Freight cars across North America featuring (just to name a few) New York Central, PRR, Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific, Southern Pacific, ATSF, C&O and everywhere in between - an immense variety of mid-20th Century freight!

Trace the modern auto rack car from inception to today on roads ranging from ACL to KCS through the products of a number of manufacturers.  All versions from the late 1950s to today are illustrated in rare color views.

Volume 2's B&LE story starts in 1994 - the final year of Volume 1 - and continues to 2019 featuring the transition from Transtar to Great Lakes Transportation and on to Canadian National. During this period, B&LE transitioned from a "big steel road", dropping its operational marriage with sister Union Railroad.�

Over 300 color photos of locomotives, cabooses, and other equipment and structures, specially painted for the Bicentennial.  Volume 1 covers 84 railroads and industries, beginning with the letters A-F, which participated in the event that took the nation by storm.

Item # MSB1658

Coverage of the motive power of the �Route of the Minute Man� begins with the Last of Steam in the late 1940s into the mid-1950s. Diesel coverage includes the 37 different models of internal combustion locomotives operated by the B&M. From the smallest industrial type switchers to specialized passenger motive power, Rail Diesel Cars, and the standard, run-of- the-mill production diesel models.

With photography starting at merger time in 1970, the author systematically covered this "backwater" of the BN.  Portland was the heart but branch lines through the Willamette Valley and the Oregon Trunk Line for California.

Kicks off with the Canadian National's RSC-14 program where 38 RS-18 locomotives were modified with six-wheel trucks for operation on the light rail branch lines typical of those in the Canadian Maritimes. Canadian National operations in the provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia are featured in photos between the late 1970s - mid-1990s. If you're an Alco or MLW fan, this title is for you!

Introduces the company�s Modern Road Power wearing 5000-9999. Sixteen chapters, each devoted to a specific model, illustrate the second-generation geeps and SDs of this transcontinental railroad.

Item # MSB1663

Continues the examination of the locomotive roster of this Canadian transcontinental railroad that also reaches into the depths of American soil. Coverage focuses on modern six-axle road power constructed by EMD/GMD, GE, and Montreal, as well as Progress Rail. Enjoy nearly 300 full-color photos, from the early SD40s to the big SD90Mac and SD90Mac-H locomotives!