This large colorful volume
highlights the late steam and early diesel era of America's railroads
during the '40s, '50s and '60s. This era was a time of great upheaval
and tremendous progress for rail lines. Trains of America focuses on the
period of time when steam locomotives were replaced by diesels, when
lighter rail was replaced by heavy welded rail, when centralized traffic
control became the norm and when employee rosters were downsized. Its
204 pages contain nearly 400 large, all-color freight and passenger
train photos taken on 85 different railroads throughout the U.S. and
Canada, such as the NYC, SF, B&O, CP, C&O, Milwaukee, CGW, CNW,
Burlington, EJ&E, FEC, GN, GM&O, IC, KCS, L&N, MP, Pennsy
and WP. Trains of America recreates the past in a variety of memorable
color scenes, from main line steam locomotives pulling mile-long freight
trains to 44-ton diesels rambling with a box car or two through New
England rural woods.
