Former Railfan & Railroad Magazine Editor Jim Boyd details the colorful product of the FM Company through more than 250 photographs. This comprehensive look at FM diesel production covers every original buyer as well as the railroads that inherited FMs through mergers. Tour the opposed piston world of UP and PRR, Santa Fe and Southern as well as the multitude of other lines that operated these unique diesels.

Item # 1035
 

The official color photographs of the world’s largest car builder during its most colorful decade: 1960-1970. Almost 300 color portraits of Pullman’s freight products for PRR, UP, NYC, ATSF, CB&Q, and a hundred other major and minor roads are captioned by freight car authority Jim Kinkaid.

Item # 1074
 

Railfans and train collectors alike will enjoy this photo-by-photo comparison of the prototype and its model. Find out how Lionel mirrored the actual train with O-Gauge models during its heyday of the 1940s and 50s. Railfans will especially enjoy the many vintage color views of steam, diesel and electric locomotives as well as the boxcars and other rolling stock that would end up as Lionel models.

Item # 1043
 

Find out how your favorite Alco looked when it was brand new. 128 pages of company photos of new Alcos from the early 1950s till 1968, posed right outside the shops and out on the road.

Item # 1015
 

Follow traction photographer Ed Miller as he criss-crosses the country in the 1950s to record the passing of the trolley in more than 240 color scenes that not only show traction, but a way of life in America that has long vanished.

Item # 1141
 

Here in full color is the untold story on how Alco got into the passenger diesel market in the 1940s and the technological breakthrough that resulted in the most famous locomotive of that classic first generation era, the magnificent PA.

Item # 1134
 

A road-by-road analysis of the Baldwin purchases by roads A-G. Author Jim Boyd's usual perceptive look back at the railroad reasoning in the late forties / early fifties is augmented by more than 250 vintage color photos of cab units, road switchers and switchers.

Item # 1153
 

Former Railfan & Railroad Magazine editor Jim Boyd continues his thorough examination of railroads H to P and the Baldwins they owned. A lot of rare photos and new information.

Item # 1154
 

The concluding volume in this fascinating series examines the Baldwin fleets of roads like RDG, SLSF, SAL, SP, UP, URR, WM, WP and everything in between. Some “stragglers A-Z,” a BLW production list, and a special chapter on BLW Builders Plates concludes this set.

Item # 1155

Delivering new FL9s, GP18s and GP20s took this camera-toting field rep to the NH, CB&Q, RI, GN, SP and numerous other roads across the country. His behind the scenes commentary makes for enjoyable reading.

Item # 1254

A look at the operation and roster of privately-owned ice-bunker reefer cars. Contains a marvelous sequence of the icing process atop an icing dock in 1962.

Item # 1216

George Hockaday loved the Alco locomotives that his employer created and photographed them new at the plant as well as out on the various railroads he worked with.

Item # 1301
 

Rail motive power and operations concerning steel mills are examined in full color. Raw materials, coal suppliers, coke making, scrap processing, slag handling, mill service as well as the major steel companies in the U.S. and Canada – USS, Allegheny Ludlum, Republic, Bethlehem, Armco and many more.

An epic work describing the long history of Steamtown from its New England roots in the 1950’s with F. Nelson Blount to its move south to Scranton and the National Park Service – all told through more than 300 color photographs!

Item  #1400

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