Category: Other Books

By James Kinkaid. Covers passenger cars, cabooses, and acquired roads.

By James Kinkaid. The cars that made the money! Box cars, gondolas, coil cars, covered hoppers, flat cars, hoppers, ore jennies, reefer and stock cars.…

Chicago & North Western Power 1963-1995 In Color Vol. 1: General Motors Switchers & First Generation Roadswitchers. Chicago & North Western 1963-1995 Power in Color…

This continued coverage of Chicago & North Western’s motive power fleet examines switchers and first-generation roadswitchers built by Alco, Baldwin, Fairbanks-Morse, General Electric, and Whitcomb,…

An in-depth look at the C&NW’s E- and F-unit fleet after 1963 – a time when the road was absorbing the cab units from roads…

By Stephen M. Timko The North Western’s modern day roster is wrapped up in this final volume with coverage of second generation roadswitchers and later…

The History and Motive Power of a Wisconsin Regional, 1988-1993 By Bruce C. Nelson The origins, operations and dissolution of the modern Fox River Valley…

Pat Dorin has compiled another nice C&NW book, this one dealing with a general overview of the line’s freight trains and cars over the years,…

Chicago and North Western In Color Volume 3: 1959-1964 Co-authored by Lloyd Keyser and Phil Borleske The C&NW undergoes a radical transformation with new management,…

This is the fourth volume of the series co-authored by Lloyd Keyser and Phil Borleske. This volume covers the period from 1956 to the merger…

Edited by Frank Jordan Softbound 128 pages. A b/w photo essay showing the C&NW during the period that many people feel was the C&NW’s finest…

M&StL in Color Authored by Gene Green. This spirited little Midwest hauler was one of the earliest “fallen flags” disappearing into the C&NW System in…