FREIGHT CARS AND TERMINALS - a fascinating read!

Folks:

Okay, I was too giddy and got the title wrong.

FREIGHT TERMINALS AND TRAINS.

Cordially yours: Gerard P. President, a box of track and a gappy table.

FYI soft cover reprints are been available from the NMRA. See

There is also an equally good companion volume from Droege - Passenger Terminals and Trains - that war reprinted in hard cover by Kalmbach in 1969. Geezer

And don't forget his other book, "Passenger Terminals and Trains":

John Droege was a Vice President of the New Haven Railroad, and these two books of his are considered the classic examples of railroad design and construction during the high water mark of American RR's power and influence (pre-WWI). For example, his thinking in most every example in the book is how to keep up with future expansion...there was no thought given to what if the RR's got smaller. RR's had only gotten bigger and bigger since the

1830's, and there was no indication before the war that it would ever be any different. J. P. Morgan (who Droege essentially worked for) would pay any lease to aquire a competing RR because the NH would simply out grow any debt... Oops. They are both excellent books, and if you want to know why certain things were built by the RR's, these two books explain most of it. BTW, the Freight book has been reprinted several times by the NMRA, and is still available last I checked. Internet books are fine and all (free, too), but they are a little hard to read in bed, outside on the hammock, on the porch, or at the layout.

Paul A. Cutler III

************* Weather Or No Go New Haven *************

The link to that one is

Thanks, the PDF downloads are a great addition.

Jim