Product Announcement Book – “Passenger Trains of Texas – The Katy”
Texas Zephyr Publishing recently released Passenger Trains of Texas – The Katy by Steve Allen Goen. This is the fifth book in Goen’s series documenting passenger train history in Texas. This $84.95 hardcover book consists of more than 270 pages and features nearly 300 color and black & white photos. The book is divided into […]
Product Announcement Book – “The Santa Fe in Transition: A Pictorial History”
The Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society presents a new softbound book release “The Santa Fe in Transition: A Pictorial History” by Ira Silverman. The $35 book includes 72 pages and more than 100 color photos.
New Release: Book “Buses” from Ron’s Books
Ron’s Books and Silver-Lake Images have several new additions to the softcover Manufacturers’ Catalog Archive series of releases. The 58th release in the series is Buses: Flxible, Mack, Greyhound, GM & Yellow Coach (125024, $35). This 84-page book includes reproductions of several bus publications including Mack Diesel’s Transit Bus (Models C-41 and C-47), Yellow Coach’s […]
New Release: Book “My Milwaukee Road” by Mike Schafer
New Release: Book My Milwaukee Road by Mike Schafer The first release from Schafer Station is My Milwaukee Road by Mike Schafer. In this 160-page hardcover book, author Mike Schafer tells his story about growing up, and photographing, The Milwaukee Road, from the time he began taking colors photos in 1964 to the road’s acquisition […]
New book on East Broad Top
Oh, What a Magnificent New Dawn on the East Broad Top Railroad is author Frank Kyper’s latest work covering a favorite narrow gauge railroad’s reincarnation. The softcover 112-page book (11 1/2 x 8 1/2-inches) includes black & white photography and retails for $50. This new release picks up East Broad Top history with its return […]
Military and Railroading History
A 108-page book by Donald M. Pelletier, Jr. presents his father Frank Pelletier’s personal history of his time in railroading during World War II. In The Military Railroad Journey of Chicago & North Western Locomotive Engineer Frank Pelletier: 1942 to 1945 and Beyond, you’ll read about experiences with the 713th Railway Operating Battalion on Santa […]
Coming February 2024: Second Volume on Buffalo Creek from Garbely Publishing
In 1868, Buffalo Creek Railroad was incorporated as the first terminal railroad in the U.S. Designed to tap into the growing grain milling business and Lake Erie commercial traffic, this five-mile railroad, concentrated entirely in Buffalo, N.Y., became the busiest terminal railroad of its size by the early 20th century. Even though the railroad’s service […]