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Title: A Field Guide to Trains of North America by Gerald L. Foster ISBN: 0-395-70112-0 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Techniques for Identifying Motive Power
Comment: The wonderful thing about this book is the author's use of drawings to identify the train engines. By using this technique, you skip distracting details and logos, and concentrate on the specifics that are important in making the ID. There is just enough history and background to make this an indispensible tool for the railfan.
Rating: 5
Summary: Exelent
Comment: This book is exactly what I had been looking for. In a small volume, it give more than enough information on virtually all diesel locomotives still in service so that even the most novice rail fan can correctly identify these locomotives. If you love trains, I would highly recomend this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent book for identifying diesel locomotives.
Comment: Being a lover of trains, I have often wished there were a small, concise recognition guide for the various locomotives one sees through out North America. A Field Guide to Trains is Mr. Foster's attempt to fill that very niche. Even though the book's title implies that is devoted to helping one recognize various types of boxcars, passenger cars and locomotives; it really is devoted mostly to aiding one in the recognition of diesels. Rather than using photographs or color illustrations, the author makes exclusive use of nicely detailed skethes in his effort to help identify the various kinds of engines one might see pulling a frieght train through town. Well placed arrows in these illustrations point out the details that distinguish one locomotive from another. Concise, well written text accompanies each illustration giving such details as the horsepower, date of manufacture, and the number built. The only serious criticism I have of this work is the author's complete disregard for the large amount of rebuilt GP7's, GP9's and SD24's as done by Illinois Central's Paducah, Kentucky shops, as well as the numerous rebuilds of these types done by Burlington Northern and other large railroads. However Mr. Foster does include at least one drawing of Santa Fe's rebuilt CF7's, as well as a drawing of the extremely rare EMD RS1325 switcher as used by the Chicago & Illinois Midland. I highly recommend this book for those who are looking for a simple and effective way of identifying the various locomotives used by today's railroads
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Title: Field Guide to Modern Diesel Locomotives by Greg McDonnell ISBN: 0890246076 Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Modern Locomotives High-Horsepower Diesels 1966-2000 by Brian Solomon ISBN: 0760312583 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American Railroads (Routledge Atlases of American History) by John F. Stover, Mark C. Carnes ISBN: 0415921406 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Encyclopedia of Trains & Locomotives by C.J. Riley ISBN: 1567999824 Publisher: MetroBooks (NY) Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.98 |
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Title: Modern Diesel Locomotives by Hans Halberstadt ISBN: 0760301999 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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