The original diagram book project was to do one book which proved to be un-manageable. The entire railroad would be several hundred pages. But as I worked through the various sources, there seemed to be interest in individual divisions as compared to the entire railroad.

The stream/diesel era books started because I had the The Lake Erie and Western District 1935 book. Tony Koester had the older Clover Leaf book. The steam NKP book popped up with the W&LE. Since the railroad ended a very successful steam era very late in to the dieselization of other railroads, there was lots of good documentation and modeling interest in steam era diagram books.

The last complete book was the W&LE diesel book which was produced from the scans at

I did not set the price for the diagram books but urged that the prices be kept as low as possible. Production of the books is handled by the NKPHTS. I produced their print master pages and keep a sert of pages here at my home.

I know that on occasion there may be a missing page in individual books. If that happens and there is some comment on the Yahoo Group then I will send the page as I did for you. There are a couple of pages missing in some of the boods which we have tried to note.

I think the diagram books are the greatest resource we have as NKP modelers and historians.

I also did the Manifest Freight book which started out to be a smaller project than it turned put to become. By luck, the steam and diesel data was available. It appears that the books were produced much like employee time tables but in a far less durable format. The cover pages were kraft paper and the pager old style mimeograph copies.

I scanned everything, cleaned up some pages and "created" one or two new ones with the help of Don Daily. I produce the manifest book for the NKPHTS because of the special size and binding.

Thanks for reading!!!!

"Don Worsham" media@gte.net