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MRL Montana Mainline Part 2...Helena to Sandpoint

£22.00

In MRL Montana Mainline Part 2, we return to Helena in the dead of winter as trains prepare to do battle with Mullan Pass. A strong Canadian storm system slammed into the Rockies sending the mercury below zero while a quintet of MRL's EMD SD70ACe's put on a fantastic show shoving heavy trains to the summit. This is a mountain railroading at its best with 2.2% grades, numerous curves and high trestles.

Shot in January and July of 2011, you will see the MRL taking on Mullan Pass in all types of weather as it climbs to the continental divide at Blossburg via the famous Mullan Tunnel. The action doesn't stop there, as trains race west along the 3rd, 4th and 10th subdivisions through the fantastic scenery that is the hallmark of Montana. Catch trains as they follow the course of the Clark Fork River and scale high above the treetops on Evaro Hill. Our tour concludes as we head west through the Bitterroot Mountains along the banks of the Clark Fork to Sandpoint, Idaho where MRL joins BNSF's busy "Funnel."

A great variety of trains run over the line including coal, grain, mixed manifests and MRL's daily gas train. From perfect sunny skies, through thunderstorms and winter's arctic chill, this is a trip to MRL country you won't soon forget! Raw horsepower and beautiful scenery combine again for two great hours of entertainment. by 7idea Productions 2 Hours 4 mins * colour * narration * Features narration on/off * Widescreen
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The Pokey - Elkhorn Grade

£20.00

Norfolk Southern’s Pocahontas District recently had clearances raised for double stacks as part of the Heartland Project. Elkhorn grade between Bluefield and Iaeger is the steepest part of the Pokey, giving even NS’s latest SD70ACe’s a workout with heavy coal trains as they wind through the valleys and through the small towns of West Virginia. This is helper country, with two to three units pushing heavy trains up the grades. by Highball Productions

105 mins * colour * narration * Features narration on/off

Regular Price £ 21.00 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 26TH FEB £20.00
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RAILS & THE MOTHER ROAD

£21.00

- A Route 66 Rail Adventure

Well, this one's a bit different. Elrond Lawrence's book "Route 66 Railway" convinced me that I should go take a look and see what was left of Route 66's artifacts.

Disc 1 takes a look at California, from San Bernardino, over Cajon, through Victorville to Barstow, and across the Mojave to Needles and the bridge at Topok.

Disc 2 takes a look at Arizona, from Kingman Canyon to Flagstaff and on to Canyon Diablo, Winslow, Holbrook and the the NM border at Lupton. In addition to the trains, you'll see neon, abandoned gas stations, tourist traps and restored depots.

by Highball Productions 3 Hours 2 DVD Set * colour * narration * Widescreen

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Union Pacific’s Clinchfield Challenge

£15.00

Union Pacific Challenger 3985 made its first-ever venture east of the Mississippi River in November 1992 when it traveled off line onto CSX rails. This historic event was prompted by the 50th running of the Santa Claus Special, a tradition of the former Clinchfield Railroad that was being carried on by Clinchfield successor CSX. Each year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, Santa and his helpers would ride the special train, tossing candy and gifts to the children of the coal mining towns that lined the route from Shelbiana, Kentucky to Kinsgport, Tennessee.

At one time the Clinchfield Railroad owned six of the big Challenger engines and used them to haul Appalachian coal. It seemed appropriate then for UP and CSX to work jointly to bring a Challenger back onto Clinchfield rails again. Before that could happen, the 3985 would have to undergo a name and numbering change. Leaving UP rails in Memphis, Tennessee, the Challenger traveled to Huntington, West Virginia, where it was converted to ÏClinchfield 676.Ó After leading the Santa Claus Special, ÏClinchfield 676Ó ran an employee special out of Kingsport. The 4-6-6-4 is a sight to behold as it works up through the twisting, rugged Appalachian Mountains. The sound of the steam whistle echoing through the hollows will take you back in time, and the small coal mining towns that dot the route will remind you of another era in American railroading. All the excitement of big Clinchfield steam is here for you to savor and enjoy!

by Pentrex 120 mins * colour * narration Ref S166

Regular Price £ 22.00 SPECIAL OFFER £15.00
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Rotaries, Avalanche on the Mountain

£22.00

It’s called 'the Hero' and has been exercising super-hero powers for more than a century. It’s the railroad’s final line of defense against savage Sierra winters. The Rotary snow plow slept dormant in it’s comfortable lair in the railyards since 1998 until Mother Nature herself summoned the monster into action in March, 2011. Watch the Rotaries massive power as it clears the 'Sierra Cement' just in time to save a rail crew caught in an avalanche!
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MRL Montana Mainline Part 2...Helena to Sandpoint

£21.00

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Point of Rocks Hot Spots

£20.00

CSX’s Metropolitan Sub to Washington and the Old Main Line to Baltimore diverge at Point of Rocks, Maryland. MARC commuter trains use the station, and Amtrak’s Capitol Limited passes through daily. CSX runs locals, manifests, coal trains, autoracks and intermodals. We also take a look at Harpers Ferry, with it’s big bridge over the confluence of the Shenandaoh and Potomac rivers.

by Highball Productions 100 mins * colour * narration * Features narration on/off

Regular Price £ 21.00 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 26TH FEB £20.00
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Rotaries, Avalanche on the Mountain

£20.00

Regular Price £ 21.00 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 26TH FEB £20.00
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Model Railroad Planning 2012

£6.00

Use the innovative design ideas in Model Railroad Planning 2012 to get your layout plans off to a great start! Discover 11 buildable HO, N, and O scale track plans, practical advice, construction tips, and inspiring features that include:

* Andy Sperandeo’s multi-level 40’ square Santa Fe main line over torturous Cajon Pass

* New techniques for planning trackside structures using digital photos

* A novel double-mushroom design modeling the spectacular Canadian Pacific in British Columbia

* Achieving greater visual depth and space with open-sided structures

Model Railroad Planning 2012 also includes an exclusive BONUS PLANNING BOOKLET!
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2012 Carstens On30 Annual

£14.50

Tony Koester

You've waited all year for it... The 2012 Carstens On30 Annual! Now in our seventh year of publication and featuring 116 pages of exclusive On30 model railroading content. We have everything you have come to expect from the On30 Annual, including gorgeous layout tours, in-depth construction features, and practical historical features. Building is fundamental to On30 and this year’s Annual is packed with great projects. Peter Reisiger takes us step by step through building Evanoff Pattern & Foundry. But that’s not all! Bill Iwan builds a heavy duty On30 flatcar, Jim Schulz and Dave Wingrove provide two fun railbus builds, Sam Swanson shows us how to spruce up commercial turnouts, Bob Bennett builds a waterfront, Al Sohl hides the edge of his layout and expands his yard with a mirror/bridge combo and Gil Flores shares his Mack wrecker and shows us a great technique for rusty metal. And that’s just a partial listing!

The Annual is known for great layouts and the 2012 issue is not exception. We are pleased to present for the first time in print the fabulous Cranberry Wharf by Danish modeler Troels Kirk. This layout is the talk of the internet, but wait until you see the rich beautiful photos in print. But we don’t stop there! You’ll also find Steve Austin’s Elkhorn Timber & Iron which can be visited during the 2013 NMRA National in Atlanta, and Chris Comport’s latest profession layout build, the Crown Valley District Ry. & Monarch Mining Railroad and professional structure builder Dennis Dunning shares his home layout.

Like plans to build from? Who doesn’t! We are happy to give the On30 modeler several detailed drawings this year. How about the entire business district of Sundance, Wyoming? Vic Worthington gives us the block of great false front buildings. And Chris Lane has an On30-sized water tank based on the D&RGW tanks at Villa Grove and Jacks Cabin.

Finally, did we mention layouts? Yes we did, but we understand that not everyone has space for room -sized monsters. That’s OK, because we have you covered there too. Buzz Allen’s diorama is a contest winner, yet is only 2 foot by 4 foot. Likewise, Lowell Ross’ Soggy Bottom Mining Company is super-detailed in a compact 14 inches by 6 foot, yet like Buzz’s, can be incorporated into a larger layout someday. We even have a micro layout from Tad Dowdy that could fit on a hat!
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America's Fighting Railroads; A World War II Pictorial Memoir

Ref: 1575100012

Price: £12.00

By Don DeNevi

This softbound book tells how railroads shipped raw materials during WWII by the millions of tons and transported troops by the hundreds of thousands. A total of 200 photos capture a wide variety of steam and early diesel locomotives in action, including trains loaded with tanks, guns and troops and depots filled with soldiers on their way to battle. 152 pages, 8 1/2 x 11"

Nevada Central

Ref: NEVADACENTRAL

Price: £35.00

By Mallory Hope Ferrell

A deluxe volume that traces the amazing story of a three-foot-gauge railroad that ran through the heart of the great American Basin. Built to carry the commerce of rich silver and gold strikes, the Nevada Central struggled against tremendous odds for six decades. Often called “a line in the sand,” the 93-mile-long rail route ran between Battle Mountain, where it connected with the Central Pacific, in a southwesterly direction to Austin, Nevada. Most of the rail was 35# iron; the struggling railroad line crossed 66 timber trestles between its end points. The railroad began construction in 1879 to help open up the vast and virtually unpopulated area of the Silver State. Running through some of the most barren and remote high desert sagebrush and mountain country in the West, the Nevada Central rolled down through the years with much of its original equipment, mainly because it could never afford to purchase anything newer.

Island Timber

Ref: islandtimber

Price: £32.00

By Richard Mackie

This 8.5 x 11" softcover charts the history of one of the largest logging concerns on coastal British Columbia-the Comox Logging Company-from the turn of the century to the devastating Great Fire of 1938. With 450 employees, six huge steam-powered skidders, a dozen locomotives, hundreds of miles of track, and sole access to the Douglas fir forests between Courtenay and Campbell River, Comox Logging boomed and towed billions of board feet of timber from Vancouver Island to Fraser Mills at New Westminster-then the largest sawmill in the British Empire. Island Timber is also the first social and community history of a logging company in British Columbia. It highlights loggers from Britain, Scandinavia and elswhere, who found careers and homes on Vancouver Island, and it centers on the "Comox Homeguard"-the company elite famous for their farming and family connections in the Comox Valley. Mackie interviewed 150 people directly involved in the early logging industry, and the book is packed with stories and dozens of stunning black and white photographs and maps in its 309 pages that have never before appeared in print.

Trains to Victory

Ref: 091158160X

Price: £42.00

America's Railroads in WWII

By Don Heimburger and John Kelly

Trains to Victory tells the dramatic story of the years 1941-1945 when U.S. railroads, using fewer cars and locomotives than in WWI, moved more tonnage and more passengers than ever before. Divided into 13 chapters, plus a 32-page four-color section, an introduction, bibliography and a complete index, the volume appeals to railfans, historians, military historians, and many others.

The 380-page hardbound book features 542 photographs, an additional 285 illustrations, a four-color laminated dustjacket and a complete listing of U.S. military camps, posts and bases as of August 1, 1941. The book discusses the implications of the war on the railroads, embarkation of troops and materiels, how the Military Railway Service joined the fight and what was happening on U.S railroads during the war. It also addresses new railroad cars and locomotives built for the war, military camp railroads, how Alaska's railroads played a part in the conflict, how women helped the war effort, and what was happening in foreign theaters. It describes how railroads aided in the return of wounded troops and equipment, and the atmosphere on the railroads immediately after the war. Scale drawings of war-emergency box cars are also included, as are troop train car plans.

Trains to Victory covers such topics as the huge Chicago & NorthWestern Proviso Yards during wartime, personal glimpses of the war from a number of railroaders and intriguing aspects of the war from the Army Engineers, Association of American Railroads and the War Department. Wartime products of locomotive and railroad car manufacturers such as Baldwin, Alco, Davenport, Lima, Whitcomb, Budd, Electro-Motive, H.K. Porter, Pullman, American Car & Foundry and the St. Louis Car Company are documented throughout the volume. Hardbound, 8 ? x11", 380 pages, 825 illustrations, 32-page all-color photo section, 13 chapters, extensive historical military/railroad documentation.

Robert Richardson's Rio Grande Southern

Ref: RGSVOL3

Price: £42.00

Chasing the Narrow Gauge, Vol. III

In this third volume of his narrow gauge chronicle, noted narrow gauge preservationist Robert Richardson continues to take a close look at the Rio Grande Southern, the 172-mile narrow gauge route that wrapped itself around the craggy and forested San Juan Mountains between Durango and Ridgway, Colorado. In just two years, Otto Mears built a railroad that climbed four mountain passes and featured 142 bridges, including numerous high, spindly trestles.

In this 224-page hardbound book, Bob hones in on the town of Ridgway, the various RGS “oasis” towns in the wilderness, mine-rich Telluride, the RGS’ locomotive fleet, the Galloping Goose era and high-in-the-sky Ophir. He also talks about important old RGS records and how he obtained copies, relates humorous insights about hunting season on the line, the Montezuma Lumber Company operations at McPhee, and the last runs of the famed RGS trains.

Narrow Gauge Country 1870-1970

Ref: 0911581596

Price: £42.00

By Mallory Hope Ferrell

Intrigued with Narrow Gauge country?

* A national treasure of classic narrow gauge photography

* 100 years of historic rail memories

* Mallory Ferrell's most prolific work, presented in an elegant coffeetable format * Limited deluxe slipcase edition available

You'll love this new oversized 9 x12" deluxe hardbound book featuring 632 historic all black and white photographs from the author's huge 115,000-print collection.

The 372-page volume features railroads such as the Denver & Rio Grande; Rio Grande Southern; Denver, South Park & Pacific; Colorado & Southern; Gilpin Tramway Co.; Argentine Central; Uintah Railway; Silverton Railroad; Silverton, Gladstone & Northernly; Colorado Central; Florence & Cripple Creek; Denver, Leadville & Gunnison; Montezuma Lumber Co.; Greely, Salt Lake & Pacific; Colorado & Northwestern; New Mexico Lumber Co.; Pagosa Lumber Co.; Tierra Amarilla Southern Railroad; and the Boston Coal & Fuel Co., among others.

Mallory Hope Ferrell, has been gathering superlative railway photos for the last 50 years. In his new book, Ferrell writes about William Henry Jackson, Picture Maker of the West; about early Colorado cameramen and their struggles; the glory days of the Narrow Gauge; how photography came of age in the West; following the railfan era on the Narrow Gauge; and the Third and Fourth divisions of the Denver & Rio Grande. The book focuses on narrow gauge lines in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.

Some of the more prominent photo locations in the book include Marshall Pass, Alpine Tunnel, Chalk Cliffs, Lizard Head, Georgetown Loop, Ophir Loop, Silverton Branch, Clear Creek Canyon, Trout Lake, Cerro Summit and Forks Creek.

Robert W. Richardson's RIO GRANDE Chasing the Narrow Gauge VOLUME II

Ref: 091158157X

Price: £38.00

In Volume II, Rob Richardson, noted narrow gauge preservationist, takes a close look at the Rio Grande's Durango to Silverton Branch, the Farmington Branch, the Third Division lines between Salida, Gunnison and Montrose, and the Valley Line between Mears Junction and Alamosa, Colorado. With 50-year-old photographs and firsthand accounts, Richardson offers the most authoritative chronicle yet on this portion of the Denver & Rio Grande Western's Rocky Mountain narrow gauge railroad empire

America's RAIL Pictorial

Ref: 0911581421

Price: £29.95

By Russ Porter

Author Porter takes you on a picturesque ride where you capture steam and diesel locomotives, freight and passenger trains, as well as gas-electrics, RDCs and oddities such as Whitcomb 44-tonners. For more than half a century, Russ followed America's railroads, capturing their moods and their tracks, and now brings you a sampling of what he found. From the small Cicago & Western Indiana and the Terminal Railroad Association to the main line roads such as Pennsylvania, Northern Pacific and Santa Fe, America's Rail Pictorial offers up the flavor of each line during the decades. If you enjoy the really unusual, the greater Winnipeg Water District Railroad should be of interest.

Relax as the camera takes you on a guided tour of railroads in America.

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Canadian National Railway

Ref: CNRLWY

Price: £22.95

Author Tom Murray provides an unprecedented look at a national icon, from its genesis amid the turmoil surrounding World War I to its acquisition of the Duluth, Missabe & Northern Railroad and its lease of BC Rail, both in 2003. In addition to exploring Canadian Nationnal operations and equipment through depression, war, modernization, annd acquisitions, Murray explains how the railway affected and was influenced by the vast and varied regions it served. Marvelous photography from top photographers and Canadian archives along with period timetables and print ads illustrate CN's extraordinary geographic reach, diverse operations, and social and economic roles, both as a government entity for 70-plus years and more recently as a privatized industry exemplar.

Hardcover, 160 pages, 150 color and 50 black and white photos.

Trains of America

Ref: 0911581138

Price: £32.00

- By Donald J. Heimburger.

This large 10 x 11" hardbound book highlights the late steam and early diesel era of the railroads during the '50s and '60s. Its 204 pages contain nearly 400 large, all-color freight and passenger train photos taken on 85 different railroads throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Heimburger's most popular title!

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The Milwaukee Road 1928-1985

Ref: 0911581529

Price: £42.00

By Jim Scribbins

This huge deluxe 312-page, 8.5 x 11" hardbound book tells the history of The Milwaukee Road in 10 chapters of authoritative text, and numerous quality black and white and color photographs! Special Locomotive and Passenger Train chapters are included. An informative Appendix and complete Index are also included for convenient reference. This volume is printed on thick 80-lb. enameled paper with quality smyth-sewn binding.

The book covers this transcontinental granger railroad between the years of 1928 and 1985. The Milwaukee was a proud line that faced many challenges during its lifetime including transportation rivals, overtaking five mountain ranges and staying afloat financially.

Author Scribbins is an authority on The Milwaukee Road, having worked in the passenger, public relations and other departments, starting with the line in 1948. This is his fifth railroad book.

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Train Country

Ref: 0911581375

Price: £20.95

By Donald MacKay and Lorne Perry

This book illustrates the history of the Canadian National Railways ("Worlds' Greatest Travel System"), created after World War I with a combination of resources from five financially troubled railroads. Canadian National played a central role in the population growth of the more remote northern areas of Canada, moved passengers between major cities in style, and was instrumental in the movement of goods both to market and to the country's smaller towns. The story is told by engineers, porters, signalmen and others in this softcover volume.

Rio Grande Steam Locomotives

Ref: 0911581162

Price: £29.95

- By Donald J. Heimburger.

This 9 x 12" hardbound book traces the Denver & Rio Grande Western's standard gauge steam locomotives from the early days to the last of steam when locomotive fires were dropped and diesels took over hauling tonnage through the rugged Rocky Mountains. In addition to the informative text, 140 photographs and 26 folio drawings are included as well as maps, timetables and equipment rosters from 1891 to 1956 from the D&RGW Railroad.

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Robert W. Richardson's RIO GRANDE: Chasing the Narrow Gauge

Ref: 0911581537

Price: £38.00

Today one man is specially recognised as one of the founders of the narrow gauge railroad preservation movement in the United States. He is Robert W. Richardson, who with a friend started the Narrow Gauge Motel in a remote section of Colorado in 1949. Later he and a friend began the Narrow Gauge Museum in Alamosa, which helped initiate the safekeeping of narrow gauge rolling stock, hardware and paper memorabilia. The collection he and Cornelius Hauck started, now housed at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, has grown so large it requires a number of staff and volunteers to catalog and maintain. In this nostalgic volume, Bob recounts his early days as an editor, advertising coordinator, member of the U.S. Armed Forces, motel owner and later as head of the largest narrow gauge railroad museum in the country. Primarily, it highlights Bob's life as an avid narrow gauge fan during the last two decades the Colorado Narrow Gauge still operated as a common carrier.

* 200 pages, 16 pages of color, Many maps, charts, ephemera, text and photographs, Coffee table 11 7/8" x 9", hardbound deluxe format.

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Rayonier

Ref: 0911581456

Price: £30.00

As the American West pushed further and further, towns grew creating the need for more lumber and thus more efficient means were devised to harvest the vast forests of the Pacific Northwest. In the early 1900s Alex Polson came onto the scene and built the Polson Brothers Logging Company into an empire which later became part of giant Rayonier.

Detailing the heyday of steam - and the entrance of diesel onto the property - this volume outlines the logging operations when trains ran daily out of Railroad Camp near Hoquiam, Washington, and through the treacherous Clallam Branch, near the strait of Juan de Fuca.

Follow along as the Rayonier story is told in text, train crew stories that "tell it like it was" and numerous action and roster shots of the men and equipment.

164-page hard cover

The American Streamliner Postwar Years

Ref: 091158143X

Price: £33.00

By Don Heimburger & Carl Byron

Once World War II was over the railroads placed orders for sleek streamlined cars and locomotives. Electr0-Motive of La Grange Illinois continued developing the E series locomotive that matched the new streamline cars. These powerful engines self-contained in their own steel shells, were comparatively easy to maintain and they acted as colourful rolling billboards for the now fashion-conscious rail lines. Passenger trains of all names- West Coast Champion, Texas Special, Golden State, New England States and trains destined for all major cities i.e. Chicago Mercury, City of Memphis and the Bostonian plied the rails in an age that was soon over. Hardbound 200 pages hundreds of colour photos beautifully produced.

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The American Streamliner Prewar years

Ref: 0911581391

Price: £31.00

By Don Heimburger & Carl Byron

Between the years of 1933 and 1942 America rose to the forefront of Deluxe passenger train travel fielding hundreds of streamlined trains that crisscrossed the US. From boat-tailed observation cars to dome-liners and slumbercoaches, the streamliner era added a multitude of words and images to our collective heritage. This beautifully illustrated book takes a close look at the prewar passenger trains that provided the ultimate in speed and comfort. HARDBACK

West Side Pictorial

Ref: 0911581510

Price: £37.00

By Mallory Hope Ferrell

While everything that was the old West Side Lumber Company's narrow gauge in the sierra died almost four decades ago its history continues in photographs, scale drawings, models, preserved equipment but most of all memories.

On these beautifully illustrated pages, you'll find a visual history of these activities, of the men, some women and machines. You will get a feeling of what began 100 years ago and continues to this very day.

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Rio Grand Memories

Ref: 0911581219

Price: £30.00

By John B. Norwood

In this volume John combines the standard gauge portion of the line with the narrow gauge portion weaving an on going story that will enlighten and delight you. Chapters on stations, Famous Locations, Disasters, Passenger Trains and Equipment illustrated by several hundred black and white and coloured photographs add visual intrigue to the text. Come along with John as he explains what the Rio Grande was all about.

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The Illinois Central:

Ref: 0911581359

Price: £31.95

Main Line of Mid- America

The Illinois Central was the largest North-South rail line in the US and when 705 miles of charter lines were completed in 1856 the IC was the longest railroad in the world. Innovation was a key word for the IC. It was the first to ship fruit under refrigeration and the first in 1926, to run electric commuter trains west of the Aleghenies. The railroad was known for its efficient steam locomotives and its past Paducah shops where many steamers were rebuilt. This book captures in vivid colour the essence of the IC's freight and passenger motive power and rolling stock ,spanning the decades 1940s, 50s and 60s.

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Desert Railroading

Ref: 0911581502

Price: £32.95

by Steve Schmollinger

Picture vast areas of burning sand and hot rock - uninhabited terrain teeming with cactus. Now picture today's fast, colourful trains travelling through this beautiful but harsh landscape. This book is a dramatic winner in every respect! In this deluxe 172 page coffee-table volume Steve Schmollinger has assembled a large variety of spectacular modern day images of railroading in the desert. He has included a range of states, of railroads both large and small, and trains hauling everything from general merchandise, to unit coal trains, to container and intermodel trains. With detailed historical commentary to help understand present-day railroading in the West.

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The Uintah Railway

Ref: 0911581367

Price: £31.95

The 75 mile long Uintah Railway is one of the largest narrow gauge lines built in the Rockies. The line was built almost exclusively to carry the unusual mineral called gilsonite, the glossy black asphaltum exclusive to this area. The fantastic Baxter Pass which consisted of five miles of unremitting 7.5% grade with many ultra sharp curves made this route famous.

To combat these unusual conditions, the Uintah had specially built equipment, precursors of the Mallets, making this moderate length railroad's story so interesting. It was abandoned in 1939 when the gilsonite mining operation shifted 15 miles north making transportation by truck more economical. HARDBACK

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North Shore South Shore

Ref: 0911581499

Price: £29.95

The North Shore originated in 1894 as a single track Waukegan street car line, eventually running from downtown Chicago to Milwaukee with 30 trains a day each way. The trains made the trip in 2 hours, 40 minutes.

One of the more famous trains the line operated was the Electroliners, which were introduced in 1941and were some of the finest interurbans ever constructed. For economic reasons the line was abandoned in 1963.

The South Shore still operates from downtown Chicago and South Bend Indiana carrying freight and passengers. Regular service began on the line in 1908 with 10 trains a day in each direction. Over the years the South Shore has been noted for its street running, Orange cars and its unique 273-ton Little Joes among the largest electric locomotives ever made.

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