Southern Pacific Railroad

by Brian Solomon

Book Overview

A colorful look at the great American railroad - the Southern Pacific. The Southern Pacific Railroad is one of the most important railroads in the US. In its heyday, Southern Pacific operating revenues were overshadowed only by the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad. Southern Pacific is famous for participating in the building of the transcontinental railroad, its fleet of Daylight streamlined passenger trains, and its 200 "Cab-Forward" steam...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760306141
• ISBN13: 9780760306147
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.6"

Customer Reviews

Gandy Dancer family information.

My husband family have had 3 generations as Gandy Dancers and many of our family members collect Railroad history books--this one we did not have--so ordered it. This is another well done railraod history book. ACL.

Lovely pictures, pity about the text

Should you buy this book if you already own the first edition, published in 1999? It depends what your prime interest is. If it's historical, note that altho the text is copyright 2007, it's actually identical to the 1999 edition, so the use of the present tense and references to "today" are misleading. On the other hand, this edition comprises 160 pages, against 128 for its predecessor, while the text is set in a smaller type so must take less space. The extra space is devoted to more photographs, which can be more expansively displayed. And as far as I can tell, without doing an exhaustive comparison, only one is repeated from 1999. So if you want a handsome new picture book,this is for you; otherwise, hang on to your first edition.

Southern Pacific Railroad

I was very happy over the condition of this book. It arrived in great shape and was shipped very fast and packaged very well.

Southern Pacific Railroad (Railroad Color History).

A well done historic line in this book, from the very beginning of small and big preceding railroad companies, under direction of the big four and all along the line in history, this Railroad company business was further set out and followed by its visionary engineers and leaders. A fallen flag today, this book gets my full recommendation as not only the wordings of this story of the friendly Espee takes you away to the era of beginning in a competative and wild environment the illustrations are well placed in the book, supportive to its text. Surprisingly well are the 'handle bars', seperatly described 'hotspots' along the Espee route... Donner Pass, Tehachapi Loop and more. So get the feel for the 'West'. Enjoy.

Could Be Better

I wish it had more Photo's of Older Steam. I liked it over all. I have seen better books though. not a bad Book though if you have the money!I like the book though over all!