Thanks, Green_Elite_Cab.
Issues beginning with #70 are available on TKM website and I will read them peronally. However I do not own the discs with older issues. Do you own them? Can you check the older issues, please? This would be a great help!

modelsof1900 Wrote:Thanks, Green_Elite_Cab.
Issues beginning with #70 are available on TKM website and I will read them peronally. However I do not own the discs with older issues. Do you own them? Can you check the older issues, please? This would be a great help!

I don't have the discs, but I collect any of them I can find. I will send you what I have, since I know it will all be of use to you. PM me the Email you'd like me to send the file to.

That said, I could find no references to the F29 class in my issues. According to the online Index, the F29 info was available in issue 30, page 14. It says it contains "Background, Diagrams, Numbers & Quantities, Photos".

Sounds like what you need!

Rod Clarke's book is selling at Credit Valley railway for only $25 and they have several boxes of them!

(I found a bio of Rod on Wikipedia -- fascinating career.)

Two additional books-

West Jersey Rails II - covers Southern New Jersey on topics, almost to much to list. That leaves me lacking only the first book!

Outbound Trains: In the Era Before the Mergers- This book follows Jim Boyd's journey across the country in the late 50s and 60s, prior to super mergers such as the Penn Central. Very interesting pictures and stories.

Green_Elite_Cab Wrote:Outbound Trains: In the Era Before the Mergers- This book follows a railfan's journey across the country in the late 50s and 60s, prior to super mergers such as the Penn Central. Very interesting pictures and stories.

Wow. Calling Jim Boyd "a railfan" is akin to calling Tony Stewart "a licensed driver."

Additions:

Eager, Jim. Western Pacific Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books, 2001.

Johnson, Steven D. Louisville & Nashville Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment, Vol. 1. Scotch Plains: Morning Sun Books, 2000.

Kinkaid, James. Penn Central Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment. Scotch Plains: Morning Sun Books, 1998.

Kinkaid, James. Pullman–Standard Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment. Edison, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books, 1995.

Kinkaid, James. Southern Pacific Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment, Vol 2. Scotch Plains: Morning Sun Books, 2005.

Lamb, J. Parker. Railroads of Meridian. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2012.

Linley, Bill. Canadian Pacific in Color, Vol. 1: Easter Lines. Scotch Plains: Morning Sun Books, 2003.

Nichols, Jim. Norfolk & Western Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment. Scotch Plains: Morning Sun Books, 2000.

Odell, Jim, et al. Delaware & Hudson Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment. Scotch Plains: Morning Sun Books, 1997.

Riddell, John. Canadian National Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment, Vol. 2. Scotch Plains: Morning Sun Books, 2001.

Riddell, John. Canadian Railways Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment, Vol. 2. Scotch Plains: Morning Sun Books, 2008.

RO,

Do you have any suggestions for books that identify passenger equipment? I've been trying to figure out what exactly I'm looking at when I research some of these early Amtrak trains.

I found this, it seems like it might be what i'm looking for, but I'm not prepared to drop $50 on what is essentially a photocopy just yet.

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railohio Wrote:Wow. Calling Jim Boyd "a railfan" is akin to calling Tony Stewart "a licensed driver."

Oops, lol. I fixed it, but just because I'm curious, how big of a name is he? So far, the book is interesting to read, but I guess I'm not really current on the big names in railroad photography.

Green_Elite_Cab Wrote:Oops, lol. I fixed it, but just because I'm curious, how big of a name is he? So far, the book is interesting to read, but I guess I'm not really current on the big names in railroad photography.

It would be difficult to overstate Boyd's contribution to the hobby.

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Green_Elite_Cab Wrote:Do you have any suggestions for books that identify passenger equipment? I've been trying to figure out what exactly I'm looking at when I research some of these early Amtrak trains.

There were some softcover books published in the late 70s and early 80s as Amtrak car spotters guides that had equipment rosters and floor plan diagrams. I don't recall titles or authors at the moment.

There is also AMTRAK By The Numbers, 1971 - 2011 available now.

And early issues of Passenger Train Journal had regular Amtrak consist updates.

railohio Wrote:It would be difficult to overstate Boyd's contribution to the hobby.

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Aww, he seemed like he might be an interesting person to meet one day. I enjoyed the story I read in the very beginning, about how he road away on his tricycle as a kid and got caught on the rails in a street running section of railroad through town. They weren't kidding when they mentioned his writing skills!

railohio Wrote:There were some softcover books published in the late 70s and early 80s as Amtrak car spotters guides that had equipment rosters and floor plan diagrams. I don't recall titles or authors at the moment.

There is also AMTRAK By The Numbers, 1971 - 2011 available now.

And early issues of Passenger Train Journal had regular Amtrak consist updates.

I've spotted "Amtrak By the Numbers" at the SEPTA store in Philadelphia, though right now i'm not prepared to drop $80 on the book, I might wait until it drops in price. It sorta suffers from the same problem that my current Amtrak source does (Amtrak Annual 1978-1979). It makes a big list of cars and their origins, and while Amtrak By the Numbers seems to have more, better pictures, it is still essentially a giant list of railcars and locomotives.


Those spotters guides might be useful, I'll have to look into them. As far as the Passenger Train Journal goes, there is another one I might have to pursue, depending on when they began publishing. I'm trying to find consist information on the Morning and Evening Liberty Express, which seems to be left out of most books. I'm told the trains had a brief existence though.

Most of my Library is UK railway books as that is what I modelled for the first 20 years or so in the hobby. I have started to acquire a few books on American prototypes since I switched modelling. Needless to say I have a long list of books I want to add!

American books first:

Wisconsin Central Heritage Volume 1 by John Leopard 2006
The Milwaukee Road by Murray 2005
Regional Railroads of the Midwest by Steve Glischinski 2007
The Story of the Grand Canyon Railway by Al Richmond 1995

UK books:

The Great Western Railway in Wales by Gwyn Briwnant-Jones 1995
The Great Western Railway in the 1930's Volume 1 by David Frazer 1985
The Great Western Railway in the 1930's Volume 2 by David Green 1987
The Great Western Railway in Mid-Cornwall by Alan Bennet 1992
The Great Western Railway in East Cornwall by Alan Bennet 1990
The Great Western Railway in West Cornwall by Alan Bennet 1990
Great Western Coaches 1890-1954 by Michael Harris 1972
Great Western Coaches Appendix Volume 1Standard Passenger Stock by J. H. Russell 1981
GWR Absorbed Coaching Stock by E. R. Mountford 1978
Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company 1855-1963 by John Hypher 1995
British Railway Carriages by David Jenkinson 1996
LMS Standard Coaching Stock Volume 1 by David Jenkinson 1991
LMS Standard Coaching Stock Volume 2 by David Jenkinson 1994
British Railways Mark 1 Coaches by Keith Parkin 1991
British Rail Internal Users (MOW) by Roger Butcher 1992
Departmental Coaching Stock by Roger Butcher 1993
B.R. Departmental Rolling Stock by David Larkin 1979
An Illustrated History of West Country China Clay Trains by John Vaughn 1987
Diesels in the Duchy by John Vaughn 1983
The Newquay Branch by John Vaughn 1991
Great Western Railway Album by
Locomotive Profile: Class 33 Cromptons by B. K. Cooper 1990
Locomotive Profile: Class 5 Freight Diesels by David N. Clough 1990
Rail Centres: Bristol by Colin G. Maggs 1996
Rail Centres: Nottingham by Michael A. Vanns 1993
More Great Western Steam in Cornwall by Tony Fairclough 1975
The Newton Abbot to Kingswear Railway 1844-1988 by C. R. Potts 1988
The Lampeter, Aberayron and Nwe Quay Railway by M. R. C. Price 1995
Wenford Bridge to Fowey by Keith Smith 1998
British Railways Past and Present: Cornwall by David Mitchel 1993
British Railways Past and Present: Paignton to Dartmouth Steam Railway by Peter W. Gray 1994
British Railways Past and Present: The Talylln Railway by David Mitchel 1996
Branch Lines Around Bodmin by Keith Smith and Vic Mitchel 1996
Cornish Riviera Express by Steven Austin 1997
The Chronicles of Pendre Sidings (Personnal Account of the Talyllyn Railway 1950-2000) by John L. H. Bates 2001
Railway Through Talerddig by G. Briwnant-Jones 1990
Portrait of the West Somerset Railway by Alan Stanistreet 1996
A Return to Corris by various 1988
Sussex Narrow Gauge by Keith Smith 2001
Talyllyn: 50 Years of Change by Vic Mitchel 2000

Some of my modelling books:

Model Railway Operation by C. J. Freezer 1993
Miniature Landscape Modelling by John H. Ahern 1976
Miniature Building Construction by John H. Ahern 1977
Narrow Gauge Railway Modelling by Peter Kazer 2001

Cheers,

Kev

I'm currently looking for a book a saw a couple of years ago but didn't buy - Narrow Gauge To No Mans' Land - the story of the 60cm gauge military railroads of WWI.

MountainMan Wrote:I'm currently looking for a book a saw a couple of years ago but didn't buy - Narrow Gauge To No Mans' Land - the story of the 60cm gauge military railroads of WWI.

This place appears to have it new:

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And another one:

Ingles, J. David, and Denny Hamilton. Cincinnati Railroad Heritage Color Pictorial, 1950s-1970s. La Mirada, California: Four Ways West Publications, 2012.

Five more today:

Fischer, Ian S. PRR Color Guide to Freight and Passenber Equipment, Vol. 2. Edison, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books, 1996.

Hickcox, David H. GN Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment. Edison, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books, 1995.

Riddell, John. Canadian Pacific Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment. Scotch Plains: Morning Sun Books, 1998.

Stagner, Lloyd E. ATSF Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment. Edison, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books, 1995.

Stagner, Lloyd E. and Robert J. Yanosey. UP Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment. Edison, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books, 1993.