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Southern Pacific Freight Cars, Vol- ume 4 (revised), Box Cars, Anthony W. Thompson This limited reprint is part of a defini- tive series on freight cars of this impor- tant railroad: gondolas and stock cars (Vol. 1), cabooses (Vol. 2), and hoppers, covered hoppers and tank cars (Vol. 5). Volume 4 (rev.): 504 pages, 862 photos, 94 dwgs, bibliography, index. Price: $70


Southern Pacific’s Sacramento Shops, Robert A. Pecotich The largest and oldest of SP’s General Shops, Sacramento and its thousands of employees built or rebuilt hundreds of steam and diesel locomotives, and thou- sands of freight and passenger cars, in a history extending from 1868 to 1990. 496 pages, 605 photos, 21 drawings, bibliography, index. Price: $85


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Southern Pacific Lines Standard-Design Depots, Henry E. Bender Jr. The SP constructed and maintained depots throughout its territory. By 1894 a series of 26 standard plans for depots had been developed. This book describes these SP standard structures, along with several de facto standards: when they were built, what they looked like, and when they vanished or were saved. 320 pages, 437 photos, 46 drawings, bibliography, index. Price: $70


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