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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
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
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
A particularly interesting issue with topics ranging from the 100 horsepower blower for the organ in the new Chicago Stadium to an English vending machine which dispenses individual lit cigarettes. Features: The eyes and ears of the railroad - the complicated signal system that spells safety for rail travel; Editorials - Arthur G. Halfpenny - An Awakening Due - Lopsided progress; International Affairs; Did a meteorite strike a car in Crawfordsville?; New light on old fools - ultr-violet irradiation to create vitamin D; Unique solutions of bridge construction problems - caissons sunk on artificial islands - divers employed; Vacuum tubes in industry - thermionic tubes, grid-glow relays, photo cells find wide use; A new use for radium - radiography possible without combersome apparatus; Radio goes man-hunting - radio alarm system reduces the criminal's chance of escape; New temperature measurements of the sun, moon, mars - sensitive thermo-couples reveal surface conditions; Chicago's "Madison Square Garden" - called "world's largest sports arena"; has unusual features; Butterfly farming - an intriguing business started by Iowa youth; When locomotives go to sea - special steamers built to accomodate monsters of the rails (excellent photos); A machine-age "milk maid" - the "rotolactor' milks 240 cows in one hour; Centrifugally spun concrete piles - new manufacturing process; mass production of preserved foods - a huge industry that grew from a market basket; Salt making in India - Primitive methods illustrated and described. Average wear. Unmarked. Crease to front cover. Advertisement inside front cover features photo of luxurious Cord front drive automobile manufactured by the Auburn Automotive Company. Book
Five editions of the magazine. No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. Very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. No 149 is slightly damp wrinkled but no loss to text or photos. 3 x 78, 1 x 90, 1 x 98pp. Steam Railway magazines May 1992, Sep 1992, Mar 1994, Dec 1994 and Aug 1995.
109082Nicolas collection sd In-4 à l’italienne broché 20,5 cm sur 29. Français-Flamand. 28 pages. Très bon état d’occasion.
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.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread, photographs and diagrams throughout, and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges. Nock's vividly written account of locomotive journeys undertaken during 1951. Scarce, especially in this condition. Ottley, 3083.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 115 plates on 62 and several tables and diagrams in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Profusely illustrated, and one of the author's scarcest works. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Ottley, 1496.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, plates and diagrams in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised version of the scarce original edition of 1960. Profusely illustrated, and one of the author's scarcest works. Ottley, 1496 (recording the first edition).
197332208London Blandford press 1973 4 volumes avec leurs jaquette en bel état, 200 pp environ pour chaque volume , les dates de parution sont diverses pour chaque volume
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley, 8128.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Ottley, 6976.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, title-vignettes and very numerous photographs and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text; green cloth, gilt backs, dustwrapper of first volume sunned at backstrip else a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Part 1: Inside-Cylinder Classes 1894-1910; Part 2: 'Counties' to the Close 1904-1961. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Ottley, 11984.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, title-vignettes and very numerous photographs and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text; maroon cloth, gilt backs, a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Ottley, 12105.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces (one coloured), title-vignettes and very numerous photographs and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text; maroon cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Part 1: 1906-1930; Part 2: 1930-1965. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Ottley, 11981.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette and numerous photographs and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text; maroon cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley, 12205.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette and numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text; maroon cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley, 12365.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette and numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text; maroon cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley, 12305.
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight rubbing to corners and traces of storage. 136pp.
1st Pan edition. VG pbk. ISBN 033002681X. 20478. eng
Inscription on front end paper. No other marks. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked maroon cloth boards, slight foxing to page edges and minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with some creasing and minor indenting. 156pp. A series of coloured image with very detailed descriptions of locomotives, rolling stock and some architecture from the early days of railways.
191935935London 1919. Mit zahlr. Zeichn., Tab., Planskizz. u. Abb. i. T. u. a. Taf./Faltblätt. XVI, 646 S. Ldrbd. Goldgepr. Rückentitel. 42x29 cm.
191935936London 1919. Mit zahlr. Zeichn., Tab., Planskizz. u. Abb. i. T. u. a. Taf./Faltblätt. XV, 648 S. Ldrbd. Goldgepr. Rückentitel. 42x29 cm.
