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Northern Pacific Supersteam Era 1925-1945
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An illustrated history of one of America's greatest railroads and its motive power during the pinnacle years of the steam locomotive.

Main Street of the Northwest — a proud slogan for one of America's most important trancontinental railroads, was an apt description of the Northern Pacific Railway. Begun as a national endeavor in the 1860s, the Northern Pacific opened vast areas of frontier land for settlement and industrial development. Its rails becam a busy thoroughfare, crossing miles of open plains, rugged badlands and great mountain ranges, as it formed a link between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Ocean.

This book tells the fascinating story of the development and operation of the Northern Pacific's most powerful and advanced steam locomotives. Making extensive use of the corporate records of the railroad, as well as interviews with former Mechanical Department employees, the authors document the life of the Northern Pacific's trend setting 4-8-4, 2-8-8-4 and 4-6-6-4 steam locomotives.

A superb selection of photographs and other illustrations supplement the text. Several of the country's finest railroad photographers contributed photographs for this book. Other illustrations came from public and private collections, including those of the Burlington Northern Inc., the inheritor of the Northern Pacific's legacy. This is a book that will appeal to rail enthusiasts, railroad historians, students of locomotive technology and anyone else whose pulse quickens at the sight and sound of a giant steam locomotive.