Building the Burlington Northern RR in N Scale
Building the Burlington Northern RR in N Scale

Author: Ed Hammer

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9780890241196

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Demonstrates what's behind a room-sized N scale layout of this famous railroad built by 10 modelers. Shows how computer track planning, kitbashed buildings, and superdetailed scenery can replicate the 23,000-mile Burlington Northern.

GE Evolution Locomotives
GE Evolution Locomotives

Author: Sean Graham-White

Publisher: Voyageur Press

Published: 2007-07-15

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780760322987

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A new generation of locomotives for a changing world: greener, cleaner, and just as powerful. This book introduces readers to General Electric's Evolution Series, the company’s latest achievement in a long and distinguished history of locomotive design. At the heart of the Evolution's success is the GEVO 12-cylinder engine, which produces the same horsepower as the old 16-cylinder FDL while using less fuel and reducing emissions. Today’s most up-to-date railfans will want to read about the development, testing, production, and use of the locomotive that, in its first year of production, has already been ordered by every Class 1 railroad in North America. Photographs and illustrations document the features and components of the Evolutions operating across the country, and interviews with GE and railroad personnel fill in the details of current operations and plans for what is certain to be the future of American rail.

Field Guide to Trains
Field Guide to Trains

Author: Brian Solomon

Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)

Published: 2016-06-15

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0760349975

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The ultimate guide for train lovers, Field Guide to Trains is fully loaded with pictures and fun facts on all the machines that ride the rails

Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas
Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas

Author: David M. Bernstein

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011-03-14

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1439639981

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The Southern Pacific Railroad and its predecessors served Texas from 1853 to 1996. Stretching from El Paso to the Louisiana border and from the Rio Grande Valley to the Red River, Southern Pacific opened up vast areas of the state to settlement by transporting people, building materials, and livestock. The railroad fueled Texass economy by moving oil, timber, agricultural commodities, coal, automobiles, petrochemicals, cement, steel, consumer goods, and myriad other products. It hauled the marble that built the state capitol in Austin and the materials to build the massive seawall in Galveston. Southern Pacific also played an important role in developing the ports of Beaumont, Galveston, Houston, and Corpus Christi. This book is a photographic record of Southern Pacific in eastern Texas during the 50-year period following World War II to the 1996 merger with the Union Pacific Railroad.