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208 pages. "SAAN Stores Ltd. is celebrating 55 years of serving Canadians. From our humble beginnings in Winnipeg as a surplus store, to a member of over 200 communities from Gander to Vancouver Island, we are proud to be 100% Canadian owned." - from back cover. Occasional black and white illustrations. Bright colour illustrated covers. Clean and unmarked but for patch of liquid paper atop title page. Negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book
La Domenica del Corriere completa del 06 / 08 / 1944 con due tav. a col.
66 pages. Features include: super treasure hunter Norman Scott; Pirate chest found?; Georgia Indian relics found!; Nelson Jecas - THing entrepreneur; Treasure shows up in the oddest places; Repros, Reps. and forgeries; Indian campgrounds yield unusual finds; Frank Mellish, International Treasure Finder; Glen Phillips tells his story; Florida's never-ending treasure. Average wear. Book
Circa 1973. 135 pages including index. Titcombe was the first missionary to live among the Yagba people of Nigeria, West Africa. His story is a blood-stirring pioneer thriller. Above average wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding aging but remains intact. Book
Tre giornali completi il resto del carlino ( 1/8, 15/8 e 30/8/1915) con tre deliranti articoli di Papini in terza pagina ( due sul valore italiano e uno contro gli U.S.A. che considera una nazione inferiore e che non interverrà mai in guerra e che, anche se intervenisse non servirebbe a niente.
44 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Chicago Union Station - Super 9-page photo-illustrated article; Do You Know Timetables?; $375 in Prizes!; Railroads of Massachusetts; Adventure in Mexico; Short Lines - a Photo Story; Gold Dust Twins - Southern Pacific Specs.; Anti-Horse-Bolter - B&O Steam Dummy disguised as street car to pacify skittish equines; The Man in the Tower - Frederick (Fred) D. Underwood. Average wear. Small date stamp atop front cover. Soiling to front cover. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Magazine
48 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: NYC West Side Freight Line - a photo story on the only all-rail freight route into Manhattan; Haunted Roundhouse - Hudson River roundhouse is a memory of the past; Recent 4-8-4's - specifications; Water Holes for Iron Horses - from L&N Magazine; The Man in the Tower; D&RGW in Eagle River Canyon - super centerfold photo; Uruapan Express; Two Early Trains - old-time photos; Great Britain's Garratt Locomotives; Women Railroaders. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Milwaukee Electrification - CMStP&P electric locomotives help each other climb the Rockies and the Cascades; Varnish Vignettes - Passing thoughts, railroads and travel; Loss- $5,500 /day - railroad companies often lose money but must maintain their service - New Haven case story; Southern Pacific old-timers at Sacramento; Electricity powers trains in Chicago; One-Man Railroad in Rhode Island - 5.6-mile Wood River Branch Railroad is the link between Hope Valley and the New Haven; ; Shay Locomotives - Lima's best seller is an out-puller too! - Shays pull extra heavy loads on sharp curves, steep grades; Engine "999"; Blue Ridge Railway - with aspirations of a thorough line nipped by the Civil War, BR Ry. becomes traffic link; Pennsylvania's "The Jeffersonian" - new fast coach train between St. Louis and the East follows success of Trail Blazer; Hiawathas at New Lisbon - when four steam-powered streamliners meet at a single point there's bount to be real activity. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: What's new in railroading?; The trains that cost too much - Western Maryland; I rode the 'big blow' (gas turbine 54 of Union Pacific); Erie's mighty Kinzua - a steel viaduct over 2000 feet long and 300 feet high erected in only four months!; Hiawatha 4-6-4s; The Western Pacific Story - 1 - a railroad through the Feather River Canyon; Famous steam locomotive - 17; and more. One inch opening at base of cover-fold. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Book
58 pages. Features: Florida Woodburners - Lumber railroads still use scrap-burning locomotives - article and many great photos; Today's Monon - the story of what the new president has done since the CI&L came out of receivership - article with photos; The Busy Beeliners - After several months trial in actual service, it appears the Budd-built RDC-1 has a solid rail future - photos with article; Photo Section includes dramatic centerfold photo of the Cumberland-Pittsburgh line at the top of the hill at Sand Patch Tunnel; Night ride on the El Capitan - board Santa Fe's biggest money-maker in Kansas City and ride to Chicago - article with photos; The Evolution of Railroad - fascinating article with great historic illustrations; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: The Hibiscus & Heliconia Short Line Railroad on Hawaii - article with photos; The Rail Detector Car Identifies Faulty Rails - article with photos; Staten Island Rapid Transit - a B&O Subsidiary - article with photos and map; Photo Section including wonderful centerfold photo of a Western Maryland 4-6-6-4 on a curve west of Cumberland, Md.; Behind the Statistical Nightmares of the Pennsylvania Railroad's first 100 years - a story of a transport colossus - article with photos; Riding the "Dixie Line" NC&StL from Nashville to Atlanta; Photos of immense locomotives in the process of being scrapped; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: The Nation's Crossroads - stand at Chicago's 21st St. Tower and you'll see trains from Canada, the Gulf, and both coasts - great article and photos; Asa Packer's Railroad - Coal means so much to the Lehigh Valley Railroad that even its crack passenger train is known as the Black Diamond - long article with full-page map and many photos; The Hiawatha Story - How the first engine to carry the Indian totem came to be, as recalled by a C.H. Bilty, a Milwaukee Road man who helped create it; Photo Section; The Atlantic & Danville (A&D) - photos, map and article; Early Days in Oregon - at the turn of the century the Union Pacific had its eye on a group of little roads which held the key to the Puget Sound gateway - map, photos and article; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Cover holding by one staple, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: Built by American Car & Foundry (A.C.F.) - a photo story; Official Guide - presents hundreds of pages of timetables; The Diesel's Big Year - in 1950 steam was on the way out, but the gas turbine was a new opponent to diesel; Photo Section - includes centerfold photo of a Santa Fe eastbound freight near Kingman, Az; Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern - uncommon interurban in Iowa - article, photos and map of the "Crandic Route"; Astra Domes in the Northwest - article with photos; The Stewart Special - awesome article and photos of rail action in the Korean War; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: The Diesel-Hydraulic Dilemma; Railroad News Photos; Informed opinion on those German Diesel-Hydraulics; Dieselization with a Difference - reasons for British Railways' Extraordinary Diversity of Diesels - many great photos; Pittsburgh - minus the Pennsy - busy rails of the Beehive State - Northern Utah; Great 4-panel centerfold ad for the GE U25B; Helper Man out of M&K - The West End Story - 2; Photo Section; Two super photos of bulldog snouts; Wreck of 97 Revisited - September 27, 1903, Danville, Va.; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Steam news photos; Mudhens and sport models - the story of America's most celebrated Mikados; 'Trains' goes around the world - Ka's in New Zealand; photo quiz; Impressions of the 5137 - an intimate photo study of a Canadian Pacific 2 - 8 - 2; West from Baghdad; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Colorado photo contest winners; What's Our 'Best' Railroad?; Highballing B&O Duplex-Drive; Extra 4501 South; Europe - passenger car trends; Railroad News Photos; Pennsy juice news; Steam News Photos; Superb two-page photo of 'where the wheel meets the rail'; 86 mph behind a 4-4-4-4 - how B&O burned the ballast in 1937; A Tale of Two Tunnels - 1 - The story of the St. Clair and Detroit River Tunnels - includes great old diagrams of how to drill a tunnel; Extra 4501 South - a most unlikely train movement; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: The Camelback bows out; The David and Goliath story of Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Hell Gate Bridge - across the East River in New York City; Photo Section; When Steam ruled the Delaware & Hudson; My 34 years on a short line - George Baggett; Lady with a Past - a Colorado 10 wheeler has out-lived the Mallets and 4-8-4s of our time; Why Carnivals are moving by rail; and more. Average wear. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: "Our Third All-Diesel Issue"; Born at Beloit - The Fairbanks-Morse Story - super long article with many photos; Dixie Line digs midtrain 'slave' units; Iron Horse Days on the B&O; Diesel News Photos; Uninvited Guest - In 1953 GE did an end run around its competitors and entered the diesel ocomotive party; Diesels within yard limits - enter the advance scouts of total dieselization - many photos with text; Up front on America's fastest CB&Q No. 21 implies a throttle in the 8th notch; Nice color centerfold by EMD; B-B, C-C, A1A-A1A, etc. - what do they mean? - a primer on diesel wheel arrangements; Great two-page photo of Alco's Century 628; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; C&IM Revisited (Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway) - since our last report in August 1955 Trains, just 11 hood units have replaced 26 steamers; Calling all Candidates - a preconvention memo to Adlai, Dick, Jack, Hubert, Lyndon, Pat, Soapy, Stu, Wayne, et al; Weekend with Steam - the magic numbers were 2613 and 2114; The SP&S Story - 1 - the Spokane, Portland & Seattle - fastest track in the Northwest; A photo glimpse of one of the world's great railways - British Railways; and more. Cover held by one staple. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
Features: Railroad News Photos; Photo salute to a General, No. 3; The Full Story of The Striped Beast - New Haven's electrified operations between New York and New Haven - long illustrated article; Southbound behind steam - the 2-8-2's of Winston-Salem Southbound - article with photos; Nice feature on the men behind the camera, and samples of their work; Steam in Indian Summer - David P. Morgan; Beware of Trains! - beyond the Atlantic there is witchcraft and magic in the railway for those with hearts to hear; and more. Date stamp on front cover else unmarked. A sound copy., Magazine
Features: Super Power Survives! - 14 pages of NKP 759; Exclusive - Viet Nam Rails, firsthand! - long article with many illustrations; Railroad News Photos; Southern's Computer records car locations; Daniel "Uncle Dan" Willard and his one of a kinds; Modesto & Empire Traction... diesel style - a short but solvent story by Ted Benson; and more. Average wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: How the Rails Won Back the Automobile Business - the story of one of the 180,000 new automobiles L&N delivered this year; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Great photo of a steam engine terminal at Ridgely, W.Va in 1952; Photo section; Why We Don't Electrify - a rebuttal to an article in April 1962 Trains; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: 10 pages of CPR's Tripleheader!; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Is there no cure to what ails Katy? - why Missouri-Kansas-Texas got into trouble and what Dr. Deramus has prescribed - many photos and article; Steaming in the Rain - the Moscow, Camden & San Augustine Railroad; Where 65 cars still make a train - B&O's crossing of the Alleghenies - the West End story - 1; What's Up with the U25B?; Push-Pulls for Profit - double-deck suburban passenger cars used by the Chicago & North Western Railway; Photo Section; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Railroad News Photos; Tales of a Ten Wheeler - the biography of Northern Pacific 1356, a Baldwin 4-6-0 that served half a century of mountain railroading - amazing photos; Of Black Upholstery and Commanding Exhaust - Cessation of Virginian (VGN) passenger service provokes warm memories of orange cars, shoebox lunches, and Teddy Roosevelt regaling the riders with tales of San Juan Hill; Illustrated article on locomotive faces, with parts identified; Steam in Indian Summer - 3 - Little Railroads in faraway places; Super steam photo section, including centerfold of a P-4a in full stride (the 3713); The Story of a Pacific - the world's greatest - K.4.s - Super article with many excellent photos; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: The Power of Amtrak - with table of locomotives and details; Penn Central route map; A Royal Blue Line Recall - sentimental story of a B & O passenger showcase; South Shore's Steel Standards - the speedsters were interurbans in name only; Centerfold black and white photo of hardy miners of Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper, Co. and 5 of their locomotives; Story, table of locomotives and article re: Calumet and Hecla; Is Amtrak Legal? - the courts say yes; Only EMD and GE left? No - the diesels of the past live on, and require spare parts - long article and photos; and more. Moderate wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Quality copy. Book