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Title: The Pacific Coast Railway: Central California's Premier Narrow Gauge by Kenneth E. Westcott, Curtiss H. Johnson, Kenneth E. Wescott ISBN: 0-9615467-4-3 Publisher: Benchmark Pubns Ltd Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: "...the finest modeling oriented railroad book we have seen.
Comment: "We tend to assume Benchmark will provide top quality photo reproduction, paper, print quality, page design, and typography. The book justifies that assumption. We tend to assume any book by Benchmark will include an accurate history and comprehensive photographic documentation of the railroad it covers. It does.

"But The Pacific Coast Railway goes beyond that. It includes what may be the most extensive collection of photos, track plans, illustrations, and structure, rolling stock, and locomotive drawings to appear in a single volume about a single railroad. The book contains most extant photos of the line and drawings of almost every siding, spur, and yard. It includes plans of nearly all of the significant PC-related structures, passenger cars, and freight cars, along with drawings of all but two locomotives.

For those unfamiliar with it, the PC was a three foot gauge commom carrier running between the village of Los Olivos, California (about 60 miles north of Santa Barbara) and the wharf at San Luis Bay and an interchange with the Southern Pacific at San Luis Obispo. It began operations in 1876; the last train ran in 1940.

"The Pacific Coast Railway: Central California's Premier Narrow Gauge is as fine a railroad book as you will find, bar none. It earns our highest rating. It is superb."

--Finescale Railroader Magazine Feb-Mar/99