Description
By Kenneth W. Harrison
Published by the Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society
From the Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society is an exhaustive catalog of maintenance of way equipment on the Southern Pacific and subsidiary lines. More than twenty years in the making, Kenneth Harrison documents more than fifty thousand maintenance of way cars and equipment with over 1,200 photographs, hundreds never before published. Subsidiary lines covered include the T&NO (and predecessors), Cotton Belt, SD&AE, SP de Mexico, NWP and Pacific Electric. Equipment coverage is broken down into the following groups: flangers, spreaders, snow plows, wrecking (relief) cranes, relief outfits, pile drivers, shovels, ditchers, boarding cars, roadway water cars, roadway box, roadway flats, roadway ballast, test and supply cars, shop switchers and many system oddities.
Also included is a CD-ROM with all available roster information for all subsidiary lines.
Hardcover, 81⁄2″ x 11″ landscape with dust jacket, 496 pages with color photographs throughout.
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