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Southern Railway Steam Trains V1 -Passenger (Southern Railway Steam Trains) | 
 enlarge | Author: Curt Tillotson
Publisher: TLC Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 812536
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1883089948
Dewey Decimal Number: 625.261
EAN: 9781883089948
ASIN: 1883089948
Publication Date: October 7, 2004
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Product Description
This book contains over 150 superb photos of steam powered passenger trains in all regions of the system taken by the best photographers covering the road. Author Curt Tillotson has organized the photographs and details the images with extensive captions explaining the train, the geography, and the overall operation being shown. Special chapters cover Southern's mountain lines over the Saluda grade and the Swannoah line. This will be an ideal book for anyone interested in the South and in the nostalgic steam locomotives that the line operated.
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Quite disappointing October 26, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book at the same time I bought the companion volume on freight locomotives. This is the worse of the volumes.
I wanted a book about Southern's development and selection of motive power for passenger trains in the steam era, or at least the 1900-1953 era, with a good number of pictures. I had high hopes for this book. Unfortunately, it is mostly just a picture book.
It does have some nice pictures, but it has almost no real information. The specifications for each major locomotive type are repeated, almost verbatim, many times. Fine, cover the minor variations that existed within the same nominal class, but just list the basic specifications once and then discuss the variations. There's almost nothing in the way of history, development, operational characteristics, etc. Much of the text seems to be filler.
If you just want pictures of many different examples of locomotives from most of the major Southern passenger classes (not that there were that many post-1900), go ahead and buy it. But if you want detailed information or in-depth analysis, keep your money.
I hate to be so negative about a book on a topic of so much interest to me--I'm glad to see almost anything on this topic make it to print. And it's nice to have the pictures published. But compare this book to something like Steam's Camelot: Southern and Norfolk Southern Excursions in Color, which has a lot of good information without being overly dry, and you'll come away quite disappointed.
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