Over 300 color photos of locomotives, cabooses, and other equipment and structures, specially painted for the Bicentennial.  Volume 1 covers 84 railroads and industries, beginning with the letters A-F, which participated in the event that took the nation by storm.

Continuing his series on B&O diesels, author Bob Withers includes in his second volume switchers built by General Electric, Alco, Baldwin, Lima-Hamilton, the Electro Motive Corporation and Electro Motive Division of General Motors, and Fairbanks Morse; and Budd's Rail Diesel Cars.  He reveals that Alco, Ingersoll-Rand and General Electric combined their efforts to produce B&O's first diesel locomotive, which in on display now at the National Museum of Transport in St. Louis, in December 1925.

Includes these Railroad Reporting Marks:  D&H, D&S, D&TS, DL&W, DM&CI, DM&IR, D&RGW, DSS&A, DT, DT&I, DWP, EJ&E, EL, Erie, FCP, FP&E, FDDM&S, FW&D, G&F, GA, GB&W, GM&O, GN, G&W, GTW, GW, IC, ICG, IHB, INT, IT, IU, KCS, L&HR, L&M, L&N, L&NE, L&NW, LIRR, LS&I, LV, M&B, M&P, M&St.L, MEC, MILW, MKT, MNS, Monon, MP, MRY and others.