Author Name: Ross B. Grenard
Title: Rio Grande In Color Vol. 1: Colorado
Seller ID: MS198
This is the story of 25 epochal years in the corporate and operational life of an American railroad, during which it evolved from a ward of the courts into a railroad second to none in financial profitability, in its physical property, and in the application of technology to solve operating problems. For during this quarter century it evolved, using its own resources, from a regional carrier into a Bridge Line whose specialties included intermodal traffic, unit coal trains, and short, fast manifest freights covering the length of its mainline. That this was carried on in the mountains and deserts of Colorado and Utah, against spectacular scenery and in the face of hostile nature, a profile like nearly nothing else in mainline railroading, and intense competition seems now a miraculous feat. Included are the near-demise of passenger service, the last years of standard gauge steam, first and second generation diesels and such colloquialisms as 'Perlman Mallets', K-M's, MFT, PMX, 'Ute', SPF and ACD. Retail $45.00.
Price = 36.00 USD
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