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160 pages. Includes our EXCLUSIVE coverage of PATH operations during and after the terrorist attack of September 11, “Bravery at the WTC.” Plus Staggers Act deregulation, the saga of abandoned rail corridors, blue-collar “boomer” tales, Wheeling & Lake Erie locomotives, restoring the company town of Pullman, and discovering the beauty of dining-car menus.
144 pages. Features the 4-8-4 locomotive by Robert A. Le Massena, with a gallery of historic action photos. Plus “The Railroad Pass: Perk or Plunder;” “Good Night, Madison,” an award-winning remembrance of growing up with tall tales and towermen in Wisconsin; a portrait of Henry U. Mudge, unsung Rio Grande mogul; and “Vanishing Triangles” on the New Haven.
160 pages. Features wrecks, explosions, and pile-ups, a comprehensive history of railroad accidents and disasters, with eight articles, an exclusive list of notable accidents (1831-2000), and many photographs. Plus recently restored photographs of the Pennsylvania Railroad, steam on the Virginian Railway, and German-built diesel-hydraulic engines on the Southern Pacific.
A 160-page special RRH issue, published to critical acclaim in April 2000, on the conquest of the diesel locomotive (1920-1960), featuring original essays by Wallace W. Abbey, Robert Aldag, Albert J. Churella, Colin Divall, Don L. Hofsommer, Maury Klein, Jeffrey Meikle, William D. Middleton, and Mark Reutter. With trackside photographs by J. Parker Lamb and vintage EMC and Alco locomotive images. Already a collector’s item.
160 pages. Includes "Century Gone," by Tom Taber and Mark Reutter, a superb overview of the many changes in railroading in the 20th century, embellished with period timetables and posters. In addition, "Race to Chicago" details the rivalry between the Michigan Central and Michigan Southern to get to Chicago first; "Sahara's Lost Railroads," offers an account of desert railroads that once fueled Mussolini's dreams and played a role in World War II; and "Semaphore Blades by Night" provides a missing chapter in the evolution of signaling. PLUS, the issue features the stunning night photography of Ben Halpern.
160 pages. Features a social and economic
history of toy trains, from floor-running “dribblers” of the 1840s to the microprocessor locomotives today. Also slavery on antebellum railroads, why the Union Pacific and Santa Fe did not electrify, and “Liquidating the Rock,” a personal account of dismantling the CRI&P.
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