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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some light marking due to age.1978 copy. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> First to bridge the Missouri River at Kansas City to operate the diesel-powered streamliner to run a train for a thousand miles nonstop and to have a modern dome car the steam loco- motives of the Burlington Route are unques- tionably an important part of American rail- road history. The growth of the Burlington system like that of all major railroads can be attributed to a “consolidation of forces.” How- ever unlike the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific Railroads-built from large parent roads consolidated with shorter lines-the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad is the prod- uct of the merging of over two hundred sepa- rate companies. In this volume Bernard G. Corbin and William F. Kerka have carefully traced the development of the Burlington system from its inception in 1849 to its rapid expansion throughout the Middle West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to a his- tory of the railroad the book is complete with hundreds of photographs plans and data on the locomotives. For those particularly inter- ested in the complex structure of the railroad maps of its numerous lines in Illinois Iowa Nebraska and Colorado have also been in- cluded. Special features of great value to scale- model locomotive builders are the locomotive plans representative of Burlington motive power and the assignment sheets listing the accessories (feedwater heater system stoker type etc.) used on each locomotive. (MP)