References of potential interest to the K&W modeler and historian

Books

• Across Iowa on the Keokuk & Western and the Humeston & Shenandoah Railroads, by Bernard Corbin and Joseph Hardy, Published 1986 (Long out of print and difficult to find, this is the book to have if you are interested in the K&W)
• The Burlington in Transition, Bernard Corbin and Joseph Hardy (Lots of good photos and diagrams of Q PMC's and motive power)
• Steam Locomotives of the Burlington Route, Bernard Corbin and William Kerka (Background and photos of Q steam power)
• Waycars of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy RR, Daniel Holbrook and Steven Lorenz
• CB&Q Passenger Car Roster, William Glick
• CB&Q Passenger Car Drawings/Diagrams, William Glick
  
• A Pictorial History of Appanoose County, Iowa, by John Arnold, Published by D-Books Publishing, 1996 (out of print)

BRHS Publications

• Burlington Bulletin #25, Stock cars and Livestock traffic, has lots of great information about Q stock yards/pens and stock cars
• Burlington Bulletin #27, Scales and Scale cars, includes pictures of the Keokuk track scale
• Burlington Bulletin #30, The Burlington & Northwestern/Burlington & Western branch lines
• Waycar Data Sheet, featuring NE-10 waycars
• Freight Car Data Sheet, featuring XM-25/26 box cars
• Freight Car Data Sheet, featuring Burlington composite gondolas
• Freight Car Data Sheet, featuring class TM-3 tank cars
• Freight Car Data Sheet, featuring CB&Q 55-ton Composite Twin Hoppers
• Standard Sign Data Sheet #1, featuring right-of-way signs and markers

WRHS Publications

• The Banner, Volume 3, Number 1 & 2, The Wabash Bluffs, IL to Keokuk, IA branch
• The Banner, Number 23, Winter 1993, Coal on the Wabash (Photos and info about mining and Wabash coal hoppers)

Other Prototype and Modeling Publications

• Prototype Railroad Modeling #1, Articles about the Wabash steel rebuild box cars, and BREX wood refrigerator cars.
• Railway Prototype Cyclopedia #5, Several great articles, including one about ARA 70-ton standard Quad hoppers, with photos of the Mopac covered hopper conversions
• Railway Prototype Cyclopedia #12, Excellent coverage of the CB&Q's numerous steam-era automobile box cars
• Mainline Modeler
• Railroad Model Craftsman - Especially the "Essential Freight Cars" series by Ted Culotta
• NMRA Bulletin, April 1996 - A David Lotz article containing a brief history and drawings of the Wick, IA depot done by Frank Ellington (Wick was on the Des Moines to Cainsville, MO leg of the DM&KC/K&W, abandoned following June, 1947 washout of bridges and roadbed south of Norwalk, IA)
• CB&Q Alignment Charts - A CD-ROM with scans of a 1960's update of the Hannibal Division is available from Steve Holding (The Hannibal Division included the remaining K&W trackage by that time, other divisions are also available)

Photo Sources

• Bob's Photos
  37 Spring Street
  Ansonia, CT 06401
  
• Bill Kuba
  
• John LaRue
  27491 Duvernay Dr.
  Bonita Springs, FL 34135
  E-mail: 2MOWCABOOSE@aol.com
  
• MD McCarter
  PO Box 1569
  Camp Verde, AZ 86322
  Web site: http://www.mccarterrailphotos.net/
  E-mail: mmccarter@wildapache.net
  
• Arnold Menke - Some great freight car photos
  
• William Raia
  PO Box 2069
  Schiller Park, IL 60176
  
• Harold Vollrath
  1000 West 97th Terrace
  Kansas City, MO 64114
  
• Jay Williams
  650 East 58th Street
  Indianapolis, IN 46220
  317-255-8749
  E-mail: bigfourtrains@sbcglobal.net

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