Author: Ball, Don, Jr., introduction by David P. Morgan,
Title: Portrait of the Rails from steam to diesel.
Description: NY, Galahad Books, (1972). VG. Buried deep in our hearts and minds is the evidence of the railway adventure: the bigger-than-life steam locomotion that. was its hallmark, the endless, uncountable columns of box cars, refers and gons rolling toward the passes of Cajon, Feather River and Stampede, the Pullmans full of made-down uppers and lowers, and the men who hooped up green tissues of order, baled coal with no. 5 scoops, wrote up waybills and tamped ballast. from Introduction.

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