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Your favorite railroad book
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 5:08 pm
by Norm
What is your favorite railroad book?
Jim Wrinn asked that question in the latest issue of Trains.
Is it books of nostalgia, or books about the future of railroading?
I'm curious. Will the younger generation regard diesel as we old farts think of steam? New technology will prevail.
Say your piece.
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 5:19 pm
by sd70accsxt700
No matter the era, anything by Morning Sun
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 5:22 pm
by SD80MAC
Either Chesepeake & Ohio's Pere Marquette's by Thomas Dixon Jr. or The Last Of Steam by Joe Collias. Any Brian Soloman book is great as well.
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 5:33 pm
by Norm
sd70accsxt700 wrote:No matter the era, anything by Morning Sun
Who dat?
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 5:35 pm
by SD80MAC
Norm wrote:sd70accsxt700 wrote:No matter the era, anything by Morning Sun
Who dat?
Publishing company.
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 5:52 pm
by PAT.C
THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:01 pm
by PAT.C
WHO DAT WHO SAY WHO DAT ?
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:31 pm
by AARR
PAT C. WROTE
THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:45 pm
by Norm
PAT.C wrote:WHO DAT WHO SAY WHO DAT ?
Dat me say dat.
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:28 pm
by Mick
Man...ONE favorite book??
Heartland by Greg McDonnell is certainly in the upper eschelon of my collection.
Mick Enright
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:03 pm
by GAP
"The Situation in Flushing" by Edmund G. Love. It's about the author growing up in Flushing Michigan and his love of trains. I read it almost once a year.
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:26 pm
by Brian_F
"Clinchfield Country" by Steven King (not that Steven King, the other one...)
Covers the Clinchfield through dieselization until the Seaboard System merger in 1980.
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:29 pm
by gtw5812
GAP wrote:"The Situation in Flushing" by Edmund G. Love. It's about the author growing up in Flushing Michigan and his love of trains. I read it almost once a year.
I have that book, original Hard cover copy, right here in my book case..What a great book!
R/
Galen
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 11:25 am
by amtrakjackson
"Conrail Commodities" by Jeremy Taylor
An excellent, detailed look at Conrail's traffic patterns in the early 1990s.
"The Men Who Loved Trains" by Rush Loving, Jr.
Trains magazine had some excerpts from this recently.
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:40 pm
by SousaKerry
"ALCO's to Allentown" great old shots of ALCO's in and around Allentown, P.A. link to publisher
http://www.alco628.com/wizzau.html
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:19 pm
by J T
Conrail Jon wrote:Chesepeake & Ohio's Pere Marquette's by Thomas Dixon Jr....
I have quite a few train books, but I think I'll go with Jon on this one. I was blown away when I came across this book last spring. I had no idea that the PM had this passenger train that went from GR to Detroit. Made me sad that I missed out on that time period. Maybe Marquette can score an old F unit and create a heritage unit and run a special excursion between GR and Manistee.
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:29 pm
by MSchwiebert
A pair of books that complement each other quite nicely are Scott Trostel's "The Detroit Toledo & Ironton"and the Morning Sun DT&I in Color.
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:33 pm
by redside20
"The Nickel Plate Story" by. John Rehor
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:47 pm
by Railnut
Can't name just 1, so how about a few?
"Regional Railroads of the Midwest" by Steve Glischinski...Voyager Press
"Chicago Great Western in the Merger Decade(1960's)" by Phillip R. Hastings..Carstens Publications
"Michigan-Ontario Ore Railroads" by Patrick C. Dorin... TLC Publishing
"Images of Rail, The Ann Arbor Railroad" by D.C. Jesse Burkhardt...Arcadia Publishing
"Rail America Vol. 1, Diesel Paint Schemes, Photos & Rosters for CN North America (CN, GTW, CV, DWP)" by Donald C. Lewis & Patrick C. Dorin.... LPD Publishing
"North American Railyards" by Michael Rhodes...MBI Publishing
Then there is the list of books I would love to have...but I will save that for another time(LONG!!!!!!!).....
Dave C
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:10 pm
by Norm
Some very interesting answers indeed.
A lot of them sound like they would make great reading.