- All Aboard! A History of Railroading in Michigan
by Willis Dunbar
- (Eerdmans Publishing, 1969). This book relates the
history of railroading in the state of Michigan, necessarily covering
the Pere Marquette, its predecessors and successors. Most of the information
regarding the PM concerns the construction of its predecessor lines.
This book is out of print and scarce. Published in both hard and softcover
versions.
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- Best of Live Steam: Volume I
- (Wildwood Publications, 1985) This book contains
a reprint of a 12-page article on the PM's Pacifics, including dimensional
data and diagrams. Sufficient data is provided for purposes of building
an operating live steam model. A few damaged copies are still available
for $20.00 + $2.50 s/h from Wildwood Publications, PO Box 629,
Traverse City, MI 49684. The 4 parts of this article were originally
published in the October, 1969 to January, 1970 issues of Live Steam.
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- B&O/C&O Cabooses - Display and Private Owner
Cars, Volume 1 by Dwight Jones
- (B&O Caboose Publishers, 2001). A profusely-illustrated
80-page black and white softbound photo essay depicting preserved
B&O, C&O and PM wood and steel cabooses. This volume contains
13 photos of former PM cabooses, including preserved representatives
of the A300- A500-, A600-, A800-, A900- and
A950-series.
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- B&O/C&O Cabooses - Display and Private Owner
Cars, Volume 2 by Dwight Jones
- (B&O Caboose Publishers, 2002). The second volume
in this series. It too is an 80-page softbound photo essay of preserved
B&O, C&O and PM . This volume contains a dozen photos of PM
cabooses and information on cabooses not covered in the previous volume,
plus a couple of updates on the cabooses covered in Volume One.
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- B&O/C&O Cabooses - Display and Private Owner
Cars, Volume 3 by Dwight Jones
- (B&O Caboose Publishers, 2003). The third volume
in this series. This volume contains photos and information on eight
PM cabooses.
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- B&O/C&O Cabooses - Display and Private Owner
Cars, Volume 4 by Dwight Jones
- (B&O Caboose Publishers, 2011). The fourth volume
in this series. This volume contains photos and information on five
PM cabooses.
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- Chesapeake and Ohio 2-10-2 Santa Fe Type Steam Locomotives by Bill Harouff and Frank Bongiovanni
- (C&O Historical Society [COHS], 2019). This examination of the C&O's 2-10-2s includes fifteen pages of photos and data on the PM's SF- and SF-6-Class 2-10-2s, primarily from a post-merger perspective..
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- Chesapeake and Ohio BL-2 Diesels by John
Paton
- (C&O Historical Society [COHS], 1991). This book
covers everything anyone would want to know about the most unique
production-model to come out of LaGrange, from their introduction
on the C&O to their trade-in against GP-30s. This is included
here since the PM actually placed the order for these locomotives
and this book includes useful information regarding operations on
the former PM lines in the period immediately following the merger.
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- Chesapeake and Ohio Color Guide to Freight and Passenger
Cars by David Hickox
- (Morning Sun Books, 1998). This 128-page hardcover
book contains nearly 325 color photos of C&O and PM freight and
passenger cars. Of these photos, about three dozen are of PM equipment
in either PM paint, or after being repainted into C&O colors.
Many photos were shot along the former PM in Michigan.
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- Chesapeake and Ohio Color Pictorial
by Harry Stegmeier
- (Four Ways West, 1998). As the name states, this
is an all-color treatment of the C&O's equipment, from the late
1940s to the 1960s. For the PM enthusiast, this volume contains seven
or eight photos of PM steam(!), and several shots of PM E7s and C&O
1850-series switchers (in PM-inspired paint). 128 pages.
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- Chesapeake and Ohio Color Pictorial,
Volume 2 by Harry Stegmeier
- (Four Ways West, 2005) Volume 2 of Stegmaier's color
treatment of the C&O concerns itself exclusively with the post-merger
era, and features numerous shots of ex-PM E7As in C&O paint working
for the C&O and the B&O. Many of the photos of the C&O's
first- and second-generation diesels were taken in former PM territory,
as well. 128 pages.
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- Chesapeake and Ohio Diesel
Locomotives by Carl W. Shaver and David L. Gilliland
- (COHS, 1994). This hardcover volume is the updated
version of the Chesapeake & Ohio Diesel Review. In fact,
the last 163 pages are a reprint of the Chesapeake
& Ohio Diesel Review, less the tribute to the U25B that
appeared in the original edition. While this is another extremely
well-done book by the COHS, for the PM enthusiast, this book offers
little that was not in the original, or in Pere
Marquette Power. The binding on this volume is considerably
nicer and much more durable.
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- Chesapeake & Ohio Diesel
Review by Carl Shaver
- (COHS, 1982). This book contains a run-down of the
diesels used by the C&O, including those inherited from the PM,
M&NE and FSUD. Locomotive specifications, utilization and disposition
data is included. This contains the only published photo I have seen
showing the arrangement of the nose details on a PM 70-tonner. Out
of print and difficult to find. Most of this book was reprinted in
1994 as part of Chesapeake
and Ohio Diesel Locomotives.
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- Chesapeake & Ohio E7 and E8 Diesel Passenger Locomotives 1946-1971 by Thomas
W. Dixon, Jr.
- (COHS, 2014). The sixth volume in the Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway History Series covers the PM's E7s well, documenting the various modifications they underwent, the paint schemes they wore, and how they were used. The most comprehensive work on this subject, to date.
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- Chesapeake & Ohio Early Diesels by Thomas
W. Dixon, Jr.
- (Andover Jct. Publications, 1988). The majority of
this book deals with the first diesels the C&O purchased. While
there are only about a half dozen black and white photos of diesels
in PM paint, one is a rare shot of E-7 #105 painted gold pulling a
General Motors executive special. Unfortunately, it only shows the
nose.
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- Chesapeake & Ohio Facilities, The Midwest - Volume
I by Dr. Eugene Huddleston.
- (Morning Sun Books, 2008). An all-color book shifting
the focus away from locomotives and rolling stock to cover the bridges,
buildings and other structures that supported the PM and later the
C&O. This volume contains many unusual structure photos not seen
elsewhere.
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- C&O History Magazine - The Digital Collection, 1969-2008
- (C&OHS, 2008). Forty years of the C&O Historical
Society's Newsletter and Magazine on a DVD data
disc (personal computer required for viewing). The C&OHS has published
many articles on the PM over the
years. This disc is available through the
C&OHS' Chessie Shop web site.
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- The Chesapeake & Ohio in Color 1950-1975
by Thomas Dixon
- (TLC Publishing, 1992). While the majority of this
photo book concerns itself with the C&O proper, it includes about
a dozen pages of photos shot on the former PM, including color pictures
of PM E-7s in C&O-modified paint, and SW-1 #11 still in PM blue
and yellow. Most of the photos useful to the PM enthusiast depict
passenger trains. Of note are the several photographs which show the
streamlined baggage and baggage/mail cars as they looked after their
corrugated siding was removed and the skirting modified.
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- Chesapeake and Ohio Lightweight
Passenger Equipment 1946-1972 by H.H. Harwood, Jr.
- (COHS, 1971). This pamphlet, last run in the 1970s,
summarizes the streamlined passenger equipment ordered for the C&O
by Robert Young, as well as the cars ordered for the Pere Marquette
streamliner in 1946. It contains photos and a few drawings, along
with disposition information for that equipment actually used by the
C&O. The PM car photos did not reproduce particularly well- these
same photos are printed much more clearly in The
Official Pullman Standard Library, Volume 11, and Chesapeake
and Ohio Streamliners: Second to None, described below. If
you have Chesapeake and Ohio Streamliners..., you do not need
this pamphlet.
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- The text concerning the cars used on the Pere
Marquette trains, along with car department diagrams, is currently
available in an inexpensive ($5.00) packet of plans from the C&O
Historical Society, their item #3051 PM Lightweight Diagram Book.
This packet also includes diagrams for the cars originally ordered
for the Chessie streamliner but used on PM District runs from
Grand Rapids and Muskegon to Chicago. No photos are included in this
packet.
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- Chesapeake and Ohio Passenger
Cars in Color by Harry Stegmaier
- (TLC Publishing, Inc., 2001). This volume nicely
complements Chesapeake &
Ohio Streamliners: Second to None without duplicating any
appreciable number of photographs and still providing well-chosen
coverage of the C&O's passenger car fleet in the "tri-color
era." Most notable for the subject matter of the photos, this
book contains a good number of photos produced by the C&O to promote
its passenger services, even including some previously unseen views
of car interiors. There are over a dozen photos of Pere Marquette
or ex-Pere Marquette cars, plus numerous other shots of C&O cars
(including their RoadRailers) which were notably used in Michigan.
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- C&O Power by Philip Shuster, Eugene
Huddleston and Alvin Staufer
- (Alvin Staufer, 1965). This essential treatment of
the C&O locomotives covers the steam locomotives inherited from
the PM by the C&O.
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- The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway by Patrick
Dorin
- (Superior Books, 1981). This book, though about the
C&O, includes photos shot mostly in Michigan along the former
PM lines and a small collection of photos of PM freight cars and locomotives.
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- Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in Color, Volume 2
by Jeremy F. Plant and William G. McClure III
- (Morning Sun Books, 2003). This volume is entirely
devoted to the former PM lines in Michigan and Ontario, with a strong
emphasis on the locomotives in use during the 1960s and the early
Chessie era. There are 21 color photos of "purely"
Pere Marquette subjects, which is surprising for a railroad that was
being merged at just the time that color photography was in its infancy.
This book provides coverage of the ferry fleet as well, and is organized
by location.
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- The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway - West End: PM District,
Chicago District, Cincinnati & Russell Divisions
by Kevin N. EuDaly and Eugene L. Huddleston
- (White River Productions, Inc., 1999). This book,
though about the C&O, includes 34 pages of color photos shot along
the former PM lines in Michigan, Ontario and Illinois. While all of
the photos are from after the merger (mainly the 1960s), and there
are no photos of PM-lettered equipment, the photos include shots of
many recognizable locations along the former PM, and the captions
include a few pieces of information not generally known about the
C&O's operations in the post-merger era (would you believe SD18s
assigned to Detroit?). The cover plate is a nice shot of a 5700-series
GP7 pulling a freight past a BL2 waiting in Grand Ledge.
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- Chesapeake and Ohio Streamliners:
Second to None, Volume I by James Kemper Millard
- (COHS, 1994). This impressive hardcover book picks
up where Chesapeake
and Ohio Lightweight Passenger Equipment 1946-1972 left off.
This volume is greatly improved over the earlier work, with up-to-date
disposition information, and a few color photographs. It contains
the same PM diagrams and photos as the earlier book (in much higher
quality), but also a much more complete history of the Pere Marquette
streamliners, with a few more shots of the trains in action. The historical
information is very good. For the fan of the C&O era, the diagrams
are top-notch, and the coverage of the Chessie streamliner
(the cars of which briefly ran on the ex-PM lines in Michigan) is
unmatched, including car diagrams not previously published, and a
large collection of interior photos. This book is a "must-have"
for any PM or C&O passenger car enthusiast.
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- Chesapeake and Ohio - Superpower to Diesels
by Thomas W. Dixon, Jr.
- (Carstens, 1984). Thirteen pages of fairly useful
photos at the rear of the book briefly cover the PM's motive power
and carferries.
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- The Great Lakes Car Ferries
by George W. Hilton
- (Howell-North, 1962). This book covers the car ferry
services across the Great Lakes, and the Detroit River. The section
on the Pere Marquette/C&O chronicles ferry services at Detroit,
Port Huron and Ludington, as well as the affiliated Marquette and
Bessemer ferry line across Lake Erie.
- This book has been reissued by Montevallo
Historical Press, with a new addendum
by Dr. Hilton.
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