Santa Fe Railway H&M Society

At first glance, this is an album of the photography of the late Gerry Salsig. But is more than that. It is a labor of love, written by a friend who grew up with the photographer - a testimony of an eye witness and his friends as they made a journey typical of that made by many of us who, while growing up, became fascinated with the railroad known as The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.

Not only does this book describe the innocence of several friends from the East Bay area of San Francisco as they began to explore their railroad world and experience the sights, sounds and people connected with it, but the author, Patrick D. Flynn - who later became a dispatcher employed by the Santa Fe - adds considerable depth from an insider's point of view as to how Santa Fe operated the west end of the Second District of the Valley Division.

This division was operated under time table and train-orders over a three-decade period beginning in the mid-1960s and on into the mid-1980s.

This new Volume on Santa Fe's modern box cars starts where John Dobyne's Santa Fe Railway Rolling Stock Reference Series Volume 4 Santa Fe Boxcars 1869-1953 left off. Beginning with the 500 cars Bx-66 Class cars of 1954 - one of the last classes of box cars to come lettered from the builders with name train slogans on the car sides - it completes the story of box car development up to the BNSF merger of 1995.

This was the colorful Shock Control and Super Shock Control era. Topeka shops installed a 10-inch travel 'Shock Control' sliding center sill under frame in a Bx-66 Class box car in June 1958. Numbered, 10001 and re-classed as a Bx-77 with a new Indian red and black paint scheme with a large Santa Fe herald and new advertising slogan 'DF with Shock Control' splashed across the car side, this car ushered in a new era in box car construction.

From then on, nearly all new classes of Santa Fe box cars were fitted with either a Shock Control, or a Super Shock Control under frame, introduced in 1961. The last box cars built new for Santa Fe were 200 XF food loading car in Class Bx-211 out-shopped at Santa Fe's Topeka shops in 1981.

During this period a number of older classes were rebuilt, often to ease a box car shortage at the time, and others bought used from leasing companies. And over the years many specialized cars were built for and assigned to shippers, especially automobile and appliance manufacturers and breweries, and others were designated for food loading, flour loading and other specialized lading, like such as Perlite.

Because the appearance of new rolling stock delivered to Santa Fe from the car builders often varied widely from standard Santa Fe painting and lettering practice, a painting and lettering reference by class or groups of similar classes for cars in as-delivered livery, is included in the appendix, along with representative photographs in color.

Santa Fe Railway H&MS, 288 pages, 11x8½ coil bound, 317 black & white and 74 color photographs, 75 diagrams, appendix, roster.

Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society, spiral bound, 320 pages, 11 x 8.5 x.5 in., 759 images, rosters.

Rolling Stock Reference Series Volume Seven: by noted freight car authority Richard Hendrickson.

Contents:

• Ch. 1: Introduction and Historical Background, pp. 9–14
• Ch. 2: Early Flat Cars and Gondolas Built Before 1902, pp. 15–20
• Ch. 3: Flat Cars 1902-1944, pp. 21–44
• Ch. 4: Post-World-War-II Flats Cars, pp. 45–52
• Ch. 5: Flat Cars Built or Modified for Special Service, pp. 53–96
• Ch. 6: Logging Cars, pp. 97–104
• Ch. 7: General Service Drop Bottom Gondolas 1902-1930, pp. 105–128
• Ch. 8: General Service Drop Gondolas 1931-1959, pp. 129–136
• Ch. 9: Mill Gondolas 1902-1944, pp. 137–154
• Ch. 10: Postwar Mill Gondolas, pp. 155–168
• Ch. 11: Sulphur Gondolas, pp. 169–174
• Ch. 12: Gondolas Built or Modified for Special Service, pp. 175–198
• Ch. 13: Ballast Gondolas and Hoppers, pp. 199–220
• Ch. 14: Ore Cars, pp. 221–234
• Ch. 15: Cross Hoppers, pp. 235–254
• Ch. 16: Covered Hoppers 1936-1952, pp. 255–272
• Ch. 17: Covered Hoppers 1954-1959, pp. 273–288
• Ch. 18: Air Dump Cars, pp. 289–295
• Ch. 19: Painting and Lettering, pp. 296–313, Rosters, pp. 314–320.

A must for Santa Fe Railway enthusiasts, author Pelouze has done an outstanding job of collecting, illustrating and researching each of the hundreds of trademarks used by the Santa Fe. Chapters cover the July 1901 trademark and those preceding it as well as trademarks used in advertising, on rolling stock, locomotives, trucks, semi-trailers and buses.

Also included are details on menus, structures, dinnerware and uniforms. SFRH&MS, soft bound, 84 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., B&W photographs and illustrations. Publisher: Santa Fe Railway H&MS

Volume Six in the Santa Fe Rolling Stock Reference Series. Featuring the history, operations, illustrated roster, painting and lettering on Santa Fe's MTC and Insulated Refrigerator Cars.

Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society, spiral bound, 192 pages, 11 x 8.5 in., 275 black & white and 77 Color photographs, 39 diagrams.

Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society, spiral bound with plastic cover, 158 pages, 11 x 8.5 x.75 in., B&W photographs and illustrations.

Santa Fe Rolling Stock Reference Series Volume 3 Please Note: The production of the title incurred 'splotches' on the printing of the plastic cover. It is found on all copies. Volume 3 in the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society's Rolling Stock Reference Series covers Furniture and Automobile Box Cars.

The author, the late Richard Hendrickson, well-known to most Santa Fe fans as Mr. Freight Car, was a frequent contributor to the Warbonnet, and its predecessors as well as co-author of Volume Two in this series, Refrigerator Cars: Ice Bunker Cars, 1884-1953.

Contents:

• Preface, pp. 7–10
• Historical Background, pp. 11–18
• Early Santa Fe Furniture Cars: Classes Fe-A through Fe-I, pp. 19–26
• The First Steel Underframe Cars: Classes Fe-J through Fe-O, pp. 27–36
• Composite Cars of the 1920's: Classes Fe-P through Fe-U, pp. 37–48
• Rebuilt Steel Auto Cars of the 1930's: Classes Fe-5 through Fe-20, pp. 49–80
• Auto Cars of the World War II Period: Classes Fe-21 through Fe-25, pp. 81–100
• New Steel Auto Cars of the 1940's and 1950's: Classes Fe-21 through Fe-25, pp. 101–118
• Double Door Cars of the Modern Era: Classes Fe-31 through Fe-42, pp. 119–136
• Painting and Lettering, pp. 137–144
• All-time Roster of Santa Fe Furniture and Automobile Cars, pp. 145–147
• Class Slogan Assignments, pp. 148–150
• Selected Fe-Class General Arrangement and Lettering Drawings, pp. 151–155.

Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society, hardcover, 336 pages (116 pages in color), 11 x 8.5 x 1.5 in., 659 black & white and 242 color images.

For over 90 years the names of the Santa Fe Railway and Fred Harvey were synonymous passenger train and hospitality of the finest quality. After the partnership adopted the persona of the of the Native American cultures of the Southwest, their services were carried on with a style that became legendary.

In this Volume Number 3 in the Santa Fe Railway Passenger Car Reference Series, noted Santa Fe authority John B. McCall not only details the dining and beverage service cars once owned by Santa Fe, but also explores that unique partnership between Santa Fe and Fred Harvey, first begun in 1876 with a Harvey Lunchroom, expanded to Harvey resort hotels after the turn of the 20th century, thence to luxury transcontinental train service culminating in the lightweight extra-fare Super Chief of 1937.

Richly illustrated with hundreds of photographs and period menus and ephemera, many in color, Dining and Beverage Service Cars of she Santa Fe - Featuring Service by Fred Harvey - seeks to distill within the covers of one Volume the very essence of what made Santa Fe a great railroad.

Contents:

• Foreword and Introduction, pp. 7–21: HEAVYWEIGHT CARS: Composite and Buffet Library Cars, pp. 24–62
• Dining Cars, pp. 63–108
• Lounge Cars, pp. 109–132
• Parlor Cars, pp. 133–150
• Cafe Observation Cars, pp. 151–177
• LIGHTWEIGHT CARS Baggage Lounge Cars, pp. 180–185
• Dining Cars, pp. 186–214
• Lounge and Parlor Observation Cars, pp. 215–267
• SERVICE BY FRED HARVEY..with Service by Fred Harvey, pp. 268–310
• Epilogue, p. 311
• Appendix: Selected China and Silver Patterns, pp. 312–331
• Santa Fe Passenger Car External Paint Schemes, pp. 332–333
• Pullman Sleeping Cars Owned (1/2 interest) to January, 1889. Publisher: Santa Fe Railway H&MS

On January 4th, 1937, Harry J. Briscoe stepped off the Santa Fe train from Amarillo, onto the soil of Slaton, Texas, a division headquarters point in the southern Panhandle, to begin his first year of service in what was to become a 45 year career with the Santa Fe Railway.

Beginning work as stenographer then on to a transportation clerk, Briscoe worked a number of positions, from Assistant Train Master to Superintendent, before finishing his career at Topeka, Kansas, in 1982 as General Manager of the Eastern Lines.

During his career, he served the Santa Fe at such outposts as: Oklahoma City; Chicago; Amarillo, Texas; Waynoka, Oklahoma; La Junta, Colorado; Wellington, Kansas; Emporia, Kansas; and San Bernardino, California.

Along the way he encountered many interesting characters - from the track walkers on districts under his supervision, to legendary Santa Fe presidents like Fred Gurley and John Reed, movie stars like Errol Flynn, mid-western politicians and small-town newspapermen who went on to be national legends in themselves.

Briscoe relates stories about them all. Watching the Trains Go By is, then, an insiders look at the people, life and times of a great transportation system in an era when Ship and Travel by Rail meant Santa Fe All the Way.

Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society, soft bound, 160 pages, 11 x 8.5 in., 196 illustrations, index. Publisher: Santa Fe Railway H&MS