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Title: Civil War Railroads: A Pictorial Story of the War between the States, 1861-1865 by George B. Abdill ISBN: 0-253-33536-1 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Blue and Gray on the Rails
Comment: Civil War Railroads by George Abdill is a wonderful browsing book on railroading in the 1860's. One can open to most any page and find an interesting story, anecdote, biography or fact about Civil War railroading. The book is organized chronologically with no clear academic theme. It draws few conclusions. It is, however, flooded with over two hundred photos mainly from the Library of Congress and the National Archives. There is a wide mixed spectrum of topics including locomotives,rolling stock, structures, yards, track, car ferries was well as burned and destroyed trains and bridges on both sides. Somehow Abdill seems to have identified by name almost every locomotive pictured. Devastation is certainly a common thread. Book length topics like the Andrew's raid (the great locomotive chase) and the Lincoln funeral train are covered in only a few pages.
Readers should note this is a word for word reprint of Abdill's 1961 book of the same title. The Indiana University Press digitally enhanced reprint on glossy paper greatly improved the photo quality from the muddy first edition. For the modeler it has no scale drawings, track layouts or even color lithographs. It is very pleasing blend of many railroad topics. I was never bored.
I would recommend it to Civil War buffs, model railroaders and anyone interest in a fascinating part of our history.
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Title: The Railroads of the Confederacy by Robert C. Black, Robert C. III Black ISBN: 0807847291 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.54 |
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Title: The Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Thomas Weber ISBN: 0253213215 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.35 |
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Title: The General & the Texas: A Pictorial History of the Andrews Raid, April 12, 1862 by Stan Cohen, James G. Bogle ISBN: 1575100606 Publisher: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality by Daniel A. Helminiak ISBN: 188636009X Publisher: Alamo Square Distributors Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Lord of the Rings (Leatherette Collector's Edition) by J. R. R. Tolkien ISBN: 0395193958 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1974 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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