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, 64 pages, 11 x 15.5 x .25 in., color maps. DLLAC
Price: 16.95 USD

Texas & New Orleans: Southern Pacific's Lines in Texas and Louisiana.

There has long been a need for a thorough history of the Texas & New Orleans and its predecessors, from the beginnings in the mid-19th century, through linking El Paso and New Orleans in 1883, to the merger with Southern Pacific in 1961. This book fills that need.

Component railroads of the T&NO included the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio, the Houston & Texas Central, the Houston East & West Texas, the Louisiana Western, Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad and Steamship Company, the T&NO itself, and the San Antonio & Aransas Pass.

The book opens with an introductory section of background information, then provides a general description of the steam locomotives which powered the T&NO until dieselization was completed in the 1950s. The coverage continues with chapters on particular segments of the T&NO: El Paso to Houston, the Dallas & Austin Divisions, the Victoria Division, the East Texas lines, and Houston to New Orleans. A separate chapter describes the Houston and Galveston terminals. A concluding chapter covers the 1961 merger into SP, as well as the dieselization in the last decade of the T&NO¹s separate existence.

Each chapter is rich in details of operation, with extensive information from timetables and dispatcher sheets, as well as from company sources and the railroad literature. Throughout the book, numerous in-service photographs at various locations document the history. The railroad had a complex roster of motive power in steam days, when many locomotives had been inherited from predecessor roads. Accordingly, detailed locomotive rosters are included, and essential drawings and maps further enrich the story. A bibliography and an index round out the book.

The Texas & New Orleans was an essential part of the Southern Pacific. The books 327 photographs, most from company and museum archives and never before published, together with 39 maps and drawings, and bibliography, make it unusually complete and authoritative. This book provides a coverage that every railroad enthusiast, and of course Texas & New Orleans and Southern Pacific fans in particular, will enjoy.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments, pg. 6;
Preface, pg. 7;
Ch. 1: Development of SP Lines in Texas and Louisiana, pp. 9-32;
Ch. 2: Steam Power, pp. 33-76;
Ch. 3: El Paso to San Antonio, pp. 77-112;
Ch. 4: San Antonio to Houston, pp. 113-144;
Ch. 5: Dallas & Austin Divisions, pp. 145-188;
Ch. 6: Victoria Division, pp. 189-220;
Ch. 7: The East Texas Piney Woods, pp. 221-254;
Ch. 8: Houston to New Orleans, pp. 255-306;
Ch. 9: Houston and Galveston Terminals, pp. 307-340;
Ch. 10: Dieselization and Merger with Pacific Lines, pp. 341-359;
Appendix 1: Line Profiles, pg. 360;
Appendix 2: Locomotive Rosters, pp. 361-371;
Appendix 3: Map, Competing Lines, pp. 372-374;
Bibliography, pp. 375-376;
Index, pp. 377-386.

Signature Press, hard cover with jacket, 386 pages, 8.5 x 11 x 1.75 in., b&w and color photographs, rosters, data and illustrations. SP230
Price: 58.95 USD