Steam Era Freight Cars - Prototype Information

A note from the stewards of this site regarding the Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment series, published by Morning Sun Books:

While this series has been a very valuable addition to the libraries of many prototype modelers, it has also proven to be highly inconsistent in its attention to detail. Therefore, we will only list the books from that series that we believe to be beyond reproach in their accuracy. Thank you for your understanding. For more information about the series, visit www.morningsunbooks.com

General

American Car & Foundry Company, 1899-1999, Edward S. Kaminski, Signature Press: Wilton, CA, 1999, © Edward S. Kaminski. www.signaturepress.com

Billboard Refrigerator Cars, Richard H. Hendrickson and Edward S. Kaminski, Signature Press: Wilton, CA, 2008. http://www.signaturepress.com/BLBD.html (7/25/2009)

Coal Cars, Martin Robert Karig III, University of Scranton Press, 2007. http://home.earthlink.net/~coalcars/Coal_Cars.html (7/30/2009)

Focus on Freight Cars, Volume One: Single Sheathed Box & Automobile Cars, Richard Hendrickson, Speedwitch Media, Guilford, CT, 2006. www.speedwitchmedia.com (7/25/2009)

Pullman-Standard Freight Cars, 1900-1960, Edward S. Kaminski, Signature Press: Wilton, CA, 2007, © Edward S. Kaminski. http://www.signaturepress.com/pullman.html (7/25/2009)

Steam Era Freight Cars Reference Manual, Volume One: Box & Automobile Cars, Theodore Culotta, Speedwitch Media. www.speedwitchmedia.com (7/25/2009)

Steam Era Freight Cars Reference Manual, Volume Two: Tank Cars, Theodore Culotta, Speedwitch Media. www.speedwitchmedia.com (7/25/2009)

Tank Cars of American Car & Foundry Company, 1865-1955, Signature Press: Wilton, CA, 2003, © Edward S. Kaminski. http://www.signaturepress.com/tank.html (Updated 7/20/2009)

The American Railway Association Standard Box Car of 1932, Theodore Culotta, Speedwitch Media, San Mateo, CA, 2004. www.speedwitchmedia.com (7/25/2009)

The Magor Car Corporation, Edward S. Kaminski, Signature Press: Wilton, CA, 2000, © Edward S. Kaminski. http://www.signaturepress.com/magor.html

The Postwar Freight Car Fleet, Larry Kline and Ted Culotta, National Model Railroad Association, Inc., Chattanooga, TN, 2006. http://www.nmra.org/library/publications.html (7/25/2009)

Chesapeake & Ohio

Freight Car Equipment of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, August 1, 1937, Carl Shaver, ed., The Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society: Alderson, WV, 1980, revised 1989.

Chesapeake & Ohio, Freight Cars, Vol. One, Hoppers and Gondolas, Al Kresse, Jr., The Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society: Alderson, WV

Great Northern

Great Northern Lines East, Second Edition, Patrick C. Dorin, Signature Press: Wilton, CA, 2001. http://www.signaturepress.com/gnle.html

From the Signature Press web site:
"The most distinctive addition to the book is an entirely new chapter on Great Northern freight equipment, by experts Richard H. Hendrickson and Staffan Ehnbom. Starting about 1910 and extending to 1970, coverage is included for all types of freight cars. This chapter alone contains 142 new photos, along with a few from the previous edition. There is no comparable resource anywhere for detailed coverage of GN freight cars over this span of time."

Great Northern Equipment Color Pictorial Book One - Box Cars & Stock Cars, Scott R. Thompson, Four Ways West Publications: La Mirada, CA, 1995

Great Northern Equipment Color Pictorial Book Two - Freight Cars, Scott R. Thompson, Four Ways West Publications: La Mirada, CA, 1996

Great Northern Equipment Color Pictorial Book Three - Western Fruit Express, Cabooses, Maintenance-of-Way, Scott R. Thompson, Four Ways West Publications: La Mirada, CA, 2000

The focus of three GN Equipment Color Pictorial Books is the late 1960s. Any GN freight car that was in service in 1969 was included if photographs and information on the car were available while preparing the books. In total, all three books include 384 pages and several hundred photographs (many of which are in color). The books are organized to provide a photographic reference and basic information on each car series type. Many of the sections include a reference for every car series that existed at that time. Information in the three books is based on an extensive use of Great Northern Railway company records at the Minnesota Historical Society, data from the American Association of Railroads, railroad industry journals 'Railway Age' and 'Modern Railroads', the author's private collection of GN documents, along with several other sources. This web site will also include an errata list based on corrections, new information, etc.

Norfolk & Western

Coal Car Equipment, Heimburger House Publishing: Forest Park, IL, 1992

Norfolk & Western Coal Cars 1881-1998, Andrew Dow, TLC Publishing

Pacific Fruit Express

Pacific Fruit Express, Second Edition, Anthony W. Thompson, Robert J. Church, Bruce H. Jones, Signature Press: Wilton, CA, 200 . http://www.signaturepress.com/pfe2.html

Pere Marquette

Pere Marquette Revenue Freight Cars, Arthur B. Million and John C. Paton, Hundman Publishing: Mukilteo, WA, 2001. www.hundman.com

Santa Fe

Santa Fe Railway Rolling Stock Reference Series - Volume One - Work Equipment Cars , by W.W. Childers, available as a scanned reprint through the Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society http://atsfrr.net/store/book3.htm.

Santa Fe Railway Rolling Stock Reference Series - Volume Two - Refrigerator Cars, Ice Bunker Cars 1884-1979, by C. Keith Jordan, Richard H. Hendrickson, John B. Moore, A. Dean Hale, The Santa Fe Modelers Organization, Inc., 1994, available as a scanned reprint through the Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society http://atsfrr.net/store/book3.htm.

Santa Fe Railway Rolling Stock Reference Series - Volume Three - Furniture and Automobile Box Cars, Richard H. Hendrickson, http://atsfrr.net/store/book3.htm

Santa Fe Railway Rolling Stock Reference Series - Volume Four - Santa Fe Box Cars 1869 - 1953, John Dobyne, http://atsfrr.net/store/book3.htm

Santa Fe Railway Rolling Stock Reference Series - Volume Five - Santa Fe Tank Cars, Richard Hendrickson and Richard Pelouze, http://atsfrr.net/store/book3.htm

Santa Fe Railway Listing of Freight Cars by Class and Car Number 1906 - 1991, Compiled by Larry Occhiello, http://www.atsfrr.com/store/book1.htm

Santa Fe Railway Painting and Lettering Guide, Richard H. Hendrickson, http://www.atsfrr.com/store/book1.htm

Stock Cars of the Santa Fe Railway, Compiled by Frank M. Ellington, John Berry, and Loren Martens, (out of print, but may be available in some bookstores and hobby shops).

The Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society's Cumulative Index, by Eric Hiser, http://atsfrr.net/store/book1.htm

Southern Pacific

(These books added 7/25/2009)

Southern Pacific Freight Cars, Volume 1: Gondolas and Stock Cars, Anthony W. Thompson, Signature Press: Berkeley, CA, 2002.http://www.signaturepress.com/SPF1.html

Southern Pacific Freight Cars, Volume 2: Cabooses, Anthony W. Thompson, Signature Press: Berkeley, CA, 2003. http://www.signaturepress.com/SPF2.html

Southern Pacific Freight Cars, Volume 3: Automobile Cars and Flat Cars, Anthony W. Thompson, Signature Press: Berkeley, CA, 2005. http://www.signaturepress.com/SPF3.html

Southern Pacific Freight Cars, Volume 4: Box Cars, Anthony W. Thompson, Signature Press: Berkeley, CA, 2006. http://www.signaturepress.com/SPF4.html

Southern Pacific Freight Cars, Volume 5: Hoppers, Covered Hoppers, Tank Cars, Anthony W. Thompson, Signature Press: Berkeley, CA, 2008.http://www.signaturepress.com/SPF5.html

Union Pacific

Union Pacific Freight Cars, 1936-51, Terry Metcalfe, Metcalfe Publications: Englewood, CO, 1989.