A good read showing what was going on in the US during World War II, at least as far as the railroads and how they adapted. The photographs are consistent with Don Ball's other books. I wish there had been more text around the context. This is what I found most interesting. ( )

This is basically a picture book, full of excellent black and white pictures of the 1940s, but it also contains very good explanatory text. The period of World War II was an interesting one for US railroads and this book gives it a lot of attention. In fact this is what, for me, makes it different from the run of the mill "Steam trains of the (name your decade)" titles. ( )