INCLUDES DELORME PUBLISHING'S JACKET-STYLE VINYL COVER.

Ships in a non-bending mailer, not an envelope, plus sealed in plastic..

The DeLorme Publishing Atlas and Gazetteer provides a wealth of information for trip planning and back country access. Each volume contains topographic maps with unbeatable detail plus gazetteer information on great places to go and things to do. Detail includes railroads, back roads, dirt roads, elevation contours, remote lakes & streams, boat ramps, public lands for recreation, land use (forests, wetlands, agriculture), trailheads, campgrounds, and hunting and fishing spots.

Gazetteer information includes information on hiking, bicycling, museums and historic sites, campgrounds, scenic drives, unique natural features and state and national parks.

DeLorme Publishing, soft cover, 128 pages, 11 x 15.5 x .2 in., color maps. DLFLC
Price: 16.95 USD

Slow Trains Down South Vol. 2: Deep in Dixie, A Pictorial Study.

This book continues Mallory Ferrell's work on the short lines of the American South. His interest began as a teenager in the 1940s. Excursions chasing down the last of steam in the South along with the photographic efforts of others also interested in the subject provide the photography for this excellent book.

Contents:
acknowledgments, pg. 10;
Foreword: Memories of the South, pg. 11;
Introduction: What Was a Short Line , pg. 12;
Ch. 1: Georgia On My Mind, pg. 16;
Ch. 2: Way Down Upon The Suwannee (Florida), pg. 80;
Ch. 3: Heart of Dixie (Alabama), pg. 102;
Ch. 4: Ghost in Mississippi, pg. 126;
Ch. 5: Bayous, Blues & Balloon Stacks (Louisiana), pg. 146;
Ch. 6: Arkansas Travelers, pg. 162;
Ch. 7: East (By God!) Texas, pg. 188;
Ch. 8: Less Than Carload, pg. 214;
Index pg 223.

Hundman Publishing, hard cover with jacket, 226 pages, 11 x 8.5 x .75 in., b&w and a few color photographs and illustrations. HP634
Price: 50.95 USD

The Florida Keys Overseas Railway.

The basic story of the Overseas Railway to Key West, an extension of the Florida East Coast Railway, has been told before, from the early dream of Henry Flagler, to completion of railroad construction near the end of Flagler's life, to destruction of the extension in the devastating Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. But there is much more to tell. The core of this book is the collection of photographs made by William Asa Glass, one of the construction engineers on the project. His views, many never duplicated elsewhere, show both the engineering and human sides of the great project in a unique way. Supplementing it are the recollections of many who were there. In combination, it makes a vivid and engrossing story, rich in unfamiliar details. Also included here is a retrospective of the route today.

Henry M. Flagler conceived the idea of a railway to Key West at least as early as 1895, and after a number of setbacks, the Overseas Railway was completed in 1912. It then served to take tourists to and from the Florida Keys, particularly Key West, as well as to transport freight and passengers en route to and from Havana, Cuba by ship. It was effectively destroyed in the cataclysmic Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, and its route was sold to become part of Florida's Overseas Highway. The coverage includes a number of views of hurricane damage as well as the construction process, along with the working environment of an engineer on this project. An epilogue provides a brief tour of the route today, with the remnants of nearly all the original Flagler bridges still standing, often alongside today's Overseas Highway.

The book's 166 photographs, few ever published, 129 of them by Bill Glass or from his collection, together with 24 views (18 in color) of the route today, along with maps, artwork, and a bibliography and index, make this book unusually complete. Anyone interested in railroad history or Florida history will enjoy this book, but particularly for those whose enthusiasm is railroad construction, the Florida East Coast Railway, or the Florida Keys, this is a satisfying complement to other books on the topic, and a fascinating history in its own right.

Signature Press, hard cover with jacket, 156 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .75 in., 166 photographs (18 in color), maps, artwork and drawings, bibliography, index. SP186
Price: 46.95 USD