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Highbal Productions, Inc. :: All Scales :: Videos/DVDs
2 Geeps to Paradise
MSRP: $24.95 (Catalog No. TGTPW-DVD) Follow Montana Rail Link's Gas Job with an SD45 and SD40-2 over Evaro Hill and the 4th Sub and chase the Paradise Local down the 10th Sub with two geeps. In addition, we see BNSF overhead traffic, with coal trains, double stacks and manifests. Taped between Missoula and Lake Pend Orielle. Running time 1 hour 25 minutes, plus previews. Widescreen DVD format.
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Signature Press :: All Scales :: Books
Rails Around Lake Tahoe by Mallory Hope Ferrell
MSRP: $60.00 (Catalog No. RT) Lake Tahoe itself is nestled amid the towering pine-covered mountains along the California and Nevada state lines. Its waters provided transportation for not only the timber, but for passengers, mail and freight aboard the many steamboats that plied its blue waters. In this beautiful setting, logging railroads and steamboats of the Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Company brought the huge logs to lakeshore sawmills. In the early 1900s, tourists began to flock to Lake Tahoe. They rode on a new narrow gauge, the Lake Tahoe Railway & Transportation Company. Eventually the Southern Pacific took over the property and converted it to standard gauge. The SP branch was abandoned in 1941. This is the story of the many logging railroads that operated in and near the Tahoe basin, with hundreds of rare photographs, maps, plans and illustrations. The author, a distinguished historian of narrow-gauge railroading and the West, has with this book added further luster to a long record of fine publications. The book will certainly appeal to anyone interested in narrow-gauge and logging railroading, as well as to enthusiasts of railroad history in general.
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Signature Press :: All Scales :: Books
Merchants Despatch, Its History and Equipment by Roger C. Hinman
MSRP: $65 (Catalog No. MDT) Merchants Despatch traced its origins to a railroad express service begun in 1855, with a connection to the American Express Company. From its earliest years it operated over the lines of the New York Central, and by 1871 its stock was owned by Vanderbilt Lines railroads. However, it was an independent part of the New York Central family. As such, it outlived the Central, and this book carries its history to the year 2000. Some 298 photographs, most previously unpublished, enrich this book, in addition to 44 drawings. More than 50 period documents and graphics enliven the text, accompanied by extensive rosters and tables of both car data and company information. Thoroughly researched in company records, this is an authoritative, well illustrated and complete history of Merchants Despatch. It presents both the long and complex corporate history, and also much information and many details about the design, construction, maintenance and operation of the vast car fleet. The book will appeal to those interested in the New York Central and in freight cars, as well as to enthusiasts of railroad history.
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