This was one of my Christmas presents and it is a fascinating read.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fowler-Locomotives-Kingdom-Hawaii-Narrow/dp/0950716944 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fowler-Locomotives-Kingdom-Hawaii-Narrow/dp/0950716944)
The copy I got was pretty good - as if it was new but the last on on the shelves and had been thumbed through a few times.
The Fowler 'patent' locomotives with the cylinders raised above the dirt on temporary track and driving the wheels through a vertical shaft are almost the work of 'Emett' :)
There is a model here:
http://www.7-8ths.info/index.php?topic=16684106.0 (http://www.7-8ths.info/index.php?topic=16684106.0)
There many points that show up my ignorance of prototype engineering, such as why iron fireboxes for the UK market but more expensive (
Hi Graeme et al,
"Railroads of Hawaii" covers both SG and NG lines, by Gerald Best and published by Golden West Books in 1978.
Peter