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railroad paper. Several views of the flat-bot- tomed, steam-powered Susquehanna River ferryboats that met the trains at Peach Bot- tom have also been included, along with pho- tos of the contractor’s construction trains. Stan White has done a fine job getting the best reproduction possible with the materi- als available and has also created several good maps of the area. There’s also a de- tailed roster of equipment which, of course, includes motorcar No. 1, the only completely intact piece of LO&S rolling stock to have survived. Having been standard gauged by its second owner, the Grasse River Railroad in New York State, today the handsome lit- tle wooden car occasionally operates not very far from its home territory on the Stras- burg Rail Road near Lancaster. Lovingly produced and fully indexed, this handsome book brings to light every known nugget of information the authors could find on the LO&S and it makes a fine com- panion to Ben Kline’s long out-of-print trea- tise on the road. — WALT LANKENAU
VIDEO REVIEW
Detroit Passenger Trains — 60’s and 70’s Green Frog Productions, 189 Waterbury Way Douglasville, GA 30134;
www.greenfrog.com/, 800/227-1336. 48 minutes, DVD. $39.95 Hi Def (BD-R) or $29.95 standard; free shipping to U.S. addresses. Once known as the Arsenal of Democracy, the Motor City, and the Paris of the Mid- west, Detroit is now the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. But when it was king half a century ago, Michigan native
Emery Gulash used his 16mm Bolex to shoot pre-Amtrak passenger trains on the major railroads in the area. Here, a variety of EMD cab units and Geeps haul varied consists complete with Railway Post Offices, baggage cars, coaches, sleeper, diners, and Budd Rail Diesel Cars of the Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Canadian Na- tional, Pere Marquette, Norfolk & Western, Penn Central, Wabash, Grand Trunk West- ern (steam and diesel), New York Central, and
Canadian Pacific. There’s even a
glimpse of the huge, now derelict Michigan Central station with all its windows intact. This program pres- ents high quality runby scenes and many runs are shown on different days and at different locations. The show starts with scenes of Wabash trains 1 and 2 with EMD cab units around Fort Street Union Depot. NYC
trains such as the Wolverine, Mail 13 and train 8 are seen at Central Avenue, Wayne Junction tower, and at Dearborn with E units. The B&O and C&O are well covered in their classic liveries as well as more the mundane “modern” schemes. Various mix- tures of power and rolling stock occurred during this era as the two roads merged their operations. RPOs, mail container cars, and a variety of passenger cars abound. B&O/C&O trains shown include Nos. 18, 12 (the Cincinnatian), and 15. Locations in- clude Wayne Junction, the ramp to Fort
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