Never give a saga an even break! Blazing Saddles is an iconoclastic, not-politically-correct parody; one of the 1970s most successful and popular films. Every clichéd element from every Western ever made is turned upside down and inside out, while retaining all the familiar caricatures--eh, characters--of the genre: a dance-hall girl, a gunslinger, a sheriff, and a town full of pure folk. Mel Brooks redefined film comedy and proved that even sophomoric,...

Between 1981 and 1995 few people within Burlington Northern Railroad believed in a prosperous future for the Intermodal business. This three volume work provides a chronological and fact-based historical account that puts the story of BN's Intermodal business into perspective. It articulates the backdrop of major economic, competitive and transportation industry regulatory transitions as well as a continuous string of internal BN Railroad challenges...

History of the Toledo & Chicago Interurban company that operated in northeast Indiana from 1901 until 1952.

History of the electric powered railway that ran from Angola to south end of Lake James, called Paltytown from 1904 to 1918.

Follow Union Pacific's steam locomotive #3985, "the world's largest operating steam locomotive" also called the "Challenger," in Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Illinois as she shows the public what big steam was really like.

A hilarious spoof of every western film cliche in which a black man is appointed sheriff of a frontier town in the Old West of 1874.

This collection include a trustee's certificate of a $1,000.00 first mortgage for the Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway Company. The mortgage was to pay 7 percent interest and the principal was payable in A.D. 1900. The circa 1880 certificate was never given a number or signed by the president of the Central Trust Company of New York.