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Features: Mixed Thoughts on a Mixed Train, with map of Dominion Atlantic Railway, Truro Sub.; A Turntable for Wakefield, Quebec (to accommodate Number 1057); Referred to the Committee - back when the distance between the rails was very important; Chart of the Gauges of some of Canada's early railways; Determination and Hard Work - the story of the Strathcona Museum in Strathclair, Manitoba; Waybills; Please note: a 2" wide band has been stripped from front cover, probably by tape removal. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Telegraph Cove - The Settlement that Time Forgot; Bonanza; The Treasure of the SS Pacific; The Kaslo & Slocan Railway. Clean, bright and unmarked. Book
24 pages (pages 48-72). Contents: Your Washington Reporter; A Challenge to Foes of Organized Labour - President William Green outlines Labor's Objective for World Freedom; An American Labour Leader Abroad - Victor J. Sjaholm of O.R.C. is now in Sweden as adviser to Marshall Plan Unit - he provides a colorful account of experiences; Can German Labour Unite Humanity?, by Tom Gillespie, Labor Correspondent in Europe; Marshall Plan Working in Norway; Leslie Biffle; All our Lodges should affiliate with state federations of labor and city central bodies, by A.J. Bernhardt, Assistant General President; Updates from Robert Hewitt, Charles Burchfield, Henri Vaillancourt and J.T. Powell; News from various lodges; When can you retire under teh Railroad Retirement Act?. Address label on front cover. Five-inch opening to fore-edge of back cover which features a wonderful OshKosh B'gosh work wear ad on the outside and a masculine Lee work clothes ad on the inside. Both ads feature engineers. Book
Features: Clean and unmarked with light wear. The life story of Finlay Booth; I think Earp took Johnny Ringo; Sanders of Turkey Creek; Secret Coves and Lost Worlds; A Mighty Good Railroad Town; McGonagill Pays Off; Black Robes and Circuit Riders; Hell! Dodge City ain't in the the United States!; Tom Fuller for Breakfast and three to a bed; Eleven limbs for eleven killers; and more. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Chasing the greatest Bandido of all, Pancho Villa; Oats and green pastures for the rest of your life - outrunning the Indians; The impossible treasures of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma; Railroad towns were tough - Piedmont,Wyoming; The Test - a trader's first confrontation with the Indians; Gambling in early day Montana; Train ticket west; Ride easy kid, the road's rough - sage advice from a man who should know; Prison Delivery - Emmett Dalton - complete pamphlet in this issue, plus related story The Penal Press and 'The Clock'; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Belling the Lead Steer; A Color-Blind Island; Kidnapped!; The Battle of the Mining Camps; J.B. Okie of Lost Cabin; Bear Island's Mysterious Gold; The Chinese Woman of the Nineties; A Downright Crooked Railroad; Little Bighorn Monument; A Lively Week at Tubac; Cattle Trails of the Old West; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: From the U.K. to the U.S., the 4472; First Generation East - what yesterday was novelty now has become nostalgia - great black and white photos; Those people made a good locomotive - Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing - an unremarked chapter in dieseldom; Wayfarers of Waycross - first- and second-generation units, demos, secondhanders, experimenters, visitors, boomers - they all came to the cross-roads of the Coast Line. Average wear. Unmarked. Small white sticker on back cover. Book
Features: Ben W. Heineman; The great Tug-of-War - pushing match at Kent, Washington on 22 February, 1920 between a GE 261-ton bipolar No. 10254 vs. a 278 ton 2-6-6-2 Mallet No. 9520; Classics under catenary (and beside third rail) - from the power in the trolley to the motors fed, electrification has had a common theme - nonstandardization - B&O No. 1 was first, Central's tinplate prototype, New Haven's A.C./D.C. box-cab motors, Norfolk & Western's side-rod box-cabs, Milwaukee's bipolar gearless motors, The Classic GG1, Great Northern Had the Biggest; Muskingum's prototype for the future; The when and if of wires; Those Russian Electrics; The Mystique of Electrification - when we regarded electric traction as noncontagious - hence safe; First Generation M.U. Average wear. Unmarked. Small white sticker on back cover. Book
Features: Always look back - a portfolio of steam today - smoke over the prairies; 15,806 feet up... switchbacks to the sky! - Central Railway of Peru; Railroad news photos; Miss 2,000,000 miles - after over 800 trips between New York and Miami Seaboard's favorite blonde stille finds trains an adventure; The Power of Pickering - high in the Sierra Nevada hurried exhaust tells of a logging operation which has not exchanged the rubber tire for steam and gears; Steam rules the New York & Long Branch; Toledo, Peoria & Western adds a booster unit; and more. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Lima's Last Narrow-Gauge Shay Lives!; Colour photo of T-1 4-8-4 No. 2101 dressed up in Chessie Colours; Many photos; Virginia's natural tunnel - carved by Stone Creek; Trains for Tomorrow - 1 - railroading is not philantropy or a Lionel set or mere exercise; Bob Hale's Favorite Railroad Photos - in colour and black and white; Life for a junior foreman in a secondary engine terminal in the last days of steam on the Canadian Pacific; photo of the train that hit Washington in 1953; Instant news coverage of a wreck on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad (W&LE) in 1904; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
Features: Lima's Last Narrow-Gauge Shay Lives!; Colour photo of T-1 4-8-4 No. 2101 dressed up in Chessie Colours; Many photos; Virginia's natural tunnel - carved by Stone Creek; Trains for Tomorrow - 1 - railroading is not philantropy or a Lionel set or mere exercise; Bob Hale's Favorite Railroad Photos - in colour and black and white; Life for a junior foreman in a secondary engine terminal in the last days of steam on the Canadian Pacific; photo of the train that hit Washington in 1953; Instant news coverage of a wreck on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad (W&LE) in 1904; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; The Iron-Horse Opera - 20th annual motive power survey/Confessions of middle-aged locomotive reporter David P. Morgan; An Objectivity Test - it is difficult to review the new Turbotrain without sounding like a United Aircraft publicist - nice photo; The style of steam in its birthplace - nice European photos with text; Penn Central's last bid for Passengers; Traction's super heavyweights - they weighed over 71 tons and could do 80 mph plus - the Michigan Railway's new 50 mile interurban line between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo; From Bucyrus to Belgium - by C. Grattan Price Jr.; and more. Average wear. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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: Railroad news photos; 19th Annual Motive Power Survey - How to Merge Motive Power - article and photos; Pullman Prolificacy - when Pullman was America's passport to everywhere; Photo section; Coal - going, going gone? - replaced by nuclear?; Why is wartime so synonymous with railroad Wrecks? - article; 11 hours with 111 year-old locomotive - The General, the venerable (Rogers 1855) Western & Atlantic 4-4-0 employed in the daring, ill-fated Andrews Raid in the Civil War - photos and text; and more. Average wear. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Railroad News Photos; photos of freight collision on Manhattan; Obituary for the Bournemouth Belle; The Georgia Railroad Expects to mix tonnage and people for years to come - article with photos; The Silence of South Pass is finally broken - US Steel Corp. run serves the Atlantic City Ore Mine by supplying Taconite ore; great photo section; Pennsylvania Pullmans - many photos; How do Computers Relate to Railroading?; and more. Average wear. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
66 pages. Features: Here come the French - recovering from the war; The Battle of Sherman Hill; Atlantic City Railroad Convention; East Broad Top; Possible photo of Lincoln changing trains?; Last of the high-drivered Hudsons; lots of great photos; and more. Two small date stamps upon front cover else unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: What an airport manager thinks of railraoding; Pennsy's new juice jacks; new photos; The GG-I's and the P5a's: on an uneasy throne?; Meet Harry Congdon, Railroad Vice-President; Photo entitle: 336, 250 pounds of tractive effort; an old whistle-listener takes the president of the Canadian National to task for the noises his diesels make; Little Pacifics in Canada... before the diesel showed up; Chilling stories from old-timers of the Current River Railroad; and more. Averge wear. Small date stamp upon front cover. Book
190 pages. Index. Colour and black and white photographic plates. "Chronicles the development of the railway from the early days of Francis Clergue through to the present time - recreates the history of the explorations into unknown territory, the laying of the track and the difficulties involved, and the build-up of the Algoma's rolling stock and fleet of ships." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. A sound reference copy. Book
26 pages. Oblong 8.5 x 11". Printed upon glossy stock. Map. Generously illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos of locomotives. "Brings together a selection of photographs and reminiscences of my days as a rail photographer and railroader, during the sunset period of the great steam era." - Introduction. Also includes four photos of diesel locomotives which took over from the steam-powered units. Includes lots of informative supporting text. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this excellent reference. Book
26 pages. Oblong 8.5 x 11". Printed upon glossy stock. Map. Generously illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos of locomotives on almost every page, accompanied by very informative text. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this excellent reference. Book
140 pages. Features: Glorious Peacocks; The Skeletal System; Creating a Mixed Aviary; A Clutch of charming plumheads resulted from an arranged marriage; Cockatiels - personality plus!; A spirited conure trains its owners well; Ingenious ways to feed birds well; A Professionsl Trainer reveals what really happens at bird shows; Sometimes a persistent bird must create a bird lover out of its housemate ; Beaupre Parrot School in Toronto, Ontario; Exotic Birds on Stamps. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
103 pages. Abundantly illustrated. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Beautiful copy. Book
290 pages. "The dramatic story of the Canadian Pacific's Empresses on the trans-Pacific service, from record-breaking runs and multi-million-dollar silk cargoes to typhoons and war service." - from dust jacket. Contains over 400 illustrations, photographs, maps, timetables and scale drawings, together with detailed text, fleet lists, bibliography and index. Map endpapers. Colour frontis. Book clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Light wear to dust jacket which bears closed two-inch tear at bottom of back panel and is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Very nice copy of this handsome reference. Book
251 pages. Index. Bibliography. Appendices. Over 280 black and white illustrations, photographs, maps, timetables, reproductions and scale drawings. "The steamships played a formative role in the development of the north Pacific coast of North America and the CPR's Princesses will have a long place in its history. This is their story, told candidly but with affection." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
1 vol. in-8 br., E. Baudelot & Cie, Paris, 1933, 204 pp. avec grande carte dépliante et documents sous enveloppe jointe (plans de Lourdes, Toulouse et Bordeaux) Bon état (qq. rouss., très bon état par ailleurs) Français
