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Features: Most deadly cargo of the century? - hauling nerve gas across the south; Railroad news photos; Thoughts on 30 years of train watching, by David P. Morgan; Super Restaurant on the rails; Steam over India - many photos, long article; Nader's raiders have attacked the ICC - Ralph in the roundhouse; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
58 pages. Features: Many great photos; Railroading through deep snow; Extra 498 and 493 West; When all roads led do Durango; and more. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked with moderate 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: Steam News Photos; Railroad News Photos; Naotaka Hirota photographs; Fairbanks-Morse on stage - trials and triumphs of a diesel publicist - article with great photos; What we'll remember about WP's CZ - domes and diesels... plus - many photos; Tomorrow's trains today on yesterday's tracks - PRR did better by passengers in the depression than PC does today; Table of the "Fastest Scheduled Start-to-Stop Passenger Runs on American Railroads in 1969; Chart of International Intercity Speedsters; and more. Moderate wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Quality copy. Book
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: The Man in the Tower; What's in a Name?; Engines by Herbert Wallis; They were not Scrapped - New Haven saves $4,000,000 by rebuilding 58 engines and saving them for wartime traffic; Wartime Rail Ramble - New York to Milwaukee via Washington, Atlanta, and New Orleans - the 11-day trip of six Eastern railfans; The John Wilkes - Lehigh Valley's No. 28 - Great centerfold photo; Down in Maine - Two-foot gauge scenics; Thomas Leiper's Railroads; Old El Cars Find a New Home - Shipyard Railway is newest electric line; The Old Mullet Road - owned by the State of North Carolina, the A&EC was a political football till leased to private interests. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railroad; A Railroad Plans for Tomorrow - operating after the war; Do You Know These Railroads?; New York Central 4-8-2; Main Line of the Narrow Gauge - Rio Grande three-foot rails over Cumbres Pass, with super photo centerfold of a Denver & Rio Grande Western train beginning its run from Alamosa to Durango; Beyond Ellicott's Mills - oldest main line sees few passenger trains but its two tracks shorten B&O freight route 15 miles; Yugoslav Railroads - Pathway to the Orient; Great full-page ad for Rock Island Lines; Case History with which Attorney Louis F. Meyer Jr. illustrates an important railroad legal point. Small date stamp atop front cover. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
343 pages. Index. Fifty-six plates, eight of which are in colour. Twenty maps. "...Traces the development of train services, locomotive powers, and operational and signalling techniques, as a result of the author's personal explorations from Montreal and Toronto to Labrador City, Sault Ste. Marie, Moosonee, the prairies, the Rockies, Vancouver, and northern B.C." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Front free endpaper removed. A worthy reference copy. Book
238 pages. Index. Reproductions of archival black and white photos. "A collection of memoirs and articles on topics both familiar and forgotten, delightful and disconcerting. Provides a glimpse into the lives of the people of the Valley and the Pass that will surprise even those most familiar with the history of the area." - from back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
18 pages. A transcript from research conducted for the CBC radio series entitled "People in Landscape." "The story of Canada's second transcontinental railway through British Columbia prior to the First World War. (David Ross, W.J. McKenna, Walter Wicks, Lorne Kenny, Wiggs O'Niell". - from title page. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Black and white illustrations. Nice copy. Book
Pages 186-238. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photos. Features: East Coast Carriage Workings; The Robinson 2-8-0s - part 2; French signalling practice - part 1; Steam memories; A 200th anniversary round-up; Simplon route centenary; Welcome to the Dart Yalley Railway; An Invitation to alight; Cambridge University Railway Society photographic competition; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
250 pages. Index. Selected Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. "During its brief existence the Kettle Valley Railway was the lifeline of southern British Columbia, forging the prosperity so much taken for granted today. In so doing, the Kettle Valley Railway became a part of history and bestowed upon the Canadian heritage a legacy as rich as any railway in this country." - from dust jacket. Light wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Author's signature and inscription upon front free endpaper which also bears gift greetings to prior owner. Otherwise, book clean and unmarked with very light wear. A nice signed copy. Book
56 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Augustus Trew Wood (1889-1977; The "Legend" of the Summers Theatre; The Turbulent Years (Bailey Memorial Lecture); The Boultbees of "Thornvale"; John Herbert Caddy (1801-1883); The McQuestens and Their Letters; The Toronto, Hamilton, and Buffalo Railway Company; House Types in Hamilton in the 19th Century and Their Relationship to the Historical Growth of the City. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
144 pages. Index. Footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. "A book about some of the outstanding figures in railway construction; the Foley Brothers, Peter Larson, Patrick Welch and John W. Stewart (whose) contributions to the development of railways in Canada was significant." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A high-quality copy. Book
46 pages. Features include: The Fort Henry & Sioux Lookout - A Beginners Layout; CPR S-4 Switcher (Part 2) - Modelling the unique Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) S-4 No. 7110 (circa 1950); The Manitoba Live Steamers; Canadian Rolling Stock - Kitbashing a Canadian National (CN) Covered Hopper; One Winter's Eve - Model an unusual Flat Car Load; Canadian Classic - Canadian National (CN) Snow Plow No. 55614 (circa 1959); and Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) 0-6-0 Switcher Class U3d&e (circa 1913). Binding sound. Minimal soiling front cover at spine. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
30 pages. Oblong 8.5 x 11". Printed upon glossy stock. Map. Generously illustrated with archival black and white photos. "I hope this work will be of interest not only to those whose hobby is the same as mine, but also to those railroaders who worked their trains over the difficult mountain grades of the Boundary Subdivision, often under less-than-ideal conditions." - p.2. 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. Maps. Generously illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos. "Canadian Pacific's Rossland Subdivision is situated in the West Kootenay District of southern British Columbia. The subdivision, 21.5 miles in length, had its origin in 1896 as a three-foot gauge railway from Trail Creek Landing, at the confluence of Trail Creek and the Columbia River, up into the mountains to Rossland. A Year later a standard gauge road was built to West Robson. Both, under the corporate title of the Columbia & Western Railway, were to be the foundation of the Rossland Subdivision as it is today." - p.1. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Slight bit of waviness in upper corner from past moisture exposure - hardly worth mentioning. A sound copy of this excellent reference. Book
40 pages. Numerous archival black and white illustrations. Unmarked with moderate wear. Moisture exposure to bottom edge resulted in moderate undulations. A sound copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Orange cloth boards show light wear and spots and fraying at edges. Previous owner's inscription inside. 120 pages. Black and white drawings by Walter S. Rogers. 365 pages, plus advertisements. Missing folding map.
248 p. Numerous illustrations. Pictorial end papers. Small 4to. Original red cloth binding, decorated and lettered in gold gilt. Scarce. PA 21
518 p. + Portrait illustrations and folding tissue map. 8vo. Original red cloth binding decorated and lettered in gold. Best documentary record of America's greatest railroad. Nice copy of a very useful book. PA 21
518 p. + Portrait illustrations and folding tissue map. 8vo. Original red cloth binding decorated and lettered in gold. Best documentary record of America's greatest railroad. Nice copy of a very useful book. PA 21
Book is in excellent condition with no flaws; sharp corners, as new. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light edge wear, no tears. 296 pages with a very large number of full page b&w photos, maps, line drawings, ads, ledgers, etc. Previous owner's name inked out on front end paper. 8 5/8"w x 11 1/4"h. Full maroon cloth boards.
8vo., folding coloured map on cloth measuring 34.5 x 29 inches (approx. 88 x 74 cms) folding in 24 panels to 9.5 inches (approx. 23 x 13 cms); wrappers lettered in red and black, certain folds neatly reinforced, some mild age-soiling and rubbing else a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), and numerous photographs, facsimiles and maps (a number full-page) in the text, endpapers lightly age-soiled; original red diced cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, upper hinge tender (but binding entirely sound), a very good, good, bright copy. With 40pp publisher's catalogue (dated December 1897) on laid paper bound in at end. Ottley, 5877.
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), fine photographic plates lightly toned in sepia, numerous illustrations in the text, large folding coloured map in pocket at end and pictorial endpapers; original maroon boards, upper board lettered in gilt, black cloth back lettered in gilt, red top, decorative endpapers printed in red, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the trade ticket of City Bookshop, Guildford, on front paste-down, and engraved pictorial bookplate of Victor Woolven on half-title. Elegant copy of the first impression of the third of GWR's three great themed travel guides of the mid-1920s (the others being James's Abbeys and Beer's Cathedrals). Although greatly popular and many times reissued, copies of the original editions in this condition are actually quite elusive. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Burdett Wilson, pp. 91-3.
