books: railroad work     books:     Railroad work      The Call of Trains: Railroad Photographs of Jim Shaughnessy Jim Shaughnessy, Jeff Brouws W. W. Norton, 2008 A majestic collection celebrating the life and work of one of the deans of railroad photography. Jim Shaughnessy is a revered name among railroad photographers. This collection, the best of his work over a forty-year career, features 170 duotone photographs taken between 1946 and 1988, with an emphasis on the railroad culture of the fifties and ...             The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California Richard Rayner W. W. Norton/Atlas & Company, 2007 Fascinating read; another good job by author This book covers the history of the railroad to California, but with a special emphasis and focus on the wheelings and dealings of the railroad barons/masterminds who pulled it off. Sometimes through means (stock fraud, etc) that look pretty shady in retrospect. If ...             Baltimore & Ohio's Capitol Limited and National Limited (Great Passenger Trains) Joe Welsh Voyageur Press, 2007 Baltimore and Ohio's Capitol Limited and National Limited I have owned Baltimore and Ohio's Capitol Limited and National Limited book since December 4, 2007. The book has excellent black and white and color photos of the Capitol Limited and National Limited. My favorite color photos of the National Limited are in Chapter 1. I ...             The Model Railroader's Guide to Bridges, Trestles & Tunnels (Model Railroader's Guide To...) Jeff Wilson Kalmbach Publishing Company, 2005 An in-depth guide that combines an appreciation of railroad history with solid how-to tactics for bringing said history to life The Model Railroader's Guide To Bridges, Trestles & Tunnels is an in-depth hobbyist's guide to adding minutely detailed, realistic bridges and tunnel portals to a model railroad layout. Chapters include overviews of the construction and purpose of bridges, trestles, ...             European Rail Timetable Summer 2008: Rail Schedules - June to December (European Rail Timetable) Thomas Cook Publishing Thomas Cook Publishing, 2008 The Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable is the only comprehensive guide to rail and ferry services throughout Europe. This Independent Traveller’s Edition appears twice yearly and is a specially extended version of the monthly European Rail Timetable, based on the June and December editions. As well as detailed train and ferry timetables ...             Freight Train Greenwillow, 1978 Wonderful early childhood book. Freight Train/Tren de cargaSimple words with simple images. You can hear the "click clack" of the train coming down the track, the chugging sound of the steam engine, and the sound of the horn as it approaches and then moves away. My daughter loved this book before she ...             EMD Locomotives Brian Solomon Voyageur Press, 2006 A History of EMD Locomotives in Photographs and Words. By using photographs and words Brian Solomon's book took me on an historical journey of diesel locomotives from the beginning to now. The photographs have preserved a visual history of these locomotives and they have preserved a visual history of life in America as it ...             Locomotives: The Modern Diesel and Electric Reference Greg McDonnell Boston Mills Press, 2008 The essential photographic reference to modern North American locomotives. This remarkable large-format reference is a revised, updated and expanded work based on the author's Field Guide to Modern Diesel Locomotives . Locomotives covers all mainline models built for North American railroads from the mid-1 970s to today, from EMD Dash 2s ...             A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946: Volume 3: Indiana, Lower Michigan, and Ohio (Creating the ... Richard C. Carpenter The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 recalls an era when steam locomotives were still king and passenger trains stopped at nearly every town in America. Railroad companies employed over a million workers, on the trains and along the tracks. Everything moved by rail: travelers, mail, and freight -- whether a massive electric generator or a ...             Hopping Freight Trains in America Duffy Littlejohn Sand River Press, 1993 Sage Advice from a savvy, veteran Trainhopper When I first hopped freight trains, in 1970, there were no books to explain it or to allow one to learn the safe way to do it. Littlejohn is an entertaining writer, but most of all, his information is accurate, and his advice is sound. He approaches the subject from ...             Realistic Model Railroad Building Blocks: An Introduction To Layout Design Elements (Model Railroader) Tony Koester Kalmbach Publishing Company, 2005 Enthusiastically recommended for serious model railroad connoisseurs One of the newest additions to the "Model Railroader" book list, Realistic Model Railroad Building Blocks: An Introduction To Layout Design Elements by model railroading expert Tony Koester focuses upon how to apply Layout Design Elements - that is, visually and ...             How Steam Locomotives Really Work P. W. B. Semmens, A. J. Goldfinch Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 Great explanatory text that gets into all the details This is a small paperback that had me spellbound. That's as good as a technical text can be! I carried it everywhere with me, and read it in my spare time. If you love steam locomotives, this is a real page turner. It covers steam engines from the earliest ones ...             Colorado and Southern Railway (Images of Rail: Colorado) Allan C. Lewis Arcadia Publishing, 2004 " In 1860, thousands journeyed to the Colorado Territory, beckoned by reports of gold discoveries in the mountains west of Denver. In the early 1870s, W.A.H. Loveland built a railroad connecting Denver to the Clear Creek Mining District-the Colorado Central Railroad. Over the next 28 years, other lines were established, bought, sold, extended, ...             North American Railroad Bridges Brian Solomon Voyageur Press, 2008 A wealth of information and a book that can be confidently recommended Superbly illustrated throughout with color photography, "North American Railroad Bridges" by railroad historian Brian Solomon focuses upon railroad bridges and trestles that have been a feature (and often a quite dramatic feature) of the American landscape for the past ...             The Railroad Never Sleeps: 24 Hours in the Life of Modern Railroading Voyageur Press, 2008 For well over a century and a half the railroad has rolled on, crisscrossing the continent in the ceaseless activity that keeps the North American economy moving. This never-ending workday unfolds hour by hour in The Railroad Never Sleeps , a remarkable photographic chronicle of North American railroading over twenty-four hours. 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