Bollinger Edgerly Scale Trains
It’s not just a model, it’s a piece of history.
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from 1913-1946, steam locomotive painting and lettering 1946-1958, Day- light paint schemes, and City of San Francisco paint schemes. There is in- formation on dual control passenger diesels, freight units, switchers, and al- ways a surprise, the various transition diesel paint schemes. SP was trying to determine the best replacement scheme for its expensive and time-con- suming Black Widow design. There are also many examples of the never-to-be completed Santa Fe Southern Pacific merger red and yellow paint scheme. Passenger car schemes include City of
San Francisco, Daylight, Californian, Challenger, Overland, Golden State, Cascade, Sunset Limited, and Sunbeam to name only a portion of what is be- tween the covers of this book. And there is lots and lots of excellent color. The information authors Alan Cau-
then and John R. Signor have compiled is invaluable to fans, modelers, and the just plain curious. If you ever wanted to know the where, when, and why of Southern Pacific paint schemes, this is the reference book you need in your li- brary.–DAVID LUSTIG
www.msrlha.org
Grand Central’s Engineer, Wil- liam J. Wilgus and the Plan- ning of Modern Manhattan, by Kurt C. Schlicht- ing, published by The John Hopkins University Press, 2715 North Charles St., Balti-
more, MD 21218 (
www.press.jhu.edu) Hardcover, 296 10¹₄″×7¹₄″ pages; $49.95. In 2005 as I sat in the cab of a semi-
trailer rig stopped in bumper to bumper traffic approaching Jersey City, New Jersey, I thought there must be a better mechanism for the haulage of freight to a warehouse than in large trucks. Little did I know at the time that nearly a century earlier such a way had been conceived not once but several times by William John Wilgus. Wilgus’ name today is hardly known
yet he had a profound impact on the metropolitan region of New York-New Jersey. While the vast majority of the residents of the New York Metropoli- tan area do not recognize his name, they nonetheless benefit from his ex- traordinary visions for the develop- ment of Manhattan Island and the sur- rounding environs, in particular, Grand Central Terminal. Professor Kurt Schlichting is a pro-
fessor of sociology, and is the E. Gerald Corrigan ’63 Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Fairfield Uni- versity. In addition to Grand Central’s Engineer, he is the author of Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Engineer-
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