WPLives 1st Apr 2021 | | MagazineWestern Pacific Headlight (2010) | WP Mechanical Departments Over-the-Road Repair Equipment
A Night on the APF
1950s Update to WP Stores Department
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WPLives 1st Apr 2021 | | MagazineWestern Pacific Headlight (2009) | Portola California Part III
The Jack Daly Memoirs
Surrounded by Steam in Portola
Railroad Brat, Growing up in WP Family in Portola
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WPLives 1st Apr 2021 | | MagazineWestern Pacific Headlight (2009) | Portola California Part II
WP's Portola Diesel Shop
Portola goes to the Dogs
Western Pacific's mid-80s Return to Portola
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WPLives 1st Apr 2021 | | MagazineWestern Pacific Headlight (2009) | Portola California Part I
Portola's Railroad History
Western Pacific's Portola Hospital
WPs Portola Roundhouse Complex
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WPLives 1st Apr 2021 | | MagazineWestern Pacific Headlight (2009) | A Sweet Time on the Sugar Pine
At the Throttle with Bob Larson 1969 to 1971
WP Yard Clerk 1965-66
Sacramento's Overhead Traveling Cranes
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WPLives 1st Apr 2021 | | MagazineWestern Pacific Headlight (2009) | Feather River Route Centennial - Special Issue
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WPLives 31st Mar 2021 | | MagazineGreat Trains Heartland (2017) | Classic Trains Magazine
2017
Special Edition No. 20
Great Trains Heartland
Featuring The Golden Age of Midwestern Rail Travel.
Including:
--- Panama Limited;
--- Hiawathas;
--- Zephyrs;
--- 400's;
--- Rockets;
--- Southern Belle;
--- Pan-America;
--- Ann Rutledge;
--- Sunbeam;
--- Electroliners;
--- Pere Marquettes;
--- and much more.
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WPLives 31st Mar 2021 | | MagazineTrains Go To War (2019) | ReviewThe past is back in Classic Trains, the quarterly magazine celebrating the historic "golden years" of North American railroading. In Classic Trains, you'll take a trip back and rediscover the railroads, trains, and people who worked the rails from the 1920s to the '70s. You'll relive the days of powerful steam locomotives, vintage diesels, flashy streamliners and more.
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WPLives 31st Mar 2021 | | MagazineTrains Go To War (2019) | Trains Go to War, a special issue from Classic Trains, takes you behind the scenes of the rail industry as it served major war efforts from the 1860s through the 1960s.
This edition includes rare color photos as well as coverage of European and Asian war zones.
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WPLives 31st Mar 2021 | | MagazineTrains Go To War (2019) | Description
Stories include:
CIVIL WAR: When Railroading Went to War.
WORLD WAR I: Railroads at the Front.
WORLD WAR II: Military Railway Service in Italy.
WORLD WAR II: Herr Goebbels Was Wrong.
KOREAN WAR: Why We Never Stopped the Red Railroads.
VIETNAM WAR: Railroading Where the Competition is a War.
And more!
This special edition features historical text and photographs to show how America’s railroads served in wartime, especially during WWII.
Whether you’re interested in railroad history, the U.S. military, or both, Trains Go to War offers a riveting look at war from the unique perspective of rail.
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WPLives 31st Mar 2021 | | MagazineGreat Trains East (2017) | Classic Trains magazine presents Great Trains East.
Explore the golden age of railroad travel in America’s busiest region: the East.
Curated from the archives of Trains and Classic Trains magazines, this special collection honors the great trains of the classic-era with fresh layouts and photography.
A sampling of featured trains include:
--- New York Central’s 20th Century Limited;
--- Seaboard’s Silver Meteor;
--- Baltimore & Ohio’s Royal Blue;
--- Pennsy’s Broadway;
--- Southern’s Crescent;
--- and more!
A wonderful companion to Great Trains West.
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WPLives 31st Mar 2021 | | MagazineTurbine Power (2020) | For the first time in one volume, all of these fascinating turbine-powered locomotives and trains are explored.
Author Walter Simpson writes about what made some turbines successful as well as the forces that ultimately led to their demise.
What's inside:
--- Union Pacific oil-fired steam-turbine electric Nos. 1 & 2;
--- Pennsylvania RR S2 coal-fired steam turbine;
--- Chesapeake & Ohio M-1 coal-fired steam-turbine electric;
--- Norfolk & Western coal-fired TE-1 "Jawn Henry" steam-turbine electric;
--- Union Pacific oil-fired "Big Blow" gas-turbine electrics;
--- Westinghouse-Baldwin oil-fired "Blue Goose" gas-turbine electric;
--- Union Pacific coal-fired gas-turbine electric;
--- New York Central jet-powered RDC;
--- MTA gas-turbine commuter cars and trains;
--- United Aircraft TurboTrain;
--- Amtrak RTG and RTL Turboliners;
--- Compressed Integrated Natural Gas Locomotive gas-turbine electric;
--- Bombardier JetTrain gas-turbine electric;
--- Plus a proposed atomic-fueled steam-turbine electric that was never built.
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