TY - BOOK AU - Hofsommer,Donovan L. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Off the main lines: a photographic odyssey AV - TF23.6 .H64 2013 U1 - 385.0978 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Bloomington, Indianapolis PB - Indiana University Press KW - Narrow gauge railroads KW - West (U.S.) KW - History KW - Colorado KW - Pictorial works KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographic references and index; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries N2 - "In this visually stunning and comprehensive photographic essay, railroad historian and photographer Donovan L. Hofsommer records the end of branchline passenger service, the demise of electric railroads, the transition from steam to diesel power, as well as the end of common carrier freight service on the Colorado narrow gauge. Off the Main Line carries readers along out-of-the-way railways in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, Montana, and South Dakota to see the changes that occurred on these lines from the 1940s to the 1990s"-Provided by publisher UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1318556 ER -