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| Santa Fe 1940-1971 In Color Volume 1: Chicago-Kansas City By Lloyd E. Stagner The first in a four volume series of the finest vintage AT&SF color available. This series shows Santa Fe steam at its best and at least one of every diesel class that the road had during this period. This first volume features such rarities as “The Blue Goose,” E3’s, Baldwin center-cabs, FT’s in passenger service, and much more, all in full color. 128 pages, Hardcover. Our price for this Morning Sun Title DOES include FREE Shipping! |
MS |
$49.95 |
$47.95 |
| Santa Fe 1940-1971 In Color Volume 2: Kansas City-Albuquerque By Lloyd E. Stagner A true Santa Fe classic! See rare DL109s in Kansas City and then spend a day in 1946 as everything from 2-10-2s to FTs pass by. Watch as 2-10-4s help F7s thru Abo Canyon and E1s glide over Raton Pass. Joint Line steam and early diesels in abundance. 128 pages, Hardcover. Our price for this Morning Sun Title DOES include FREE Shipping! |
MS |
$49.95 |
$47.95 |
| Santa Fe Power In Color V1: Alco, Baldwin, & FM (incl. misc. Builders & Slugs By Ed Mackinson Santa Fe's diesel power was diverse and fascinating. Volume 1 includes units from Alco, Baldwin, Fairbanks-Morse, and miscellaneous builders! 128 pages, Hardcover. Our price for this Morning Sun Title DOES include FREE Shipping! |
MS |
$69.95 |
$65.95 |
| Santa Fe Through Passenger Service in Color V. 1 By Greg Stout A train by train look at the Santa Fe's premier passenger services. From the SUPER CHIEF and El CAPITAN to the SAN DIEGAN. 128 pages, Color, Hardcover. Our price for this Morning Sun Title DOES include FREE Shipping! |
MS |
$59.95 |
$45.95 |
| Seattle to Los Angeles Route Map Handy guide to today's passenger trains traveling from Seattle to Los Angeles, via Tacoma, Portland, Eugene, Sacramento, Emeryville, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara. Includes extensions northward to Vancouver, British Columbia, and southward to San Diego. Designed for quick reference in the field or on the train using a narrow format that fits in your pocket or camera bag. Each page highlights approximately 50 miles of track and provides the location of both passenger stops and the host railroad's freight stations along the way. All passenger stations and many other points are identified using GPS coordinates given in latitude and longitude. This allows you to track your progress while travelling on the train with a GPS unit or to catch the train while railfanning trackside. In addition, radio frequencies of road channels used on the route are shown on each page and in an index at the back. 42 pages, B&W, Softcover. |
Cent |
$15.00 |
$11.98 |
Soo Line/CP Rail In The Twin Cities; A Color Pictorial |
4ways |
$59.95 |
$47.95 |
| Soo Line Power In Color Volume 1: Switchers & Covered Wagons By Stephen M. Timko Kicking off our coverage of Soo Line Power, in Volume 1 you'll find 300 color photos of Soo Line’s switchers and covered wagons! Alco, EMD (and EMC), Baldwin, Fairbanks-Morse, and a lone GE are featured, as is a single yard slug! Also included are company F3a, F7s, FP7s and FA-1s. 128 pages, Hardcover. Our price for this Morning Sun Title DOES include FREE Shipping! |
MS |
$69.95 |
$65.50 |
| Soo Line Power In Color Volume 2: Early Road Switchers 1945-1965 (RS-1s to GP35s) By Stephen M. Timko Features early roadswitchers from the Alco RS-1 to the EMD GP35s! GP7s, GP9s, GP30s, and rebuild variations are included, as are the Baldwin Road Switchers. Fuel tenders, cabooses, and rare Soo Line miscellanea round it out! 128 pages, Hardcover. Our price for this Morning Sun Title DOES include FREE Shipping! |
MS |
$69.95 |
$65.50 |
| Soo Line Power In Color Volume 3: Modern Road Power 1966-2020 By Stephen M. Timko GP and SD models built in LaGrange and London are featured, including rare SD40As, SD39, SD60s and SD60Ms, SDL39s, GP15C,s and GP39-2s! For variety there’s also an SD40B, and a pair of SD45s, as well as the common GP40s and GP38-2s. Rounding out coverage is the elusive 10-unit order for GE U30Cs. 128 pages, Hardcover. Our price for this Morning Sun Title DOES include FREE Shipping! |
MS |
$69.95 |
$53.95 |
| Southern Pacific 1960s - 1990s V.1 Sacramento to Sparks. Story behind the Picture Revised Edition By David Houston This is an extensively edited second printing of the first book in the Story Behind the Picture series. Featured are 144 pages of quality Southern Pacific and Amtrak photos from the 1960s to the 1990s, guaranteed to bring back memories of the way it was, with 99% of them in color. The previously unpublished works of David Houston are proudly presented in large format, just as they were photographed. Enjoy seeing Sacramento, Roseville and the mighty Sierra Nevada's as they were. Beautiful scenes of snow removal including rotaries, flangers and spreaders in action! 144 pages, Color & B&W, Hardcover. |
$69.95 |
$56.95 |
| Southern Pacific 4-8-0 Locos By J.A.Strapac & Tom Dill A new book by noted Steam and Diesel authority Joe Strapac and Tom Dill, detailing the history of the 4-8-0 steam locomotives owned by the Southern Pacific. The SP rostered 84 engines in several classes and the various changes to them are documented throughout the book. Illustrating the text are numerous unpublished photos from the cameras of noted railroad photographers H.L. Arey and H.H Arey as well as Robert McFarland, Bert Ward, Gerald Best and others. A chapter on tenders by Arnold S. Menke and a comprehensive roster is included, along with engine diagrams, division assignments and engine dispositions. 208 pages, B&W, Hardcover. |
SPHTS |
$49.95 |
$43.95 |
| Southern Pacific Freight Car Painting and Lettering Guide By Dick Harley & Anthony W. Thompson This guide has been designed as a companion to the Southern Pacific Painting & Lettering Guide for locomotive and passenger cars published by the SPH&TS in 2013. It illustrates how Southern Pacific (and subsidiaries) owned freight cars were painted and lettered over the years, as well as PMT trucking equipment used in TOFC service and rail cars from wholly-owned rail car leasing companies Evergreen and Golden West. Extensive coverage of painting and lettering practices for Pacific Fruit Express equipment is also included. Coverage begins with the emergence of Common Standard practices in the 1880s (1906 for PFE) and continues through 1996. All information in this volume is based on official SP and Pacific Fruit Express, car and locomotive builder documents, plans and drawings. This book will be useful as a tool for historians and modelers. 192 pages, Color, Horizontal Format, Hardcover. |
SPHTS |
$80.00 |
$66.95 |
| Southern Pacific in San Francisco By John R. Signor While it could be argued that Sacramento, California, was the point from which the vast Southern Pacific Railroad system grew, it was San Francisco which became the nucleus of wealth, power and political influence that was to become the Southern Pacific Co. Here the railroad system was planned, financed and managed. Southern Pacific was one of the first large corporations to make San Francisco its headquarters and was for many years California’s largest employer, and largest land owner – except for the federal government – in most of the states it operated in. Underscoring the city’s importance, San Francisco was milepost zero in a system that identified the location of all points of the vast Southern Pacific Railroad, west of El Paso, by their distance from San Francisco. Within the city itself, SP employed thousands of people over the years in its offices, shops, yards and on its trains, streetcars, ferries and steamships. The railroad gave unselfishly to the relief work that followed the earthquake and fire of 1906. Yet is is in San Francisco that we find the origin of the sobriquet, “the Octopus,” which appeared in editorials criticizing the company’s monopoly of the city’s streetcar systems, long before the popular novel of the same name was published. The opulence of its high-ranking officials added fuel to the fire. San Francisco was the only point on the former Southern Pacific system – or west of the Mississippi for that matter – that has enjoyed daily commuter rail service for nearly 160 years, mostly under SP management. And it was out of San Francisco that the last of SP mainline steam locomotives operated. Southern Pacific moved into what would become its final decades of activity in San Francisco with a spirit of optimism and innovation, yet railroad freight operations eventually withered under intense pressure from other forms of transportation, competition from the Port of Oakland, mergers, and the flight of rail-served industry and warehousing from the city in the face of escalating property values. At this point, Southern Pacific’s greatest asset was the critical real estate it controlled in the city, which it attempted to leverage for much-needed cash. Ultimately by 1996, and the merger with the Union Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific for all intents and purposes had disappeared from San Francisco entirely. This then is the story of the rise and fall of this once great corporation in San Francisco in all of its manifestations spanning 132 years, focusing primarily on its rail operations within the San Francisco Terminal. 344 pages, 560 Photos, 33 Maps, B&W/Color, Hardcover. |
Sph&ts |
$80.00 |
$69.95 |
| Southern Pacific Los Angeles Division By John Signor, SPH&TS From the first stirring of a Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad locomotive in January 1869, to the merger with Union Pacific on September 11, 1996, Southern Pacific’s Los Angeles Division in all of its manifestations was an engine of growth and prosperity in Southern California. It employed many thousands over the years in its offices, shops and trains. It brought settlers west, established towns, brought war workers in and sent the troops home. Much has been written about the Southern Pacific and its subsidiaries in the Southland. This volume was conceived to augment these works by tracing the long and involved operating history of the Southern Pacific as it first helped to create Southern California, then later adapted to cope with its explosive growth. Accompanying the text are over 1,000 photographs—most never published, including 456 in color—timetables and other ephemera, and 76 maps, many of which are rendered in the author’s unique “bird’s eye view” style.With Los Angeles as a destination of significance from the beginning, the author has been able to draw from a wealth of historic material on the subject, preserved by the railway itself, official repositories, interested employees and other individuals which includes photographs, first hand experiences and the day-to-day paperwork that documented how SP operated in Southern California. Southern Pacific’s Los Angeles Division is sure to find a place on the book shelves of those interested in the SP, or the history of Southern California as a whole. 584 pages, Hardcover. |
Sphs |
$80.00 |
$67.95 |
| Southern Pacific Maintenance of Way Equipment By K.W. Harrison From the Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society is an exhaustive catalog of maintenance of way equipment on the Southern Pacific and subsidiary lines. More than twenty years in the making, Kenneth Harrison documents more than fifty thousand maintenance of way cars and equipment with over 1,200 photographs, hundreds never before published. Subsidiary lines covered include the T&NO (and predecessors), Cotton Belt, SD&AE, SP de Mexico, NWP and Pacific Electric. Equipment coverage is broken down into the following groups: flangers, spreaders, snow plows, wrecking (relief) cranes, relief outfits, pile drivers, shovels, ditchers, boarding cars, roadway water cars, roadway box, roadway flats, roadway ballast, test and supply cars, shop switchers and many system oddities. 496 pages, B&W and Color Photos, Horizontal Hardcover. Also included is a CD-ROM with all available roster information for all subsidiary lines. |
Sphs |
$149.95 |
$122.90 |
| Southern Pacific's Golden Empire 1954-1958 By Joe Dale Morris and Rod Crossley Travel the Golden Empire through the cameras of John B. Hungerford and Harold F. Stewart in more than 495 mostly never-before-published photographs in color. Mr. Hungerford, an author and printing company owner, traveled California and the west from one end to the other focusing on the action of the Southern Pacific Railroad's main lines, branch lines, narrow gauge, Nacozari Branch and interchange railroads. Harold Stewart, a Motorman with the Pacific Electric and later a Locomotive Engineer with the Southern Pacific, traveled throughout the west photographing the SP and other railroad companies. You'll see first hand the photographs as observed through the extraordinary cameras of Misters Hungerford and Stewart. Considering the era, 98 percent of the book is of steam locomotives at work. Includes some nice photographs of the Magma Arizona, Pickering Lumber and Ferrocarril de Nacozari. 296 pages, Color Photos, Hardcover. |
Sphs |
$85.00 |
$68.98 |
| Southern Railway Through Passenger Service in Color By Greg Stout An examination of Southern’s passenger fleet – its trains, motive power, rolling stock and operations – from the 1940’s until its reluctant entrance into Amtrak in 1979. 128 pages, Color and B&W, Roster, Hardcover. Our price for this Morning Sun Title DOES include FREE Shipping! |
MS |
$59.95 |
$55.95 |
| SP Trainline; Winter 2024 #158 Remembering the Daylight. High Noon on Cotton Belt + more. |
$15.00 |
$7.95 |
Steam By the Numbers This book explores over 30 wheel arrangements, uncovering the history, development, and operational significance of each arrangement, shedding light on why locomotives varied based on duty, geography, and era. You'll get into the history of each wheel arrangement, explaining:
224 pages, 9 Color photos, Softcover. |
Kalm |
$28.99 |
$23.50 |
| Steel Mill Railroads of Chicago and Northwest Indiana By John T. Eagan, Jr. The largest concentration of steel mills and their associated support industries are in the Chicago and Northwest Indiana region. This title closely examines the steel industry in and around that area, with complete coverage of the locomotives, specialty cars, and facilities that help to make steel and its byproducts. The famous Hot Metal Train is covered in detail. Most of the photographs were taken within the confines of the mills themselves and show the daily operation of the steel mill railroads! 128 pages, Color, Hardcover. Our price for this Morning Sun Title DOES include FREE Shipping! |
MS |
$69.95 |
$65.50 |
