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NEW PUBLICATIONS Erie and DL&W


Wreck Trains by Ron Dukarm Available through the


Erie Lackawanna Historical Society


This 100 page, five chapter spiral bound book includes 153 photos of Lackawanna, Erie, and EL wreck cranes and their associated equipment. Most of these photographs are being published for the first time. The book also includes 36 drawings and equipment charts. Ron thoroughly covers the complete roster of wrecking cranes, wreck trains, and wrecking procedures of all three railroads. Ron also provides the first ever explanation of Erie's mysterious Maintenance Of Way numbering system.


Member price plus $8.95 s&h


www.erielackhs.org $1696


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ELHS membership at $35 per membership cycle. Cycle includes four issues of our magazine “The Diamond” and four newsletters with modeling


information. Separate check please. Send to: ELHS c/o Randy Dettmer, 290 W. Prospect St., Hudson, OH 44236


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Non-member price $1995


My C&O by Steve Fuchs with Rick Acton, Jr., is now available from St. Alban Media. The book covers the transition of about 600 miles of former Chesapeake & Ohio main lines in Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia from the Chessie System into today’s CSX Transportation, with an occasional glance back into the 1950s and ’60s. Part I covers ex-C&O lines between the Ohio River and Lake Erie; Part II, the route along the Ohio between Huntingdon, W.Va., and Cincin- nati, Ohio; and Part III traces the route across West Virginia. Generously illustrat- ed with dozens of good well-reproduced color photos and a useful and varied assortment of maps, tables, and track diagrams, My C&O provides a good overview of the histo- ry and current operations over these routes. The photos show many facilities including bridges, tunnels, signals, and structures, along with many views of trains in action and at rest. Ancillary operations such as Amtrak’s Cardinal service, Transkentucky Transportation, and Kanawha River Termi- nals are touched upon, too. Printed on nice, glossy stock, this 160-page, 8¹/₂″×11″ hard- cover sells for $59.95 postpaid from St. Al- ban Media LLC Dept. RF, 4390 Baker Rd., Dayton, OH 45424; www.stalbanmedia. com. OH residents add sales tax. Indiana University Press has released an updated and expanded edition of The In- diana Rail Road Company by Christopher Rund in honor of the road’s 25th anniver- sary. The book not only discusses INRD’s growth over two and a half decades, but sets the stage with a description of the develop- ment of the Illinois Central and an explana- tion of the state of the railroad business in the era leading up to deregulation and IC’s later years of expansion and contraction. These events led to Tom Hoback and Co.’s purchase of the Indianapolis Sub in 1986, when it became the nucleus of today’s Indi- ana Rail Road.


Rund’s original text is now accompanied by a foreword by Fred Frailey and four new chapters, one by Rund, one by Eric Powell, and two by Frailey. Two chapters of new ma- terial trace the history of the Milwaukee Road’s Chicago, Terre Haute & Southeast- ern, which tapped southern Illinois coal- fields to feed the granger road’s steam power and now forms INRD’s north-south stem known as the Latta Sub. Another covers the railroad’s new branch that opened in 2010 to serve the new Bear Run coal mine, and the fourth new chapter describes a typical day’s operations. An appendix describes stations and places of interest along each subdivision. The book is copiously illustrated with dozens of b&w and color photos from the steam era through today’s big EMD’s and features a color dust jacket by Mitch Markovitz showing an SD9043MAC on a coal train, as well as a Markovitz system map plus six others. This 304-page, 8¹/₂″×10″ hardcover sells for $39.95 plus $5.00 ship- ping from Indiana University Press Dept. RF, 601 N. Morton St., Bloomington, IN 47404; http://iupress.indiana.edu; 800/842- 6796; email iuporder@indiana.edu.


BOOK REVIEW


Vermont Rail System 2012 Trackside Guide By Kevin Burkholder. Published by Steel Wheels Photography Dept. RF, 77 Acorn St., White River Junction, VT 05001; www.steel wheelsphotography.com/pubs. 160 6″×9″ pages, softcover; $18.99 plus $3.99 shipping. The Vermont Rail System 2012 Track- side Guide by Kevin Burkholder is now available from Steel Wheels Photography. This small volume is packed with informa- tion that will help make your next trip to VRS territory more productive, with its detailed maps, sched-


ules, grade profiles, train symbol list, list of station codes, and list of radio frequencies (a full system map adorns the back cover). Each VRS component, which include the Green Mountain Railroad, Vermont Rail- way, Clarendon & Pittsford, New York &.Ogdensburg, and Washington County Railroad, is covered in equal detail. The book starts with a brief history of the VRS beginning in 1963 and a general overview of the system’s operations, followed by a dis- cussion of the Green Mountain Gateway Route between Canadian Pacific’s Delaware & Hudson at Whitehall, N.Y., and Worces- ter, Mass., via New England Central at Bel- lows Falls, Vt., and Providence & Worcester at Willimantic, Conn.


Each chapter on the component roads (CLP, GMRC, VTR, NYOG, and WACR) in- cludes a brief description of the route and its traffic; a simplified track schematic that shows each timetable location, siding, ma- jor spur, and connecting railroad; and a de- tailed route map or two that shows station locations, major highways, and water- courses. Important stations and locations are also described in some detail, along with tips on finding good photo locations and how to follow trains along the route. Subsequent chapters describe the compa- ny’s dramatic recovery from the wide- spread washouts and damage caused by Tropical Storm Irene in the fall of 2011, the upcoming construction of the Otter Creek Railway between the VTR Northern Subdi- vision main line and the OMYA quarry near Middlebury, Vt., the short-lived gran- ite operation over the switchbacks in Barre, Vt., and the 2011 test of Caterpillar- powered GP15D and GP20D road switch- ers. To round out the coverage. four illus- trated rosters list and depict maintenance of way equipment, snow plows, passenger cars, and of course, locomotives. Through- out the book, dozens of fine, well-printed color photographs complement the text. Whether you’re planning your first trip to Vermont Rail System territory or your fifti- eth, you’ll want to prepare by studying this book closely. The information is as current as possible (printed in January 2012) and the book has been reviewed by Vermont Rail System management to ensure accuracy.


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