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185130447Baltimore: John Murphy 1851. 50pp small printed addendum note tipped in at pp.42-43. Several folding tables charts large folding map "Exhibiting the Railway Route between Baltimore & St. Louis; Together with the Other Principal Lines in the Eastern Middle and Western States." Plain rear wrapper present. Stitched. Scattered foxing light edgewear. Good with the map in Very Good condition. <br /> <br /> The Report of this important early railroad contains financial information and material on coal transportation the extension of the Ohio River the Washington branch the Northwest Branch and more.<br /> Not located in Modelski. John Murphy unknown
1396773843.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
64445Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Hardcover. Very Good. 0 Very Good. No DJSharp corners. Clean pages. Tight Spine. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad hardcover
19051125558053Bangor Maine: Bangor & Aroostook Railroad 1905. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. accordion fold 6 7 1/2 x 4 inches opening to 22.5 x 15 inches printed both sides large route map " Northern Maine Hunting and Fishing Region reached by B&A RR" on verso. This timetable in effect Oct. 91905. first panel toned else a very good copy. VERY Scarce. Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Paperback
010948Bangor Maine. Published by the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad. 1902. First Edition. Octavo 8 x 6. 174 pp. A large folding map titled "Northern Maine Hunting & Fishing Region" is tipped-in facing the title page. Numerous black and white photos. Some of the chapters include: Where Big Fish are Plenty - Fish Laws in Brief - Table of B. & A. Fishing Waters - Jungle Voyages by Canoe - Camping and Canoeing - Equipment - Women in the Woods - Excursion Rates on the B. & A. R. R. There are some 40 pp. of illustrated ads. The book is bound in its original colorful pictorial wrappers with red titles. It also has the bookplate of Maine humorist Robert A. Ryan. There is edge wear to the covers and a chip at the top of the front cover. The folding map has a small tear on the top edge. The spine is reinforced with clear archival tape. Good-Very good. . unknown
1923005400Bangor: Bangor & Aroostok Railroad 1923 1923. First edition. 4to; 160 pp.; illustrated from photographs and maps including folding color map of Maine tipped to title page. Light wear to top of spine; else a very good copy in original colored photographic wrappers. Classic railroad guidebook published annually. Bangor: Bangor & Aroostok Railroad, 1923 unknown
1921005399Bangor: Bangor & Aroostok Railroad 1921 1921. First edition. 4to; 160 pp.; illustrated from photographs and maps including folding color map of Maine tipped to title page. Light wear to top of spine; else a very good copy in original colored photographic wrappers. Classic railroad guidebook published annually. Bangor: Bangor & Aroostok Railroad, 1921 unknown
0267353561.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0656306920.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
20884Warley Mount Brentwood 30 October 1901. 19pp foolscap 8vo. On five bifoliums. Neatly and closely written. In good condition lightly aged and worn. Tower's letter begins: 'My dear Dick I enclose a chart not present which will show you at a glance my yachting cruises during the past season'. The rest of letter consists of extracts from Tower's diary 4 April to 12 September 1901 describing with the care one would expect from an engineer 'one of the best long vacation cruises on record' and ending with a table of 'Distances sailed by me in Gwnfa' from Brightlingsea to Harwich Antwerp 'Abortive attempt from Flushing' Flushing Dover Portsmouth Dieppe Maestrand Copenhagen Kiel Brunsbutell Hamburg Cuxhaven Lowestoft' totalling 2135 miles. Tower adds this to the total steamed in another ship 'Ingani' 'making a grand total for the seaon of 1901 of 3508 miles'. In businesslike fashion Tower notes times position weather and significant incidents. A representative entry reads: 'Tues 13th. Very fine weather Lat 54.40 N Long 6.22 E by obs. At noon Wind dropped at 4.pm. We were amongst a fleet of German steam trawlers. Sent a boat to one of them and got a bucket full of fine Plaice becalmed all night'. See Tower's obituary in Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers vol.162 1905 pt 4 which describes his connection with the sea his 'principal work' being 'the gyroscopic “steady platform†for guns and searchlights … The device was submitted to the Admiralty and after being thoroughly tested was fitted to two gunboats on which it answered very well; but ultimately the Admiralty rejected the apparatus on account of the extra weight involved … Mr. Tower nevertheless proceeded to adapt the platform for passenger-seats on cross-channel steamers'. The recipient Sir Richard Harington 12th Baronet 1861-1931 would not succeed to the baronetcy until the death of his father in 1911. Himself a keen yachtsman he was a Puisne Judge in the High Court of Justice at Fort William in Bengal between 1899 and 1913. From the Harington family papers. Warley Mount, Brentwood, 30 October 1901. unknown
24929‘Yacht “Dianthus†/ Copenhagen / June 29th / 1899’. In this letter Tower describes his personal experience of the winning of the North Sea trophy by C. L. Salaman’s 35-ton yacht Dianthus. 4pp 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition on aged paper chipped at head. Folded for postage. Addressed to ‘My dear Dick’ and signed ‘Beauchamp Tower’. A long letter with 105 lines of text. He begins by congratulating Harington ‘on getting an Indian judge ship which will enable you to marry though I and all your other friends will be very sorry to lose you’. Writing from on board the winning yacht ‘Dianthus’ he describes how the contest for the North Sea Trophy began at Dover with the ‘Dianthus’ racing ‘the Inyone and Wave Queen’. In the nighttime fog the ‘Dianthus’ encounters ‘a steamer which we supposed to be the Ostend boat’ which ‘only just stopped her engines in time to avoid running us down. The next day the fog cleared and we were abreast of the North Hinder at noon distant about 5 miles. We had to leave all the light ships on the Dutch and German coasts on the starboard hand’. He continues his account of the contest with reference to ‘the Haaks light ship’ and those of ‘Terschelling’ and ‘Borthum’. Eventually ‘we sighted Heligoland right ahead. Inyone crossed the line at 9.32 pm and we crossed it at 9.51 but as Inyone had to allow us 4 hours we were the winner by 3 hours 21 minutes. The winning line was a search light ray thrown from a man of war and when our sails were illuminated by the ray they fired a gun and we knew it was over. The Emperor’s yacht “Haarzollern†was there as well as the man of war “Marsâ€. They told us if we waited 2 hours a tug would tow us to the Elbe but we remained hove to in a heavy sea till 4 am and no tug coming we sailed to the Elbe a torpedo boat towed us up the last reach to the canal entrance and nearly pulled us under water.’ Eventually they are ‘presented to the Emperor who gave us the cup and talked to us about our voyage’. After ‘a big dinner’ with ‘sweet Champagne’ they sail from Kiel arriving at Copenhagen from where they will shortly sail to Gothenburg. ‘Yacht “Dianthus†/ Copenhagen / June 29th / 1899’. unknown
1391894936.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
191685287n.p. 1916. Good. 25 x 30cm. Splitting along later vertical fold -- are aound fold reinforced by later strips of acid free paper mending tape. Signed by Secretary and two Directors. Payment and transfer information on back. unknown
60696. A few tiny fold holes and the occasional edge nick a few spots on the image side and some on the reverse blood but overall in good condition. unknown
1974234571974. Railroad preservation photo archive depicting hand track labor narrow gauge steam restoration and surviving nineteenth-century rail infrastructure during the 1970s heritage railroad movement when volunteer groups museums and tourist railways across the United States began rebuilding lines and preserving steam locomotives that had narrowly escaped scrapping after the end of commercial steam service. Denver & Rio Grande Western No. 346 a Baldwin-built 1881 narrow gauge locomotive identified by the Colorado Railroad Museum as the oldest operating steam locomotive in Colorado appears repeatedly alongside work crews and rail operations tied to preservation-era reconstruction. The archive also includes Sept. 1974 views connected to the Baltimore & Ohio station at Oakland Maryland an 1884 Queen Anne depot whose construction reflected the expansion of rail tourism and resort travel into Garrett County during the late nineteenth century. Rather than polished excursion scenes the photographs center the physical labor that kept historic rail systems functioning: men replacing ties lifting rails by hand aligning track repairing rolling stock and maintaining steam-era equipment decades after most American railroads had abandoned steam operations.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 62 silver gelatin photographs each measuring 5 x 3.5 inches various locations including Black Hills Central Railway and Oakland Maryland circa 1974-1977. Young railroad workers pose beside maintenance vehicles stacked ties and narrow gauge track under reconstruction; several scenes show crews driving spikes leveling ballast and maneuvering rails with pry bars and jacks. Multiple photographs depict Denver & Rio Grande locomotive No. 346 under steam including repeated appearances of the same rail worker also shown beside locomotive "444 R-1" suggesting a connected work or preservation crew documented across several locations and projects. Additional views show passenger cars rail yards interior shop work line-side maintenance scenes depots and tourist railroad operations including Sept. 1974 Oakland B&O station material with historical text describing the depot's role in regional resort development and its Queen Anne architectural design by Baldwin & Pennington. Numerous prints carry small sequential numerical markings at the lower edge indicating at least part of the archive functioned as an organized visual work record rather than casual railfan photography.<br /> <br /> The photographs belong to the decade when hundreds of steam locomotives narrow gauge branch lines and nineteenth-century railroad structures were disappearing across the United States following dieselization and widespread railroad abandonment in the 1950s and 1960s. Black Hills Central crews rebuilt and maintained rail infrastructure only a few years after the devastating 1972 Black Hills flood damaged track and bridges near Keystone while preservation groups in Colorado worked to keep surviving narrow gauge steam equipment operational for museums and tourist railroads. Light wear scattered creasing and minor silvering to several prints; overall in very good condition. unknown
0365523348.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0365523313.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
A9781345316681Hardback. New. hardcover
0332291448.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1857TB31218Albany NY: Printed by C. Van Benthuysen 1857. First Edition. Very good- in its original patterned dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the front board. A small quarto of 9 by 5 5/8 inches with heavy wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine such that the cloth is worn down to the edges of the text block. The cloth is also worn through in several spots at the lower edges of the boards. The upper 1 1/2 inches of both joints are splitting from their respective boards. Without a dust jacket. No pagination. Illustrated throughout with two large fold-out maps 8 plans of bridges 5 locomotives from the Hudson River line two from the New Haven Railroad and one from the Long Island Railroad Rail sections from the New York Central Albany and West Stockbridge and Hudson River Railroads 7 drawings for tunnels 3 miscellaneous drawings and 29 profiles. The profile for the New York and Erie Railroad has been spliced at a torn fold line. Printed by C. Van Benthuysen hardcover
185720287Albany:: Printed by C. Van Benthuysen 1857. original gilt-lettered cloth. Small printed address sticker on front free endpaper; slight wear at head and foot of backstrip: a very attractive clean copy. 8vo. 2 large folding maps and 46 plates and charts many folding. Printed by C. Van Benthuysen, hardcover
1391992164.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0365897930.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0366299395.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
