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46 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: NYC replaces Busy Switches - new slip switches at Harmon, N.Y.; The Rio Grande - General Palmer's little narrow gauge road of the Colorado mountains grew into one of America's most important 'bridge' systems; Driving Gear for Turbine Locomotives - Pennsylvania Railroad's experimental unit has uniform torque, fully balanced drive wheels, high efficiency at speed; new locomotive; Built in Roanoke - Norfolk & Western has been building most of its locomotives at its Roanoke Shops; Railroad Ticket Man - What does the passenger look like to the man on the other side of the ticket window?; Tall Stacked Old Timers - Three gems from a leading locomotive photo collection; Chicago Station Gets New Shed - Illinois Central Rebuilds - Illinois Central tears down old high arch and builds slotted roof. Average wear. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Magazine
72 pages. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos, accompanied by descriptive text. Oblong 11" x 8.5". Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1935014770Boulogne André Bloc 1935 In-4 spirale
LFA-126735685Un ouvrage de 245 pages, format 250 x 340 mm, illustré + planches à systèmes, relié percaline ornée, s.d. (années 1900), bon état
1920fe97Compagnie des freins Westinghouse Broché 1920 In-8, (18x12 cm), broché, dos toilé noir, 64 pages, schémas en noir et blanc ; légères traces sur les plats, mors frottés, assez bon état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
197926442Levallois-Perret Picador 1979 Petit in-4° 287 pp
Small 12mo, [36]pp., of maps, plans and time tables, orig. purple cloth, gold label printed in green on upper cover, very nice copy. With maps of the railway from London to Birmingham (2), Manchester & Birmingham Railways, Birmingham, Railways in Lancashire, Liverpool, Manchester & Leeds.
1990LFA-126736546Un ouvrage de 599 pages, format 220 x 305 mm, illustré, relié toile sous jaquette couleurs, publié en 1990, La Vie du Rail, bon état
3 vols., 4to., with very numerous photographs, illustrations and diagrams throughout, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, upper boards and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good bright clean set in dustwrapper. The set comprises Vol. 1: 1900-1930; Vol. 2: 1930-1960; Vol.3: 1960 - the Present Day.
2 vols., sm. folio, Fourth Edition, with coloured frontispieces (one folding), titles in red and black, and very numerous photographs, illustrations and diagrams (a number folding and several coloured or part-coloured), tiny uniform signature on front free endpapers; original burgundy cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, gilt backs, upper board of first volume a little scuffed, joints lightly rubbed, backstrips chafed at heads and tails else a very good, bright, clean copy. Bright, clean copy of a standard and hightly detailed reference. Ottley 2790 (recording the first edition).
Features: Steam Travel and Photography Forty Years ago - 1957, a vintage year, Part I - Germany and Austria; Golden Snake Bites the Dust - the last Chilean State Railways (FFCCE) type 29 2-Co-Co-2 electric locomotive; Narrow Gauge Railways in the Ukraine - Part 2; Swiss Railways 150; The World's Southernmost Railway - in Argentina; Preserved Steam Locomotives of Ontario; Vintage Steam in Denmark; Back Track; K1 Garratt Restoration. Small date stamp atop front cover else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: News Photos; I Still Like Trains, by Al Kalmbach; Steam and where to find it in 1954; Rails vs. Rubber; An American Beauty - a native of France, an American Architect and a Swedish genius pooled their talents to produce one of the finest American 4 - 4 - 0 type locomotives of all time; When Steam ruled San Antonio; The Argonaut heads east; Hy Gailey - Railroader Extraordinary; Interchange with Cuba; Photo of CN's new dome caboose; and more. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked else average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; The Fast and Frequent Railroad - an operating ratio isn't necessarily holy writ; The Tennesse Railroad of Oneida, Tenn. - article, photos, list of locomotives, map; Photos of a derailment in progress!; Photos - these sharks survived; Pleasures and Pitfalls of a Railroad Museum - the Kentucky Railway Museum; Rail Recollections by C. Grattan Price Jr.; and more. Average wear. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
74 pages. Features: A Train Leaves Cleveland; Toledo's got a new front door; Mexico - my greatest railroad adventure; Famous steam locomotives - Swashbuckling speedsters; trains for the thrifty; Railroads get the Shriners to and from Miami; Notable feats of railroad engineering under the continental divide; Escape by Train. Two small date stamps upon front cover else unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Famous steam locomotives - for 6 years the 4 - 4 - 0 sat in the mud at the end of a forgotten spur in Idaho, then Northern Pacific recalled that she was its last American Standard locomotive; Runaway - Engineer Harry Brower tried his brakes. They didn't work. The Federal Express was out of control!; The 'impossible' railroad - along the north shore of Lake Superior; Whistle in the Valley - the Interstate Railroad; The Wobbly comes of age; and more. 5" opening at bottom of coverfold. Average wear. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Worthy copy. Book
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Locomotives - Data on Cotton Belt L-1, Southern Pacific P-13; The Man in the Tower; Baltimore Belt Line - tunnel route replaced time-consuming ferry transfer across Baltimore Harbor - is electrified in tunnels; Yosemite Valley Railroad - Gateway to Yosemite National Park; Pennsylvania Special - 3 miles in 85 seconds! - a speed record that stands today, 38 years after it was made; Helper Engines - used where mountains must be crossed; By Rail to Guatemala - U.S. and Mexican freight cars roll into Central America with the completion of the Suchiate Bridge; The Bear and the Semaphore - bear forces young signalman up a signal pole; Locomotives of the Wisconsin Central, including No. 96. Average wear and soiling. Small date stamp atop front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
62 pages. Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Photo of a Pennsylvania Railroad D16; California's Two-Hat Railroad - Oro Dam Railroad - U25C's and dump cars - dam work - article with photos; Search for Steam in Britain - "It's Dying Where it All Began"; 4-page colour ad section for GM's new locomotives; Traction Classic - WB&A's Mile-A-Minute Articulateds; Great photo from the archives - the original Big G 2517 which set a speed record between Seattle and St. Paul, MN; and more. Unmarked with average wear A sound copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Fantastic two-page photo of train passing over Marent Trestle, west of Missoula, MT (R.V. Nixon's 25,000th photo!); New Haven - What Went Wrong? - even bankruptcy offers no haven to the New Haven Railroad - extensive article with map and photos; David Morgan writes of locomotives in Japan - with great photos; Mr. Beebe ponders the Pullmans; Moguls and Mikes - the Bevier & Southern Railroad of Bevier, MO; Feature article on Krauss-Maffei 4000 h.p. C-C's bound for U.S. service; and more. Unmarked with average wear A sound copy. Magazine
70 pages. Index. Abundant archival black and white illustrations. "The story of two young West of England men who, with a sound knowledge of the engineering trade, unbounded energy, determination and, above all, integrity, laid the foundations of a business which served, first a colony and then a nation." - from Preface. Gilt lettering upon red cloth-covered boards. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
Oversize harback with red illustrated paper over green cloth boards. 10"w x 12 1/4"h. Elaborate color map endpapers of the Saint Lawrence River, several other maps inside. Back of cover has a presentation seal identifying the book as #4485, presented to "The N.E. Dairyman" in neat cursive pen. An introduction by the commissioners, after which the book has text on the L. page with a very large b&w photo on the right, captioned below, displaying some element of the Port or some aspect of the Montreal harbor, all on glossy paper.
Dark blue cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Book shows general wear, marking and scuffing to back cover. Front cover is fairly well preserved with light edge and corner wear. Hinges are both worn to intact binding mesh and loose. Page block still quite solid, with no marking of any kind to interior/text. Title page reads "Five comprehevsive books in one volume": The Industrial Age; The World's Science and Invention; Marvelous Peculiarities and Noteworthy Facts of All Nations and Countries of the World; Amazing Wonders of Nature; and Things We All Should Know. "Nearly" 400 photographic illustrations. A fine example of the boyish exuberance of the beginning of the industrial age, when the triumphant White Man and his Noble God were destined to rule the known world and all its native wonders as toys for the expansion of empire, no mind to the rape of the earth and any non-Christians who happen to live there. Cut the giant forests to build ships! We grow great like a virus!
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; burgundy cloth, gilt back, upper board lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE. Ottley, 7858.
82 pages. Features: Scotty's Fantastic Trip - record run from Los Angeles to Chicago on the Santa Fe, chartered by Death Valley Scotty in 1905; Memories of Frisco Steam - some of the most beautiful locomotives in the country; Farewell, GM&O (Gulf, Mobile & Ohio) - merger spells the end; Rio Grande on the Run - Utah's Wasatch Range offers quite a barrier to the D&RGW's run to the west; Steam at Christchurch; Commuting in British Columbia - great article with map and colour photos; Guide to Night Photography; Through Illinois on the Locals; Little Dumpy Steams Again - restoration of a locomotive for the Monticello and Sangamon Valley Railway. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Florence & Cripple Creek - famous narrow-gauge line of an earlier day hauled rich ores through a scenic empire; The Ma & Pa - two narrow-gauge lines were the ancestors of this successful and picturesque standard gauge railroad; 18 Selected Railroad Photographs; Railroad Photography; The Railroad Treasurer - Handling a railroad's money is as big a job as handling its cars and locomotives; Milwaukee Road S-2; Tintic, Utah; A Locomitive is Born - the engineering department strives for a design that will meet all operating needs; Wow! - Two-page photo of Union Pacific No. 4002 - the world's biggest. Average soiling and wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
