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Signature Press, 2011. Hardcover. New. Merchants Despatch traced its origins to a railroad express service begun in 1855, with a connection to the American Express Company. From its earliest years it operated over the lines of the New York Central, and by 1871 its stock was owned by Vanderbilt Lines railroads. However, it was an independent part of… Read more about this item

Signature Press. Hardcover. New. The practice of painting advertisements on the freight cars of shippers and car owners' dates well back into the 19th century. But in the 1920s, leasing companies realized they could contract with shippers to pass back usage payments beyond some agreed minimum. This led to an explosion of car leasing and, as this book… Read more about this item

Signature Press. Hardcover. New. Union Pacific was a latecomer to the Los Angeles Basin, not becoming part of the Southern California railroad picture until 1901, when E.H. Harriman and W.A. Clark agreed to share ownership of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, which had taken over the property of the Los Angeles Terminal Railway. Completion… Read more about this item

Signature Press. Hardcover. New. The Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway was well described by its slogan, Around--Not Thru Chicago. For most of a century, it was owned by United States Steel, and was a critical freight conduit for both U.S. Steel's Gary Works and its South Chicago Works, but also served many other shippers along its 130-mile line.… Read more about this item

Signature Press. Hardcover. New. From it's beginnings in 1904 until abandonment of most trackage in 1992, the Visalia Electric Railroad had a fascinating history. Built as an electric line which pioneered 15-cycle alternating current in the United States, it operated orange interurban cars along its 30-mile route until 1924. Serving the Sierra Nevada foothill region of eastern Tulare… Read more about this item

Signature Press. Hardcover. New. This is another quality publication by Signature Press highlighting a short line railroad operating in beautiful northern California. The railroad is but a ghost of its former self operating only 3.3 miles of track on an as-needed basis. The historical photographs are obviously in B&W and most from the modern era are in color.… Read more about this item

Signature Press. Hardcover. New. The sixth Volume in this distinguished series of books describes Arizona's Northern Roads, the railroads in the northern part of the state. The major roads among these were the mining roads of Jerome and the coal roads of later years, there were also lumber roads and the tourist lines such as the Grand Canyon… Read more about this item

Signature Press. Hardcover. New. While many segments of the vast Southern Pacific have attracted wide attention over the years, the lines of the SP in Nevada and Utah have remained largely a mystery. The stretch from Sparks, Nevada, to Ogden, Utah, was for many years known as the Salt Lake Division. This Volume is an attempt to trace… Read more about this item

Signature Press. Hardcover. New. The railroad depot was once a vital part of local communities as well as essential to railroad operations. And particularly in the West, depots were often landmark structures. Southern Pacific and its predecessor railroads constructed and maintained depots throughout their territory. Between 1877 and 1894 a series of 26 numbered standard plans for depots… Read more about this item

Signature Press. Hardcover. New. This long-awaited book from noted Southern Pacific locomotive authority Bob Church covers all the ten-coupled types, from El Gubernator of the 1880s and the Texas & New Orleans 2-10-0s, to all the 2-10-2s and 4-10-2s. Extensive research has yielded the full details about SP's experiments with valve gear on 2-10-2 number 3769, and equally… Read more about this item

Signature Press. Hardcover. New. The Great Northern Railway was among Americas most distinctive and noteworthy railroads. Though its most spectacular scenery was in the western half of the line, called Lines West, there was a very busy network of trackage, and considerably more traffic, in the Lines East, essentially including the states of North and South Dakota, Minnesota,… Read more about this item

Signature Press. Hardcover. New. The basic story of the Overseas Railway to Key West, an extension of the Florida East Coast Railway, has been told before, from the early dream of Henry Flagler, to completion of railroad construction near the end of Flagler's life, to destruction of the extension in the devastating Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. But… Read more about this item

Signature Press. Hardcover. New. This is the fourth Volume in a series on Southern Pacific freight cars. It covers box cars, the most numerous type in the SP fleet. The era is roughly from 1865 to 1965. The book contains an extensive array of rosters, photographs and, where possible, drawings of the major car classes, along with other… Read more about this item

Signature Press. Hardcover. New. The Magor Car Corporation, located in northern New Jersey at Clifton, was a significant railcar builder throughout much of the twentieth century. It had its origins in a partnership founded in 1899 by Basil Magor and Robert Wonham, which led in 1902 to a manufacturing operation called the Wonham-Magor Engineering Works. In the first… Read more about this item

Signature Press. Hardcover. New. The Western Division of the Southern Pacific, historically extending from Sacramento to Oakland and San Jose, and with lines to Fresno, the Napa Valley, and over Altamont Pass, was a crucible of California operations. Headquartered at the famous Oakland Pier (or Mole) and dispatching hundreds of passenger and freight trains daily in its heyday,… Read more about this item

Signature Press. Hardcover. New. Signature Press, hardcover with dust jacket, 256 pages, 8.5 in. x 11 in x 1 in., 466 photographs, 41 drawings and graphics, roster, index. The last period of American Car & Foundry manufacturing of box cars was the years 1960 to 1981, and this volume provides both the history and extensive color photography, along… Read more about this item