Publications of interest Santa Fe’s Los Angeles Division, by
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John Signor, is now available from The Santa Fe Railway Historical & Model- ing Society, 1205 S. Air Depot #101, Midwest City, OK 73110-4807 (www.
atsfrr.com). This 8¹₂″×11″ 528-page hardcover book focuses on the rail- road’s long history in Southern Califor- nia. Accompanying the text are more than 1,000 photographs (288 in color) and over 60 maps. The book is priced at $64.00 for SFRH&MS members and $80.00 for non-members, plus $6.00 shipping for orders in the U.S. The University of Minnesota Press,
111 Third Ave. S., Suite 290, Minne- apolis, MN 55401 (
www.upress.umn .edu) has published two railroad related books.
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Harriman vs. Hill: Wall Street’s Great Railroad War, by Larry Haeg, tells the story of how James J. Hill, head of the Great Northern, and Edward Harriman, head of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, and their wealthy partners bat- tled for control of the Northern Pacific. The 6″×9″ 384-page book is available in hardcover for $29.95. Included are twen- ty illustrations and two maps. Wire Dev- ils, by Frank L. Packard, is a crime dra- ma first published in 1918. It tells the tale of a criminal gang that hacks into a railroad’s telegraph lines to learn about valuable shipments and the outlaw hero who robs from the robbers and foils them. Available as a paperback, this 344-page 5″×7¹₂″ book is priced at $16.95.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Ad- vertising Art, by Chuck Blar- done, published by the Penn- sylvania Rail- road Technical
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www.prrths.com) and available from Kutztown Publish- ing Co., P.O. Box 326, Kutztown, PA 19530-0346. Hardcover, 284 11″×9″ pages; $89.95. Ever since I was a kid and discovered an old timetable in the attic of a friend’s
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