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194517044Milwaukee: Kalmbach Publishing 1945. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong folio book of superb black and white photographs of steam locomotives. Book ten in this publisher's series of books on trains. Plastic comb binding. Light wear to stiff card covers else a very good plus example. Beautiful large scale photos. <br/><br/> Kalmbach Publishing paperback books
1 vol. in-4 br., Trains 1968. Modélisme français de qualité, L'Indépendant du Rail, 1968, 39 pp. Bon état. Français
68 pages. Features: Travel - Family Style - many wonderful photos of a family traveling by rail; Route of the Flying Saucers - The New York and Erie Railroad - long article with photos and map; Centerfold map shows hundreds of rail vaction routes all over the U.S.; Photo Section; Narrow-Gauge Vacation - How to ride the last of Colorado's three-foot-gauge passenger trains - article with map and photos; Details of some planned rail trips; 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
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; The Southern Pacific's 'Daylights', 4-8-4s; Have you looked at the Guide Recently? - a veteran train rider finds all is not lost; CN's island railroad on Prince Edward Island (PEI); Photo Section; The Baldwins of Hokkaido - 1 - Far from home, but built in USA - great article with photos; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; 0-4-0T Engineer's-Eye View; A Locomotive is Born - GE's U25B, from concept to completion; The Short Line They Call the 'Hoot, Toot & Whistle' - the Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington Railroad Company; August 24, 1934 - America's first fan trip; Photo of Cedar Grove, Louisianna Tower, Spring 1937; Pennsy - the No. 2 Ore Hauler (behind DM&IR); Train-Watcher in Yugoslavia - a lot of steam, some catenary, scaled-down Geeps, and much narrow gauge; and more. Average wear. Sound 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: 50th Anniversary of EMD (GM Electro-Motive Division); EMD News Photos; The La Grange Influence - what if ground had not been broken on March 27, 1935; Two Railroads, One Locomotive - interchange is no longer synonymous with engine change - with photos; La Grange Locomotive Landmarks - Attractive color centerfold; Three that survived - mementos of Electro-Motive's pre-GM years; EMD questions even EMD couldn't answer!; Concerning a dipstick, Derby Day, Slack-Free Starts, 74 Degrees below zero, a Lonely E9, and May 18, 1942 - confessions of an EMD-watcher; 'Tunnel Motors' or 'T-2s'; An instant history of EMD; and more. Moderate wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
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
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
Features: The B-B vs. C-C debate; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; B&O Varnish - back on the streets of St. Marys, West Virginia; How flexible is railroad commuter service? - here's how Reading responded i. when fire wiped out a key interlocking plant and ii. when a transit strike doubled its passenger load; From Horsecars to Pioneer III's; Amazing centerfold shows Shay No. 19 fording the shallow waters of Lilly Fork in W.Va. as she pulls a loaded log racks; Baldwins on Hokkaido - 2 - our far east correspondent locates more Baldwins - and a Brooks!; Cincinnati & Lake Erie's Red Devils - Traction Classica; Photo of hoboes riding on a cow-catcher; Great back cover illustrated ad announces L&N's (Louisville and Nashville Railroad) new heavyweight freight record of 1.3 million pounds; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: The Engine that made Penn Station Possible - the DD1 - long article with illustrations including colour painted centerfold; Your choice - Two-Storey Santa Fe Streamliners or Pennsy's ankle-view train, both built by Budd; Railway news photos; Railroads out of Rio - Brazil's frantic search for modernism has rudely booted the locomotive out of public affection - article with photos; Great photo section; Steam in Indian Summer - 5 - Steam - it fares better in the flatlands; and more. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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: 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: Super 16 illustrated article on Maine's biggest two-footer - The Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes; The strangest piece of coal-carrying equipment on the U.S. rails today - Southern Railway No. 100; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Photos of Washout in the West - Colorado's South Platte River rampaged in June; That All-American Look - an ALCO DH-643 diesel hydraulic; Strange Train for a GG1; The Accident that Couldn't Happen - on September 25, 1964 the Rock Island's lift bridge across the Des Plaines River at Joliet Ill was rendered inoperative by a broken pinion gear while the bridge was in a raised position - this led to a collission at 52 mph; Article - America's unremarked and reluctant but quite splendid innkeepers - the railroads; Nice colour photo EMD centerfold; and more. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. Bottom five inches of cover fold open. 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: Steam Railroad Photos; The Four Aces 4-8-4 - test locomotive for Timken's roller bearings settled down on Northern Pacific in 1933; Diary of a Railroader - 4 - Engineer Thrall found himeself making up time with the Overland at the age of 27, but after VJ-Day the diesels bumped him back to firing and cooled his enthusiasm; Wonderful winter centerfold photo of Central Vermont No. 703, one of the 2-10-4's that ranked as New England's largest steam power; Big Boy - the Alco 4-8-8-4 was the world's heaviest steam locomotive back in 1941 - great article and photos; and more. Unmarked. Openings along cover fold else a sound copy. Magazine
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
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: "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: Snow photos - storm of 1977; The AB&C Railroad; A case of railway mania - the railroad system of the United States was greatly overbuilt; 7,000 miles from here... - Narrow Gauge, Wooden Coaches, and a Steam Engine - the Kingston Flyer; Color Centerfold of 'The City of Denver behind a Milwaukee Road FP45/FP7 duo; Queen of the Red River Valley - Passenger Trains 31 and 32 of the Texas & Pacific; Piggyback and the Portager Dream - 2 - In a sea of Clejans, TTX's, NITX's, Flexis, and Railvans... Portager Drowned; Selected Railroad Verse; and more. Average wear. Date stamp to front cover. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; What a railroad does best - Louisville & Nashville's coal moving operation between Paradise (on the Green River in western Kentucky) and Widow's Creek (on the Tennessee River in Northern Alabama) - text, photos and map; A Tale of Two Freight Trains - Extra 3045 North and No. 75 - long article with photos and map; photo section; Trains Go to Alaska - 4 - Cold War Railroading - how Khrushchev holds down the Alaska Railroad's operating ratio; The Longest Short Line in the Smallest State - The Narragansett Pier Railroad; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-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: The Fan Trip - nicely illustrated article; Railroad News Photos; Photo of local at YM, March 18, 1956; How to Run Streamliners - Atlantic Coast Line - long, nicely illustrated article; 2.5 miles - a very short short line - Maryland's Preston Railroad doesn't even rate a caboose; Wonderful sunset centerfold photo of Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 4008 near Creston, Wyoming; The Railroad that time passed by - 100 miles of narrow gauge in deepest France - nice article with photos; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
