Well-done pictorial history of the Norfolk and Western's Class J 4-8-4s and Class A 2-6-6-4s. The book discusses the wonderful combination of speed, power and durability that these locomotives demonstrated and examines their origin, construction and operation, explaining how they lasted long after other steam engines had been put out to pasture. Photos show the engines in action with plenty of trackside structures, depots and scenery to inspire the modeler. 64 pages.

Norfolk and Western Railway A and J Class Locomotives

WARDEN, William E.

Andover Junction Publications

The Norfolk &amp; Western railroad was Americas last holdout for steam - in 1954 every locomotive on its roster was steam powered. Yet, by 1960, every N&amp;W train was diesel powered. This is the amazing story of the American railroads switch to diesel locomotives as told through the history of the Norfolk &amp; Western. Warden tells how and why they switched to diesel, identifies N&amp;W steam locomotives, the trains to which they were assigned, and the diesel locomotives that took their place.

Norfolk & Western: Diesel's Last Conquest

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

T L C Pub

Pictorial history of the Buffalo Creek and Gauley Railroad

Buffalo Creek & Gauley

Ed Crist

Norfolk & Western Y-Class Articulated Steam Locomotives

Tlc Pub Inc

William E. Warden began photographing logging railroads in West Virginia in 1957. He prepared this book to illustrate and explain the methods and operations of logging railroads in West Virginia in the last twenty years that they ran, ending about 1960. West Virginia was one of the nation's largest producers of lumber beginning in the late 19th Century and extending into the middle third of the 20th Century. It had hundreds of logging railroads carrying huge quantities of timber to mills for processing into finished lumber, which was then shipped all over the United States, again by rail. The lumber industry in West Virginia began its decline when the great stands of virgin forest began to be depleted, and by the 1950s, there were only a half-dozen or so operations left still using logging railroads. There remain many logging and lumber milling operations in the state, but today the logs are taken from the forest by motor truck to modern, highly automated mills. The romance of back woods railroading holds a particular allure and nostalgia today, even as it did when these last few lines were still operating. We are lucky that Bill Warden and others were there to photograph the last decades. The book treats in detail five of the last and largest companies to use logging railroads and illustrates each line in some detail. Also included are chapters about logging in West Virginia and the locomotives that were favorites of the loggers--the famous geared Shay, Climax, and Heisler types. Today tourists can experience some of the logging railroad flavor by riding the Cass Scenic Railroad over the old line of the Mower Lumber Company out of Cass, W.Va.

West Virginia Logging Railroads

Quarrier Press]