SDP45 at Campville, N.Y.; and a PA next to a light Pacific under the train shed at Erie’s Jersey City, N.J., terminal. The calendar folds out to 11″×17″ and sells for $7.95 to ELHS members or $9.95 to non-members; add $4.25 shipping for the first calendar and an extra $1.00 for each additional calendar. Order from ELHS Dept. RF c/o Jay Held, 10- 10 Ellis Ave., Fair Lawn, NJ 07410; www.erie lackhs.org. NJ, PA, and Ohio resi- dents add sales tax. A baker’s dozen large photos, all color save for one in b&w, make up the 2014 calendar from the Chicago & North Western His- torical Society and depict the C&NW and its predecessors. Subjects include three tor- pedo tube GP35s and a GP9 on freight near Whitewood, S.D.; a snowy and rare view of an FP9 leading a freight on the Navy Pier branch in Chicago; Pacific No. 1665 at Kenosha, Wis.; two RSD5s along the Mis- souri River at Rousseau, S.D.; an A-B-B-B-B- A set of Chicago Great Western F units on a 150-car freight at Graf, Iowa; a North West- ern freight crossing the swing bridge over the Mississippi River at La Crosse, Wis.; one- off C&NW RS36 No. 405 leading RS3s past the C&NW/Milwaukee Road station at Owa- tonna, Minn.; Geeps on the Cowboy Line at Valentine, Neb.; GP50s on double stacks at West Chicago,


Ill.; two Minneapolis & St.


Louis F3A’s at Waterloo, Iowa; three ex-Nor- folk & Western C628s on ore at Empire Junc- tion, Mich.; Pacific No. 2905 with train at North Western Terminal in Chicago; and E7s on the North Western Limited at Eau Claire, Wis. The calendar folds out to 11″×17″ and sells for $13.49 postpaid from C&NWHS-C, P.O. Box 1068, North Riverside, IL 60546; cn- whs.org. IL residents add sales tax.


NEW PUBLICATIONS


History and Restoration of RGS Galloping Goose No. 4 by Bonnie and Keith Koch is available from the Ridgway Railroad Mu- seum. The book briefly tells the story of Rio Grande Southern’s seven unique “motors” which came to be known as the Galloping Geese. The ungainly railbuses, converted from Packard limousines, have been credit- ed with allowing the RGS to limp along into 1951 thanks to their labor-saving one-man operation. (RGS built an eighth Goose for the San Cristobal Railroad and two, includ- ing No. 4, were refitted with Wayne bus bod- ies.) One chapter is a first-person account of a Goose ride taken in 1951, and another dis- cusses the “motormen” who ran the cars, and their experiences. About two thirds of the book describes the Museum’s restoration of Goose No. 4, which is owned by the Telluride (Colo.) Volunteer Fire Department, from the initial negotiations to the move to Ridgway and a step-by-step and nearly board-by- board account of the car’s restoration. The story ends with No.


4’s participation in


Goosefest 2012 at the Colorado Railroad Museum, in which all but Goose No. 3 were gathered for a weekend of operation, includ- ing Karl Schaeffer’s replica Motor No. 1. This book is a must-read for any group or in- dividual who has not restored such an arti- fact but is considering such a project, and es- tablished restoration groups might also glean a few nuggets from Ridgway’s experi- ences. This 8¹/₂″×11″ softcover features color covers and a good selection of interior b&w photos, illustrations, and diagrams. It sells for $19.95 plus $3.00 shipping from Mt.


Sneffels Press, P.O. Box 98, Ridgway, CO 81432-0098; mtsneffelspress.com/our-cata- log/#goose; 970/901-4092. Available only on the web. The Rock Island Line by Bill Marvel is


available now from Indiana University Press. The story begins with the charter of the Rock Island & La Salle and its extension to Chicago as the Chicago & Rock Island, through its bridging of the Mississippi River at Davenport and its eventual expansion west to Colorado, north to Minnesota, and south to Kansas City and New Mexico. The tale is well told and a well-written, easy read that extends from those early days through the Rock’s demise and the current operations of its successors. The book is cleanly laid out and heavy with nearly 150 excellent, well-printed b&w and color photo- graphs and artwork. There are lots of good photos of Rock Island steam, but photo- graphic coverage of the eclectic diesel fleet and its oddities is especially generous. A se- ries of notes on each chapter enumerate sources for further reading, and there’s also an index. One thing that’s missing, though, is a comprehensive system map. The book retails for $50.00 plus $5.00 shipping as a 180-page 81


/4″×105 /8 ″ hardcover or $42.99 as


an eBook from Indiana University Press Of- fice of Scholarly Publishing, Herman B. Wells Library 350, 1320 E. 10th St.,Bloom- ington, IN 47405-3907; 1-800/842-6796 or iupress.indiana.edu.


BOOK REVIEW


A Railroad for the “Southern End” By Mike Roth and Stanley T. White. Order from Mike Roth, P.O. Box 329, Willow Street, PA 17584. Also available on amazon.com. Hardcover, 480 9″×12″ pages, color and b&w; $85.00 postpaid; PA residents add sales tax. This is a very large book


about a very


small railroad, south- eastern


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nia’s Lancaster, Ox- ford & Southern, the three-foot gauge “Lit- tle, Old & Slow. The authors trace the sto- ry of Pennsylvania’s first narrow gauge railroad from the be- ginning,


with the


Peach Bottom Railway’s charter in 1860, to its reorganization as the Lancaster, Oxford & Southern in 1890, to the railroad’s ultimate abandonment and scrapping in 1921. The format is somewhat unusual; each chapter begins with a few paragraphs of introductory text, and the balance of the copy consists of every published article and story concerning the railroad that Roth and White could find, transcribed verbatim. Understandably, this remote and obscure


little “farmer’s railroad” was not widely pho- tographed, but a surprisingly interesting se- lection of images from those early dark ages have been uncovered. The photos have been reproduced as well as today’s digital pre- press techniques will allow, and that’s pretty darned well. The front and back cover photo is especially fine, having been shot by pro- fessional photographer J.T. Barry at Oxford in 1893. In addition to photos of lineside scenes, locomotives, structures, and rolling stock, images are provided of pertinent per- sonages along with timetables and other


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