Author Name: John B. McCall

Title: Coach, Cabbage & Caboose: Santa Fe's Mixed Train Service

Book Condition: NEW CONDITION BOOK

Publisher: Kachina Press 1979

ISBN Number: 0930724100 / 9780930724108

Seller ID: KAC108

Coach, Cabbage & Caboose: Santa Fe's Mixed Train Service

Mixed trains were aptly named. The cargo was a mixture of passengers and miscellaneous freight that was hauled by equipment of varied, and sometimes uncertain, parentage along a route that often went from nowhere to oblivion.

The book begins with the early days of the Santa Fe which provides an excellent framework to discuss the early passenger equipment of the railroad. Also this allows the reader to trace the further use of the disposition of cars originally assigned to first-class service and to look at the Santa Fe away from the popular heavily-trafficked main lines.

Equipment rosters, timetables, schedule evolution, passenger car diagrams and many pictures are included.

This classic book on the Santa Fe Railway is a follow-up to the book 'The Doodlebugs' published in 1977.

Contents:
Acknowledgements, Foreword, pp. 9-12;
Introduction to Mixed Train Service, pp. 13-18;
Introduction to Mixed Train Equipment, pp. 19-24;
Passenger Equipment Prior to 1902, pp. 25-36;
Coach & Waycars: The First Generation, pp. 37-69;
Second Generation of Mixed Train Combines: 70-72 Foot Wooden Cars, pp. 70-118;
Third Generation Combines: All-Steel Construction, pp. 119-153;
Drover's Cars, pp. 154-169;
Miner's Transfer Cars, pp. 170-172;
Branch Line Pictorial, pp. 173-192;
Branch Line Motive Power, pp. 193-210;
Afterword, pp. 211-212;
Appendix: System Map, Mixed Train Schedule Evolution, Equipment Diagrams, pp. 241-256.

Kachina Press, hard cover with jacket, 256 pages, 9 x 12 x 1 in., b&w and color photographs, illustrations and roster data.

Price = 74.95 USD

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