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Features: 18 wonderfully illustrated pages of the North Coast Limited with substantial text (including photo of Babe Ruth)!; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Locomotives you didn't expect to meet on the Santa Fe Trail - big, new AT&SF engine book includes surprises; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Passengers for the Graham County; In Canada in '67 - Trains vs. Cars and jets - Turbotrain/Go Train; These 567's speak any language - a passport for dieseldom's most famous power plant - in gauges from 36" to 5'6" - EMD; Can Mr. Barriger Save Miss Katy? - one man's fight to save the sickest railroad west of the Mississippi; G.I. in Civvies - locomotives have been subject to the draft since the time of Lincoln; The most uncommon Garratts of all - in Europe - nice photos; Rio Grande laid rails to Wet Mountain Valley Twice - long article, photos and table; The Pennsy 6100; and more. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Railroad News Photos; Early Turbotrain photo; Steam News Photos; photos of a 1948 derailment near Adamsville, Alabama; Guess Who Operates the Largest Railroad System in the Free World? - India! - Article, Map and Photos; The Moguls of Marietta - Glover Machine Works built over 500 locomotives - article and photos; photo section; Incredible two-page 1903 photo of a head-on collision east of Hebron, Indiana; How the Freight Car Problem Got That Way... a History Lesson - The Rolling Stock Riddle - 2; Blue Mountains Revisited - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
58 pages. Features: Florida Woodburners - Lumber railroads still use scrap-burning locomotives - article and many great photos; Today's Monon - the story of what the new president has done since the CI&L came out of receivership - article with photos; The Busy Beeliners - After several months trial in actual service, it appears the Budd-built RDC-1 has a solid rail future - photos with article; Photo Section includes dramatic centerfold photo of the Cumberland-Pittsburgh line at the top of the hill at Sand Patch Tunnel; Night ride on the El Capitan - board Santa Fe's biggest money-maker in Kansas City and ride to Chicago - article with photos; The Evolution of Railroad - fascinating article with great historic illustrations; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Lake St. Tower - focal point of the entire Chicago & North Western Railway is the six-track terminal throat; Off the Beaten Track - Round Trip Tickets are Honoured over this interesting mountain branch of the Northern Pacific; Passenger Agent - Making friends by satisfying passengers is his job - satisfied passengers ship freight too; Mother Hubbard Locomotives - Wide fire boxes of anthracite-burning locos crowded the cab forward; Keeping the Line Open - The railroads, more than any other private enterprise, strive to maintain service and give relief in major disasters; Now and Then - Cripple Creek Short Line in Colorado; Cross Roads of the North - Rouses Point, New York, first served by Champlain & Ogdensburg Raiway, now part of Rutland system; A Streamliner is Born - Dixie Flagler is one of three new high speed trains, pioneers in fast Chicago-Miami service; Wabash Railway at Chicago - best time of year for photographing Wabash locomotives is now - best place is Landers Yard - many locomotive photos; Illinois Central 4-6-0. Small date stamp atop front cover. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
8 pages in blue card covers. A short article intended to preserve the history and statistics of the Wellington Colliery Railway, one of the early narrow-gauge railways which ushered in wide gauge on Vancouver Island before the transcontinental railways reached the shores of the Pacific. The railway was abandoned in 1899, and the locomotives and rails taken to Extension. Today, timber grows on the old grades over which millions of tons of Wellington coal had been hauled." - from pages 3 and 5. Includes copies of 5 black and white photographs which show the first train to Wellington in 1880, the locomotive Columbia, the last coal to be hoisted in the Nanaimo-Wellington district in November 1953, and more. Author was chief inspector of the Railways Branch. Unmarked. Average wear. Some damage to bottom two inches of left margin of page 3. Blue card covers. Book
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 27 plates on 14 and 16pp of diagrammatic route guide, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down, some light and occasional spotting; original pictorial red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, red top, neatly recased, a very good, firm copy. Recalling the heady days of LMS immediately before WWII, Laurie Earl's minute-by-minute account of a day on the footplate on the London-Carlisle run has long been recognised as a railway classic. Ottley 4196, 6835.
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
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Two Daylights Daily - Southern Pacific's West Coast streamliners carry 1,500 passengers a day; Greatest Show on Earth - New York Division P RR; Washing Locomotives - article and photos; David Moffat's Dreams Come True - his life work - a transcontinental railroad west from Denver; Grizzly Flats Railroad; Please note: we believe this is the January, 1942 issue, not January 1941 as stated on title page. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Milwaukee Electrification - CMStP&P electric locomotives help each other climb the Rockies and the Cascades; Varnish Vignettes - Passing thoughts, railroads and travel; Loss- $5,500 /day - railroad companies often lose money but must maintain their service - New Haven case story; Southern Pacific old-timers at Sacramento; Electricity powers trains in Chicago; One-Man Railroad in Rhode Island - 5.6-mile Wood River Branch Railroad is the link between Hope Valley and the New Haven; ; Shay Locomotives - Lima's best seller is an out-puller too! - Shays pull extra heavy loads on sharp curves, steep grades; Engine "999"; Blue Ridge Railway - with aspirations of a thorough line nipped by the Civil War, BR Ry. becomes traffic link; Pennsylvania's "The Jeffersonian" - new fast coach train between St. Louis and the East follows success of Trail Blazer; Hiawathas at New Lisbon - when four steam-powered streamliners meet at a single point there's bount to be real activity. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Great Northern Electrics - The Cascade electrification ; The Man in the Tower; Colorado Midland - a martyr to the cause of commerce and industry - major article with many super photos; Old EL Locomotives - they turned on a nickel; New Illinois Central 4-8-2's - Data on the 2600 class; Worth it in Cold Cash - capable legal and claim departments often save a railroad their cost many times over; Chicago Subway - after 39 years of planning, Windy City approaches goal of underground transit; "War Babies" - denied new locomotives by War Production Board, railroads turn to rebuilding some of their older power - many shop photos; First "Pacific"? - CM&StP conversion. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Saga of the UP Streamliners - many years of experimentation led to 17-car coast streamliners of today; Utah Interurbans; The Lady Said No - Lady Baltimore balked at pulling trains for which she was not designed - awaits dismantlers; By Rail Across Lake Michigan - car ferries run every day, winter or summer, cutting mileage and avoiding the congested Chicago area; Railfans on Parade - the New Yorker's reporter-at-large takes a look at an institution which has vanished for the duration; Diesel in the Rockies - internal combustion and steam work together on the climb to the Moffat Tunnel; Your Guess is Good - Railroad picture quiz; White Pass & Yukon - Bill Moore's Trip, Part II - a trek on a three-foot gauge grapevine stepped in mining lore; Locomotives of the White Pass & Yukon; New Tunnel - larger locomotives force replacement of tunnel 85 years old - the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) between Afton and Waynesboro, Va; Average wear and soiling. Centerfold lookse but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
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.
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!
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.
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
