Life and Times of a Locomotive Engineer Paperback – December, 1992 by Charles F. Steffes (Author) Steffes worked from hostler to engineer on SP, starting in the '30s - '40s

Schuyler, Are you sure that story isn't about the Lack-a-wanda? *G* Seriously - the same story can probably be told on just about any RR at one time or another with one official or another and

Workin' On the Railroad, a 2 volume set, covers many stories. Published in the 60's - 70's.

Thanks, Bill! Would you, or perhaps someone else, be able to direct me to a photo or diagram of the brake rigging layout? The rest I could probably figure out from materials I have

Another good one from the northeast is "Behind the Iron Horse: The People who Made the Trains Run in the Bellows Falls, Vermont Area (1941-1980)", by Giro R. Patalano Dave Sent from Dave Bott' iPhone

For the Boston and Maine, the book "High green and the Bark Peelers;: The story of Engineman Henry A. Beaulieu and his Boston and Maine Railroad" has a lot of good stories of operating. Don

Another Erie reference . . . at one time one of the railroad’s top management was using one of the business cars, and conducting some rather off-topic “business” after hours. At one point, his

The ERIE had one of the very first industrial organization charts. It was rather inconveniently set up as a circular rose pattern, but it went down to the detail of the ROW maintenance men. I think

Set Up Running is easily the absolute best first person account of a railroad man’s career I have come across. Not many railroad books would keep me up late reading it, “late” meaning way past

A Roy C. Long, from Hinton WV, wrote about a lot of those stories on the C&O railway . . . a conductor shooting a railroad exec for accepting advances of a flirting female passenger . . . that he was

Hi Brian, You might have a look at the biography “Set Up Running: The Life of aPennsylvania Railroad Engineman, 1904–1949” by John W. Orr. You won’t find organizational charts. You WILL

Ah, hope this question isn't out-of-bounds for this list. The question is about steam-era railroading, and it might (I hope it does) involve freight cars. So. . . . I've googled a bit but without much

Good friends, List member Fred Janz inquired about interchange cars on the Sacramento Northern for a friend of his. A long time ago I made a list of the cars I could ID from

Bob Chaparro wrote: May 1, 1917, with the introduction of MCB Class III standards. But double rivet rows had been RECOMMENDED since 1910, and many new cars after 1910 were built that way. Tony

I am planning two Airbrush & Acrylic Paint events for "RPM Chicagoland" at Lisle, IL October 20–22, 2016 and will possibly need some HELP for PART TWO to be successful. Please read next-to-last

I came across this image on Flickr in one of EarlLeatherberry's collection of railroad photos. This is a tank car that has been givennew life as some sort of oil storage tank in a rail yard.

Okay time to update. The Sunshine #99.2 Early Tarvia has been traded for the Sunshine #65.1—Northern Pacific SS Boxcar. I still have the Sunshine #99.4 Deep Rock I would like to trade for one of

Hi Ed please send 4 copies thanks, norm

It is the 1927 FGE/WFE car, gorgeous model complete w/center grooved wood sheathing. Look to Protocraft for decals. Bill Welch

Steve, thank you very much! Thanks also to all group members STMFC who were interested on my website! There was the highest number of visitors on my website in last 24 hours - 190 visitors opened 386