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32 pages. Features: A Message from Baldwin; The Pennsylvania Railroad Company Centenary - article with illustrations of the many locomotives which have served it; World's Largest Plate Mill - Lukens Steel Company - illustrated article; Baldwin Steam Trams in New Zealand; Just Pictures; Special Delivery - amazing photos and captions describe the job of the Messenger, whose job it was to deliver new locomotives from plant to customer; The Second Nisqually Power Development - La Grande Power House near Tacoma, WA - great photos and article; A Veteran Returns - the tanker USS Kaloli returns from Navy service in the Pacific to resume service as the Flying A - photos with article. Average wear. Prior owner's faint name stamp atop table of contents. A sound vintage copy. Book
76 pages. Features: Record Breaking Locomotive in the Argentine Republic - The "Big Bus"; A New Baldwin Dynamometer Car for the Central Railway of Brazil - very detailed article with many excellent photos; J. Snowden Bell - Obituary with photo; The St. Louis-San Francisco Railway and its motive power - long article with many great photos; The Modern Clasp Brake - detailed bilingual (English/Spanish) article supported by excellent graphics; The Great Northern Railway's New Cascade Tunnel - informative article and photos of this great engineering achievement; Erecting the New Terminal Section of the Sorocabana Railway at Sao Paulo, Brazil; Recent Locomotives; A Novel Pumping Plant in the Grand Canyon - article with great photos; The McCollum-Peters Electric Telemeter - great technical article with photos; The Thunder Lake Lumber Company of Rhinelander, Wisconsin - great article with archival photos; Development of Locomotive Boiler Stays; Ten pages of excellent photo ads. Average external soiling and wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's small namestamp atop table of contents and page 5. A sound vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: The North Western Railway of India - Lengthy article with dozens of wonderful photos; How New Locomotives Pay for Themselves through Savings in Maintenance; Locomotive Feed Water Devices - article with photos and many detailed diagrams; Designing a Modern Ice Plant- informative article with many photos; Huge 66" 50-ton Gate Valve for use beneath New York City; Ship by Rail - promoting the use of railways for shipping; The First Baldwin Locomotives for Persia - interesting details about Persia's rail system - 4 Mogul (2-6-0) units ordered; The History and Development of Locomotive Crains and Heavy Deck Machinery - informative bilingual (English/Spanish) article with great vintage photos; Twelve pages of excellent photo ads. Average wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's small namestamp atop table of contents. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
72 pages. Features: Single Expansion Articulated Locomotives on the Western Pacific Railroad - with interesting information about the railroad and stunning photos in the Feather River Canyon; Five Baldwin Locomotives for the U.S.S.R. Railways - excellent photos of their fabrication and loading onto ships; Baldwin Locomotives of Historic Interest; The Baldwin-Southwark Corporation - a detailed treatment with many superb photos; An Unusual Order for large Bronze Castings - Manganese Bronze Pipe Castings for New York City's Water Supply System; California Lumber Moves Eastward - short article with photo courtesy of the McCloud River Railroad Company showing the "Shevlin Pine Special"; The History and Development of Locomotive Cranes and Heavy Deck Machinery - Bilingual (English/Spanish) article with amazing photos; Two Locomotive Boilers go Overboard in rough seas off Brazil - with photos; Testing a 4-8-4 Type Locomotive on the Lehigh Valley Railroad - includes very detailed technical specifications/test results; Eliminating the Hot Engine around the Terminal Shop - a new electric spotter is manufactured by the Whiting Corporation; Thirteen pages of excellent photo ads. Average wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's small namestamp atop table of contents. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
76 pages. Features: George H. Houston - new President of Baldwin Locomotive Works; Single Expansion Articulated Locomotives - major article with many excellent locomotive photos;;Solving a Maintenance Problem in India - photos of large-scale human labour at work; Recent Locomotives; A New Dynamometer Car for the Northern Pacific Railway - photos and article; The Texas and Pacific Railway - detailed company profile with many photos; Robert W. Weidenbacker - obituary; The Modern Drop Pit Table (bilingual English/Spanish) - superb detailed article with excellent photos; The Commercial Minerals of the Union of South Africa - interesting article with photos of rolling stock in use; The Rehabilitation of the Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad - informative article with great archival photos; Keeping a Locomotive Clean - the D&M cleaning process of applying a stream of oil, water and air - has largely replaced hand washing; Ten pages of excellent photo ads. Average external soiling and wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's small namestamp atop table of contents. A sound vintage copy. Book
60 pages. Features: Operating Articulated Locomotives in Fast Frieght Service on the Baltimore and Ohio; The Effect of Boiler Capacity on Revenue; The Chilean State Railways - superb article with many photos; A New Locomotive for the Alaska Railroad - The Baldwin Mountain (4-8-2); Gas-Electric Locomotives - detailed article with photos; New Motive Power for the Lehigh Valley Railroad - ten 4-8-4 locomotives are added; Evolution of the Southwark-Emery Testing Machine - article with many photos including a superb shot of their 4 million pound unit - the world's largest and finest precision testing unit; The Illinois Terminal Railroad System - informative article with great photos. Ten pages of excellent ads. Average wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's small namestamp atop table of contents. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
84 pages. Features: Where do good locomotives go when they die?; The Western Maryland Railway - very long article with dozens of super photos; James McNaughton - obituary; Locomotive Coal, Sand and Cinder Handling Facilities - article and wonderful photos of contemporary technology; The Island of Jamaica and its Railway system - Substantial article with many great photos; Recent locomotives; The Building of a large flanging press - superlative article and photos describe the fabrication of a 1,400 ton Southwark press destined for use in the Eddystone plant; An Epoch in the History of Industry - June 28 marked the completion of the final transfer of the Works from Philadelphia to Eddystone - extensive coverage and numerous photos; The Commonwealth Edison Company and the Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway - article with photos; Heavy Trains and runs on the Chinese Eastern Railway - lengthy article with many archival photos - superb documentation; A Notable Shipment of All-Steel Passenger Equipment for Brazil - fascinating photos and description of the loading of 23 rail cars onto the motorship "Belpareil"; A Unique Logging Railroad - the Porterfield & Ellis Company of Ontonagon County, Michigan - interesting article and photos; Gasoline Locomotives for Industrial Switching - built by Whitcomb; Ten pages of excellent photo ads. Average external soiling and wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's small namestamp atop table of contents. A sound vintage copy. Book
80 pages. Features: Motive Power Progress on the Chicago and North Western - very lengthy article with dozens of wonderful photos; Arthur Latham Church - obituary with photo portrait; Testing Railway Motor Cars - detailed article with many photos; The First Steam Railroad in the State of New Jersey - The Camden & Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company; The Manufacturer's Railway Company of St. Louis; The Railways of New South Wales - long article with many excellent photos; A Roundhouse Pit Crane; Extending the Electric Truck Range - Jaw-dropping article on the state of electric delivery trucks way back in 1931... including the following comment "The electric street truck has been with us for such a long time that many truck users feel they know it and know all about it."... (so why don't we have them now???); Baldwin Locomotives of Historic Interest; The Redwood Empire Special - the greatest single rail shipment of lumber in the history of the west - 117 cars with more than 3,000,000 feet of lumber - with photos; Fourteen pages of excellent photo ads. Average wear. Binding intact. Prior owner's small namestamp atop table of contents. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
1950LFA-126724521Une revue de 24 pages, format 150 x 230 mm, illustrée, brochée, publiée en 1950, bon état
198634493BBStuttgart, Motorbuch Verl., 1986. 1. Aufl. 4° 216 S. überwiegend Ill. OLwd., mit Schutzumschl. Leichte Bräunung, sauber und gut erhalten. 1
Magazine of the Bluebell Railway with numerous photographs, much information. A little dogeared with creases to page edges and light wear down spine.
3375S.l.: S.n. . . Oblong 8vo marbled boards new red leather spine Detailed descriptions of locomotives of different classes supplied to various railway lines. The first section preceded by a table containing the companies included and brief specifications for each is for the "Four-Coupled Bogie 4-4-0 Express Engines". The 17 engines including the Class C & D vary according to the designer and these include Wainwright Ivatt Pettigrew Drummond and others and are for many of the major railway lines of the U.K. The second group deals with 10 of the "Four-Coupled Atlantic 4-4-2 Express Engines . This is followed by 8 "Six-Coupled Bogie 4-6-0 Express Engines"; 2 "2-4-0 Passenger Engines". Then 14 little blueprints of the "Six-Coupled Goods 0-6-0. Also included are Mineral Engines Tank Engines etc. A remarkable collection of a variety of different engine types for a great variety of lines designed by many of the top designers. S.l.: S.n., . hardcover
3375S.l.: S.n. . . Oblong 8vo marbled boards new red leather spine Detailed descriptions of locomotives of different classes supplied to various railway lines. The first section preceded by a table containing the companies included and brief specifications for each is for the "Four-Coupled Bogie 4-4-0 Express Engines". The 17 engines including the Class C & D vary according to the designer and these include Wainwright Ivatt Pettigrew Drummond and others and are for many of the major railway lines of the U.K. The second group deals with 10 of the "Four-Coupled Atlantic 4-4-2 Express Engines . This is followed by 8 "Six-Coupled Bogie 4-6-0 Express Engines"; 2 "2-4-0 Passenger Engines". Then 14 little blueprints of the "Six-Coupled Goods 0-6-0. Also included are Mineral Engines Tank Engines etc. A remarkable collection of a variety of different engine types for a great variety of lines designed by many of the top designers. S.l.: S.n., . hardcover books
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 128pp. This volume covers the immediate post-Beeching years of British Railways and the next nine years of working. An equal balance between textual articles and photographs.
5 vols., oblong 4to., First Edition, with drawings and tables throughout; pictorial boards, a near fine set. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE. Ottley 15800, 17961, 18481, 18128, 18933 respectively.
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.
196395208Shepperton, Middlesex, Ian Allan Ltd. 1963 In-4 à l’italienne 22 x 33 cm. Reliure spirale noire, premier plat illustré en couleurs, 45 pp., 22 plans de locomotives à pleine page avec notice en regard. Exemplaire en bon état.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley, 8128.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight rubbing to upper corners and minor traces of storage. 164pp. The author provides a detailed study of the evolution of each Atlantic design, the variations which were made in later experiments, details of outstanding performance by each 4-4-2 type and tables of their numbers, building dates and leading dimensions.
8vo., First Edition, with 70 plates on 32 and illustrations and tables in the text; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A standard reference, and companion to the author's volume on the Pacifics. Ottley, 10439.
Roy. 4to., Third Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original laminated photographic boards, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled with two closed tears. First published in 1945 and reissued in 1991. Ottley 3077 (recording the second edition)
95p. illus. Hardcover Very good condition
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., with plates (a number double-page), and numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley, 2835, 4052 (recording the first edition of 1893).
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.