A Compendium of Books Concerning The Southern Pacific Transportation Company Updated: August 14, 1996. This folio is a joint effort by Gary G. McClain 76042,1540 (Internet: mcclaing@ix.netcom.com) and Dorr Altizer 76702,402 to assemble a complete list of books and other publications which deal specifically with the Southern Pacific Railroad. We have included books which cover subsidiary and predecessor railroads, but not those of the recently "merged" Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. At the end of this list are all known addresses of the publishers, whether or not those publishers are still in business. Sources of this information include our personal book collections; members of the Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society, P.O. Box 11118, Santa Ana, CA 92711; and "Books In Print, 1988-89", Volumes 1, 2, 3, & 7, published by R.R. Bowker, 245 West 17th St, New York, NY 10011. Format: Title Author(s) and/or Compiler(s) Publisher(s), Date(s) Published, LC and/or ISBN LC = Library of Congress Catalog Card Number ISBN = International Standard Book Number Alameda Centennial Almanac, Vol 1/2/3 Fred S. Cook California Traveler, Inc., 1972, No Known ISBN or LC. America's Bicentennial Queen, Engine 4449 Richard K. Wright Wright Enterprises, 1975, No Known ISBN or LC. Beaumont Hill - Southern Pacific's Southern California Gateway John Signor Golden West Books, 1990, LC 90-19919, ISBN 0-87095-102-X The Big Four - Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins and Crocker and the Building of the Central Pacific Oscar Lewis Alfred A. Knopf, 1938, LC 80-1324 Ayer Co., 1981 (reprint of 1938 edition), ISBN 0-405-13799-0 Comstock Editions, 1982 (revised edtion), ISBN 0-89174-042-2 Cab Forward Robert J. Church Kratville, 1968, No Known ISBN or LC. Central Valley Railroad, 1982, No Known ISBN or LC. California Central Coast Railways Rick Hamman Pruett, 1980, LC 80-14664, ISBN 087108-553-4 Cars of the Pacific Electric: Locomotives Ira L. Swett Interurban, 1978, ISBN 0-916374-30-0 The Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads Lucius Beebe Howell-North, 1963, LC 63-12942 A Century of Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives Guy L. Dunscomb Guy L. Dunscomb and Son, 1963/1967 (First edition), LC 63-14308 A Colorful Story of Railroad Building... Central Pacific Railroad Note: This is a 9 volume set of soft cover books, published by History West, March 1981. (Organized by LC number) Overland Route LC 81-80970 Shasta Route LC 81-80971 Sunset Route LC 81-80972 Golden State Route LC 81-80973 On Memory Siding LC 81-80974 Dot, Dot, Dot, Done! Sacramento/Truckee/Humbolt/Salt Lake Divisions LC 81-80975 Rail and Water "Netherlands Route", San Joaquin Valley Line, Coast Line LC 81-80976 People and the Railroad LC 81-80977 Here Comes The Train! LC 81-80978 Corsicana and the Ennis Sub Robert P. Olmsted McMillan, 1983, LC 83-62558, ISBN 0-934228-12-4 Cotton Belt Locomotives Joseph A. Strapac Shade Tree, 1977, LC 77-78935 Daylight - 4449's Family Album Kenneth G. Johnsen Kenneth G. Johnsen, 1984, ISBN 0-9613267-0-0 Daylight Reflections Nils Huxtable Steamscenes, 1987, ISBN 0-9691-409-2-4 Diesels of the ESPEE, Vol. 1, ALCO PA's Compiled by Roger M. Cortani, Text by Gordon Lloyd, Jr., and Joseph A. Strapac Chatham, 1975, LC 75-38238, ISBN 0-89685-034-X Diesels over Donner Richard Steinheimer / Dick Dorn Interurban Press, 1989, ISBN 0-87046-090-0 Domeliners Patrick C. Dorin Superior, 1973, No Known ISBN or LC. Donner Pass John R. Signor Golden West, 1985, LC 85-22001, ISBN 0-87095-094-0 Early 1900's in Port City - San Pedro, California Leon Callaway Benchmark, 1984, No Known ISBN or LC. Early Call for the Perishables: A Day at the Throttle Dick Murdock May/Murdock, 1973, ISBN 0-932916-08-2 Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History, The Desert States Donald B. Robertson The Caxton Printers, 1986, LC 86-9611, ISBN 0-87004-305-6 The First Transcontinental Railroad John Debo Galloway, C.E. Dorset, 1989, ISBN 0-88029-409-4 Ayer Co., 1981 (reprint of 1950 edition), ISBN 0-405-13777-X Harry Bedwell, Last of the Great Railroad Storytellers F. P. Donovan, Jr. Ross & Haines, 1959, ISBN 0-87018-016-9 Henry Huntington and the Pacific Electric Spencer Crump Trans-Anglo, 1970, LC 73-117-187, ISBN 0-87046-006-4 High Road to Promontory George Kraus American West, 1969, LC 70-77826 Historic Southern Pacific Cars Robert J. Wayner Robert J. Wayner, ca1970, No Known ISBN or LC. The History of the Southern Pacific Bill Yenne Bison, 1985, ISBN 0-517-46084X Hogheads & Highballs: Railroad Lore & Humor Dick Murdock May/Murdock, 1979, LC 79-89177, ISBN 0-932916-04-X Last of the Great Stations Bill Bradley Interurban, 1979, LC 79-84384, ISBN 0-916374-36-X Last of the Southern Pacific Type Walt Thrall Pacific Railway Journal, 1956, No Known ISBN or LC. Leland Stanford Norman E. Tutorow Pacific Coast, 1971, No Known ISBN or LC. Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company John R. Signor Golden West 1988, No Known ISBN or LC. Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal Rolland Graham, David Cameron, B.P. Judson, Ralph Melching Pacific Railroad Society, 1967, No Known ISBN or LC. Love Affair With Steam Dick Murdock May/Murdock, 1985, ISBN 0-932916-09-0 Napa Valley Route Ira L. Swett, Harry C. Aitken, Jr. Interurban 1975, No Known ISBN or LC. Narrow Gauge Portrait, South Pacific Coast Bruce McGregor Glenwood, 1975, No Known ISBN or LC. Narrow Gauge to the Redwoods A. Bray Dickinson Trans-Anglo, 1967, No Known ISBN or LC. Northwestern Pacific Railroad Fred A. Stindt and Guy L. Dunscomb Stindt/Dunscomb, 1964, LC 64-24033 Northwestern Pacific Railroad, Vol 2 Fred A. Stindt Stindt, 1965, ISBN 0-9615465-0-6 Point Bonita to Point Reyes: Outdoors in Marin Dick Murdock May/Murdock, 1989, ISBN 0-932916-14-7 Port Los Angeles, A Phenomenon of the Railroad Era Ernest Marquez Golden West, 1975, ISBN 0-87095-060-6 Prune Country Railroading Norman W. Holmes Shade Tree, 1985, ISBN 0-930742-11-7 Railroads of Arizona, Vol 1, The Southern Roads David F. Myrick Howell-North, 1975, ISBN 0-8310-7111-7 Railroads of Arizona, Vol 2, Phoenix and the Central Roads David F. Myrick Howell-North, 1980, ISBN 0-8310-7118-4 Railroads of Arizona, Vol 3, Rails and Copper Mines: Clifton, Morenci, Metcalf David F. Myrick Trans-Anglo, 1984, ISBN 87046-065-X Railroads of Nevada & Eastern California, Vol 1 David F. Myrick Howell-North, 1962/63, LC 62-22034, ISBN 0-8310-7033-1 Railroads of Nevada & Eastern California, Vol 2 David F. Myrick Howell-North, 1963, LC 62-22034, ISBN 0-8310-7039-0 Railroads of New Mexico David F. Myrick Colorado Railroad Museum, 1970, No Known ISBN or LC. Rails in the Shadow of Mt. Shasta John R. Signor Howell-North, 1982, ISBN 0-8310-7141-9 Ride the Big Red Cars Spencer Crump Trans-Anglo, 1962, LC 65-17582 San Diego & Arizona: The Impossible Railroad Robert M. Hanft Trans-Anglo, 1984, ISBN 0-87046-071-4 Slim Rails Through the Sand, Southern Pacific's Narrow Gauge George Turner Trans-Anglo, 1964, LC 76-4633, ISBN 0-87046-040-4 Smoke in the Canyon, My Steam Days in Dunsmuir Dick Murdock May-Murdock, 1986, ISBN 0-932916-10-4 (soft cover) ISBN 0-932916-11-2 (hard cover) South Pacific Coast: A Centennial Bruce A. MacGregor Pruett, 1982, LC 80-283-46, ISBN 0-87108-545-3 Southern Pacific Neil C. Wilson and Frank J. Taylor McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 1952, LC 51-12666 The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985 Don L. Hofsommer Texas A&M, 1986, ISBN 0-89-96-246-4 Southern Pacific 1269 Howard P. Wise Chatham, 1983, ISBN 0-89685-038-2 Southern Pacific 1987/1988 Motive Power Pictorial - The Interim Years Joseph W. Shine Four Ways West, 1988, ISBN 0-9616874-3-6 Southern Pacific Bay Area Steam Harre W. Demoro Chatham, 1979, ISBN 0-89685-037-4 Southern Pacific Company, Diagrams of Locomotives and Tenders Richard K. Wright Wright Enterprises, 1973, No Known ISBN or LC. Southern Pacific Country Donald Sims Trans-Anglo, 1987, ISBN 0-87046-082-X Southern Pacific Daylight Richard K. Wright 1st - MHP, 1970, No Known ISBN or LC. 2nd - Whistle Stop Publications, 1976, LC 78-117531 Southern Pacific Dieselization John Bonds Garmany PFM, 1985, ISBN 0-915713-12-8 Southern Pacific In Color David R. Sweetland Morning Sun Books, 1993, ISBN 1-878887-23-8, LC 93-078207 Southern Pacific in Oregon Austin and Dill PFM, 1987, ISBN 0-915713-14-4 Southern Pacific Motive Power Annual 1966-1967 Joseph A. Strapac Chatham, 1966, No Known ISBN or LC. Southern Pacific Motive Power Annual 1967-1968 Joseph A. Strapac Chatham, 1968, No Known ISBN or LC. Southern Pacific Motive Power Annual 1967-1968 Joseph A. Strapac Chatham, 1968, No Known ISBN or LC. Southern Pacific Motive Power Annual 1970 Joseph A. Strapac Chatham, 1970, No Known ISBN or LC. Southern Pacific Motive Power Annual 1971 Joseph A. Strapac Chatham, 1971, No Known ISBN or LC. Southern Pacific Motive Power Annual 1972 Joseph A. Strapac Chatham, 1972, No Known ISBN or LC. Southern Pacific Motive Power Annual 1974-1976 Donald V. Jewell Chatham, 1976, No Known ISBN or LC. Southern Pacific Motive Power Annual 1977 Joseph A. Strapac Pacific Coast Chapter, R&LHS, 1978, ISBN 0-930742-01-X Southern Pacific Motive Power Annual 1977-1980 Donald V. Jewell Chatham, 1981, No Known ISBN or LC. Southern Pacific Motive Power Annual 1995 Bill Shippen Four Ways West, 1995, ISBN 1-885614-08-X Southern Pacific Mountain Class MT-5 Steam Locomotives Richard K. Wright Wright Enterprises, 1974, No Known ISBN or LC. Southern Pacific of Mexico John R. Signor Golden West, 1987, ISBN 0-87095-12-5 Southern Pacific Passenger Trains, Vol 1, "Night Trains of the Coast Route" Dennis Ryan and Joseph W. Shine Shade Tree, 1985, ISBN 0930742-12-5 Four Ways West, 1986, ISBN 0-9616874-1-X Southern Pacific Review 1952-1982 Joseph A. Strapac Pacific Coast Chapter, R&LHS, 1983, ISBN 0930742-08-7 Southern Pacific Review 1977 Joseph A. Strapac Pacific Coast Chapter, R&LHS, 1978, No Known ISBN or LC. Southern Pacific Review 1978-1979 Joseph A. Strapac Pacific Coast Chapter, R&LHS, 1979, ISBN 0-930742-03-6 Southern Pacific Review 1980 Joseph A. Strapac Pacific Coast Chapter, R&LHS, 1981, ISBN 0930742-06-0 Southern Pacific Review 1981 Joseph A. Strapac Pacific Coast Chapter, R&LHS, 1982, No Known ISBN or LC. Southern Pacific Review 1983-1985 Joseph A. Strapac Pacific Coast Chapter, R&LHS, 1986, No Known ISBN or LC. Southern Pacific Steam Locomotive Compendium Timothy S. Diebert and Joseph A. Strapac Shade Tree, 1987, ISBN 0-930742-12-5 Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives Donald Duke 1st - Golden West Books, 1955/56/57/58/59, LC 62-6982, ISBN 0-87095-012-6 2nd - Golden West Books, 1962/63/65/66, LC 62-6982, ISBN 0-87095-012-6 Southern Pacific Steam Switchers of the Pacific Lines Gene Deimling Benchmark, 1987, ISBN 0-9615467-1-9 Southern Pacific's Coast Line John Signor Signature Press, 1994, ISBN 0-9633791-3-5 SPSF Motive Power - 1986 Joseph W. Shine Four Ways West, 1986, No Known ISBN or LC. Streamlined Steam Eric H. Archer Quadrant Press, 1972, No Known ISBN or LC. Tehachapi John R. Signor Golden West Books, 1983, LC 83-20490, ISBN 0-87095-088-6 Tragic Train Don DeNevi Superior, 1977, No Known ISBN or LC. Trains to the Russian River Fred A. Stindt Pacific Coast Chapter, R&LHS, 1974, No Known ISBN or LC. The 4300 4-8-2s (Original Edition) Robert J. Church Central Valley, 1980, No Known ISBN or LC. The 4300 4-8-2's SP MT-Class Locomotive (Revised Edition) Robert J. Church Signature Press, 1996, LC 96-67272, ISBN 0-9633791-4-3 Those Amazing Cab Forwards George H. Harlan George H. Harlan, 1983, LC 82-90198 Those Daylight 4-8-4s Robert J. Church Kratville, 1966, No Known ISBN or LC. Three Barrels of Steam James E. Boynton Glenwood, 1973, LC 73-77544, ISBN 911760-13-X Valley Division Vignettes J. L. Kreiger and Glen Icanberry Valley Rail Press, 1983, No Known ISBN or LC. Publishers: American West Publishing, Palo Alto, CA Ayer Co. Publications, 382 Main St., P.O. Box 958, Salem, NH 03079 Benchmark Publications, Ltd., P.O. Box 26, Los Altos, CA 94023 Bison Books (Bonanza Books), 15 Sherwood Place, Greenwich CT 06830 The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 312 Main St., Caldwell, ID 83605 Central Valley Railroad Publications, P.O. Box 116, Wilton, CA 95693 Chatham Publishing Company, Box 283, Burlingame, CA 94010 Colorado Railroad Museum, P.O. Box 10, Golden, CO 80402 Comstock Editions, Inc., 3030 Bridgeway Blvd., Sausalito, CA 94965 Dorset Press (Marboro Books), 120 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10011 Guy L. Dunscomb and Son, 2502 Fremont Ave, Modesto, CA 95350 Four Ways West Publications, Box 1734, La Mirada, CA 90637-1734 Glenwood, P.O. Box 194, Felton, CA 95018 Golden West Books, P.O. Box 80250, San Marino, CA 91118-8250 George H. Harlan, 180 Via Lerida, Greenbrae, CA 94904 History West (Frank R. Mills and Ev Mills), 6308 San Martin St., North Highlands, CA 95660 Howell-North Books, 1050 Parker St. Berkeley, CA Later Address: 11175 Flintkote Ave, San Diego, CA 92121 Now a division of Howell-North-Darwin-Superior, 850 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505 Interurban Press, P.O. Box 6444, Glendale, CA 91205 Kenneth G. Johnsen, P.O. Box 161, Renton, WA 98057 Alfred A. Knopf (Random House), 201 E. 50th St, New York, NY 10022 Kratville, 2566 Farnam St., Omaha, NE 68131 May-Murdock Publications, Drawer 1346-90 Glenwood Ave, Ross CA 94957 McGraw-Hill, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 McMillan Publications, 2921 Two Paths Dr., Woodridge, IL 60517-4512 MHP, Thousand Oaks, CA Morning Sun Books, Inc., 11 Sussex Court, Edison, N.J. 08820 Pacific Coast Chapter, Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc. R&LHS National Office: 206 Bloomdingdale, Ave, Federalsburgy, MD 21632 PFM Publications, Box 57, Edmonds, WA 98020 Pacific Railway Journal, No known address Pruett Publishing, 2928 Pearl St., Boulder, CO 80301 Ross & Haines Old Books Co., 167 N. Snelling Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55104 Shade Tree Books, Box 2268, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 Signature Press, 11508 Green Road, Wilton, CA 95693 Steamscenes, West Vancouver, BC, V7V 2E4 Stindt/Dunscomb, 978 Emerald Hill Rd., Redwood City, CA 94061 Superior Publications, 5510 Tower Ave., Superior, WI 54880 Texas A&M University Press, Drawer C, College Station, TX 77843-4354 Trans-Anglo Books (Interurban Press), Box 6444, Glendale, CA 91205 Whistle Stop Publications, 2490 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107