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WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Book Guy L. Dunscomb - Western Pacific Steam Locomotives, Passenger Trains, And Cars	Comprehensive history of the Western Pacific's steam locomotives, passenger trains, passenger equipment, and timetables. The locomotives are shown by class in several configurations and, with the modeler in mind, from head-on and other set-ups (rather than just the standard three-quarters shots.) There are Motive Department folio schematic diagrams for every class and a general roster that includes major specifications. The locomotive section wraps up with a 3 page memoir by a former WP engineer recollecting life on the line. The Passenger Train section lists all WP trains, including first and last runs, followed by a detailed description of each train. The Passenger Equipment chapter includes a roster, schematic diagrams, interior and exterior photos, and a history of each class of cars. With maps, mileage tables, gradient profile, and tunnel lists. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs, all with detailed captions. With decorative end papers. 376 pages.
WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Book Karl R. Zimmermann - CZ: The Story Of The California Zephyr	Handsomely done history of the beloved and beautiful California Zephyr, the silver streak passenger service run by the Burlington, Rio Grande and Western Pacific. The book describes predecessor trains, the origin of the train, the route along the main line and through the Feather River Canyon, the Zephyrettes, and provides a careful explanation of the slow unraveling of the Western Pacific's support for the train until the final ICC approval of discontinuance. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With roster and schematic diagrams of the cars. 104 pages.
WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Book Ted Benson - Echoes Down The Canyon	Crisp and absorbing black and white photos make this a standout pictorial history of the Western Pacific. Combining journalistic insight with the passion of a true railfan, the author documents WP's last 20 years of independence and its subsequent exciting transformation into Union Pacific's Feather River Division. With decorative end papers showing WP system map. 64 pages.
WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Book Steve Schmollinger - The Feather River Canyon	Review California's beautiful Feather River Canyon is home to the Union Pacific's most scenic railroad line. Several photographers provide their excellent views of the canyon's beauty and the train's challenging journey through it, with text providing a history of the line and its origin. The result is a fine reading for any train buff. -- Midwest Book Review -- ✔︎ Helpful Review?
WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Book Steve Schmollinger - The Feather River Canyon	Description The pretentious heart of stone put us off; then we steepened our inclination against this big (9"×12") railfan book. The judgment that this is among the best collections of color photos with a little text of the decade was hard won. Schmollinger is a fine photographer: composition, exposure, and ingenious night shots are remarkable. Includes a lush endpaper pictorial map by Signor. Annotation by Book News, Inc., Portland, Oregon.
WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Book Ken Rattenne - The Feather River Route	Description Beautiful B&W and color photo coverage of the WP mainline and branches from the west end at SF to the fabulous Keddie Wye in the Feather River Canyon. Shown are late steam era thru the end of operations. All types of locomotives shown.
WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Book Ken Rattenne - The Feather River Route (Volume 2)	Description A book for rail fans. Historians of the trains will appreciate the sketch of Union Pacific's acquisition of WP (and the immediate commencement of vast upgrading) in the mid 80s. The first volume, subtitled A geographical tour: San Francisco to Keddie, was published in 1990. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, OR
WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Book Bob Larson - Life On The Feather River Route	Review Life's work on the Feather River Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2015 This is pretty much the story of the authors life on the Western Pacific around the middle section of the line. Pictures throughout are in both color and black and white, including some good pictures of steam. There is a great map of the WP in the back of the book. .Rob is also the author of SOO Line Remembered which is another very interesting story. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Book Adam Clegg - Western Pacific Color Pictorial: Volume One	Description This first Volume of two pictorials by Four Ways West Publications on the Western Pacific features diesel locomotives that were on the roster between 1939 and the end of the 1960s. Also included are color views of several WP steam locomotives, Rail Diesel Cars and Sacramento Northern Electric Locomotive. The Western Pacific was completely dieselized by 1953, one of the first western roads. Scenes of subsidiaries, Sacramento Northern, Tidewater Southern and Alameda Belt Line are also provided along with the Oro Dam Railroad, although it was not part of the Western Pacific. Includes a steam and diesel locomotive roster, pictures of GM FT demonstrators on the WP and a system map Four Ways West Publications; hardcover; 128 pages; standard portrait book; 8"×10"; all Color photographs.
WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Book Adam Clegg - Western Pacific Color Pictorial: Volume Two	Description This Volume continues where Volume 1 ended. Locomotives added between 1970 and 1980 are covered in this Volume. Also included are F-units in service during the 1970s, pool power with the Great Northern and Burlington Northern, the Bicentennial GP40s, the U30Bs and some shots of 'Crummies'. Four Ways West Publications, hardcover; 128 pages; standard portrait book; 8"×10"; all Color photographs.
WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Book Bill Talbitzer - Lost Beneath The Feather	Description By Bill Talbitzer - Signed & inscribed on backside map front cover "To Willard (scratch-out) Eller with best wishes. W.Talbitzer." 8×11" about 50 pages profusely & historically photo illustrated. Copyright 1963 thus a First Edition; An Empire Publication; Oroville, California.
WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Book David Weitzman - Love Affair With The Iron Horse	Scope and Contents Series 2. Publications contains publications writen about Boynton. Love Affair with the Iron Horse: Jim Boynton's Life on the Steel Rail edited by Mary Rehwald is an oral history interivew of Jim Boynton. The interview was conducted by David Weitzman in the late Spring of 1983. The Feather River Short Line Railroad: Steam Forever: James Earle Boynton is the Offical Publication of the Feather River Short Line Railroad, dedicated to the life and memory of James Earle Boynton. It includes stories and memories from Ted Benson, Kevin Bunker, Guy L. Dunscomb and Ted Wurm.
WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Book Mary Rehwald - Making Tracks Railroading	Description A 7×7 inch book commemorating the railroads built by the Utah Construction Company 1900-1930. Shows extensive photos and pictures of records and artifacts showing history of the company's growth.
WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Book Fred Matthews - Northern California Railroads	Description Volume 2 in this series showcasing the railroads of San Francisco and the surrounding countryside in northern California in the fifteen years after World War II. While the Southern Pacific obviously plays a major starring role, the book also covers the logging railroads (such as West Side Lumber and Yreka Western), the Northwestern Pacific, the Petaluma & Santa Rosa, and the Bay area ferries. Illustrated throughout with a mix of black and white and color photographs, all informatively captioned. Several maps; bibliography.
WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Book Norman W. Holmes - Prune Country Railroading	Description Fascinating history of the development of Santa Clara County and its prune and grape industry and the standard and narrow gauge railroads that served it: The San Francisco and San Jose Railroad, the Santa Clara & Pajaro Valley Railroad, the Western Pacific, the South Pacific Coast Railroad, the Southern Pacific, and the WP's Feather River Route. Also covered are industrial, military, and amusement railroads. With locomotive rosters; Illustrated with over 400 rare black and white photographs; maps; bibliography. End papers show vintage map of the San Francisco and Santa Fe Railroad; 191 pages.
WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Book Robert M. Hanft - Red River	Description A colorful account of a vast enterprise and its network of railroads. Entertaining text accompanies superb photographs of progress in logging and transportation. 305 pages; photographs; maps; bibliography; rosters; index; Map endpapers.
WPLives 31st Jul 2021		Book Hal Miller - Steam On The Feather River Route	Collection of Western Pacific Steam Locomotives1930-1950s. Chattanooga, TN; National Model Railroad Association; 2002; First edition; first printing; Oblong; hardcover. Provides a glimpse into the Harold Miller photo and negative collection using images of Western Pacific steam locomotives. Approximately 300 photographs are presented, including images of 197 of the 208 steam engines listed on the WP rosters. 192 pages with rosters. Publisher's review/promotional letter laid in.
WPLives 30th Jul 2021		Book Bill Talbitzer - The Gandydancers	Description A collection of stories about the Gandydancers of the West, the men who blasted the rock, graded the roadbed, drilled the tunnels and laid the steel to open a new artery of rail transportation to the East. The gandydancer got his peculiar name from the rhythmic, dancelike movement with which he accompanied the labor of forcing the ballast under the crossties that would hold the ribbon of steel. Oroville, California: Las Plumas Publications; 1967; 1st Edition; Paperbound; center-stapled format; 10.75"×8.25"; 47 pages; Many historic photo illustrations; plus a few drawings by Sal Casa.
WPLives 30th Jul 2021		Book Jeff S. Asay - The Iron Feather	*All copies are autographed by the author!* The Western Pacific Railroad, from its inception in 1903 until the Union Pacific takeover in late 1982, was always fending off one crisis or another, managing to remain independent through luck and clever financial maneuvering. Today, much of the WP has been abandoned and some has been sold, but the original Bogue main line from the Bay Area to Salt Lake City remains intact and in operation. This book also relates the parallel story of the Sacramento Northern Railway, an electric interurban that Alvin Krech acquired for the WP in the 1920s for its freight traffic base. Sacramento Northern suffered the same precarious ride as its parent company and was finally merged into Union Pacific along with the Western Pacific. Author Jeff Asay; hard cover; 512 pages; 450 photos; 80 maps and graphics.
WPLives 30th Jul 2021		Book Diesel Era Magazine - The Revolutionary Diesel	Description Following up on the success of its streamlined main line passenger diesels in the late 1930s, Electro-Motive Corp. challenged the century-long dominance of steam locomotives in freight service. The vehicle for this attack was a four-unit A-B-B-A demonstrator set of a new model, the FT. When it finished an 11-month, 83,064 mile tour over 20 railroads in 1939-1940, the contest was already over. Only the urgency of World War II traffic demands stood between the great steam fleet and the scrap yard. 250+ photographs with a four-color cover printed on heavyweight stock.
WPLives 30th Jul 2021		Book Ken Meeker - The Western Pacific	Description This well-illustrated volume examines the Western Pacific and its subsidiaries, Sacramento Northern and Tidewater Southern. The author diligently worked on the book for more than two decades. In the world of railroading, the Western Pacific was a late bloomer. From the outset, the upstart WP was fighting for its survival, competing against the mighty Southern Pacific. The SP (and its predecessor Central Pacific) was firmly entrenched in California, Nevada, and Utah 40 years prior to the arrival of the WP, which did not open for operation until 1909. For 73 years, the WP remained a fiercely independent carrier surviving in the shadow of the much larger SP. On the scale of modern mega-sized railroads, the Western Pacific might now be thought of as a regional carrier. In its day, however, the WP was a key link in the transcontinental rail network, forwarding traffic between the Denver & Rio Grande Western and union Pacific in Salt Lake City, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Also key was WP’s role of providing the middle link for Inside Gateway service, in conjunction with Santa Fe and Burlington Northern (and before that, Great Northern), offering competitive service between Southern California and the Pacific Northwest. In later years, WP was divided into seven operating divisions. Each subdivision had individual character, unique operating challenges, and distinct scenic elements providing variety at every corner of the railroad. In addition to the seven subdivisions, the WP also operated two wholly-owned subsidiaries; the Sacramento Northern and the Tidewater Southern. All seven of WP’s subdivisions, as well as subsidiaries SN and TS, are documented in the book. Hardcover; 256 pages; 410 color illustrations; 11 maps.
WPLives 30th Jul 2021		Book Western Pacific Railroad - Western Pacific Railroad Co. Sacramento Northern Ry. Tidewater Southern Ry. Co.	WESTERN PACIFIC Railroad Co. Circular #167-E WESTERN PACIFIC Railroad Co. Circular #167-E includes not only the WP, but also the Sacramento Northern and the Tidewater Southern Railways. This guide has 173 pages and appears to be from 1957. There are maps of the three railroads in the back pages of the book. While industries in large cites are listed such as San Francisco and Salt Lake City, covering several pages, there are also small town industries listed such as Tobar and Loyalton. All of the industries in a town are listed including those not served by WP, so many SP and ATSF customers are also listed at joint locations. The book has a comb binding, to open flat, along with protective clear front cover and heavy Leatherette rear cover.
WPLives 30th Jul 2021		Book Jeff S. Asay - Track And Time	Biography Jeff S. Asay was born in New Jersey on January 2, 1946. He began his railroad career as a Southern Pacific towerman in Los Angeles in 1966 while attending school. The Union Pacific Railroad hired Jeff Asay as a staff attorney in 1973 after he graduated from UCLA Law School. From 1978 to 1986 he was assigned to the Portland regional office where he developed an interest in the history of Union Pacific in the Northwest and collected research materials for his book UNION PACIFIC NORTHWEST: THE OREGON-WASHINGTON RAILROAD AND NAVIGATION COMPANY (Edmonds, Washington: Pacific Fast Mail, 1992). During his 36-year career with the railroad, Mr. Asay has worked in East Los Angeles, Portland, Kansas City and Roseville. He retired as senior regional counsel in Roseville in 2009. Mr. Asay has been active in railroad historical research for over twenty years. He has written for the National Association of Timetable Collectors, Railroad Station Historical Society, SP Trainline, and the Union Pacific Historical Society. Jeff Asay has been a volunteer at the California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives since his retirement from the Union Pacific in 2009. He also served as a Board Member of the CSRM Foundation.
WPLives 30th Jul 2021		Book Jeff S. Asay - The Railway History Monograph	Volume XII of "The Railway History Monograph. Research Journal of American Railways". 1983 112pp 44 pages of reproductions of timetables 7 maps 58 black & white photographs with descriptions. Stiff yellow wrappers printed in black. This entire volume is devoted to Asay's work. It is a major study and it appears this work might be the forerunner of the author's "Track and Time: An Operational History of the Western Pacific Railroad Through Timetables and Maps", published in 2006. In any case, a useful resource.
WPLives 30th Jul 2021		Book Newton Gregg - Train Shed Cyclopedia No.73	Title: Train Shed Cyclopedia, No. 73, Freight & Passenger Cars, Shops & Terminals, 40's & 50's (Part 1) from the Railway Mechanical Engineer. 64 full-size pages reprinted from the original edition. Author: Newton K Gregg
WPLives 30th Jul 2021		Book David F. Myrick - Western Pacific	Description This carefully researched and well-written book by an eminent railroad historian gives a detailed account of the conception and building of the Western Pacific, which was in effect the Pacific extension of the Denver & Rio Grande. Coverage includes the northern California extension and Great Northern's 1931 entrance into the Golden State. Operations are described right up to merger with the Union Pacific.
WPLives 30th Jul 2021		Book Jim Eager - Western Pacific Color Guide To Freight And Passenger Equipment	Description "More than 300 vintage color photos of the equipment roster of 'the Feather River Route'. From the flashy orange, black and silver box cars on its freight roster to the glittering of its equipment contributed to the CZ pool, WP was a class act."
WPLives 30th Jul 2021		Book John B. Hungerford - Cab-in-Front	Cab in Front By John Hungerford The half century story of an unconventional locomotive. Soft Cover Copyright 1974 36 pages The Half-Century Story of an Unconventional Locomotive SOME DAY THE STORY of the golden age of American railroading-the period in the earlier decades of the twentieth century-will be completely chronicled and when it is a portion will certainly contain allusion to an unconventional creature which flourished in the West for close on 50 years. It belonged to a strain as rugged as the mountains responsible for its inception and it never strayed from the boundaries of its western habitat. Neither did it, in all the days of its usefulness, leave the corrals of its owners nor carry the brand markings of another ranch. That was the Cab-Ahead locomotive, conceived by Southern Pacific and born of necessity. Otherwise called the Back-Up, Cab-Forward, Cabin-Front, Cab-Fronter, Cab-First, Stack-in-Back, it was as distinctly Espee as the familiar herald showing the rails vanishing into the sunset. Throughout some 35 years 256 of these monstrous machines came west from the Baldwin works to serve SP diligently and well. No articulated Cab-Aheads ever operated regularly on rails other than Southern Pacific's. No other railroads adopted them, yet they were not freaks and their success as products of the minds of men unafraid to break with the past is one of SP's best chapters. There was something about the Cab-Aheads that struck a popular fancy, both among laymen and railroadmen. Possibly it was that note of nonconformity, a departure from accepted practice in design, that made these locomotives such favorites. They were not always thought of that way; when first introduced their crews were unwilling to ride in a front-end cab. They argued of the danger to engineer and fireman in head-on collisions and crossing accidents, but these objections soon passed.
WPLives 30th Jul 2021		Book Joseph Shine - Southern Pacific Transportation Co. Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad St. Louis Southwestern Ry	During the 1980s the Southern Pacfic Railroad, Cotton Belt Railway, and the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad merged to form the Southern Pacific Transportation Company. This book is profusely illustrated with photogarphs of the locomotives that served the new company as it moved into the 1990s. 200 pages
WPLives 30th Jul 2021		Book Neill C. Wilson - Southern Pacific	Description The historical story of the creation of the Southern Pacific Railroad. There are lots of old photos with the inside of the cover a map of the line.

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