Description

50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Milwaukee Electrification - CMStP&P electric locomotives help each other climb the Rockies and the Cascades; Varnish Vignettes - Passing thoughts, railroads and travel; Loss- $5,500 /day - railroad companies often lose money but must maintain their service - New Haven case story; Southern Pacific old-timers at Sacramento; Electricity powers trains in Chicago; One-Man Railroad in Rhode Island - 5.6-mile Wood River Branch Railroad is the link between Hope Valley and the New Haven; ; Shay Locomotives - Lima's best seller is an out-puller too! - Shays pull extra heavy loads on sharp curves, steep grades; Engine "999"; Blue Ridge Railway - with aspirations of a thorough line nipped by the Civil War, BR Ry. becomes traffic link; Pennsylvania's "The Jeffersonian" - new fast coach train between St. Louis and the East follows success of Trail Blazer; Hiawathas at New Lisbon - when four steam-powered streamliners meet at a single point there's bount to be real activity. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book