Portrait of the Rails - From Steam to Diesel (Train History).pdf

James J. Hill, Empire Builder, builder of "the best possible line," builder of the Great Northern, said it best: "Most men who have really lived have had, in some shape, their great adventure. This railway is mine."

Portrait of the Rails: From Steam to Diesel
Galahad Books | 1972 | ISBN: 0821204483 | English | 312 pages | PDF | 59 MB

In hundreds of stirring photographs, this book chronicles America's most colorful industrial transition: the change-over of the railroad industry from the power of steam to the throbbing pulse of the diesel.