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OUTBOUND TRAINS IN THE ERA BEFORE THE MERGERS
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Boyd, 2005, Firefly Books, 92p, HD.
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This book features Jim Boyd's spectacular photographs of aging roundhouses, country stations, busy interlocking towers and the great stations of Chicago;
pre-Amtrak passenger trains, from the Twentieth Century Limited and the Midnight Special to lowly locals, mail trains and branch-line doodlebugs;
N&W Geeps and SDs in the West Virginia coalfields, the California Zephyr threading through the Feather River canyon, and slant-nose, stainless-steel-paneled Burlington E5s racing across the Illinois prairie;
Pennsylvania GG1 electrics, Milwaukee Road boxcabs and Little Joes; and the historic steam of Southern Pacific Daylight and Union Pacific Challenger 3985, the world's largest operating steam locomotive.
Reviewed in: National Railway Bulletin Vol. 69 #5, NRHS, 2004, page 50.
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