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Author Hofsommer, Donovan L

Title Off the main lines : a photographic odyssey / Don L. Hofsommer
Published Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Railroads past and present
Railroads past and present.
Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1 IN THE LAND OF THE HAWKEYES; Callender, Iowa: M & StL, The Home Road; Rock Island: The Ancestral Road; Fort Dodge, Iowa: Center of the Railroad Universe; Spencer, Iowa: L2s and Alcos; Elsewhere in Hawkeyeland; M & StL: The Home Road, 1951-60; Still Elsewhere in Hawkeyeland; 2 ALONG THE WAY: 1950-65; 3 IN THE LAND OF THE BUFFALOES; 4 IN THE LAND OF THE GOPHERS; Along the Way: 1966-70; 5 IN THE LAND OF THE SOONERS; 6 IN THE LAND OF THE LONGHORNS; 7 ALONG THE WAY: 1971-87; 8 AROUND THE HORN; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P
QR; S; T; U; V; W
Summary "In this visually stunning and comprehensive photographic essay, railroad historian and photographer Donovan L. Hofsommer records the end of branchline passenger service, the demise of electric railroads, the transition from steam to diesel power, as well as the end of common carrier freight service on the Colorado narrow gauge. Off the Main Line carries readers along out-of-the-way railways in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, Montana, and South Dakota to see the changes that occurred on these lines from the 1940s to the 1990s"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Narrow gauge railroads -- West (U.S.) -- History
Narrow gauge railroads -- Colorado -- History
Narrow gauge railroads -- Colorado -- Pictorial works
Narrow gauge railroads -- West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works
TRANSPORTATION -- Railroads -- History.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Narrow gauge railroads
Colorado
West United States
Genre/Form History
Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012047304
ISBN 9780253008688
0253008689
1299680143
9781299680142