Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society

The Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society is pleased to announce the publication of their new book, Southern Pacific Official Cars - Business, Private, Instruction, Hospital, and Company Service Cars by Donald M. Munger & Jeffrey Alan Cauthen
 
Authors Munger and Cauthen, have combined efforts once again in this massive volume which details the history of Southern Pacific and its Subsidiaries’ (both Pacific Lines and Texas & Louisiana Lines) Official Cars, as well as Sud Pacífico de México Official Cars and those of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway and Pacific Electric Railway. Since many of these cars were renamed and/or renumbered—often many times—a Name and Number Finding Aid is included to guide the reader to a specific car of interest. An additional chapter covers Southern Pacific Company Service Cars. Library bound, 81⁄2 x 12 horizontal format, 528 Pages, lavishly illustrated with 590 photos—176 in color—and 110 plans, Rosters, Appendix, Color Gallery, Bibliography, Glossary of Terms and Index. This volume is a must have for the Southern Pacific historian and modeler.
 
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The Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society is pleased to announce the release of its new book, Southern Pacific Freight Car Painting and Lettering Guide by Dick Harley & Anthony W. Thompson.
 
This guide has been designed as a companion to the Southern Pacific Painting & Lettering Guide for locomotive and passenger cars published by the SPH&TS in 2013. It illustrates how Southern Pacific (and subsidiaries) owned freight cars were painted and lettered over the years, as well as PMT trucking equipment used in TOFC service and rail cars from wholly-owned rail car leasing companies Evergreen and Golden West. Extensive coverage of painting and lettering practices for Pacific Fruit Express equipment is also included. Coverage begins with the emergence of Common Standard practices in the 1880s (1906 for PFE) and continues through 1996. All information in this volume is based on official SP and Pacific Fruit Express, car and locomotive builder documents, plans and drawings. This book will be useful as a tool for historians and modelers. 11" x 8 1⁄2" library bound, 192 pages, full color throughout, Appendix.
 
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