CLASSIC TRAINS, Fall 2006, 114 pages. This is a special issue devoted to RPO
service. Of
special interest to the CBQ fan is the classic and memorable article "FAST
MAIL" by TRAINS
editor, David P. Morgan. The article was first publsihed in 1959 as FAST MAIL:
THE FIRST 75
YEARS, a 38 page book comissioned by the Burlington Route authored by David P.
Morgan
with photos by Wallace Abbey. Both rode No. 20 one night in 1959. Nice photos
from Abbey's
camera and other sources.
Price: $5.50 includes postage within USA
DIESELS WEST! THE EVOLUTION OF POWER ON THE BURLINGTON, David P. Morgan,
Kalmbach
Books, 1963, 164 pages. The book & dust jacket are in excellent condition.
Traces the life
history of of modermotive power on the CBQ from the early wood-burners of the
1850's to
the GP30's and GP35's of the 1960's. Incidentally, David P. Morgan was a CBQ
fan! Must
reading for the Burlington fan.
Price: $19.95 includes postage within the USA
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