Product Description: From 1880 through the 1950s, the New York, Ontario & Western Railway hauled coal from the rich anthracite deposits of eastern Pennsylvania to homes throughout the eastern United States and Canada. In Hard Coal and Coal Cars, Martin Robert Karig chronicles the rise and fall of the O & W’s coal hauling operation in a richly illustrated work that interweaves economic, industrial, and technological history...read more

Product Description: Red Balls, tonnage trains, coal traffic and iron ore freight trains of the Missouri Pacific Lines from the 1930s to the 1980s spring vividly to life. Dorin explores the freight equipment that moved the goods, and the locomotives, both steam and diesel, that handled the freight and passenger trains...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This 8 x 11” softcover summarizes the type of equipment supplied to customers of the Norfolk & Western Railway in the 1920s. This 20-page book contains black and white photographs of hoppers and gondolas, general arrangement drawings of cars with capacity specifications, car series numbers and car classifications...read more

Product Description: "The official color photographs of the world's largest car builder during its most colorful decade: 1960-1970. Almost 300 color portraits of Pullman's freight products for PRR, UP, NYC, ATSF, CB&Q, and a hundred other major and minor roads are captioned by freight car authority Jim Kinkaid...read more