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Features: South Eastern into Sussex; The Ghost Walks Again - a commentary on Steamologist's recent articles on 'Fowler's Ghost' - a 2-4-0 fireless locomotive for the Metropolitan Railway; Celebrating the IOM Centenary; Railway Noises; Coal on Southern Branches; Leeds Prizewinners; Steamed in 74 - colour photos; A Devon Industrial Railway; Journey Through the (Iron) Curtain; Motived Power Miscellany; and more. Unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: Recorders' Errors or Oversights? - Locomotive running past and present - No. 245; The Eleventh Hour of Steam - 1; The Preservation Bubble; First of the SDJR 2-8-0s; Cornwall to Caithness; Railway Club Photographic Competition; East European Journey; To Switzerland - for Steam (and so much else); The Carmarthen & Cardigan Railway; The Railways of Bord Na Mona; Annual Report on Railway Accidents; and more. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Impressions of Danish Railways; A Norwegian Rail Survey; The Malmbanen - the iron ore line from Lapland; Unusual Southern Steam Workings; Flying Scotsman in the USA; Railways and Painting; The West Coast Speed Up - 1; Volks Electric Railway - the pioneer line at Brighton still carries nearly a half-million passengers a year; David Percival Rides The Highwayman; The Battle for the Rother Valley; TC Paddington - Buckfastleigh May 2, 1970; and more. Moderate wear. Price stamp on front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Bricklayers Arms and the Southern Region Light Pacifics; Rival Routes to Bristol - Part 1; Two Irish Idylls - Evening Train from Enniskillen; Diesel over Dingle Bay; The "Left Bank" Electrics of Paris - Part One; Orphans of a Brighton Storm - a little-known and somewhat unsavoury episode in L.B. & S.C. locomotive history a century ago; An Early Railway Photograph; Progress in Preservation; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Bottom inch of cover fold open. Magazine
Features: Memories of Stewarts Lane - Part 2; 1942-1967 Ian Allan Ltd - a publishing success story; Steam on Pilatus; The "Royal Scots" - Part Two; "City of Truro" and the "Rheingold" - locomotive running past and present - No. 182; End of Steam in the North-east - many photos; The Leukerbadbahn - a Swiss Tragedy; Kinnaber - junction no more; The Didcot Derailment; East Coast Specials; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Steam in the 1960s - Part Three; Scotland's Vanished Railways; The Waverley Route - Profit not Preservation; Liverpool Street and the GE Line; Industrial Quarterly; The Iron Horse Railway; Flying Scotsman Farewell; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
8 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Mr. Borden to Electors; Seattle Electric Cars in Collision; Aeronaut startles World's Fair Visitors; reaction to trawler outrage; Latest from Yukon capital; Sir C.H. Tupper in Saanichton; Cartoon which is critical of the "Railroad Hog"; Captain Wolley at Mount Tolmie; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including "For Sale - 50 acres water frontage on Cordova Bay, $50 per acre." Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Two clippings from page 5. Book
8 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Farewell Banquet to Earl Grey; Russo-Japanese War; American Federation of Labor petitions congress to legislate against Mikado's subjects; The Rock Bay Bridge Question; Alberta Company Makes Big Strike - Fine Flow of Oil near the B.C. line and the Rich Flathead Valley - Pincher Creek; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including "Esquimalt & Nanaimo (E&N) Railway Time Table No. 53 with stops in Victoria, Shawnigan Lake, Duncan, Ladysmith, Nanaimo and Wellington" Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Clipping from lower corner of page 2. Fatigue crack to central portion of all pages. Book
12 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Major coverage of the Russo-Japanese War - General Kuropatkin's World Famed Advance has probably ended in complete disaster; Interior Booze factories to be amalgamated under one management; Cartoon on a railway theme; Scenes from Episcopal Convention in Boston, with photo of J.P. Morgan in top hat ; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including: "Solid Oak Tables - $1.90" Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Book
56 pages. Features: Christmas Past - Maritime traditions with a touch of Dickens; Making fun of the hero of the Plains of Abraham; The fate of Tecumseh - learning from 'war crimes' and the lesson of 5 October 1813; Fifth Column crisis - war jitters on the home front, 1940; Canada's forgotten railway tycoon - Charles Melville Hays; Feasting with the North Westers at Old Fort William. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
56 paages. Features: The father of the Hardy Boys - Leslie McFarlane; Medals for the volunteers - after the rebellion there was glory for all; Protecting Toronto's working girls; Joseph Banks - a naturalist in Newfoundland; A Quebec doctor and his bishop clash over evolution; Helping hands in the west - successful farms were good for the railway business. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
22 pages. This issue of the Buzzer commemorates the conversion of Vancouver's urban rail transportation to rubber/bus transit. Reproductions of many interesting archival photos in text recount the history of the rail phase of the company's operation. Moderate wear. Usual library markings. Mounted in protective card covers. An interesting piece of Vancouver history... which may one day return. Book
Articles: Ginseng, Otter Skins, and Sandalwood - The Conundrum of the China Trade; Management Response in British Coastal Shipping Companies to Railway Competition; Toponymie ancienne et origine des noms Saint-Pierre, Miquelon et Langlade; Death was Their Escort, and glory passed them by - Life in the Marine Convoys of World War II; plus several book reviews. 3 items high-lighted in table of contents and sunning to spine else a clean and lightly worn copy. Book
Features include: A Matter of Magic - a battle of wits between a white man and an East African witch-doctor; Hill Section - a 115 mile section of railway linking Northern and Southern Assam; The Amateur Elephant Hunter; The Lead-Dog's Warning - Told by a Canadian trapper, illustrates the perils awaiting dwellers of the far north; The Captain's Mutiny - Captain Arnas Loivikas in 1931; The Lion-Men of Ussure (Part 3); Philo's Dream - an amazing affair in a tribal village in Papua; Monkey Business - A Moroccan Story; Spawn of Evil - A wild stallion the author endeavoured to break; Memorable Voyage - A South African Story; Pennies for Fools - The Australian Prospector; Four Shark's Teeth; Chasing Red Sea Smugglers - a breezy account of a decidedly interesting job; Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear to covers. Contents good. Name atop back cover. Magazine
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Features: Terror of the Zambezi Swamps - Crocodiles Story; Dance of the Pygmies; Target Lightship - "Twixt Sea and Sand," Continued - the story of a lightshipman who helped to man the North Goodwin vessel; The Secret of the Reef - a treasure hunt on the coast of Western Australia; Riding in Rough Waters - a canoeist in Britain's Backwaters; Short Cut - a Sierra Leone Railroad Tale; Sutty of the Railroad - a tale from the Kootenays in British Columbia; Sons of the Snake - the bushmen of Southwest Africa; Tin-Tacks - the author and his wife are captured by Japanese Pirates; The Rogue Male of Kazimvimba - an elephant adventure; Australia's Lonely People - Lighthousemen; Bypaths to Adventure - the third instalment of the gripping story of world traveller; and more. Average wear. Price adjusted in ink upon front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Stories: The Nazco Patrol; North for Timber; The Keeper's Tale; The Editor's Post Bag; The Hunting Down of Sultana; Three Dogs; The Grey Shark; Blackmailing a Railway; The Grey Shark; The Blue Grass Amulet; New Zealand Hermits; Missing; The Blue Glass Amulet; Indian Jugglers; Major the Outlaw. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
Features: The Death-Bore - A nightmare experience on a railway in the Andes of South America; Wilderness Wandereres - the barren ground caribou of Canada, many photos; Terror by Night - visiting the lonely northwest coast of Australia in search of the alleged footprints of a prehistoric dinosaur; The Spell-Binder - a Natal farmer describes a curious incident related to an African courtship; The Rest Cure - recuperating from tropical fever, the author takes an open-air job hoping it will aid his health...; A Papuan "Pig Festival", with great photos; Time is Money - a story from Bombay by P. Stones; The Steamer will not call; Stolen Gold - ramifications of Far East Gold Smuggling as revealed in Western Australia; The Onlooker - making the only pleasure cruise of his life, a ship's officer is unable to enjoy himself; Slumach Lost Creek Mine Ltd.; and more. Average wear. Chips and openings along backstrip. Binding intact. Book
Features: 'Twixt Sea and Sand - Part I - Those who man the lightships that keep the world's shipping off the dreaded Goodwins; Build or Die - an Igloo story; Diamonds are Dangerous - Diamond Smugglers and the 'big men' behind them; Danger - Loco Adrift - a giant locomotive slips its lashings in a stormbound ship; Destination Unknown - the second instalment of the adventures of Peter Pinney; The Rain Stoppers - on the West Coast of Africa; Search for Living Gold - Andean Chinchilla; Ghost of the White Chief - John Roberts; The Very Mysterious Eel; A Thousand Miles to Railhead - Motor Transport in North Australia - Road Trains; Horses on Showshoes - an idea which originated 75 years ago at Lardo, British Columbia; Jungle Hideout - the adventures of a white woman who spent nearly 4 years in the jungle running from the Japanese, eating dog, and teaching Guerillas to sing; Paddy's Lapse - A Merchant Navy Officer's Scary Experience; Covers holding but weakly; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. Book
Stories: Valley of Headless Men; Typhoon Warning; How Pond Creek Fought the Railroad; A Memorable Lion Hunt; Find the Woman!; The House at Luzolo; S-A-L-T!; The Python; Arab Dhows; The Lost Oasis; Hunter's Luck; Australian Diviners. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
60 pages. Features: Ad for the Peugeot 504; Challenges for Ed Schreyer in Manitoba; Nova Scotia fishworker labour strife; Photo of offshore drilling rig 'Sedco H" leaving Halifax; Great photo of people storming police line to shake hands with Richard Nixon in St. Louis; Who Owns the Stars and Stripes? - feature article with four pages of wonderful color photos showing the stars and stripes incorporated into bedding, clothing, vehicles, and more; Admiral Thomas Moorer takes over Joint Chiefs of Staff; Assessment of the Cambodian adventure; Nixon's Champion - Robert Dole of Kansas; Photo and brief article on Charlie Rangel; The Middle East - Statesman Speak and Guns Answer - article with photo of Arab leaders watching Libyan military parade; Phnom-Penh - What is going on?; Bernadette Devlin; Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber; Rehabilitation of Stalin in the Soviet Union; The Ordeal of A. Dubcek; Joseph Mobutu of the Congo; Pele and Brazil win soccer's World Cup; Their hearts belong to daddy - article on stripping; The Green Wrist Mania; Tony Jacklin wins golf's U.S. Open; Lord Snowdon on Pets; Michael Dann of Sesame Street; Quenching California's Thirst; Abortion on Demand; Pantsuits for Nurses; Debate over Catholic Marriage; Passing of the Maharajah of Jaipur, Rupert C. Thompson Jr., Colonel Roscoe Turner and Heenrique Galvao; Penn Central - the biggest bankruptcy Ever; The Case For - and Against - Railway Nationalization; Tremendous growth in amount of commercial paper outstanding; Cashing in on Campers - KOA (Kampgrounds of America); and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
58 pages. Features: Madam Queen - Missouri Pacific Lines - article with photos; $2 million investment in the new Powhatan Arrow by Norfolk & Western - article with photos; San Francisco's Belt Line; Passengers and Trailer Trucks ride the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad - article with map and photos; Photo Section including nice centerfold photo of St. Louis - San Francisco's train No. 409 steaming across Oklahoma; Welded Rail - Continuous Rail promises to be worth the investment - article with photos; The Wandering West Penn - a trip on the pastoral electric line - article with map and nice photos; Southern Pacific innovative photo feature; Archival photos of early days on the Soo Line; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: Narrow-Gauge Summer - nice photos; Railroading on Chesapeake Bay - Pennsylvania Railroad's saltwater fleet serves Norfolk and provides an alternate north-south route along the Atlantic Seaboard - article with photos; Third Morning Delivery - U.S. and Canadian Roads cooperate in hauling perishable and manifest freight the long way 'round from Chicago to the East - long article with map and photos; Photo Section; Nice centerfold photo of the Cornwall Railroad of 1895 - the American Standard locomotive Penryn is standing at the Lebanon, Pa. station; $7.50 to L.A. - That's the price Southern Pacific charges to ride the 470 miles from San Francisco - long article with photos; Last Train from Carson City - Virginia & Truckee closes its books - Photos and article; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: Union Pacific shuttles 2400 cars a day through its new hump yard at North Platte; Pennsylvania Railroad's new Reservation System - article with photos; 2-10-4 to Revelstoke, B.C. - Canadian Pacific Selkirk No. 5927, defeated last winter by a diesel, is still slugging it out across the Rocky Mountains - article with photos; Pacifics to Placid - Oil-burning K-11's wheel tonnage and tourists over an Adirondack Mountain branch which New York Central Leases from Delaware & Hudson - article with photos; Photo Section - includes great centerfold photo of Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 3780 taking water at San Bernardino; Prairie State Railroad - Peoria-St. Louis passengers travel via the electric way when they ride the Illinois Terminal's streamliners on the only through route between the cities - article with photos, list of rolling stock, and map; Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company - this West Virginia private lumber road gets a boost from new coal mines; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: Train Time at Grizzly Flats, California - The Emma Nevada - photos and article; What's Right with the Airlines? - the passenger problem - article with photos; Ps-4 - Southern Railways first ladies of the Pacifics - long article with photos; Photo section including centerfold of Sierra Railroad locomotive 34, a 1925 Baldwin Mikado, taking water at Oakdale, California; New Jersey's Streak o' rust - The Rahway Valley Line - article with photos and map; Great photo of Engineer James MacMahon of the Union Pacific at the controls of 4-8-2 No. 7856 near Hillgrove, California; Erie Railroads with Radio - Erie Railroad has purchased the largest four-way train radio network in the world; Two great 1883 photos of Van Buren St., Chicago; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
