Originally published in 1967 in one volume, The Time of the Trolley was reissued in 1987 (the centennial of trolleys in the US) by Golden West Books in three revised and expanded volumes. This is Volume 1 in that series, covering the street railway from the original horsecars to the new light rails. Middleton describes how the humble horse car was replaced by Frank Sprague's perfection of the electric street railway which dominated municipal transportation until Henry Ford. The author describes trolley technology, life aboard the cars, the expansion across the country until there were 26,000 miles of street railway, and how streetcars -- by allowing people to live in the suburbs -- helped to create the modern city. Illustrated throughout with over 350 black and white photos. Includes list of principle car builders and suppliers, current systems, and trolley museums. With bibliography and index. 238 pages.

The Time of the Trolley

Middleton, William D.

Kalmbach Publishing

VG/POOR, RAILROAD TRAIN, 267 PAGES

The Hiawatha Story

Engineering & Transportation

Scribbins, Jim

Transportation

Originally published in 1930 (and reprinted here by Kalmbach in 1970), this encyclopedic volume contains just about everything one could possible wish to know about articulated locomotives. The book is divided into four main sections (articulated locomotives, semi-articulated, temporally articulated or with auxiliary engines, and those that use the tender's weight for propulsion), with detailed further differentiation explaining each particular kind of engine. (For example, there are 47 different engines described in the Articulated section, 55 in the Semi-Articulated section, etc.) There are numerous charts providing dimensions for each type. Illustrated throughout with detailed schematic diagrams, black and white photos, prints, and drawings. Includes lists of articulated systems, inventors, railways that have used them, manufacturers and principal dimensions. With a new introduction and epilogue by noted railroad writer Robert A. Le Massena. 632 pages.

Articulated Locomotives

Lionel Weiner

This is one of the great books on the golden era of passenger trains, capturing in beautiful photos and drawings the comfort and variety of travel by train. With dazzling end papers showing paintings by Walter F. Greene of the Twentieth Century Limited (front) and by Grif Teller of the Pennsylvania's experimental S-1 6-4-4-6 (back); frontispiece is the Missouri Pacific's Sunshine Special by William Harnden Foster. Illustrated with over 1500 photos. Includes car floor plans, menus, timetables, and travel folders. Chapters include A Pullman Postscript; In the Northeast Corridor; The American Flyer Cars; The Great Steel Fleet and the Fleet of Modernism; A Twist on the Tuscan Red; The Black Diamond Express; On the Monon; On the Pere Marquette; The Rebel Route; The Seaboard Coast Line Route to the South; The Pan American; The Frisco and Katy; Thru the Rockies, Not Around them; The Great Race to Chicago and to the Twin Cities; Il Camino Real -- The Highway of the King; Great Trains of the Great Western; The Olympian; The Golden State Limited; The Finest Trains on Earth; the Canadian Pacific Railway; Across Canada; Mexicano de Lujo; Some Exotic Trains; Amtrak; Wagons-Lits. 512 pages with index.

More Classic Trains

Dubin, Arthur D.

Many black &amp; white photos and detailed descriptions of how to identify diesel locomotives as well as the characteristics of different companies' trains like General Electric, etc.

The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide, Including Industrial Units

Reference

Pinkepank, Jerry A.

Catalogs & Directories

This comprehensive history of North American railroad electrification has been out of print for many years. Now, Indiana University Press is proud to announce its return in an new, updated second edition.For most of the first half of the 20th century the United States led the way in railroad electrification. Before the outbreak of World War II, the country had some 2,400 route-miles and more than 6,300 track-miles operating under electric power, far more than any other nation and more than 20 percent of the world's total. In almost every instance, electrification was a huge success. Running times were reduced. Tonnage capacities were increased. Fuel and maintenance costs were lowered, and the service lives of electric locomotives promised to be twice as long as those of steam locomotives. Yet despite its many triumphs, electrification of U.S. railroads failed to achieve the wide application that once was so confidently predicted. By the 1970s, it was the Soviet Union, with almost 22,000 electrified route-miles, that led the way, and the U.S. had declined to 17th place. Today, electric operation of U.S. railroads is back in the limelight. The federally funded Northeast Corridor Improvement Program has provided an expanded Northeast Corridor electrification, with high-speed trains that are giving the fastest rail passenger service ever seen in North America, while still other high-speed corridors are planned for other parts of the country. And with U.S. rail freight tonnage at its highest levels in history, the ability of electric locomotives to expand capacity promises to bring renewed consideration of freight railroad electrification.Middleton begins his ambitious chronicle of the ups and downs of railway electrification with the history of its early days, and brings it right up to the present -- which is surely not the end of this complex and mercurial story.

When the Steam Railroads Electrified

William D. Middleton

Book by Jerry A. Pinkepank, Louis A. Marre

Diesel Spotter's Guide Update: Including Electrics and Lightweight-Train Power Cars

Science & Math

Jerry A. Pinkepank

Louis A. Marre

Technology

18 Tailor-Made Model Railroad Track Plans (Model Railroad Handbook, 19)

JOHN ARMSTRONG

Diesel Locomotive Rosters: U.S., Canada, Mexico

Charles W. McDonald

A snippet of the book's synopsis-(This book) contains brief histories of the major railroads that have disappeared since 1930, plus statistics, maps, an occasional biography, a glossary, and a summary of North American railroad history. The railroads are listed alphabetically, and the index includes all the roads mentioned in the book. Statistical information for each railroad includes mileage and the number of locomotives and cares at the end of 1929 (or when the railroad began) and also at the railroad's end of existence. Also included are recommendations for further reading, a reference to the appropriate historical and technical society, and a list of the road's lines that remain in operation. The information has been co0mpiled from authoritative sources and reviewed by experts of each railroad.

The Historical Guide to North American Railroads: Histories, Figures, and Features of more than 160 Railroads Abandoned or Merged Since 1930

Drury, George H.

Business & Money

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