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South Platte Press, 2024. Softcover. New. Softcover, 88 pages, 120 Color illustrations. The merger that created Burlington Northern in 1970 and Amtrak's assumption of intercity passenger service in 1971 brought significant change to BN's roster of E-units. This culminated in 1972 with the sale of 21 E-units to the West Suburban Mass Transit District for use in Chicago-Aurora… Read more about this item

South Platte Press, 2023. Softcover. New. Softcover, 64 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., 84 Color photographs and illustrations. All photos are in Color including two photos of UP light steam and early diesels. The Nebraska Central Railroad Company is a vital artery to the central and eastern Nebraska economy. NCRC began operations in 1993 after leasing five Union… Read more about this item

South Platte Press, 2023. Softcover. New. Softcover, 160 pages, 9 x 6 in., 138 B&W photographs and illustrations. Tourists traveled to Yellowstone National Park on Union Pacific passenger trains for more than 45 years. Along the way they traveled through Island Park, a unique geographical region located along the Yellowstone Branch in eastern Idaho. From the areas livestock… Read more about this item

South Platte Press, 2023. Softcover. New. Softcover, 122 pages, 9 x 6 in., B&W illustrations. Richard Harvey (William's father) emigrated to the United States from England in 1907. His social status improved with employment by the Union Pacific Railroad as an engineer. William, called Tom, followed his father's footsteps and also went into engine service with the UP… Read more about this item

South Platte Press, 2023. Softcover. New. Softcover, 100 pages, 8.5 x 10 in., 90 color illustrations. The photographs in this title are one per page and therefore, there is great detail to be seen. There are pictures of steam from the various roads entering Council Bluffs and as this is a steam to diesel transition era book, many… Read more about this item

South Platte Press, 2022. Softcover. New. Softcover, 88 pages, 8.5 x 11 in, 30 B&W illustrations. In June 1905, two-year-old Paul Ussary was playing on the railroad tracks of the St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway near Powell, Nebraska. Tragedy seemed certain when a freight train suddenly rounded the curve. However, the locomotive's fireman, George Poell, suddenly leaps… Read more about this item

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. South Platte Press, softcover, 66 pages, 34 color illustrations. Having originally gone to work for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1973 as a clerk at company headquarters in Omaha, Edwina ""Curlie"" Justus later became a qualified train engineer at age 34 at North Platte, Nebraska, and retired from that position in 1998. Now,… Read more about this item

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. By 1985, many of the larger U.S. and Canadian railroads began hiring outside contractors to transport train crews to their rest terminals following the end of their legally limited 12 hours of work, and to otherwise assist them in their work duties. The author of this book, Darrell Wendt, was employed eight years… Read more about this item

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. South Platte Press, softcover, 120 pages, 60 B&W illustrations. Many stories about the Union Pacific Railroad have centered around its construction as part of the nation's first transcontinental rail line. One of the more famous stories concern the Plum Creek Raid, in which three UP employees were killed and a UP freight train… Read more about this item

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. South Platte Press, softcover, 88 pages, smaller landscape format, 118 B&W photographs and illustrations. maps. Between 1883 and 1945, Lincoln, Nebraska, was one of many cities across America served by a system of streetcar lines that transported thousands of its citizens to their destinations. Beginning with horsecar lines and later coming into the… Read more about this item

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. This book is all B&W images. The pictures are from a mix of eras. You will see the early days of the streamliners, and the latter, less-polished era. Usually, each page has one large photograph with a caption. Some pages include advertising reproductions. There is a simple map of the routes taken from… Read more about this item

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. Many South Platte Press titles are focused on early railroad history and are usually B&W photographs. This book is mostly color photographs beginning with a color photo looking down at the depot from an overpass with two Burlington Northern business cars parked out front. Most pictures are large format with one picture per… Read more about this item

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. This book has quite a selection of early airlines and airliners including famous, infamous and little-known ones. The first picture is of an Air West F-27 at San Diego in Pacific Airlines paint. The book includes Braniff's Great Pumpkin landing at LAX, Lockheed Electras in various paint schemes plus a couple of photographs… Read more about this item

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. A History of the Presidential F-Units by Bruce C. Nelson. This book details the story of five Chicago & North Western Railway F7 diesel units that saw a wide variety of uses over 40 years of service. Purchased as freight units intended primarily to replace steam power, they were ultimately selected for the… Read more about this item

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. The driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Summit, located in the high desert region of northern Utah, marked the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869. Seventy-three years later, on September 8, 1942, the Golden Spike was 'un-driven' at Promontory Summit during a brief ceremony that largely replicated the… Read more about this item

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. This is a study of the last years of operation by the former Burlington Northern Railroad of its once-extensive agrarian branch line rail system across the prairie regions of southeast Nebraska. The authors explain how these branch lines were operated during the late 1950 era by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and… Read more about this item

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. Signed by the author. This title is published by Challenger Press and distributed by South Platte Press. This fact-filled reference book by noted Union Pacific historian Jim Ehernberger covers more than 400 place name stations along the Union Pacific Railroad in Nebraska. Included are 232 B&W photographs of depots, roundhouses, coal chutes and… Read more about this item

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. The Nebraska-Kansas Railroad was owned and operated by the Ideal Cement Company at its plant near Superior, Nebraska. This small industrial railway, about four miles long at maximum length, crossed the state line from the cement plant in Nebraska to the company's rock quarry in Kansas. Hauls of the N-K Railroad were almost… Read more about this item

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. Union Pacific Steam Survivors examines the status of 52 still-extant UP steam locomotives. Most were either given to communities or museums. A few were retained by the railroad in its own corporate collection. During the 1950s, as American railroads were making the transition from steam to diesel power, Union Pacific's policy of good… Read more about this item

South Platte Press. Softcover. New. This is a mostly-color pictorial of the last seven years of the railroad town of Wymore, Nebraska, once an important division point on the Burlington Railroad. The final decline of rail service to Wymore is documented from the viewpoint of a local freight that operated from Lincoln to Wymore, and those BNSF employees… Read more about this item