Recounting his experiences and the historical background of numerous standard and narrow gauge lines in the US Norwood has packed this book with hundreds of photographs and vivid text. In remarkable detail he unfolds such railroads as RGS, Colorado and Southern, White Pass & Yukon, Uintah, DSP&P, D&RGW (standard gauge), GM&O, UP, SF, KCS, RI, Frisco, CG&Q and NP.