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Photographs and history featuring passenger operations of the Katy Railroad in Texas
A historical and pictorial look at the Burlington Route's fleet of passenger trains that once served Texas. Trains include the Wichita Falls to Waurika mixed; the West Texas Express; the Wichita Falls to Abilene doodlebug; the Spur Spur's mixed train; the Childress to Lubbock motorcar; the Childress to Pampa mixed; the B-RI's Red Head; the Pioneer Zephyr; the Sam Houston Zephyr; mail trains No. 7 & 8; and the Texas Zephyr between Dallas-Fort Worth and Denver.
Features photos and history of the Rock Island Railroad's passenger trains that once served the State of Texas. Included are chapters on the Graham branch, the Amarillo-Canadian River line, the Short Line Flyer, Arizona Limited, Texas Rocket, Choctaw Rocket, Memphis-Californian, Oklahoma Rocket, the Fort Worth to El Reno RDC cars, the Choctaw Rockette, Twin Star Rocket, the Imperial, Cherokee and the Golden State. Each train and chapter are arranged in the order that each train was discontinued beginning in the 1930s and ending in February 1968 when the Golden State was finally dropped. The book is 148 pages in length, hardback, and contains scores of rare black & white and color photographs, dining car menus, vintage timetables, and rare newspaper articles. A must have for any fan of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad or Texas railroad history. This is the second volume in a series of Texas passenger train books by Steve Allen Goen.
History of the first railroad built across Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
A historical essay featuring the St. Louis Southwestern's passenger operations in Texas between 1910 to 1958. Featuring countless rare photographs of Cotton Belt Trains such as "The Lone Star", "Morning Star", and the "Jitney". Chapters featured include the Stephenville, Hillsboro, Fort Worth, Gatesville, Waco, Sherman, Lufkin,Tyler, and Dallas Lines. Over 150 rare black and white and color images.
History and description of the Union Pacific Railroad.
On September 15, 1896, Crush boasted the highest population in Texas. Built near Waco, the town provided the staging ground for a publicity stunt ramming two trains together at top speed. Showrunner and Katy Railroad official William Crush thought he had planned for every contingency. But when elephant-sized chunks of steam locomotive began raining down into the packed stands, the extravaganza quickly unraveled into one of the Lone Star State's most confounding tragedies. The soon-to-be famous Scott Joplin commemorated the debacle in "The Great Crush Collision March," and entrepreneurs like "Head-On Joe" Connolly of Iowa continued the tradition of the staged locomotive duel for decades. But the stupefying incident still slipped into the back pages of Texas lore. In the first-ever book on the subject, writer-historian Mike Cox finally tells the full story of the Crash at Crush.
The period from the 1890s to the mid-1950s is generally considered the “golden era� of passenger rail travel in America. It was a time of celebrated locomotives and luxurious passenger service, a time when rail technology saw its greatest advances and railroads became the nation’s favored mode of transportation. These glory years come alive in American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated, 1889–1971. For this volume, author and illustrator Mark Wegman has researched original railroad drawings and in some cases even paint chips to render more than 160 profiles, front and top views, and interior layouts depicting the steam, diesel, and electric locomotives, along with passenger cars, of three dozen of the nation’s most celebrated trains of the golden age. Accompanying the author’s drawings are histories of each train, period photographs, postcards, menus, luggage stickers, vintage print ads, and detailed captions. The book is a lavishly appointed journey back in time to the bygone heyday of passenger-train travel.
First published in 1999