The story of a man's lifelong love of cars, Car Madness is an "auto" biography of all the cars that have been part of the author's life. Recounting the early cars in his life, those of heyday of Detroit's car companies in the 1950's and 1960's, through his first cars in the early 1970's, cars of his married life, company cars, the cars he bought for his children and his retirement cars, the author fondly remembers every car in his life. Complete with photographs of many of the cars covered in the book, each car in the author's life has a story to tell.

This is a color photography book about the railroads of Detroit between the years 1975 and 2000. Few cities in the United States changed as much as Detroit during this 25-year period. During that quarter century Detroit went from being an industrial powerhouse to practically nothing. The loss of industries also shuttered many of the factories and industries in Detroit that the railroads once served. Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan Volume 1 captures the last of the glory days of Detroit railroading at the end of the 20th Century in words and color photographs. Volume 1 of this series of books...

This is Volume 2 of a series of photography books about the railroads of Detroit between the years 1975 and 2000. Volume 2 introduces us to all the railroads serving Windsor, Ontario, Canada, located across the Detroit River from Detroit. Canada railroads, such as Canada National, Canada Pacific, Essex Terminal and VIA Rail, are covered as are the Canadian operations of the Detroit railroads, Conrail, Chessie and Norfolk & Western. Also covered is how the railroads got to Canada from Detroit via the Detroit River Carferries and Tunnel. Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan Volume 2 brings back to...

The Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan series of books brings back to life the many fascinating railroads serving a great city in the last quarter of the 20th Century when they were still so very interesting and so many. Detroit Terminal Railroad was a shortline, "terminal" railroad that formed a semicircle around the City of Detroit serving Detroit's industries. Formed in 1905 to extend rail service to the then rural area north of Detroit, the City of Detroit and its industries grew out to it, making Detroit Terminal a very busy and prosperous railroad until the deindustrialization of Detroit...

From the author of "Train Madness," Model Train Madness tells the story of the author's obsession with model trains. The book describes the author's early interest in model trains starting with the Lionel train sets he received as Christmas presents as a child. It continues with how this interest was renewed when he was a young man by visits to a HO scale model railroad in his neighbor's basement, to building his own model railroad, then building one for his three children and later expanding it to be part of his model railroad layout. The book then covers the evolution of his model railroad...

The Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan series of books brings back to life the many fascinating railroads serving a great city in the last quarter of the 20th Century when they were still so very interesting and so many. This is Volume 4 of Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan and it is about Detroit's Short Line Railroads during the years 1975 to 2000. Covered in Volume 4 are Wyandotte Terminal Railroad, Wyandotte Southern Railroad, Detroit Connecting Railroad, Essex Terminal Railroad, Port Huron & Detroit Railroad, Detroit Connecting Railroad and Coe Rail. See these railroads, four of which are no...

The Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan series of books brings back to life the many fascinating railroads serving a great city in the last quarter of the 20th Century when they were still so very interesting and so many. This is Volume 5 of Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan and it is about the Detroit Transit Railway. Detroit Transit Railway was a one-mile long urban branchline of Conrail "street running" through the streets of Detroit's Warehouse District. It was 19th Century railroading in the late 20th Century until Conrail abandoned it in 1981. Volume 5 takes you street-side to witness the...

The Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan series of books brings back to life the many fascinating railroads serving a great city in the last quarter of the 20th Century when they were still so very interesting and so many. This is Volume 6 of Chronicles of a Detroit Railfan and it is about Detroit's Unusual, Unknown and Obscure Railroad Operations during the years 1975 to 2000. Covered in Volume 6 are Detroit's industrial railroads, belt lines and urban branchlines, towers, both interlocking and crossing types, and railroad bridges. See these unusual, unknown and obscure railroad operations as...