Luxury on the Rails Video

Discover the many pleasures of traveling aboard luxuriously appointed private passenger cars. In 1999, eighteen private cars arrived in Chicago to make up a special train called the Dixie Flyer. Catch a ride aboard the Dixie Flyer and meet with the owners to hear them describe the time, effort, and resources poured into these rolling palaces. You'll lea about each car's history, and view their collections of railroad china and silver that make each car so unique. Color. 62 min.'

The Big Book of Model Railroad Track Plans

Southe Railway Steam Trains V1 -Passenger

This book contains over 150 superb photos of steam powered passenger trains in all regions of the system taken by the best photographers covering the road. Author Curt Tillotson has organized the photographs and details the images with extensive captions explaining the train, the geography, and the overall operation being shown. Special chapters cover Southe's mountain lines over the Saluda grade and the Swannoah line. This will be an ideal book for anyone interested in the South and in the nostalgic steam locomotives that the line operated.Hardcover 149 8-1/2148x 11148 149 112 pp 149 150 b/w'

Best of the East Video

An in-depth look at North America's greatest train watching spots east of the Mississippi river. 60 min. Color.'

Tehachapi Video

The most celebrated train-watching location in the West! This video follows the path of Southe Pacific's main line across the rugged Tehachapi Mountains in Southe Califoia. Features SP and Santa Fe freights behind a rainbow of locomotives on the horseshoe curve at Caliente, through the Tehachapi Canyon narrows, and on the world-famous Tehachapi Loop. 60 min. Color.'

Burlington Zephyrs Photo Archive: America's Distinctive Trains

With declining passenger revenues Burlington President Ralph Budd realized something new and unique was needed to lure passengers back to train travel. The result was the Zephyr. Featured in high quality photos and descriptive captions the Burlington Zephyrs are shown in a variety of scenic, rural and urban settings. Also included are vintage brochures, timetables, postcards and ads. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, popularly known as the Burlington Route, conjures images of big time railroading and the largest fleet of streamliners in the United States. The Zephyr146s appeal during the Great Depression was tremendous, its sleek lines and streamline design was the beginning of a styling revolution. In 1934, the only real hope was the future and the future was the Zephyr. Burlington maintained far-reaching passenger service with its silver fleet.'

Diesel Power on the Southe Pacific VHS

Weste locales set the stage for this action-packed video of color film that potrays the Southe Pacific in its finest days from 1942 to 1975. Actual footage from nineteen different sources are combined to bring surprises and special sections including F-units, Pas, E-units, Geeps, SD-9s, Train Masters and U-boats. This is what it was really like on the rails! Color, 1 hr. 43 min.'

Missouri Pacific Passenger Trains

Missouri Pacific Lines Freight Train Services and Equipment

Red Balls, tonnage trains, coal traffic and iron ore freight trains of the Missouri Pacific Lines from the 1930s to the 1980s spring vividly to life. Dorin explores the freight equipment that moved the goods, and the locomotives, both steam and diesel, that handled the freight and passenger trains. Rosters are included as well as material on the paint schemes from the blue and gray to all blue, and then merger into Union Pacific yellow. Diesel rosters cover the period from the 1940s up through the UP merger in the 1980s. Hdbd., 8 1/2 x 11, 136 pgs., 300 b&w and color ill.'

Pictorial History of America's Railroads

If you love the shrill of a steam whistle, the rumble of a diesel locomotive, or the smooth profile of a streamlined passenger train, you're sure to want Pictorial History of America's Railroads. This lavishly illustrated volume captures all the excitement of the railroad industry in America.

Mike Del Vecchio recounts, region by region, railroading's colorful past and present, and looks ahead to its bright future.

Softbound, 10 3/4' x 12', 224 pages, 170 b&w ill., 95 color.'

Collecting Toy Trains-4th Edition

Subtitled: Identification and value guide. This 4th edition includes accurate prices for thousands of items, including pre-1970 train toys from Lionel, Marx, Unique, American Flyer, Ives, Tootsietoy, Kansas Toy & Novelty, and other manufacturers. Collectors will also find a listing of auctioneers, collectors, and dealers. 4th ed. Sftbd., 8 1/2 x 11, 428 pgs., b&w and color ill. throughout. '

Baltimore & Ohio Passenger Service 1945-1971, Volume 1

Subtitled: The Route of the National Limited. Detailed histories of each train, tables and charts showing car origins, and destinations, information of mail and express, coach and Pullman passengers, timetables, stations, cars and more of the NY-Baltimore-Washington-St. Louis route where the Capitol Limited was the flagship train. Sftbd., 8 1/2x 11, 114 pgs., 208 b&w ill.'

Getting Started With Lionel Trains

Subtitled: Your Introduction to Model Railroading Fun. This information-packed book will help you get the most out of your Lionel train set by leaing how to select, set up, operate and maintain your trains and accessories. The author explains benchwork construction, track planning and layout design, wiring and control, scenery and maintenance procedures. This is the only operator-oriented book authorized and licensed by Lionel LLC! Sftbd., 8 1/4 x 11, 128 pgs., 100+ color ill.'

Chesapeake and Ohios Pere Marquettes: Americas First Post-War Streamliners

Eventually affected by the continued erosion of passenger traffic, the trains experienced a slow decline, but lasted as a shadow of themselves down to Amtrak on May 1, 1971. The story is told in great detail from original documents and illustrated with great photos, many of them from C&O official files.

Paperback 149 8-1/2148 x 11148 149 80 pages 149 130 color & b/w'

Train Depots & Roundhouses

***Now in Paperback!!***A nostalgic look at the cultural history of the train depot and roundhouse from big city stations to small town shacks across America. This colorful history examines depots and roundhouses from the pioneering years of the railroad through surviving relics and restored depots still in use today. Highlights many of the famous depots throughout the U.S. - from the Mission-style depots to the huge Union depots to wooden roundhouses. Fabulous illustrations include current color photos, memorabilia, historical photographs, architectural blueprints, railroad maps and much more. Formerly in hardcover as 'The American Train Depot & Roundhouse'. Sftbd., 10 x 10, 192 pgs., 50 b&w and 150 color ill.'

Union Pacific's Challenger: A Distinctive Passenger Train 1935-1971

For the first time, detailed coverage of the Union Pacific/Chicago & Northweste passenger trains tells the entire story of this innovative line. Complete with coaches and tourist sleepers, the UP and C&NW in 1935 inaugurated a transcontinental train tailored to middle-class passengers. On its new line, UP provided stewardess-nurses, special women's coaches, distinctive dining on special china, lounges, and other amenities normally associated with the best first-class trains. Read how the trains expanded into a fleet, despite the soft passenger market. Sftbd., 8 1/2 x 11, 80 pgs., 120 b&w and color ill.'

Train Wrecks

Subtitled: A Pictorial History of Accidents on the Main Line. American railroad history is filled with accounts of misadventure. Steam boilers blew up, bridges collapsed under the weight of heavy engines, locomotives crashed head-on, passenger cars derailed... Robert Reed presents this major historic work, vividly illustrated to present the full impact of this developmental period of rail transport. Sftbd., 8 1/2x 11, 184 pgs., 298 b&w ill.'