Concludes coverage of the company’s diesel motive power fleet
Follow author Jim Boyd as the BN merger takes place and its eclectic locomotive roster is organized
The end of steam and the entire diesel roster from Centipedes and FT’s to C420’s and GP40’s – all in vivid color
Volume 3: The early second generation BB diesels are given a thorough look plus others
Jim Boyd Jim Boyd's motive power examination of the EsPee continues in the 1960s as the road introduces second generation power and a new paint scheme
1950s Freight Car Color Guide Volume 1: Boxcars Equipment Concludes coverage of the company’sJames Kinkaid and Ken Donnelly The 1950s are arguably the classic era for freight cars, pre dating the mergers that would erase many venerable roads and leave us with new names such as Penn Central, Seaboard Coast Lines, and Erie Lackawanna. In the 1950s, "boxcar red" was everywhere, but colorful new paint schemes were arriving and turning heads. It was the final decade of friction bearings and roofwalks, and the ultimate years of stock cars, ice