Norfolk Southern Railway - Tapa dura

Pages: 160 Illustrations: 153 coloured Date: August 2008 Cover: hardback with dust cover Size: 278x220mm portrait Price: £25.00 Index: very good This is the latest volume in the growing library devoted to individual illustrated histories of North America's best known railroad systems by Voyageur Press. The Norfolk Southern Railway was formed in 1982 and manages a 21,500 miles of railroads that extend over 22 states and even reaches into Canada. It is also famed as being America's safest system. It was formed out of a merger between the Norfolk & Western Railway and the Southern Railway. The book looks at the history of the former companies and what led to the merger. It continues with a look at the commodities carried, the organisational structure and the diesel locomotives that haul the trains. The book is excellently illustrated and, being a modern system, the pictures are all in colour. --Model Rail Express