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Connecticut Company’s Streetcars
Relive the days of Connecticut Company's big yellow cars... Profusely illustrated, this book covers every division of the Connecticut Company, the trolley empire controlled by the New Haven Railroad. This book features nearly every type of trolley car operated across the Nutmeg State until shutdown in 1948.
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Publications of interest Among the new color offerings from Morning Sun Books, P.O. Box 326, Kutztown, Pa., 19530, are Steel Mills Railroads In Color Volume 6: Southern Style, by Thomas Lawson, Jr. and Stephen M. Timko, which covers steel mills in the southern United States; Penn Central Power In Color Volume 3: 6000-7499, by Robert J. Yanosey, pro- vides a look at PC’s six-axle power and its GP9’s; and Susquehanna Trackside 1954-1968 with Albert T. Holtz and Walter E. Zullig, Jr., by Walter E. Zul- lig, Jr., focuses on the railroad’s com- muter and freight operations during a period of financial difficultly. Each of these 128-page, 8¹₂″×11″ hardcover volumes is priced at $59.95. For com-
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Book reviews
Southern Pa- cific Painting and Letter- ing Guide, A Guide To Paint and Let- tering Used on Southern
Pacific Locomotives and Passen- ger Cars From 1913 to 1996, by Jef- frey Alan Cauthen and John R. Signor. Published by Southern Pacific Histori- cal & Technical Society, 1523 Howard Access Road, Suite A, Upland, CA 91786-2582 (
www.sphts.org). Hardcov- er, 146 8³₈″× 11″ pages; $59.95. Attention Southern Pacific fans. This
is the book you want to own. Within its hardbound cover is more information than you could ever assemble by yourself from all the sources you might have at your fingertips on SP paint schemes from 1913 to 1996. Included is info on steam, diesel, passenger cars, paint dia- grams, official plans, and photographs. Designed to be a companion book to
the five volumes on Southern Pacific passenger cars published by the histori- cal society, it beautifully illustrates how SP’s passenger cars (and those of its various subsidiaries) were painted and
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