THE OVERLAND ROUTE Union Pacific Railroad
by Ross Grenard and John Krause
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Wreck Trains by Ron Dukarm Available through the
Erie Lackawanna Historical Society NEW PUBLICATIONS
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.
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Windy City Steam is another fine gathering of pre-World War II photos from the collec- tion of Roy Campbell, edited by Thomas E. Burg and available from Merrill Publish- ing Associates. The book depicts the loco- motives, trains, and facilities of 21 railroads that served Chicago, including the Pere Mar- quette; Monon; Elgin, Joliet & Eastern; Chicago & Eastern Illinois; and Indiana Har- bor Belt, as well as the larger trunk lines such as Wabash, Santa Fe, New York Cen- tral, Baltimore & Ohio, and Milwaukee Road. The cover photo shows the MILW Pacific and office car used in the 1930 movie Danger Lights sitting alongside the Chicago River during filming. Other interesting images in- clude a nice roster shot of Illinois Central 4-6-0 No. 223, a sister of Casey Jones’s ill-fat- ed No. 382; a C&EI Forney 2-4-4-T with wooden coaches at Crete, Ill., shot before 1906; a Wabash Mogul at the Bluffs, Ill., coal dock in 1912; a Wisconsin Central 4-4-0 at Grand Central Station about 1895; and a Pennsy K2 Pacific, hardly recognizable as a P. Co. engine with its boilertube pilot and headlight centered on the smokebox front. Lots of Forneys are shown in suburban ser- vice on IC, Rock Island, and C&EI, and At- lantics aplenty belonging to Chicago & North Western, MILW, Burlington, RI, and Big Four (NYC). It’s not all teakettles either, as bigger power including NYC Hudsons, C&NW 4-8-4s and 4-6-4s, MILW Baltics and Northerns, Rock Island 4-8-4s, and modern power on the Burlington and Grand Trunk is well represented, too. This 122-page, 8¹/₂″×11″ softcover contains 208 nicely print- ed b&w photos and sells for $29.95 plus $3.95 shipping in the U.S. from Merrill Publishing Associates Dept. RF, P.O. Box 51, Merrill, WI 54452;
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ates.com. WI residents add sales tax. New from South Platte Press is Ameri-
ca’s Shortest Interstate Railroad by Richard L. Schmeling, the story of the four-mile Ne- braska-Kansas Railroad which linked lime- stone quarries in Kansas with a cement plant located on the Burlington in Superior, Neb., between 1914 and 1986. It’s an inter- esting subject and the line’s construction and operations are covered very thoroughly. Its rolling stock and varied steam, diesel, and electric motive power are described in text and a good variety of b&w photos, plus the full color covers. The little industrial line owned an odd little two-axle Westinghouse electric, several 0-4-0T’s, an ex-Navy 0-6-0T, a Vulcan 0-6-0, and a stocky, Vanderbilt- tendered Baldwin 2-6-0 from the Graysonia, Nashville & Ashdown. The diesel roster in- cluded a General Electric 25-tonner, 44-ton- ner, and 45-tonner, and two different Whit- comb center-cabs. An aerial photo of the railroad’s route is supplemented by a map and a detailed track plan of the Ideal Ce- ment plant, and there’s also brief introduc- tion to the art of cement making. This 80- page, 8¹/₂″×11″ softcover sells for $19.95 plus $5.00 shipping from South Platte Press, Dept. RF, P.O. Box 163, David City, NE 68632;
www.southplattepress.com; 402/367- 3354. NE residents add sales tax.
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The Burlington Waycars By Randall R. Danniel and Marian L. Reis with Joseph R. Douda. Published by Milepost 206 Publishing, Inc., Dept. RF, P.O. Box 543, West Burlington, IA 52655-0543; 319/754- 1408;
www.MilePost206.com. Hard cover, 768 8¹/₂″×11″ pages. $125.00 plus $15.00 shipping in the U.S. (signed and numbered Limited Edition with 16″×20″ color poster, $140.00 plus shipping).
This very impressive tome covers the history of the way- cars (ca- booses) of the Chica- go, Burling- ton & Quin- cy and its
predecessors up through the 1970 Burling- ton Northern merger. The authors acknowl- edge the accomplishments of Dan Holbrook and Steve Lorentzen, who wrote Waycars of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in the 1970s with the assistance of Joe Dou- da, and take off from there. The first chap- ter, an overview of the waycar’s develop- ment on the Q, is an excerpt from Holbrook and Lorentzen’s book along with a piece by Andrew Bailey on the side-door waycars and another article, reprinted from the CB&Q Historical Society’s The Zephyr magazine by Mike Hobbs about life working on the rear end, along with several other anecdotes. There’s also a story on the Oregon (Ill.) Turn and its unique 40-foot steel combine. Chapter 2 covers the wooden combination waycars, often referred to as drovers caboos- es, which were part coach, part baggage car, and part caboose. The following 17 chapters cover each class of wood and steel waycar, including the NE-5’s converted from boxcars and one-of-a-kind NE-11 bay window trans- fer waycar No. 14700, also converted from a boxcar. The four narrow gauge cars used on Burlington’s three-foot gauge line in South Dakota merit a chapter, as do the standard gauge four-wheel cars and the wood and steel cars of subsidiaries Colorado & South- ern and Fort Worth & Denver. The photographic coverage can only be described as stunning, as it features over 1200 very well-printed color and b&w pho- tos from the earliest recorded Burlington Route predecessors up through the BN era. Of course there are countless “roster” and detail shots of the interiors and exteriors of the cars, as well as pictures of the cars grac- ing the ends of freight and mixed trains, along with photos of men at work on them. The cover photo is noteworthy in its com- monness: a pair of black and gray Geeps wait as express parcels are unloaded from a side-door waycar onto a baggage cart at Al- bia, Iowa. Such an unremarkable occasion, recorded so perfectly. In addition to the ca- boo- er, waycar photos, many images show a great variety of steam and diesel locomo- tives and trackside facilities over the years. More than 100 drawings, many to scale,
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