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About The Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad, second edition
The Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad is a high-quality, hardbound,192-page book with a library-quality binding designed to stand up to decades of intensive usage. The pages are made of heavy coated paper that ensures that the photographs and illustrations are as sharp and crisp as the original source material. The book was printed in Michigan by a book manufacturing concern that serves some of the most prestigious textbook publishers and university presses in the United States.
What the Reviewers Say Regarding the First Edition
"The book is accurate and quite detailed--including a wealth of photos and appendices.... It's clearly a labor of love, and it's a pretty fine effort. If you're a fan of short lines or curiosities, check it out." --Terry Thompson, TRAINS magazine, November 2000.
"The book is an excellent history of the line, well written and easily read, with appropriate pictures (the amount of material that survived on this relatively unknown line is a true benefit) and many detailed maps inserted at proper places in the text as changes and construction are described. ...Mr. Fick is to be congratulated for his thorough coverage of this line; future books by this author would be welcome. Fans of Ohio railroads, shortlines or rail history will want a copy." -- Richard G. Prince, National Railway Bulletin, Volume 66, Number 1, 2001.
"I found the photos fascinating. There are photos of old lime kilns and crushers, McKeen railcars, Shays, vintage 0-6-0s, lime docks where ships were loaded, car ferries, old stone engine houses, dump cars, and modern Diesels. My favorite is a photo showing a huge roundhouse with at least seven Shays on the apron - plenty of inspiration for the model builder." -- Bob Brown, Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette, July-August, 2000.
"The book is nicely laid out with easy-to-read text.... This is a very detailed and graphic history which both the railfan and modeler will enjoy. The L&M is, in fact, a great prototype to model!" -- James S. Eakin, Short and Narrow Rails, Issue 45.
"I really enjoyed The Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad. The only negative point was that I had to stay up way past my normal bedtime to finish it!" -- Robert Bennett, Tennessee
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One: Settlement of the Marblehead Peninsula
- Chapter Two: Railroad Development in Northern Ohio
- Chapter Three: A Railroad at Last
- Chapter Four: The Little Money Railroad
- Chapter Five: The Big Money Railroad
- Chapter Six: The Restless Years
- Chapter Seven: Between the Wars
- Chapter Eight: World War II and Beyond
- Epilogue: The Post-Common Carrier Years
- Appendix A: Rolling Stock
- Appendix B: Selected Employee Records
- Appendix C: Freight Shipment Statistics
- Appendix D: 1919 Labor Agreement
- Appendix E: Kelley Island Lime and Transport Company Shay Locomotives
- Appendix F: Elevation Profile Map
- Appendix G: Selected Railroad Documents
- Bibliography
- Index
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What's Included In the Book?
- Settlement of the Marblehead Peninsula
- Railroad Development in the Area
- The L&M's Founders, Financing, Construction, and Rolling Stock
- Purchase of the Line by the Kelley Island Lime and Transport Company
- Track Expansions and Abandonments (With Detailed Maps)
- Concurrent History of the Quarries Served by the L&M, including Stone Crushing Facilities, Boat Loading Docks, etc.
- Payroll Information
- Sample L&M Documents (Schedules, Tickets, Locomotive Purchase Orders, Forms, etc.)
- Customers Served by the L&M
- Narrow and Standard Gauge Shay Locomotives Owned by the Kelley Island Lime and Transport Company
- Complete Information Regarding the L&M's Famed Sharing of Facilities with the Toledo, Port Clinton and Lakeside Railway Electric Interurban Railroad
- 50,000 words of text, 160 photographs, 45 schedules and illustrations, 14 custom maps, 11 tables of fascinating statistics, and two unique paintings
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