Don Hofsommer 320 pages softcover
In this visually stunning and comprehensive photographic essay,
railroad historian and photographer Donovan L. Hofsommer records the end
of branchline passenger service, the demise of electric railroads, the
transition from steam to diesel power, as well as the end of common
carrier freight service on the Colorado narrow gauge. Off the Main Lines
carries readers along out-of-the-way railways in Iowa, Minnesota,
Missouri, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, Montana, and South Dakota to see
the changes that occurred on these lines from the 1940s to the 1990s.
