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THE FINAL YEARS 1980-1996 SANTA FE
CALIFORNIA TEXAS LINES
VOLUME 2: BELEN TO
By Jerry A. Pinkepank
A definitive look back at the last years of this fallen flag. Item# 1474
INDUSTRIAL RAILROADING VOLUME 2 By Stephen M. Timko
Look behind the fences of docks, grain elevators, power plants and other industries where standard rail- road-size locomotives work. Item# 1475
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ments that the book began as a way to show off the many railroad photo- graphs in the files of the Minnesota Historical Society and grew from there. Many of those photos were taken by professionals who worked at the Min- neapolis Star Tribune newspaper. Aug- menting the photos from the historical society are ones from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum collection, the collec- tion of Minnesota railroad historian John C. Luecke, a number of fine im- ages taken by noted railroad author and photographer William Middleton during the 1950’s and the author’s own excellent lens work during the last forty years.
After a brief note on railroad termi- nology for readers, who may not be as well versed in such matters as the typ- ical railfan, are the acknowledgments and introduction. From there, the book is broken into four chapters: An Indus- try in Transition, 1940-1960; The Struggle for Survival, 1960-1980; Re- vival and Rehabilitation, 1980-2000; and Railroading in the Twenty-First Century. Wrapping up the book are a list of Minnesota railroads that were operating in 1940 and 2012, notes, a bibliography and an index. As one would suspect, the first chap-
ter, which deals with the 1940 to 1960 time period, is presented with mostly black and white photographs. At 98
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pages, it is the longest chapter in the book and certainly the most varied when it comes to presenting different types of equipment, trains and railroad settings. From big city scenes in Min- neapolis and St. Paul to shots taken in small towns and rural settings, the au- thor dose a nice job of weaving the var- ious images together to provide the reader with an understanding of what railroading looked like during this era. There are yard scenes, station scenes, aerial views, trains on trestles and ore docks, locomotives on turntables and under repair, orders being hooped up, mail being loaded and unloaded, cars being switched, tower operators at work,
interior shots of passenger trains and views from locomotive cabs (steam and diesel) and cabooses. Among the railroads included are the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Chica- go & North Western; Chicago & Great Western;
Milwaukee Road; Great
Northern; Northern Pacific; Minneapo- lis, Northfield & Southern; Minneapo- lis & St. Louis; Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range; Soo Line; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha and the Rock Island. In addition, the Reserve Min- ing, Erie Mining and Mesaba-Cliffs Mining operations are pictured. There are photos of the powerful DM&IR Yel- lowstones hauling ore trains, Fair- banks-Morse Erie-builts on the Mil-
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