Rio Grande ... to the Pacific!

Sundance Publications Limited; 2nd Edition, 3rd Printing (June 2004); 416 pages; 8 1/2 x 11 inches; hardbound in pictorial boards; deluxe clear-plastic dustjacket; over 700 illustrations including 500 historic black & white photographs; 18 specially drawn system maps; comprehensive index. Contains at least one photo of every class of locomotive that ever operated on the D&RGW. Text includes the most comprehensive account of the Western Pacific and the Rio Grande Western railroad ever published. It also presents material which has never received mention in any previous history. Includes: an examination of 35 subsidiary companies of the Rio Grande and another 30 railroad companies that have been involved with the Rio Grande system; a chronology of the developement of the system's trackage--why it was built or bought, used, sold or abandoned. Motive power is traced in detail, including the first complete compilation of RGW locomotives.LeMassena, Robert A. is the author of 'Rio Grande ... to the Pacific!', published 1993 under ISBN 9780913582107 and ISBN 0913582107.