Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in., landscape format with dust jacket, 496 pages. With color photographs throughout. Includes CD-ROM with all available roster information for SP and subsidiaries.
More than twenty years in the making, Kenneth Harrison documents more than fifty thousand maintenance of way cars and equipment with over 1,200 photographs, hundreds never before published. Subsidiary lines covered include the T&NO (and predecessors), Cotton Belt, SD&AE, SP de Mexico, NWP and Pacific Electric.
Equipment coverage is broken down into the following groups: flangers, spreaders, snowplows, wrecking (relief) cranes, relief outfits, pile drivers, shovels, ditchers, boarding cars, roadway water cars, roadway box, roadway flats, roadway ballast, test and supply cars, shop switchers and many system oddities. Also included is a CD-ROM with all available roster information for all subsidiary lines.
Contents:
Introduction, pp. 3-11,
Flangers, pp. 12-35,
Jordan (and other) Spreaders, pp. 36-67,
Snow Plows (Rotaries and Other Breeds), pp. 68-101,
Wrecking (Relief) Cranes, pp. 102-145,
Relief Outfits, pp. 146-153,
Pile Drivers, Shovels and Ditchers, pp. 154-183,
Boarding Cars, pp. 184-257,
Roadway Water Cars, pp. 258-283,
Roadway Box Cars, pp. 284-291,
Roadway Flats, pp. 292-311,
Roadway Ballast, pp. 312-319,
Tool, Scale Test, Supply and Other Miscellaneous Cars, pp. 320-345,
Shop Switchers, pp. 346-359,
Texas and New Orleans Lines (and Predecessors), pp. 360-391,
St. Louis Southwestern Railway ("Cotton Belt"), pp. 392-405,
San Diego and Arizona (Eastern) Railway, pp. 406-419,
Southern Pacific of Mexico, pp. 420-429,
Northwestern Pacific, pp. 430-439,
Pacific Electric "Service" Equipment, pp. 440-455,
Western Union Telegraph Co. Equipment on the Southern Pacific, pp. 456-463,
Relief Outfits as of 1994, pp. 464-473,
Store Department Supply Train, pp. 474-475,
Rail Detector Cars, pp. 476-483,
Non-SP MW in SP Operation, pp. 484-487,
Off-Rail Equipment, pp. 488-496,
