ALL COLOR 2013 CALENDAR


THE CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY IS PLEASED TO ANNOUCE THE PUBLICATION OF IT’S ALL COLOR 2013 CALENDAR,


CONTAINING 13 PHOTOS OF C&NW AND PREDECES- SOR ROADS. INDIVIDUAL COPIES ARE AVAILABLE FOR $13.00 (including postage) ILLINOIS RESIDENTS PLEASE INCLUDE $1.05 CENTS TAX FOR EACH CALENDAR ORDERED. PLEASE ORDER FROM:


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Ghost Rails IX P&LE Mahoning State Line


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MORNING SUN BOOKS Three new all-color books for November 1st:


CONRAIL VOL. 2: 1980-1989


By Jeremy F. Plant Item# 1458


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during the line’s construction in 1912-1914. The author’s prose sets the stage and nicely ties together Mrs. Medbury’s letters, which are accompanied by a fine selection of b&w photos that depict the railway’s construc- tion, people in everyday life, and the accom- modations they lived in. Several sidebars cover subjects such as blasting rock, life in the railway camps, the First Nations people, laying track, and other subjects. This is not your typical rail history book, but provides an intimate, first-hand look at the construc- tion of this route between Prince Rupert and Fort George, British Columbia, today a Canadian National route of growing impor- tance. This 200-page 7″×8″ softcover sells for $24.95 plus $6.50 postage to Canada ($10.50 to U.S.) from Harbour Publishing, Dept. RF, P.O. Box 219, Madeira Park, BC V0N 2H0 Canada; 800/667-2988; www.caitlin-press. com/ordering.


BOOK REVIEW Sleeping Cars of the Santa Fe


By Michael W. Flick, Dennis J. Kogan, and Terry W. Lehmann. Published by the Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society, Inc., 1205 S. Air Depot No. 101, Midwest City, OK 73110-4807; www.atsfrr.com. Hardcover, 406 11″×8¹/₂″ pages; $65.00 plus $6.00 shipping; CA residents add sales tax.


This is Volume Five


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Passen-


ger Car Refer- ence Series and traces a century of de- velopment of Santa Fe’s


TRACKSIDE ON THE SANTA FE


IN OKLAHOMA 1957-1973 WITH FRANK TRIBBEY


By Daryl McGee Item# 1459


SOUTHERN RAILWAY VOLUME 3


by Kurt Reisweber Item# 1460


These all-color 128-page hardcover books will be available November 1, 2012. Order today at price of $59.95 apiece plus $7 shipping (add $2 for each add’l book) Canada-$12; foreign-$21, each. All books are shipped via U.S. Mail.


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sleeping car fleet, from 1871 through the demise of the company’s passenger service with the advent of Amtrak in 1971. The com- prehensive text is accompanied by 459 pho- tos in b&w and color and over 100 floor plans, elevations, and other artwork. The photos and artwork enjoy the finest repro- duction, from the earliest ornate wooden Pullmans through the heavyweight and lightweight eras. Extensive rosters include nearly 900 wood and steel Pullmans as well as the latest lightweight equipment. The book covers the changes cars went through over their service lives, including rebuilds and upgrades, floor plan changes, the addi- tion of air conditioning, and modifications including truck changes. Santa Fe’s run- through agreements with other railroads in running transcontinental sleeper lines are also covered. The sleeping car operating as- signments for the major Santa Fe passenger trains are covered in each chapter. The 59 pages of Chapter 1 are devoted to Santa Fe’s wooden cars in 20 configurations, plus cars acquired from the Pecos Valley & Northeastern, the emigrant sleepers, all- section tourist sleepers, and a six-page sec- tion devoted to the wooden sleepers’ assign- ments. This chapter includes a discussion of Pullman’s construction and painting, in- cluding the change from all-wood construc- tion to the use of steel underframes and end sills, and covers heating and ventilation. Il- lustrations include an 1895 drawing of a wooden car’s side framing, a similar vintage artwork shows the various parts of a section, and of course, there’s a fine variety of floor plans. The many Pullman builder photos il-


lustrate the nearly incomprehensible opu- lence of the interiors, which soon went by the wayside, as well as the finely painted ex- teriors replete with pinstriping and filigree. Chapter 2 covers the heavyweight steel


fleet in 110 pages and discusses the reasons for the change in 1909 to all-steel construc- tion; in short, the wooden cars suffered se- vere damage in even low-speed collisions, and fire often ensued. (The Pennsylvania Railroad also vowed to allow only all-steel cars through its new tunnels into New York’s Penn Station.) The text also covers Santa Fe’s early use of all-steel cars, its sleeping car business in the 1920s and the various agreements between Pullman and the railroad. This chapter’s artwork illus- trates two different underbody equipment layouts, how the steam ejector air condition- ing system worked, and 22 floor plans. A full complement of in-service and builder photos shows how the interiors became more utili- tarian compared to the wooden cars. This chapter also covers the freight car based Pullman troop sleepers of World War II, cars purchased specifically for work train ser- vice, business and special purpose cars, and foreign line and Pullman owned heavy- weights used on Santa Fe trains between 1950 and 1959. There’s also five pages of coverage on the Pennsylvania Railroad/ Transcontinental Air Transport/Santa Fe transcontinental rail/air service of 1929. Chapter 3 brings us to the lightweight era, which began in 1937. In 156 pages everything from Pullman’s pioneering 8-2-2 Forward to the railroad’s 1937 Budd cars for the Super Chief through the Vista series of sleeper-observations is covered in the same exhaustive detail as the earlier cars. This chapter begins with an overview of the rail- road’s lightweight sleepers and their opera- tions and then covers the construction of lightweight equipment. There’s also exten- sive discussion of the various trucks used under lightweight cars and an interesting comparison of Pullman’s vs. Budd’s stain- less steel side fluting. Once again, a truly re- markable selection of photos illustrates var- ious facets of lightweight car construction, interior and exterior views, and of course more than a dozen floor plans. Additionally, extensive tables and rosters cover the histo- ry and disposition of every car on the rail- road along with lightweight sleeper assign- ments on selected trains between 1940 and 1969. Some 20 pages are devoted to through sleepers operated between Santa Fe and New York Central, the Pennsylvania, Mis- souri Pacific, and Baltimore & Ohio, along with special movements of cars from other roads. This topic is also supported with tab- ular information.


Chapter 4 covers in 15 pages Santa Fe’s crew dormitory cars, which were often com- bination cars that included baggage and lounge sections along with crew quarters. The Appendix includes a glossary of sleeping car names and a list of Santa Fe cipher code words (used to condense messages sent by telegraph). Ten pages of color photos round out the coverage before a sad coda entitled If Only She Could Talk, an essay that accom- panies a sad photo of a burned-out Pullman- Standard 4-4-2 built for the 1938 Chief. This book is a monumental effort which will be of interest not only to fans of Uncle John Santa Fe but to anyone who studies the history of the American passenger car and rail service. — WALT LANKENAU


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