Tour the D&RGW from Grand Junction to the SP interchange at Ogden through more than 230 vintage color photographs. Every type of diesel from FT to SD45 is pictured in this spectacular geographic setting. There's even a little steam in this station-by-station itinerary.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1081
Price: 40.95 USD

This all-color photographic perspective of a Division Engineer of the Rio Grande during the 1950s and 60s, both in his work and hobby.

This book is organized geographically beginning in Denver and working west to Salt Lake City and then up the Craig branch.

Contents:
Denver, pp. 8-11;
The Joint Line, pp. 12-29;
Alamosa-Antonito, pp. 30-33;
The Royal Gorge Route, pp. 34-61;
Glenwood Springs, pp. 62-71;
Grand Junction, pp. 72-89;
Price River Canyon, pp. 90-97;
The Moffat Line, pp. 98-128.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1138
Price: 42.95 USD

Baltimore & Ohio steam in all its glory is captured mostly in Ohio by noted rail photographer Willis McCaleb. This book takes the reader from Cleveland to West Virginia then Indiana and back into central Ohio. Coverage includes every type of B&O steam locomotive working in the Midwest during the 1950s.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1017
Price: 40.95 USD

Pennsylvania Railroad Color Guide to Freight & Passenger Equipment Vol. 2.

This second PRR Color Guide by noted PRR rolling stock historian Ian S. Fischer, features the early 1960s photography of Paul Winters around Columbus, Ohio in beautiful color. See former N&W hoppers now PRR class H2A, round-roof K9 stock cars which were converted from automobile cars, unusual M of W equipment and much more.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1075
Price: 40.95 USD

Santa Fe's Raton Pass.

More than 25 years have passed since Jared Harper's pioneer work on Raton Pass was first published. This is a second edition of this important work, not only to bring it up to date, and to take advantage of recent trends in photo restoration and printing technology, but to expand on the original with the considerable amount of material that has come to light on the subject in the intervening years, especially on the coal mining industry that surrounded the pass from the beginning through the middle 1950s.

As the highest point on the vast Santa Fe Railway system, and possessing one of the steepest main line grades in the United States, Raton Pass attracted pioneer railroad photographers like Otto C. Perry, Richard Kindig, Jackson Thode, Les Logue, Clayton Tinkham, Joe Schick, and Preston George who documented the parade of trains over Raton Mountain in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Raton was also noted for operating many more passenger trains and streamliners than freight trains, as an easier grade, via Amarillo, Texas, and Belen, New Mexico, was used by the majority of freight trains. Triple headers of steam engines were not uncommon. Freights usually had three or four engines on each train, a double header on the front end, and one or two pushers at the rear.

Today the railroad is owned by the State of New Mexico and faces an uncertain future, but the history an operation of Santa Fe's line over Raton Mountain remains, and is indeed the stuff that legends are made of.

Contents:
Preface to the Second Edition and Foreword, pp. 5-12;
On the Road to Santa Fe, pp. 13-30;
Steam Era Operations, pp. 31-92;
Raton Terminal, pp. 93-106;
Trinidad Terminal, pp. 107-118;
The Diesel Age, pp. 119-134;
Epilogue, pp. 135-136;
Modeler's Notebook (Structure plans and detail photographs), pp. 137-157;
List of Stations on Raton Pass from 1878 to 1996, pg. 158;
Bibliography, pp. 159-160.

Santa Fe Railway H&MS, soft cover, 160 pages, 11 x 8.5 x .5 in., 240 black & white and 10 color photos, 9 timetable reproductions, 21 maps, 17 diagrams, Modeler's Notebook, Bibliography. SFRH233
Price: 35.95 USD

The photographs are organized in a chronological and geographical sequence following the route of Southern Pacific Train #51, the San Joaquin and later the San Joaquin Daylight. Other SP trains from this route include the Tehachapi, the Owl and the West Coast. Freight trains from this route are also included.

Also some Santa Fe trains using SP trackage rights between Mojave and Kern Junction are presented. Around Bakersfield some photographs from the surrounding branch lines are also shown. Photographs range in dates from the early 1930s to the mid 1950s.

Monte Vista Publishing, hardcover with jacket, 11 x 8.5 x .5 in., 150 pages, b&w photographs, locomotive roster information for each locomotive presented. mvp101
Price: 55.95 USD

Save $29.85 over purchasing these 4 DVD videos separately!

Hot Metal: An intimate look inside the fence of a Chicago-area steel mill (DVD video). PrairieWorks, DVD, 96 minutes.

Taconite Haulers On Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range (DVD video). PrairieWorks, DVD, color, 115 minutes.

Lake Superior Iron (DVD video). PrairieWorks, 52 minutes.

Union Railroad (DVD video). PrairieWorks, 80 minutes. PW132
Price: 69.95 USD

Union Railroad: United States Steel's Pittsburgh Lifeline DVD

The Union Railroad, owned by United States Steel, funnels materials used to make steel to its parent's plants along the Monongahela River. While essentially an industrial switching and transfer operation, the tonnages are immense. In addition to bringing in bulk material and shipping out finished products, it moves products produced at one plant to another one.

The video starts out in North Bessemer where the Union connects with former US Steel sister road Bessemer & Lake Erie and down to the USS Edgar Thomson Works with scenes around the plant. Then it is across the Port Perry Bridge to the Duquesne Class Yard. From the yard, the trip continues south to Grant Street, Bull Run, Dravosburg Tunnel, the Irvin Works and on to the end of the line at the Clairton coke works. There are also side trips on the Munhall, Duquesne and Mifflin branches. Includes snowy winter scenes.

The video footage was shot between 1996 and 2001 by Scott Schaller and includes spectacular scenes of hot metal car action at the Edgar Thomson Works and historic photos.

PrairieWorks, DVD, 80 minutes. PW130
Price: 25.95 USD

TOD Engine Project DVD

The Tod Engine is a stationary steam engine that was used to power a rolling mill at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Brier Hill Works in Youngstown, Ohio. The engine was built in 1913-14 in downtown Youngstown, Ohio by the William Tod Company and operated until 1979. The last Tod rolling mill engine was built in 1920, and of the several hundred that were once in use, only about a half dozen remain today. The Tod engine is the largest of its type still in existence.

The video follows the efforts of the Tod Engine Foundation members, after giving up on saving the Jeannette blast furnace, they move on to take apart the giant steam engine, remove it from the building owned by North Star Steel and preserve a part of Youngstown ‘s industrial heritage in Youngstown. The video concludes with visits to other steam engines in two steel mills and a giant water pump.

The Tod Engine Project video is a fundraiser for the Tod Engine Foundation.

PrairieWorks, DVD, 40 minutes. PW129
Price: 16.95 USD

Techniques for Making a Museum-quality model.

The second part of the series shows how to convert the Walthers Blast Furnace into specific prototypes, specifically the top works of USS Carrie #7 furnace in Pittsburgh and USS Ensley in Birmingham, Alabama.

Three-pass stoves are made from Walther's stoves and the Walthers Electrostatic Precipitator is highly detailed. Interlake Iron's Zenith Furnace merchant iron blast furnace is also created from scratch using a RIX oil storage tank, including three-pass Whitwell stoves and a Walthers stove. Again the presenter is Jeff Borne.

The DVD has an accompanying CD-ROM with construction instructions on building the models, parts lists for each project in Adobe Acrobat format and 414 still photos.

DVD video plus CD-R, 95 min., color. PW125
Price: 22.95 USD

Still There Photo CD-ROM Book

Still Standing Railroad Depots & Structures from the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest

While passenger depots and steam locomotive roundhouses have largely disappeared, there are still many reminders of that golden era scattered across the country. The book takes a look at 554 depots, freight houses, roundhouses, significant bridges and other railroad structures that still stand in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North & South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Washington. These structures were observed in the 2006-2009 time period.

Also on the CD is information on how to find these structures, including quite a few with GPS coordinates. The presentation is like looking through a book on a computer. The CD-ROM works in PCs (WIN 2000/XP/Vista) & Macs and is self-starting. The images and information can be printed out.

PrairieWorks, Photo CD-ROM Book. PW123
Price: 16.95 USD

Spokane, Portland & Seattle Steam Power Photo CD-ROM Book

This collection of SP&S steam locomotive photographs was taken in the 1950s in locations such as Spokane, Pasco & Vancouver in Washington State and Portland & Astoria in Oregon.

The locomotive types included are Atlantic (4-4-2), Mogul (2-6-0), Prairie (2-6-2), Ten-Wheeler (4-6-0), Consolidation (2-8-0), Pacific (4-6-2), Mikado (2-8-2), Northern (4-8-4), Challenger (4-6-6-4) and 0-6-0 Switcher.

Almost half of the 131 photos were scanned in from original black & white medium-format negatives and are presented in a book form on CD-ROM with information on the locomotives. The presentation is like looking through a book on a computer. The CD-ROM works in PCs & Macs and is self-starting. The photos can be printed out.

PrairieWorks, Photo CD-ROM Book. PW122
Price: 16.95 USD

A rare look at often overlooked Minnesota short lines through black & white and color photos taken in the mid-1950s. The presentation features the Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific ’s Consolidations, Mikados and a Pacific; Duluth & Northeastern ’s Consolidations, Mogul and 0-6-0 switchers; Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern ’s Decapods, Consolidations and Mogul; Minnesota Transfer ’s 0-8-0s, 0-6-0s and Moguls; American Steel & Wire ’s switchers, Koppers Coke ’s switcher, Minneapolis Eastern ’s switchers, Hoyt Mining switchers, St. Paul Union Depot ’s 0-6-0s and 0-4-0Ts of a quarry operator.

All of the 87 photos were scanned from original 2x4 negatives. The presentation is like looking through a book on a computer. The CD-ROM works in PCs & Macs and is self-starting.

PrairieWorks, Photo CD-ROM Book, b&w and color. PW119
Price: 16.95 USD

Railroad Depots of Iowa Photo CD-ROM Book

These 199 images come from photos, slides and postcards on the lines of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Chicago & North Western, Chicago Great Western, Des Moines & Central Iowa; Ft. Dodge, Des Moines & Southern, Great Northern, Illinois Central, Iowa Traction, Milwaukee Road, Minneapolis & St. Louis, Rock Island, Santa Fe and some union depots.. In some instances, there is the original depot and its replacement.

The presentation is like looking through a book on a computer. The CD-ROM works in PCs (WIN 2000/XP/Vista) & Macs and is self-starting. The images can be printed out.

PrairieWorks, Photo CD-ROM Book. PW115
Price: 16.95 USD

The photographs of North & South Dakota depots are on the lines of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Chicago & North Western, Great Northern, Illinois Central, Milwaukee Road, Minneapolis & St. Louis, Northern Pacific, Rock Island and Soo Line.

The photo album has 187 images and in some instances have both the original depot and its replacement. The images come from photos, slides and postcards.

PrairieWorks, Photo CD-ROM Book, b&w and color photographs and illustrations. PW117
Price: 16.95 USD

A look back on the boats, ferries, ports and docks on the Great Lakes, following the transportation of iron ore, grain, coal and passengers through photos, postcards, video and film.

These images span the period from the late 1800s to the present and cover Lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan and Erie, and the ports of Duluth, Superior, Ashland, Two Harbors, Silver Bay, Taconite Harbor, Port Arthur and Marquette, and lower lake ports of Escanaba, Green Bay, Milwaukee, Chicago, Gary, Burns Harbor, Frankfort, Port Huron, Detroit, Toledo, Lorain, Cleveland, Ashtabula, Conneaut and Erie. The Soo Locks are also visited.

The video contains 327 images, some video & film, narration, table of contents and has a running time of 51 minutes. The video is on DVD and the photos are on a self-starting CD-R that is like looking through a book (PC or Mac).

PrairieWorks, 51 min., color and b&w. PW114
Price: 22.95 USD

Northern Pacific Steam Power Photo CD-ROM Book

The extensive photo collection of Northern Pacific steam locomotives was taken mainly in the late 1930s to 1950s era in numerous locations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon.

The locomotive types included are American (3), Atlantic (1), Mogul (6), Prairie (32), Ten-Wheeler (39), Consolidation (48), Mastodon (1), Pacific (81), Mikado (204), Northern (31), Mallet 2-8-8-2 (7), Yellowstone (4), Challenger (17), 0-6-0 Switcher (67), 0-8-0 Switcher (17) and Heisler (1).

Almost all of the 560 photos are from original black & white medium-format (2x4) negatives and presented in book form on a self-starting CD-ROM with information on the locomotives. Works in PCs and Macs. The photos can be printed out.

PrairieWorks, Photo CD-ROM Book. PW113
Price: 16.95 USD

The 270 images come from photos, slides and postcards in the states of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Washington. In some instances, there is the original depot and its replacement. A number of these depots still exist and these are indicated by a date. The depots are grouped by state.

The presentation is like looking through a book on a computer. The CD-ROM works in PCs & Macs and is self-starting. The images can be printed out.

PrairieWorks, Photo CD-ROM Book. PW107
Price: 16.95 USD

Hudson Bay Line DVD

Along Canadian National's Route Between Winnipeg and Churchill

The rail trip starts in Winnipeg, Manitoba and heads north to Churchill on Hudson Bay. The area is extremely remote country, with the northern part becoming treeless. The depots shown include Dauphin, Portage La Prairie, The Pas, Cantyre, Thompson, Thicket Portage, Cormorant and Churchill.

At Flin Flon, the Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. is visited and at Thompson, the International Nickel mine & smelter are shown. In the Port of Churchill, the elevators, docks and foreign ships are featured. Maps show the locations.

The album has 83 photos. The presentation is like looking through a book on a computer. The CD-ROM works in PCs & Macs and is self-starting. The CD also has a brochure on the line and it's attractions. Photos can be printed out.

PrairieWorks, Photo CD-ROM Book. PW105
Price: 12.95 USD

An intimate look inside the fence of a Chicago-area steel mill.

The tour starts at the coke works to witness a fiery push of incandescent coke out of an oven and the spectacular steam clouds as the hot coke is cooled down. The next stop is at the blast furnace to watch 3,000° molten iron tapped from the furnace on the casthouse floor, with its incredible heat and flying sparks. Hot metal cars are moved into position to be filled underneath the casthouse floor. On the Highline trestle in front of the furnaces, raw materials are brought in and the scale car underneath brings them to the skip hoists. The molten slag flows out of the furnace into a pit for cooling. Other sights in the works include a pig iron caster, the two blast furnaces (one with a brick casthouse), an old hot metal car, SW-1001 locomotives and myriad other details inside the plant.

The second part of the video visits 48 steel mills & foundries in Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Utah, Colorado, Ontario and Nova Scotia. The railroads include the Birmingham Southern, Bessemer & Lake Erie, in-plant steel mill railroads and Pittsburgh mainline trains near the mills.

The DVD version includes a self-starting CD-ROM, that is like looking at a book on a computer (PC or Mac), with 492 photos, and some steel mill documents and publications (not included with VHS version).

PrairieWorks, DVD and Photo CD-ROM Book, 96 minutes. PW104
Price: 25.95 USD

The extensive collection of GN steam locomotive photographs was taken in the 1950s in locations such as Minneapolis/St. Paul, Duluth/Superior, St. Cloud & Willmar in Minnesota, Devils Lake & Minot in North Dakota, Spokane & Seattle in Washington State; Portland, Bend and Klamath Falls in Oregon and Beiber in California.

The locomotive types included are American (4-4-0), Mogul (2-6-0), Prairie (2-6-2), Ten-Wheeler (4-6-0),Consolidation (2-8-0), Mastodon (4-8-0), Atlantic (4-4-2), Pacific (4-6-2), Mikado (2-8-2), Santa Fe (2-10-2), Mountain (4-8-2), Northern (4-8-4), Mallet 2-6-8-0, Mallet 2-8-8-0, Mallet 2-8-8-2, 0-6-0 Switcher and 0-8-0 Switcher.

All the 380 photos were scanned in from original black & white medium-format negatives and are presented in book form with information on the locomotives.

PrairieWorks, Photo CD-ROM Book. PW103
Price: 16.95 USD

The 247 images come from photos, slides and postcards in the states of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin. Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wyoming. In some instances, there is the original depot and its replacement pictured. A number of these depots still exist and these are indicated by a date. The depots are grouped by state.

The presentation is like looking through a book on a computer. The CD-ROM works in PCs & Macs and is self-starting. The images can be printed out

PrairieWorks, Photo CD-ROM Book. PW101
Price: 16.95 USD

Minnesota Shortlines: Past and Present

A trip around Minnesota, using video, 8 mm film and photos, to see shortline railroads from the past and present. They range from terminal operations and branchline operators to railroads using stretches of former Class One railroad lines.

The shortlines featured are Cloquet Terminal; Dakota Rail; Duluth & Northeastern; Duluth, Rainy Lake & Winnipeg; Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific; Koppers Coke; Lake Superior & Mississippi; Minnesota Central; Minnesota Commercial; Minnesota Northern; Minnesota Zephyr; Minnesota Prairie Line; Minnesota Southern; Minnesota Transfer; Minnesota Valley; Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern; Minneapolis Eastern; North Shore Scenic Railroad; North Star Steel; Northern Lines Railway; Northern Plains; Otter Tail Valley; Progressive Rail; St. Croix Valley; St. Paul Union Depot; Twin Cities & Western; United States Steel Duluth Works and some grain elevator operations.

PrairieWorks, DVD, 115 minutes. PW110
Price: 25.95 USD

Burlington Route Across the Heartland: Everywhere West from Chicago. The Golden Years of Railroading.

Travel with the historic Chicago, Burlington & Quincy from Chicago to Denver. Dramatic action photos feature the classy stainless steel Zephyr passenger train as well as steam and diesel-powered trains. Includes a map of the railway.

Kalmbach Books, soft cover, 11 x 8.5 x .25 in., 128 pages, 120 b&w photographs. KB01087
Price: 18.95 USD

Step-by-step instructions and an illustrated teaching method take the mystery out of constructing model railroad bench work. Covers the materials and tools necessary and the rudimentary skills required to make sturdy bench work for any size or scale layout.

Kalmbach Books, soft cover; 96 pages, 8.25 x 10.75 x .25 in.; 300 b&w photographs; 25 illustrations. KB12241
Price: 13.95 USD

Learn the reasons for including structures on your layout, then select and build your own! Photo-driven projects demonstrate the tools, materials, and techniques used when modeling plastic or wood structures. Offers techniques for realistic finishing, including painting, weathering, sign making, interior detailing, and more. Perfect for beginning Model Railroader's, complements the Model Railroader Basic book series, written by Jeff Wilson, former associate editor of Model Railroader and author of numerous Kalmbach books.

Contents:
Introduction, About the Author, pp. 4-6;
Ch. 1: Plastic Kits, pp. 7-20;
Ch. 2: Wood Kits, pp. 21-26;
Ch. 3: Scratch building, pp. 27-34;
Ch. 4: Structure Roofs, pp. 35-48;
Ch. 5: Painting, pp. 49-61;
Ch. 6: Detailing, pp. 62-70;
Ch. 7: Signs, pp. 71-81;
Inspiration: Photo Gallery, pp. 82-85;
List of Manufacturers, pp. 86-88.

Kalmbach Books, soft cover, 88 pages, 8.5 x 10.75 x .25 in.; 225 color photographs; 12 illustrations. KB12258
Price: 13.95 USD

Model Railroader's How-To Guide.

Using only off-the-shelf trackwork, buildings, bridges and scenery and ready-to-run trains, you can construct a layout from the ground up with effort-saving ideas like office furniture pedestals doubling as benchwork support and storage. This book brings it all together –trackwork, scenery, wiring, command control, structures, detailing and trains on a model railroad readers will actually build.

Contents:
Ch. 1: Track planning and benchwork, pp. 6-17;
Ch. 2: Track and wiring, pp. 18-27;
Ch. 3: Structures, pp. 28-39;
Ch. 4: Scenery foundations, pp. 40-61;
Ch. 5: Scenery texture and final touches, pp. 62-77;
Ch. 6: Locomotives and rolling stock, pp. 78-85;
Ch. 7: Final details, pp. 86-93;
Resources, pg. 94;
About the author, pg. 95.

Kalmbach Books, soft cover, 96 pages, 8.25 x 10.75 x .25 in., color photographs and illustrations. KB12429
Price: 13.95 USD

Model Railroader's How-to Guide

Improve the appearance and performance of your freight cars! Jeff Wilson shows modelers how to improve ready-to-run and kit HO and N freight cars both visually and operationally with upgraded details, wheels, couplers, and loads. These how-to-tips apply to both the cars pictured in the book and the readers ’ own HO, N, O, and G scale cars. Perfect for intermediate Model Railroader's hoping to improve their equipment. Packed with step-by-step color photographs.

Kalmbach Books, soft cover, 88 pages, 8.25 x 10.75 x .25 in., 100 color photographs, 50 b&w photographs, 5 illustrations. KB12420
Price: 13.45 USD

Prolific Kalmbach author Jeff Wilson shows modelers how to re-create numerous types of railroad and highway bridges based on prototype designs. Divided into chapters by bridge type, each chapter shows several prototype examples and demonstrates techniques for modeling, painting, weathering, and installing the models on a layout.

Covers the history of railroad bridges, trestles, and tunnels. Includes specific details for modeling iron and steel truss bridges, plate girder bridges, concrete bridges, lift bridges, tunnels, and more. Lists currently available models. Ideal for intermediate and advanced hobbyists.

Chapters: 1. Bridge Basics;
2. Culverts and beam bridges;
3. Trestles;
4. Plate-girder bridges;
5. Truss Bridges;
6. Stone and concrete bridges;
7. Movable bridges;
8. Highway bridges;
9. Abutments and piers;
10. Tunnel portals;
List of available models.

Kalmbach Books, soft cover, 88 pages, 8.25 x 10.75 x .25 in., 75 color photographs, 100 b&w photographs, 15 illustrations. KB12452
Price: 13.95 USD

Add realism to your layout! Jeff Wilson provides insights, photographs, and guidelines for modeling several rail-served industries. Includes overviews of creameries and milk traffic;
the paper industry;
breweries;
iron ore mining and transloading;
freight houses and less-than-carload traffic, and coal customers.

Kalmbach Books, soft cover, 88 pages, 8.5 x 10.75 x .25 in., 120 color photographs, 70 b&w photographs, 12 illustrations. KB12409
Price: 13.95 USD

Continuing the Model Railroader's Guide to ... series, this book gives the reader the scoop on railroad junctions — where tracks meet and cross. photographs of full-scale junctions from the past and present show how junctions work and the details that surround them. Drawings provide ideas for track planning and explain train operations. Sidebars illustrate techniques for modeling functional junctions in any scale. This new book contains detailed text, photographs, and examples specifically aimed to assist modelers.

Contents:
1. Crossings;
2. Where Lines Meet;
3. Interlockings;
4. Tower Operations;
5. Interlocking Signals;
6. Modeling Interlockings;
7. Interchange Traffic;
8. Junction Details.

Kalmbach, soft cover, 88 pages, 8.25 x 10.25 x .25 in., 150 color photographs, 20 illustrations. KB12408
Price: 13.45 USD

Featuring plans from Model Railroader magazine from three decades, each of the 101 track plans has a newly written, informational description of the design. The track plans range in size from simple 4 x 8 foot and smaller layouts to room- and garage-sized showpieces, with the majority focusing on mid-size layouts.

Kalmbach Books, soft cover, 88 pages, 8.25 11.25 x .25 in., 101 illustrations in color. KB12443
Price: 12.95 USD

Delaware & Hudson In Color Vol. 3: The D&H in the Diesel Years.

Featuring the photography of Jim Shaughnessy and a dozen other notable lensmen, this new book examines the D&H diesel evolution in several hundred across the system action scenes.

This title is a geographic tour of the D&H during its diesel years. Includes PAs and Sharks (in both NYC and D&H paint).

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1176
Price: 46.95 USD

Tom McNamara provides us with the sixth 'Trackside' volume, an exciting portfolio of New Haven action photography from the 1950s and 60s. His work ranges from the heavy-duty electrified zone to bucolic branches to four-unit FAs on Maybrook merchandise trains.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pp., 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1051S
Price: 34.95 USD

Penn Central In Color Volume 3: From the Potomac to the Alleghenies

Washington, DC to the Alleghenies via Philadelphia! See the wide variety of Penn Central operations and motive power in full color.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1370
Price: 46.95 USD

This book is an in-depth look at the Lackawanna. We begin the series with coverage of Lackawanna operations in the state of New Jersey, starting at the Hudson River and ending at the Delaware River. In terms of distance, its only about 100 miles as the crow flies, but within that space the DL&W managed to pack a great amount of railroad activity on a variety of lines. The second half of the book examines the Lackawanna in Pennsylvania and New York. Starting at the Delaware Water Gap, we have a tour of the cement district, climb the Poconos, look at the heart of Lackawanna operations in the city of Scranton, and head west to Buffalo, with a few side trips on the branches feeding into the main line. This book has many steam in addition to first-generation diesel power with some panoramic views of passenger trains and the great concrete viaducts.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1187
Price: 46.95 USD

Penn Central In Color Vol. 1: Operations in Western New England and Upstate New York State.

The much maligned Penn Central operated an amazing variety of diesel locomotives mostly inherited from its three predecessors –New York Central, Pennsylvania Railroad and New Haven. See them in operation on freights, commuter trains and through passenger service in this 128-page book.

Includes photographs of many first and second-generation diesels, RDC's, bridges and terminals.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1324
Price: 46.95 USD

Few places in America offered as much railroad action and variety as Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley in the 1940s. The rail scene around Allentown was dominated by a trio of smaller eastern roads, the Reading, the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and the Lehigh Valley. Sharing the scene were the two 'Maybrook' roads, the Lehigh and Hudson River and the Lehigh and New England. Arthur Angstadt's photography was a byproduct of his passion for realistic model railroading. Not only the trains were photographed, but also the scenes and the structures, especially stations and roundhouses. What Arthur left behind is the subject of this book: a priceless collection of images of railroading in the Lehigh Valley, when new was replacing old, but when the railroads of the region were still independent and prospering.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1232
Price: 46.95 USD

Trackside around Massachusetts 1950-1970 with Russ Munroe.

The three major roads of the State: New Haven, Boston & Maine and Boston & Albany;
are scrutinized in full color by noted rail photographer Russ Munroe. There's a little Central Vermont and other smaller roads also.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1242
Price: 46.95 USD

With Arch and Bruce Kantner.

The source of Reading Company prosperity, its central Pennsylvania anthracite territory, was recorded by the Kantner Brothers in color chiefly during the 1950 ’s. The last of steam and the earliest of Reading diesels are shown at work gathering and hauling coal as well as providing first class passenger conveyance.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1253
Price: 46.95 USD

Western Maryland In Color Vol. 2: Steam and first-generation Diesels.

The best compilation of Western Maryland steam and early diesel to ever be assembled - and in full color! These rare images are spread through 128 pages and detailed by author Jerry Plant in glorious detail.

There are some great photographs in this book! From the Thatcher Perkins 4-6-0 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (on loan from the B&O Museum) to passenger locals pulled by both steam and diesel plus branch lines and some facilities.

Contents:
The Western Maryland Railway, pp. 3-4;
Western Maryland in the Steam Era, pp. 8-63;
Western Maryland in the Diesel Era, pp. 64-123;
Life After Abandonment, pp. 124-126.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1331
Price: 46.95 USD

This book is organized by railroad and location, beginning with the Lehigh Valley around Towanda, PA and following this around Sayre, PA. It then looks at the Erie, Lackawanna and Erie Lackawanna in Waverly, NY, following them west to the Elmira, NY area. At Elmira it heads south on the picturesque Elmira Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. This entire remarkable primarily taken in the 1940s was conducted within a one hour drive of photographer Lloyd Halls home in Towanda, PA. This book is about 70 percent Lehigh Valley with the remaining split among the Erie, Lackawanna, E-L and Pennsylvania. A couple of pp. show the D&H Sharks and PAs.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1247
Price: 46.95 USD

This book is a celebration of the Pennsylvania Railroad and an attempt to show through color photography what set it apart from other American railroads. Some of the themes are superlatives: the most, the biggest, the best, in motive power, physical plant, rolling stock, employees. Others point to what was unique, characteristic, idiosyncratic, unforgettable: the Penny look, in equipment, stations, geography, operations. A final theme is history: what pictures point to the changes in the railroad and its environment that make us understand its decline and fall, from industry leadership to bankruptcy in the Penn Central debacle.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1136
Price: 42.95 USD

Acquisition of the Pere Marquette in 1947 produced a second C&O, one that linked the Midwest's two largest cities, Detroit and Chicago, and that spun a spiders web of lines throughout the state of Michigan and the southern region of Ontario. This C&O has never been adequately represented in books on the railroad, and this Volume Two of Morning Suns three-volume look at George Washington's Road is an effort to provide a comprehensive look at the lines of the former Pere Marquette Railway in the years before and after the C&O merger.

This book is a tour of the route from Chicago to Detroit and into Ontario. Also included are photographs of the Lake Michigan ferries operated by the C&O.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1168
Price: 46.95 USD

The Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac. Three historic place names that do no appear in the corporate title of any other major railroad. One hundred thirteen miles of busy double track railroad, linking the former capital of the confederacy with the Nations capital. The most direct link between two of the largest railroads of the Northeast, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio, and two giants of the Southeast, Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1217
Price: 46.95 USD

From the 1950s to Guilford in more than 240 color views of this New England classic the authors provide a detailed tour of the Maine Central.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1044
Price: 40.95 USD

As the winds of change swept over Eastern railroads in the 1960s, the Delaware & Hudson entered its most exciting period. Exotic diesels such as PAs and Sharks, wild lashups of units bearing the colors of the D & H and former owners, and expansion into the large cities of the East characterize the D & H before the Guilford takeover in 1984. Join us in this 128 page hard cover for a trip of the D & H in the heady years between lightning stripes and Guilford.

A geographic tour of the D&H with lots of blue and silver, E-L, Lehigh Valley and other power, too!

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1030
Price: 40.95 USD

Grand Trunk Western In Color: Steam & Green 1941-1951.

The Grand Trunk Western was an interesting blend of Canadian and U.S. railway practices. It had hotshot freights that serviced a burgeoning automobile manufacturing traffic in the Detroit area while also operating a top-notch Chicago to Toronto main line passenger operation during the time period presented in this book.

Featuring the color photography of Emery Gulash and Sanford Goodrick, the pictures with accompanying captions are organized by GTW operating divisions and subdivisions. The pictures presented are about 60 percent steam to 40 percent diesel with depots, passenger equipment and facilities also presented.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1181
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With Emery Gulash.

Downriver Detroit is the city's heavy workshop, the place of steel mills, shipyards, and chemical plants. This all-color book which begins in Delray includes the Ford River Rouge complex, the PM-Wabash-PRR rail routes as well as other railroads in this general area. NYC, B&O, GTW, DT&I and Shore Line complete the excursion back to the late steam/early diesel years.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1237
Price: 46.95 USD

With Emery Gulash.

Follow the Wabash as its eclectic diesel fleet highballs hotshot auto traffic and fabled passenger trains. Our book celebrates the color work of fabled photographer Emery Gulash and continues as the N&W extends its paint and influence after the 1964 merger.

Morning Sun Books, hard cover with jacket, 128 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., all color photographs with captions. MSB1257
Price: 46.95 USD