Railroading from the Rear End
Author: S. Kip Farrington Jr.
Published by Coward McCann Inc.
USED Hardcover with Dust Jacket 1946
Description from the dust jacket:
This excellent volume is a companion book to Mr. Farrington’s well known work, Railroading from the Head End, and is comparable to his Railroads ar War, that highly acclaimed volume which contains the finest of railroad photographs. Railroading from the Rear End is a book of modern railroading, its practices and operations; is is not another review of railroad history. It deals with operations from the end of the war to date. Its theme revolves around the rear end and the caboose, the roughest place on a freight train which acts as an office, dining room, kitchen, and bedroom to so many railroaders, and which is vitally important to all railroad freight train service. Mr. Farrington dicusses the duties of the business car, showing how vital this travelling office is to railroad officials; the dynamometer car, so necessary for computing tonnage ratings showing test of various large and successful locomotives on two major railroads; drovers cars; different types of maintenance of way cars; snow fighting equipment; battles with the elements; work trains; practices used in taking care of up to date tracks; railroad laboratories; locomotive shops; I.T.C. (Inductive Train Communication), the latest and most up to date form of communication; all new rear end signal practices; roller bearing equipment for freight cars; coal, wheat, stock, lumber, fruit and ore movements on various railroads, which are carried on trains with operation from the caboose; C.T.C. (Centralized Traffic Control) of a very vital railroad division, including graphs from the machine and transcripts of runs. Railroading from the Rear End also contains transcripts of many fast passenger runs in the United States, a valve pilot tape, and a unique description of a South American railroad. The author, not wishing any American to forget the great job performed by the military battalions out of this country during the war, has included a chapter on the Luzon military railroad which he spent some time on while in the Phillipines in 1945.
Contents:
- The Little Caboose
Last but Not Least — Riding the Rear End of the Manifest
- Inductive Train Communication
Early Experiments with Train Communication — How It Works
- Empire Builder
The Great Northern’s Magic Carpet
- Centralized Traffic Control On The Santa Fe
Pecos Division Installation — Other Installations — Examplers of What C.T.C. Can Do — Typical Transcripts of Runs over C.T.C. equipped Pecos Division
- The Milwaukee
A Railroad Hauls the Atom — The Fast Mail — The New Caboose
- Railroading On The Boston & Maine
“It’s a Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad!”
- The New York Central’s S-1 Class Niagara
Fittings and Equipment — The Tender — The Niagara Goes into Service — Dynamometer Car — Boiler Tests — The Hotbox Alarm — The Snow Melting Machine
- On The Chesapeake & Ohio
The Trackman — What the Track Takes — The Work Train
- The Southern Pacific
The Los Angeles Overnight — The Hill — Supply Train — Detector Car — S.P. Shorthand
- The Burlington’s Panoramic Coach
The Vista-Dome Car
- The Norfolk & Western
The Railroad That Coal Built — The Rear End of a Coal Train
- The Voice of the Santa Fe
A Great Railway’s Communication System
- The American Locomotive Company
The Story of Alco at Home and at War — The New Diesel-Electric Locomotives
- The Rio Grande
Laboratory and Research
- The Baltimore & Ohio
The “97’s” — Banana Special — Color Position Light Signals — Bay-Window Caboose — Passenger Service
- The Great Northern’s Ore Move
The World’s Heaviest Trains — Fast Mail — The Grain Movement — Other Products
- Tailoring The Tracks On The New York Central
Maintenance — The Clearance Car — The Ballast Cleaner — Subsurface Grounting — Laying Steel
- The “GFX”
Santa Fe Green Fruit
- Snow Fighting On The Milwaukee
The White Outlaw
- The Atlantic Coast Line
Track Renovation — Train Communication
- The Erie
History in the Making — Fruit Trains
- The Boston & Maine’s Yankee Empire
Industrial New England — Fish Move — Snow Trains
- Flagman Of The Chicago & North Western
Mars Headlight — Rules Governing the Flagman from Mars
- Business Car On The Santa Fe
Field Headquarters — Milwaukee Business Car — The Business Car in Chile
- Black Diamonds Of The Norfolk & Western
“Fuel Satisfaction”
- Manifest Train On The C&O
Motive Power — Manifest Train No. 92
- The S.P.’s Biggest Rush
Mountain Railroad — Homebound Troops — Snowball Special
- The Burlington
Streamlined Station — Rear End of No. 62
- “Spud Specials” Of The Santa Fe
The Story of the Potato — Potato Growing in California
- Roller Bearings For Freight Cars
Wings on the Wheels
- The Road Of Pocahontas
The Norfolk & Western‘s Balance Sheet — War Record
- Luzon Military Railroad
Railroading in the Philippines — Military Railway Operations on Luzon
- Milk For Ten Million
The New York Central Milk Service — New Pacemaker Fast Freight
- Santa Fe Wheat Bin
The Battle of the Wheat Trains — The Crucible of Men and Locomotives
- See America By Rail
Through Coast-to-Coast Service
Product Condition: Used
Product Type: Book > Hardcover Book
Author(s): S. Kip Farrington, Jr.
Number of Pages: 430
Publication Date: 1946