Santa Fe's Raton Pass by Jared V. Harper and John R. Signor
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More than 25 years have passes since Jared Harper's pioneer work on Raton Pass was first published. This is a second edition of this important work, not only to bring it up to date, and to take advantage of recent trends in photo restoration and printing technology, but to expand on the original with the considerable amount of material that has come to light on the subject in the intervening years, especially on the coal mining industry that surrounded the pass from the beginning through the middle 1950s.
As the highest point on the vast Santa Fe Railway system, and possessing one of the steepest main line grades in the United States, Raton Pass attracted pioneer railroad photographers like Otto C. Perry, Richard Kindig, Jackson Thode, Les Logue, Clayton Tinkham, Joe Schick, and Preston George who documented the parade of trains over Raton Mountain in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Raton was also noted for operating many more passenger trains and streamliners than freight trains, as an easier grade, via Amarillo, Texas, and Belen, New Mexico, was used by the majority of freight trains. Triple headers of steam engines were not uncommon. Freights usually had three or four engines on each train -- a double header on the front end, and one or two pushers at the rear.
Today the railroad is owned by the State of New Mexico and faces an uncertain future, but the history an operation of Santa Fe's line over "Raton Mountain" remains, and is indeed the stuff that legends are made of.
160 pages, 11x8-1/2 perfect bound, 240 black & white and 10 color photos, 9 timetable reproductions, 21 maps, 17 diagrams, Modeler's Notebook, Bibliography. ISGN 978-1-933587-23-3.
Stan Kistler's Santa Fe in Black and White by Stan Kistler with John R. Signor
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The Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society is pleased to offer this tribute to Stan Kistler's seven decades of Santa Fe photography. It brings together in the pages of one large-format volume a retrospective of Stan's work, all personally selected by him, and clearly illustrates why the Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society's highest honor bestowed for black and white photography, given at its annual convention, bear's Stan Kistler's name.
180 pages, 11" x 11" 173 images, case bound with dust jacket.
Steel Trails: Chasing Arizona Trains in the 1950s by J. R. Knoll
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From the copper railroads at Superior, to the rugged grades on Ramsgate Hill outside Prescott, to the tourist sleepers parked at the rim of the Grand Canyon, to the rush of Southern Pacific transcontinental traffic passing through the busy Tucson terminal, Knoll’s black and white pictures capture the trains, the people and the times. A must have for railroad buffs and photo collectors alike.
This book includes photos of the Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, logging and copper railroads.
116 pages, 11" x 8.5", Paperback,
Santa Fe Depots of the Plains, 2nd Edition by Frank M. Ellington
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We are pleased to offer this expanded second edition of Ellington's long out of print book.
The book features detailed photos and architectural drawings of the Santa Fe depots in Palmer Lake, Colorado; East Ft. Madison and Laura, Illinois; Fort Madison, Iowa, Ada, Alexander, Barnard, Bonner Springs, Burlingame, Cambridge, Climax, Coats, Cummings, Eudora, Garfield, Hunter, Lebo, Lincoln, Mayfield, Morris, Norwich, Oak Hill, Offerle, Olpe, Osborne, Oxford, Pauline, Spearville, Sun City, and Webber, Kansas; Hardin, Norborne, and Wyaconda, Missouri; Rowe, Yeso, and Wagon Mound, New Mexico; Hulah, Medford, Stratford, Oklahoma; and Black, Farmersville, Midlothian, Rule, San Augustine, Texas. It also has numerous other details for the Santa Fe depot modeler.
132 pages, 9 x 16 spiral bound, profusely illustrated with photos and architectural drawings.
The reprint is the same size as the original with additional depots added.
The Doodlebugs by John B. McCall
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The Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society is proud to offer The Doodlebugs by John B. McCall. First published in 1977, and long out of print, The Doodlebugs has long been sought after by collectors. Reprinted in its entirety with new color scans, The Doodlebugs is an in depth study of Santa Fe's nearly six-decade association with the gas electric motor passenger car. These interesting pieces of equipment, used primarily on Santa Fe's lightly used branch lines, linked small towns with cities. Profusely illustrated, The Doodlebugs tells the story with a rich variety of photos and drawings, many of them rare.
256 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 case bound, profusely illustrated, 26 color pages.
The reprint is the same size as the original. The color photographs have been reshot due to the poor quality of the original color printing. There is no dust jacket, but the color photo appears on the hard cover. Everything else is the same.
Son of Doodlebug by John B. McCall
Out of Print
In the years since The Doodlebugs was first published in 1977, John B. McCall has continued to gather material on this interesting Santa Fe subject. Son of Doodlebug is a pictorial supplement to the original work. Hundreds of photographs, some in color, are arranged geographically to show the Bugs in action. A chapter on scale models, maps, timetables, and assignment charts are included.
128 pages, 11x8 1/2 perfect bound, profusely illustrated, 8 color pages.
The One-Spot Twins by Larry E. Brasher
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