Authors:Brian Soloman, Brian Solomon,
Publisher: MBI
Keywords: signaling, railroad
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2003-09
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0760313601
ISBN-13: 9780760313602

This complete and illustrated guide to railroad signaling in the U.S. simplifies and presents the utterly bewildering array of mechanisms, procedures, and rules that have evolved since the 1830s to promote safety, impose control, and disseminate information on America’s railways. In addition to providing a brief history of North American signaling from the nineteenth century onward, Brian Solomon provides photos of equipment and explanations of not only how it works, but how it is used and what it all means. Solomon also explains how trains on the same route are given "precedence" or pla

中文参考译名:南方太平洋铁路公司（铁路颜色史隽）
Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Keywords: railroad, history, color, mbi, southern, pacific
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-11-15
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0760329311
ISBN-13: 9780760329313

More than just a railroad, the Southern Pacific was an empire, anchored in San Francisco but stretching from Portland, Oregon, to several ports on the Gulf of Mexico. From austere western roots, the "Espee" grew into a far-flung railroad of some 17,000 route miles. In fact, for many years, it was the nations only true transcontinental railroad. This illustrated history tells the tale of SP’s development from 1861 through its 1996 acquisition by Union Pacific. Through some 150 archival photographs, route maps, period ads, and timetables, readers are treated to the history of steam and d

Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Keywords: locomotives, emd
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-12-15
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0760323968
ISBN-13: 9780760323960

In February 2005, General Motors announced its decision to sell its Electro-Motive Division (EMD), thus ending its 75-year association with one of the most renowned brands in railroading. Looking at the heritage of the venerable EMD in light of this momentous development, this monumental volume offers an overview of the great locomotive maker unprecedented in its scope and unparalleled in the spectacular quality of its photographs. Leading railroad author and photographer Brian Solomon provides an authoritative, comprehensive account of EMD’s history, from its genesis in 1922 as the independ

Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Keywords: pennsylvania, railway, sites, trains, historic, guide, railroads
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0760332452
ISBN-13: 9780760332450

Few states have a railroad heritage as rich as Pennsylvanias. This illustrated book offers a colorful look at the Keystone States historic railroads, the men who built and ran them, and the engineering feats that made them possible. Railway historian Brian Solomon also shows readers the legacy those railroads have left in the form of todays historic tourist roads, museums, and destinations. Railroads of Pennsylvania travels from Scranton, home to Steamtown USA and the Laural Line trolley, to Altoona, the heart and soul of Pennsylvania railroading; from East Broad Top, one of the nations bes

Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: MBI
Keywords: locomotives, steam, american
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1998-05-23
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0760303363
ISBN-13: 9780760303368

A powerful collection of yesterdays iron workhorses captured in a variety of nostalgic photographs. Solomon’s thoroughly-researched text details the origins, development and growth of the steam locomotive from its earliest days right up to its final futile battles to compete with the diesel. Witness the intimate workings of old steam engines that used 20,000 gallons of water per hour! And look inside fireboxes large enough to host a dinner for 12! See these iron behemoths inside and out, in photographs of them on the tracks, as well as in shots of them being rebuilt. An action-packed pro

Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Keywords: railroad, working
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-08-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0760322201
ISBN-13: 9780760322208

The notion of working on a railroad has always carried its share of romance, taking in everything from the dreams of small boys to legends like John Henry and Casey Jones. The reality is far more complicated and often, as this book amply demonstrates, more interesting. This richly illustrated volume takes us behind the scenes to show what goes into keeping a railroad running in our era of computer-aided 6,000-horsepower diesel locomotion. Author and photographer Brian Solomon explains who does what and how, from dispatching and signaling to maintaining locomotives and driving trains. Everythin

Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: MBI
Keywords: locomotive, diesel, american
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2000-04-10
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0760306664
ISBN-13: 9780760306666

Ride the rails through the development and history of America’s diesel-electric locomotives. Diesel-electric played a critical role in the industrialization of America. After WWII, diesels rapidly displaced the steam locomotive as the dominant source of motive power on the rails. This lavishly illustrated volume delivers detailed coverage of the development of the diesel including AC traction and the 800-horsepower beasts introduced in the mid 1990s. Solomon describes how diesels are operated and maintained today. Appendix lists where restored early diesels can be seen today.