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Is S. K. Baker planning to release a new edition of the Rail Atlas of Great Britain and Northern Ireland soon?
Unfortunately Stuart Baker passed away a couple of years ago.Is S. K. Baker planning to release a new edition of the Rail Atlas of Great Britain and Northern Ireland soon?
November 2020, I believe.Unfortunately Stuart Baker passed away a couple of years ago.
I had a feeling that might have happened.Unfortunately Stuart Baker passed away a couple of years ago.
Unfortunately Stuart Baker passed away a couple of years ago.
Joe Brown has tweeted examples of some of the changes he is proposing in the next edition, so preparation is underway. I didn't take notes of what those changes were.
Sorry, I don't follow him, he popped up a couple of times either as a suggested link or forwarded by somebody.I can't find his account. Can you link it?
I absolutely love the Baker atlas, although it has a tendency to be a little over-optimistic with reinstatement proposals and heritage line extensions.
I also wish it would extend the single/double track distinction to freight-only lines. Perhaps Joe Brown will implement that!
Twitter handle is @JoeBrownLondonI can't find his account. Can you link it?
Surprisingly, the best (possibly only?) detailed ones are from a British publisher :Quick question - and apologies if this is the wrong place to post it - but does anybody know if there is decent atlas or series of atlases of contemporary US railways?
Thanks so much for that!Surprisingly, the best (possibly only?) detailed ones are from a British publisher :
(Link to the relevant page of the SPV website)SPV - Railroad books and videos
SPV for railroad books and videos, scale modelling and United States Atlases.www.spv.co.uk
I second the SPV atlases (bought my first one nearly 30 years ago, and have 9 of them on the bookshelf). I went on an enthusiast tour to the Chicago area in 1996, and the author Mike Walker was one of the tour leaders - an extremely knowledgeable guy, who (at that time at least) drew all the maps by hand. Just think about the amount of research involved, let alone the all the map drawing...Surprisingly, the best (possibly only?) detailed ones are from a British publisher :
SPV - Railroad books and videos
SPV for railroad books and videos, scale modelling and United States Atlases. www.spv.co.uk
(Link to the relevant page of the SPV website)
That map is fantastic!I second the SPV atlases (bought my first one nearly 30 years ago, and have 9 of them on the bookshelf). I went on an enthusiast tour to the Chicago area in 1996, and the author Mike Walker was one of the tour leaders - an extremely knowledgeable guy, who (at that time at least) drew all the maps by hand. Just think about the amount of research involved, let alone the all the map drawing...
If you're out there linesiding by car and just need to know how to get to places, websites like OpenRailwayMap and apps like OsmAnd (both using open-source mapping data) are really useful, as they show roads and communities as well as railways (and hill-shading sometimes, to get an idea of the landscape). The SPV atlases are basically just railway maps, with some rivers and lakes shown, but no roads.
Some of the US railroads have freely available system maps e.g. BNSF - https://www.bnsf.com/ship-with-bnsf/maps-and-shipping-locations/rail-network-maps.page
This BNSF network map in particular shows the significant rail lines in the whole of the US (and part of Canada and Mexico), not just the BNSF system - https://www.bnsf.com/bnsf-resources...s-and-shipping-locations/bnsf-network-map.pdf