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Union Pacific’s Topeka Rails is the latest b&w softcover book by Robert P. Olmstead published by South Platte Press. Light on text, this volume is a well-printed photo al- bum which depicts railroading around Tope- ka, Kan., between 1965 and 2010. The Union Pacific power shown includes A-B-A F3s, U25B’s, several U50s (including No. 31, which ran for a time without hood doors), as well as E units, GP9s, GP30s, C30-7s, SD9043MAC’s, and Dash 8s, plus 4-8-4 No. 844. Rock Island locomotives include E units and second generation EMD and GE road units, while Southern Pacific power shows up after UP merged with that road and a couple of stray Norfolk & Western and CSX units came through town. This 48-page 8¹/₂″×11″ softcover sells for $18.95 plus $5.00 shipping from South Platte Press, P.O. Box 163, David City, NE 68632; www. southplattepress.com. NE residents add sales tax. Southern Pacific’s Golden Empire 1954-


1958 from the Southern Pacific Histori- cal & Technical Society and edited by Joe Dale Morris and Rod Crossley, features the color photography of John B. Hungerford and Harold F. Stewart. The full-color dust jacket features a John Winfield painting of a boy and his dog watching 2-10-2 No. 3625 march through Los Banos with a train of sugar beet racks. Inside, eight chapters de- pict operations on the Western and Sacra- mento Divisions; the Salt Lake, Shasta, and Portland Divisions; down “the valley” from Lathrop to Santa Clarita; the Coast Line from San Francisco to Ventura; the inland route from Ventura to Indio; the narrow gauge Keeler Branch; the Nacozari Branch in Arizona and Mexico; and finally, the many railroads large and small that inter- changed with the SP. The vast majority of the well-reproduced color photos depict SP steam power large and small, but the San Francisco Bay ferries along with many rail facilities and engine terminals are also shown. The “Interchange” chapter is very in- teresting and features diverse connections including the Northern Pacific, Spaulding Pulp & Paper, Wills Shingle Co., Coos Bay Lumber, Medco Lumber, Robert Dollar Co., Weyerhaeuser Timber, Fruit Growers Sup- ply, Sacramento Northern, Nevada North- ern, Howard Terminal, Pickering Lumber, Santa Maria Valley, Union Pacific, and Western Pacific. SP relative Pacific Electric is included among the interchange partners. This fully-indexed, 296-page, 8¹/₂″×11″ hardcover sells for $85.00 plus $8.50 ship- ping from the Southern Pacific Historical &Technical Society, 1523 Howard Access Rd. Suite A, Upland, CA 91786-2582; www.sphts.org. CA residents add sales tax. Volume VI of the Guide to the New York


Ontario & Western Railway’s Northern Divi- sion by Charles M. Breiner and William E. Scott is available from the Ontario & West- ern Railway Historical Society. This 118- page, spiral bound softcover printed on glossy paper measures 8¹/₂″×11″ and covers the northernmost section of the railroad be- tween Munnsville and Owego, N.Y., includ-


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ing the Rome Branch and the Utica Division. The book begins with an historical sketch of O&W predecessor New York & Oswego Mid- land and then proceeds north from Munns to Oswego, illustrating every station and point of interest along the way with well-printed vintage photos of trains, structures, bridges, and scenic features. Simple maps show the track layout and structure locations at each station, and the book is interspersed with at- tractive line drawings and more detailed maps of several locations. Jeff Otto has pro- vided a mile-by-mile auto tour guide, with detailed maps of the roads and railroad bed for those who wish to tour the right of way. An added bonus is an appendix which in- cludes a reprint of the O&W 1907 Freight Shippers Directory, which lists every cus- tomer at every station on the railroad, fol- lowed by a selection of NYO&W standard structure drawings, well proportioned but not dimensioned, which shows several types of stations. It sells for $20.00 plus $6.00 ship- ping from the Ontario & Western Railroad Historical Society, P.O. Box 713, Middle- town, NY 10940; www.nyow.org. The CSX Clinchfield Route in the 21st


Century by Jerry Taylor and Ray Poteat, first published as a hardcover in 2008, has been reprinted in softcover by Indiana Uni- versity Press. This well-illustrated volume begins with a brief examination of the for- mer Clinchfield and its operations, and then four chapters cover CSX operations up to 2008, when the book was first published, in nearly 200 well-printed color images. Each chapter has at least one map, and supple- mentary maps show the Loops, CSX’s east- ern Kentucky coal branches and Southeast- ern coal routes to show how the former Clinchfield fits into the bigger picture. The railroad is described practically mile for mile, with a photo and caption of every im- portant location, junction, or operating fea- ture. Appendices cover motive power, coal gons and hoppers, and former Clinchfield properties that have been disposed of by CSX. The 188-page, 8¹/₂″×11″ volume retails for $27.95 plus $5.00 shipping from Indiana University Press at the address given below. Also newly available in softcover from IU


Press is William D. Middleton’s Landmarks of the Iron Road, a study of 200 years of North American railroad civil engineering which was first published in 1999. The first four chapters discuss noteworthy bridges, moun- tain crossings, tunnels, and facilities includ- ing yards, docks, and terminals. The final chapter laments lost landmarks which in- clude the Grand Trunk Railway suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, N.Y., Milwaukee Road’s pontoon bridge across the Mississippi at Prairie du Chien, Wis., and the Florida East Coast Key West Extension, which was wiped out by a hurricane in 1935. The author provides clear explanations in layman’s terms of many subjects including the finer points of bridge construction and tunnelling, often illustrated with period artwork in addi- tion to the many b&w photographs. This 208- page, 8¹/₂″×11″ book retails for $34.95 plus $5.00 shipping from Indiana University Press, 601 North Morton St., Bloomington, IN 47404-3797; http://iupress.indiana.edu.


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