Colorado Rail Annual No. 15: Idaho-Montana Issue.

Contents:
Utah & Northern by Mallory Hope Ferrell. A history of the Ogden-Butte line of the Union Pacific Railroad which started out as the narrow gauge Utah & Northern, pp. 9-81.

Union Pacific: Montana Division by Cornelius W. Hauck. A profusely illustrated story of the operations on the Butte line after standard gauging, pp. 93-160.

Gilmore & Pittsburgh by Rex Myers: Northern Pacific Subsidiary, Union Pacific Tributary. Covers a virtually unknown standard gauge line in Idaho's Salmon River country, pp. 161-216.

Colorado Railroad Museum, hard cover with jacket, 216 pages, 8.5 x 11 x 1 in., over 200 photographs, rosters and maps. CRM2754
Price: 21.95 USD

Railroading In The Rockies Half a Century Ago Colorado Rail Annual No. 18.

Contents:
Eastward Ho: A Tale of Two Young Californians' Journey to Colorado by Ted Wurm. Bob Gray and Ted Wurm headed to Colorado in 1939 to see railroading in Colorado, pp. 9-95.

Westward Ho: A Record of a Coloradoan's Rail Photo Safari Across the Rockies by John W. Maxwell. Great b&w photographs of Rio Grande standard and narrow gauge, Union Pacific mainline and branch line action, pp. 96-146.

On Line: Three Years in a Santa Fe Business Car by Edward Mahoney. At the young age of 17 Edward Mahoney began his Santa Fe Railway career as a secretary for a division superintendent. He traveled on-line in Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico in the years 1919-1922, pp. 146-221.

Colorado Railroad Museum, hard cover with jacket, 221 pages, 8.5 x 11 x 1 in., b&w photographs and timetable supplements. CRM2771
Price: 33.95 USD

Dreams, Visions & Visionaries. Colorado Rail Annual No. 20.

Contents:
In the Mountains of Utah by Jackson Thode and James L. Ozment. Early construction on the Rio Grande in the mountains of Utah and across Soldier Summit. The fascinating 1881-1882 journal of Francis Hodgeman, written when he was surveying the D&RGW mainline across eastern Utah. Includes supplement map of Utah showing the surveys and construction, pp. 10-97.

The Denver Post's Frontier Days Special by Richard Kreck and Kenton Forrest. A story about the Denver Post's special train operated once a year from Denver to Cheyenne's Frontier Days Rodeo, pp. 114-153.

The Greatest Train by Alexis McKinney. A personal reminiscence of the Frontier Days, pp. 154-169.

General Palmer's Other Narrow Gauge by Robert A. LeMassena. Mexican National narrow gauge. Includes supplement map opposite the Utah map, pp. 98-113.

An Overview of Union Pacific's Articulated Steam Power by R.H Kindig and R.C. Farewell, pp. 170-240.

Colorado Railroad Museum, hard cover with jacket, 240 pages, 8.5 x 11 x 1 in., over 300 photographs; acid free paper. CRM2751
Price: 16.95 USD

Santa Fe In The Intermountain West: Colorado Rail Annual No. 23.

This Annual is Santa Fe-All The Way!

Contents:

A Raton Mountain Railway Journal. Author Dan Seward details the Santa Fe's famed passage from prehistoric times and brings the story up to the early 1970s and Amtrak. Included are other rail lines in the area: Colorado & Southern, Denver & Rio Grande, several coal short lines and even the Trinidad street railway. Pages 10-163.

From Newton to New Mexico in the Steam Era: The Santa Fe's Northern District 1909-1953. Renowned locomotive historian Lloyd Stagner outlines AT&SF locomotive practices, operations and assignments. Pages 164-200.

A Northern District Steam Panorama. An overview by another authority on steam locomotives in the West, Cornelius Hauck. A b&w photographic portrayal of Santa Fe steam locomotives on the Northern District. Pages 201-221.

La Junta: The Santa Fe's Colorado Connection. Corny also covers the Steam Era shops and activity at the division point of La Junta, Colorado. Pages 222-296.

Desert Main Line: The Santa Fe in Arizona. Farther west, Gordon Bassett surveys the AT&SF across the northern part of the Grand Canyon State. Emphasis is on history and operations before 1950, including the remote mainline telegraph station at Nelson.

Colorado Railroad Museum, hard cover with jacket, 296 pages, 8.5 x 11 x 1 in., with maps and timetables, over 350 illustrations, many in color, acid free paper. CRM2773
Price: 19.95 USD

Volume Two presents three in-depth articles, all the first parts of two-part articles. The format is the same as Volume One.

Modern Double Sheathed and Single Sheathed Box Cars of the Ann Arbor Railroad by Rob Adams, pp. 2-42.

An in depth look at the Ann Arbors Steam Era box car fleet from the turn of the century through into the 1940s. This sets the stage for a follow up article on scratch building the Ann Arbors single sheathed box and automobile cars. Two drawings, six reference tables, and many rare photographs included.

Truss Rod Refrigerator Cars of the Fruit Growers Express/Western Fruit Express/Burlington Refrigerator Express Consortium, Part One: The Prototypes by Bill Welch. pp. 43-69.

Presents a detailed look at the consortiums fleet of truss rod refrigerator cars. Like the Ann Arbor article, this lays the foundation for Part Two that will explore modeling these cars. This includes many photographs that have not been published before.

Canadian National Railway Deck Pile Bridge, Saint John, New Brunswick by Patrick Lawson, page 70.

Drawings are presented for a CN deck pile bridge that is perfect for modeling.

AAR Inspired Forty Foot Steel Automobile Cars, Part One by Ted Culotta, pp. 71-96.

The AAR box car of 1937 and its subsequent derivatives spawned many auto cars that drew upon the traits of the box cars. Part One of this article examines many of the prototypes and ways to model them in HO Scale.

Speedwitch Media, soft cover, 96 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .5 in., perfect bound with laminated, lay flat cover. The text is printed on heavy glossy stock with color where appropriate. SM102
Price: 25.95 USD

Contents:

Express Box Cars Addendum (27 pp.) by Pat Wider.

This addendum provides additional coverage on the subject of BX express box cars that we originally presented in Volume 6. Included are many photographs and much information we either did not have sufficient space for in Volume 6 or have subsequently acquired. Shown are BX express box cars routinely used in head-end express passenger train service from the 1930s through the 1950s and into the 1960s.

Baldwin VO-1000 Diesel Switcher Locomotives (32 pp.) by Charlie Roth.

Presented are the many phases of Baldwin VO-1000 Diesel switchers built during the production span of these distinctive locomotives from late 1939 to 1946. Included are builders or in-service photographs of each phase in as-delivered appearance plus examples of locomotives that received various modifications while in service. Each phase designation is described with its inherent characteristics and a guide to the time period produced. In the case of modified locomotives, information about the original configuration is included. This article and the series of VO-1000 articles in Diesel Era are complimentary in nature.

A.A.R. 50-ton Hopper Cars Part 4 (15 pp., by Ed Hawkins)

Continuing the series of 1935 A.A.R. twin offset-side hopper cars produced for 25 years (1936 to 1960), this edition presents cars of this type built for southeastern roads. Examples include A.A.R. Standard and Alternate Standard cars as well as non-standard cars having 33' inside length. Representative builders and in-service photographs are shown of the numerous southeastern roads owning cars of this general description. This includes the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, which had more than 19,000 cars of various configurations.

10'-0 Inside Height Postwar A.A.R. 40'-6 Box Cars (30 pp.) by Ed Hawkins.

Following the production of the 1937 A.A.R. box car, the most common box car ever produced, cars of the same general design followed from 1945 into the 1950s. Presented are cars of 10'-0 IH having Improved Dreadnaught Ends of three versions built during this period. More than 35,000 cars of this description were built with SP/T&NO having more than 19,000. Included is a two-page roster of cars meeting the criteria.

RP CYC Publishing, soft cover, 104 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .25 in., b&w photographs and illustrations. RPCY108
Price: 21.95 USD

Contents:

Freight Car Hand Brakes-1920s to 1950s (59 pp.) by Pat Wider.

One item common to all freight cars is a hand brake. During the 1920s through 1950s a wide variety of types and styles of hand brakes were available. This included the use of vertical staff hand brakes with the wheel in a horizontal plane, geared power hand brakes with the wheel in either a vertical or horizontal plane, ratchet hand brakes, and lever hand brakes. Over time hand brake manufacturers introduced numerous changes to mechanisms and to the appearance of the wheels. Presented is a history of hand brake devices with more than 100 photographs and illustrations of the many hand brakes installed on freight cars during this period. Also provided are tables listing A.A.R. certified geared hand brakes as of May 1944 and June 1959.

New York Central 47'-11 Drop-Side Container Cars (11 pp.) by Pat Wider.

During the early 1930s the New York Central Railroad and L.C.L. Corporation continued the development of an early intermodal Container-On-Flat-Car (COFC) service. The L.C.L. Corporation purchased 335 such cars from Standard Steel Car Company and American Car & Foundry Company in 1930 and 1931 with each car equipped with 6 containers and having an inside length of 47'-11. These drop-side cars were used in COFC service into the early 1950s before being converted by NYC with the permanent closing of the drop-sides. The article presents a history of the cars with 20 photographs and illustrations.

70-ton Phosphate Quadruple Covered Hopper Cars - Addendum (5 pp.) by Pat Wider.

In Volume 4 of Railway Prototype Cyclopedia, we presented an article on 70-ton quadruple covered hopper cars for use in dedicated phosphate service. The cars were owned by Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, and Shippers' Car Line. Wabash later purchased some of these cars for sand service. Additional material is presented that includes five in-service photographs, two model photographs, and two illustrations of these cars.

AC&F Type 27 Un-insulated Multiple-Compartment I.C.C. 103 Tank Cars (30 pp.) by Ed Hawkins.

From 1928 through the late 1940s, AC&F developed and built a myriad of tank cars constructed to their Type 27 design standard. Included were several hundred multiple-compartment cars of either insulated or un-insulated configurations. Presented in this volume are un-insulated cars of this type, nearly all of which were either two-compartment or three-compartment. A lone five-compartment car was built. The tank capacities ranged in size from 4,000 gallons to 8,000 gallons with 6,000 gallons being the most common. Included is a history of the development of Type 27 tank cars with a comprehensive roster and more than 50 photographs and illustrations of these unique multiple-compartment cars used for transporting liquid materials.

RP CYC Publishing, soft cover, 104 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .25 in., b&w photographs and illustrations. RPCY110
Price: 21.95 USD

Contents:

Weighing Freight Cars (45 pp.) by Pat Wider.

The extensive material includes plans and photographs of Fairbanks-Morse and Howe track scales, Baldwin-Southwark scale test cars, National Bureau of Standards scale test cars, B&O scale tool cars, as well as lists of track scales on the B&O railroad and a list of the railroad ’s weigh station symbols. Several pages are devoted to describing the process of weighing freight cars and the reweighing and stenciling requirements of the A.A.R.

CB&Q Wood-Sheathed Auto Cars ((XA-1 Through XA-14) (42 pp.) by Bat Masterson, Hol Wagner, and Al Hoff-Man.

The material includes a roster and a comprehensive history of CB&Q ’s XA-1 through XA-14 double- and single-sheathed automobile cars as well as numerous photographs and diagrams. More than 7,000 cars of these 40' and 50' classes were built through 1937.

Fruit Growers Express/Burlington Refrigerator Express/Western Fruit Express Wartime Reefers (1942-1946) (26 pp.) by Bill Welch, Ed Hawkins, and Pat Wider.

The article includes an extensive history of the FGE consortium as well as a roster, descriptions, and numerous photographs of the FGE/BRE/WFE cars built from 1942-1946. The earliest of these had plywood-sheathed sides, while others had vertical tongue and groove sides. All-steel derivatives built by Mount Vernon beginning in late 1946 are also included. The subject matter covers prototype cars that will soon be forthcoming from Sunshine Models in HO scale.

RP CYC Publishing, soft cover, 112 pages, 8.5 x 11 x .25 in., b&w photographs and illustrations. RPCY112
Price: 21.95 USD

Contents:

Missouri Pacific Steel Rebuild Box Cars (including the original single and double-sheathed cars) (39 pp.) by Ed Hawkins.

Considered Missouri Pacifics signature box cars, the 1950s 36' and 40' steel rebuilds were truly unique as they reused underframes and ends (mostly) from cars built from 1924-1930. Rebuilt cars received new all-steel 10-panel riveted sides, new Youngstown doors, and new diagonal panel roofs. The article also presents the original cars, including interim changes made before the rebuilding program. The rebuilds were painted either freight car red for general service or in Eagle passenger-train colors for L.C.L. Eagle Merchandise Service. A two-page roster and time-line are also included.

40' Cryogenic Gas Tank/Box Cars (38 pp.) by Patrick C. Wider.

From the late 1930s to early 1960s, distinctive tank cars disguised as all-steel box cars were built by Pressed Steel Car Co., General American Transportation Corp., and American Car & Foundry for the transportation of cryogenic gases. Shown are numerous builders photographs and in-service photographs of cars leased to Linde, Air Reduction, and National Cylinder Gas. Included are a roster and engineering drawings of selected cars showing a general configuration of the tank and box car as well as details such as roof hatches and end doors.

General American 37' Meat Reefers (21 pp.) by Patrick C. Wider.

From the late 1930s through the 1950s, Midwestern slaughterhouses and meat packers leased a significant quantity of modern 37' refrigerator cars with wood superstructures built by General American Transportation Corporation. Dubuque, Kingan & Co., Dugdale Packing, and Oscar Meyer are just a few examples of the shippers that leased these cars owned by General American with G.A.R.X. or U.R.T.X. reporting marks. Also included is a roster.

1926/1929 A.R.A. Quadruple Hoppers Addendum (7 pp.) by Ed Hawkins.

Presented in the addendum are additional in-service photographs that have been acquired since the publication of the original article in Volume 5. These include cars for original owners B&O, C&O, Erie, K.C.S. (a later all-welded version), MILW, and M.P., as well as mid to late 1950s second-hand owners Montour and Norfolk Southern, the latter of which leased cars with extended sides for wood chip service. Also included is an updated roster and ORER time-line table.

RP CYC Publishing, 104 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., b&w photographs and illustrations. RPCY114
Price: 21.95 USD

Contents:

U.S.R.A. 40-ton Double-Sheathed Box Cars (53 pp.) by Patrick C. Wider.

The article is the first in a series of articles that will cover several “standard ” American box car designs that were built in large quantities during the first half of the 20th Century. In this article, Pat Wider covers the 25,000 double-sheathed wood and steel box cars that were built from 1918 to 1922 following a United States Railroad Association standard design. The comprehensive series of articles will include the contemporary U.S.R.A. single-sheathed wood & steel and double-sheathed all-steel box cars operated by a large number of U.S. railroads.

General American 70-ton All-Steel Refrigerator Cars (10 pp.) by Patrick C. Wider.

Pat Wider describes and illustrates the unique 1930s General American 70-ton “super size ” all-steel refrigerator cars owned and operated by General American Transportation Corporation and leased to the Milwaukee Road and the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway. These cars presaged the modern 50-foot cars of the 1950s.

Freight Car Running Boards and Brake Steps (53 pp.) by Ed Hawkins.

Ed Hawkins covers the various types of running boards and brake steps installed on freight cars prior used from the early 1900s through 1960 and to their banishment in 1974. Included are numerous photographs, tables, diagrams, descriptions, and contemporary trade publication advertisements. This is a must have article for serious freight-car modelers.

RPCYC Publishing, soft cover, 112 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., b&w photographs and illustrations. RPCY116
Price: 23.95 USD