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Trackside with "MR. ALCO"
George W. Hockaday

By: Jim Odell and Len Kilian

Morning Sun Books, Inc., 2007
Hardcover, 128 pages, All Color

List Price: $59.95                                       Our Price: $47.96

George Hockaday loved the Alco locomotives his employer created and photographed them new at the plant as well as out on the various railroads he worked with.

Contents Include:

GEORGE W. HOCKADAY
Mr. Alco, Trackside Photographer...3

THE EARLY DAYS...4

THE HOOSIER ROUTE...8

A PLANT TOUR...14

ALCO IN THE DIESEL ERA...20

REBUILDS AND TRADE-INS...46

DEMOS...64

OUTSIDE THE PLANT...70

THE SMITHSONIAN MODELS...76

GETTING FAMILIAR WITH THE NEIGHBORS...80

COLONIE AS HOME...86

COLONIE WEST; BOISE AND BEYOND...64

WORKING THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF A RAILROAD IN TRANSITION...102

MEXICAN ADVENTURE...110

A HOME AT SODUS...116