure places: Tolo. Mountain Fir. Ashahr. Minto. Siltcoos. Canary. Narrows. Suver. Dry Creek. Timber. All that links these places is a network of remote rail lines. And as obscure as these locations are, they would be even more obscure without the railroads if they existed at all. Many towns in Oregon can trace their beginnings to the whims of railroad presidents and their surveyors... generations ago.

28.5 x 22 cm. Quarto. 229pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. This is the 2022 updated edition of the 1994 original. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Book is in NEW condition. 2.79

The companion volume to The Canadian Pacific's Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway: The CPR Steam Years, 1905 1949, this is the continued story of the ever-fascinating, often troubled E&N Railway. The E&N became the key transportation link along the eastern coast of Vancouver Island and to the west coast at Port Alberni. Freight service was tied to forestry and mining, and the E&N also carried everything from furniture to fruit for a growing population that depended on the trains. Even the circus came to Vancouver Island on the E&N Railway. The E&N faced rapid change in the post Second World War years. In the late 1940s, in a dramatic modernization, the E&N became the first railway in Canada to begin using new, more efficient diesel locomotives. In 1955, the streamlined Dayliner arrived and replaced the well-worn wooden passenger cars. In spite of increasing competition from the automobile, the train somehow survived for over 50 years, attracting people from all over the world to explore Vancouver Island on the scenic, leisurely railway. Featuring hundreds of spectacular photos and beautiful drawings, the book presents a sweeping portrait of the E&N Railway: from the first diesels to the formation of VIA Rail Canada and its operation of the Dayliner, through CP's sale of the E&N and the eventual formation of the Island Corridor Foundation. With Turner's trademark exhaustive research, MacLachlan's years of experience, and many insights from people who worked for and traveled on the railway, this is at once an invaluable reference and fascinating history.

History of the Concord & Claremont Railroad from its inception in 1848 through its diesel powered freight operations in the 1960s. Includes a complete, over the line trip behind Mogul No. 1490 when the C&C was the Claremont Branch of the Boston & Maine. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos, schematic diagrams of the locomotives and covered bridges, timetables, and C&C ephemera. End papers show system map.

The companion volume to The Canadian Pacific's Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway: The CPR Steam Years, 1905 1949, this is the continued story of the ever-fascinating, often troubled E&N Railway. The E&N became the key transportation link along the eastern coast of Vancouver Island and to the west coast at Port Alberni. Freight service was tied to forestry and mining, and the E&N also carried everything from furniture to fruit for a growing population that depended on the trains. Even the circus came to Vancouver Island on the E&N Railway. The E&N faced rapid change in the post Second World War years. In the late 1940s, in a dramatic modernization, the E&N became the first railway in Canada to begin using new, more efficient diesel locomotives. In 1955, the streamlined Dayliner arrived and replaced the well-worn wooden passenger cars. In spite of increasing competition from the automobile, the train somehow survived for over 50 years, attracting people from all over the world to explore Vancouver Island on the scenic, leisurely railway. Featuring hundreds of spectacular photos and beautiful drawings, the book presents a sweeping portrait of the E&N Railway: from the first diesels to the formation of VIA Rail Canada and its operation of the Dayliner, through CP's sale of the E&N and the eventual formation of the Island Corridor Foundation. With Turner's trademark exhaustive research, MacLachlan's years of experience, and many insights from people who worked for and traveled on the railway, this is at once an invaluable reference and fascinating history.

The Edwards Railway Motor Car Company began producing gasoline powered motor cars or doodlebugs in the early 1920s. A contemporary of Brill and EMC, the Edwards company produced motor carsor railroads in the U.S., Mexico, and Central and South America. From its humble beginnings in Sanford, North Carolina in the 1920s, when the first car was built utilizing a truck body and a chain and sprocket drive, to the flashy streamlined models of the 1930s and 1940s, Edwards, along with the Edwards company and the Edwards car, is examined in detail in: The Edwards Railway Motor Car Company - And its Visionary Founder, H.P. Edwards, "The Doctor of Sick Shortlines." H. P. Edwards led a fascinating life and his work as The doctor of sick shortlines is examined as well. Edwards s work with the Atlantic & Western; Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay (Bay Line); Marianna & Blountstown; Watauga & Yadkin River; Georgia, Florida & Alabama; Atlantic & East Carolina is all documented and brought to life with numerous photographs, maps, and locomotive rosters. Author Cary Franklin Poole doesn stop here, however. Owing to both a recent surge in nostalgia for Edwards motor cars and to a fundamental rethinking of modern transportation needs, the company was revived in 1998 as the Edwards Rail Car Company. Poole follows the Edwards cars up to the present day. Someday soon you may be riding in one. Wouldn t you like to know a little bit more about them first?

The Edwards Railway Motor Car Company began producing gasoline powered motor cars or doodlebugs in the early 1920s. A contemporary of Brill and EMC, the Edwards company produced motor carsor railroads in the U.S., Mexico, and Central and South America. From its humble beginnings in Sanford, North Carolina in the 1920s, when the first car was built utilizing a truck body and a chain and sprocket drive, to the flashy streamlined models of the 1930s and 1940s, Edwards, along with the Edwards company and the Edwards car, is examined in detail in: The Edwards Railway Motor Car Company - And its Visionary Founder, H.P. Edwards, "The Doctor of Sick Shortlines." H. P. Edwards led a fascinating life and his work as The doctor of sick shortlines is examined as well. Edwards s work with the Atlantic & Western; Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay (Bay Line); Marianna & Blountstown; Watauga & Yadkin River; Georgia, Florida & Alabama; Atlantic & East Carolina is all documented and brought to life with numerous photographs, maps, and locomotive rosters. Author Cary Franklin Poole doesn stop here, however. Owing to both a recent surge in nostalgia for Edwards motor cars and to a fundamental rethinking of modern transportation needs, the company was revived in 1998 as the Edwards Rail Car Company. Poole follows the Edwards cars up to the present day. Someday soon you may be riding in one. Wouldn t you like to know a little bit more about them first?

Laminated Hardcover, 144 pages. "Book Two of the Reading Railroad during the Conrail Era 1976-1998. Book Two describes the myriad of changes in 144 pages with over 200 color illustrations. It covers the formation and affect SEPTA had on the commuter system, includes photographs and rosters of the twenty-two shortline railroads that took over portions of the Reading, it depicts the D&H/CP trackage rights over the former Reading Lines, and the Legacy Chapter contains information on surviving locomotives, cars, coaches, cabooses and trackage. The book concludes with a look at the Reading in art."

Fascinating history of railroads and railroading in Hawaii, both standard and narrow gauge (especially the sugar cane lines). Chapters cover narrow gauge on Maui, narrow gauge on the Big Island, standard gauge on the Big Island, narrow gauge shortlines and a tourist railroad, the Lahaina, Kaanapali & Pacific on Maui. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With maps. With end papers and frontispiece by noted artist Harlan Hiney. 194 pages with index.

Fascinating history of how the Wisconsin Central, under the leadership of Ed Burkhardt, emerged from the ashes of the Soo Line to become one of the premier Midwest shortlines in the 1980s and 90s. Illustrated throughout with color photos. With all-time roster of locomotives. 160 pages with index.

This is an intimate history of a vigorous, well-known shortline. It has been continuously in operation since 1896, and now, although dieselized, still maintains some steam motive power for peak loads, railfan trips and numerous movie appearances. Necessarily, this story covers the mining and lumbering history of Tuolumne and Calaveras counties, because these industries were responsible for the railroad's growth. Many private railroads branched from the Sierra, so they too became part of this story. Included are the Empire City Railway, Hetch Hetchy Railroad, Pickering Lumber Corp., West Side Lumber Co., Yosemite Short Line and many others. There is a wealth of photographic material, most of which has never been in print before. Endless hours were spent in rescuing old and faded pictures too rare and too good to be left out. Dorothy Newell Dean was in a unique position to write this book. Her father was the engineer who built the road, and her brother and husband were connecrted with it in other capacities. Mrs. Dean lived in the area and watched sections being built, knew the old timers to whom she could turn for pictures and records often hidden in attic trunks. "Sierra Railway" successfully recreates the atmosphere that distinguishes this line - it's a definitive history of an ambitious, far-sighted, likable railroad which traversed an area of vital historical interest.