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Recommendation on good reference book for rolling stock

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The goal is a good general rolling stock reference. I have been searching the big river site and found several books but would like any feedback or suggestions. Thanks in advance.  

This one has super ratings but it appears to stop around 1900, White appears to be an amzing researcher and author: The American Railroad Freight Car: From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel by White,  656 pages, Johns Hopkins University Press; First Edition (November 1, 1995) ISBN-10: 0801852366, ISBN-13: 978-0801852367

 

Railroad Rolling Stock (Gallery) Paperback – January 10, 2009,  192 pages, 2009, Steve Barry
Freight Train Cars,  September 26, 1999 , by Mike Schafer (Author), Mike McBride (Author), 96 pages (very short and 20 years old?)
 
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"The Postwar Freight Car Fleet - North American Freight Car Designs from 1898 to 1947" By Larry Kline and Ted Culotta is one of the finest pre-1950 freight car reference book on the market.   It's the seminal reference book for the pre-modern era and in my humble opinion if you were to have just one freight car book for the time period this would be the one to have.    Hardbound, and available from booksellers or the NMRA as they have the rights for it i believe.

Someone needs to write a similar compendium of freight cars from 1950 to the present since there is little or no overlap in the eras of the 70 ton "steam era" freight car of the pre 1950 era versus the 286k freight cars of the modern era.

 

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