from 54 photographers, each unit gets at least six pages of coverage. Many units are shown as they went through the paint shop as well as in service. Information is provided on how the historic color schemes, most de- veloped for use on 1950s-era cab units, were adapted to fit modern, wide-nose hood units. Following the unit-by unit treatment are 14 pages that show the Heritage Fleet operat- ing off-line around the country, plus four pages of night shots and two pages of the units on special movements. The book is quite up-to-date and even includes a page on the 21st Heritage unit — Norfolk & Ports- mouth Belt Line GP38-2 No. 5260, which was repainted in September 2013. Any fan of the NS Heritage program will enjoy the thorough coverage presented in this high quality publication. — WALT LANKENAU
Steam’s Last Season By Burt W. Mall. Grate Rail Publishing, 3466 RFD, Long Grove, IL 60047; graterail@earth
link.net. Hard cover, 296 pages, 13⁵/₈″×9″, color and b&w; list price, $70.00. View sample pages at
http://www.anewleafcreative.com/Steam/. This hefty book depicts the last gasps of regular service steam locomotives in the United States as photo- graphed by Burt Mall be-
ginning in 1955, when he was a teenager liv- ing in the Chicago suburbs, and ending in the early ’60s on the Colorado & Southern and the Rio Grande narrow gauge. The im-
ages, about half in color and half b&w, are arranged chronologically. They mainly fea- ture the Burlington, Baltimore & Ohio, Illi- nois Central, Norfolk & Western, Nickel Plate, Grand Trunk Western, and Northern Pacific, but in total 18 railroads are depict- ed, and just three images show fantrips. Other railroads covered include the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range, Great Northern, Pennsy, Lake Superior & Ishpeming, Bell- Zoller Coal, Duluth & Northeastern, Chica- go & North Western, Midland Electric Coal, and Morehead & North Fork. Early on,
Mall concentrated on
Chicagoland steam, although as he gained mobility his range expanded to include Min- nesota’s Iron Range; GTW around Durand, Mich.; Burlington and Illinois Central in southern Illinois, the IC in Paducah, Ky.; several hot spots on the N&W, B&O, and NKP in Ohio; and Colorado, home of the Rio Grande narrow gauge and the last standard gauge steam on the Colorado & Southern. There’s a very good selection of main line action views here, but Mall preferred to visit engine terminals and yards in order to max- imize the number of locomotives he’d see. He’s done a fine job of placing the locomo- tives in context and you’ll find many, many examples of long-gone support facilities, yards, and engine terminals, along with well-lighted roster views and detail shots. While the text is mostly in the form of ex- tended photo captions, an introduction and author’s notes discuss Mall’s approach to lo- comotive photography and describe the cam- eras and films he used. The book is profes- sionally laid out in a horizontal format which features a single large photo on each
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