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Features: North Eastern Train Services of 1905 - Half a Century of Train Travel, No. 49; The Lyme Regis Branch; Last of the Midland 0-6-0s; Some Trips to Remember; Snowplough to Blaenau Ffestiniog; Then Came the Snow; Early Railway Photographers; End of the Isle of Man Railway?; TW Saloon No. 9044 Preserved; Fireless Locomotives at Glaxo Plant; and more. Moderate wear. Small marking atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: The "Queen of Scots" - Half-a-century of Train Travel, No. 28; Modern Czechoslovakian Steam Locomotives - Part I; The M.& G.N. Route to Cromer; London Midland Steam - Locomotive Causerie; Memories of the Bristol-Birmingham mainline 60 years ago; A Swiss Tank Takes a Bathe; The County Down Railway and The Tourist Trophy Race; and more. Moderate wear. Price stamped atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Last Bite at the Orange; GN Electrification Progress; A Look at CIE in 1972; Two American Preserved Lines; Festival of Steam in York; Torbay Steam; Isle of Man Glimpses; Goals to Newcastle; The LCGB in Portugal; The West Highland Today; Solving an LCDR Picture Puzzle; Steam Returns to Scotland; Deptford Wharf in the Early Twenties; Capitulation on the Somme; A Worcestershire Industrial Locomotive; Railway Locomotives - No. 6 - a Midland Railway Boundary Marker; A Hall at Bourne End; and more. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: The LNER B1 4-6-0s in Retrospect; Beyer-Garratt Locomotives in South Africa; Past, Present and Future at Yieldingtree; Two Miles a Minute - by steam - LNWR 2-2-2 No. 3020 Cornwall; Light Railway Timetables 1968; Around Britain's Light Railways; End of Steam to Buxton; End of BR's Observation Cars; and more. Moderate wear. Writing on front cover and throughout contents. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: The Kings Cross - Cleethorpes Expresses; To Rail 150 (photos); North Road Museum; Locomotives of 50 Years ago - 2; The Last Years of the LNER - 2; Woodhams at Barry in Retrospect - second in the roll of famous scrapyards only to the Steptoe establishment; South African Railways; Springboard in the Savoy; A Royal Event; New Trains for Piccadilly Line; Motive Power Miscellany; and more. Unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight fading to spine and no bumping to corners. 128pp. Features of the year, including a report on Beeching - 20 years on.
Twelve issues. Small address mark on (usually) rear cover. No other marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers Twelve very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. January edition missing upper corner of front cover. Otherwise all in very good (+) condition. Total of 537pp. Whole year January 1973 to December 1973 of Railway World magazine.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slight dustiness to front board along hinge crease and no bumping to corners. 147pp.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. This volume brings the story of design for British Railways from 1914 up to 1969. It includes the aftermath of two world wars, the Railway Grouping of 1923 and the nationalization of 1948. Heavily illustrated with color and b&w plates, chapters include Steam's finest years, Steam coaching stock, Railcars and electrics, Architecture in the doldrums, Ulitilarian steam design, Alternatives to steam, Post-war Carriages, Changeover from steam, Comfort for the passenger, New railway architecture, Graphic miscellany, 1923 - 1969, with posters, flyers, ads, insignia, crests etc. Book is from the reference dept. of a library and has been well cared for.
Features: Pacific Coast Company Expends Vast Sums of Money Yearly; New Rules for Use of Pass; Commercial Club of Seattle hosts Gifford Pinchot, the man responsible for Alaska's strangling and the lull in Seattle's commercial advancement; Annual Report of the Great Northern Railway Co.; Canadian Northern lets contract for ten steel bridges between Cisco and Kamloops; O.W.R. & N. to Extend Line from North Yakima to Coast; Electric Locomotives That Will Tow Vessels Through Panama Canal - article with sideview cutaway diagram; Atlantic and Pacific Transport Company News; Great Interest in Contract to carriage mail between the U.S. coasts via the Panama Canal; What the Port Commission Has Done and Is Doing - article with illustration of the American Hawaiian steamer Honolulan; Many Contracts for the Moran Company; American Capital to Construct Big Coaling Plants Along Panama Canal; Fine Steamer the Kilauea - article with illustration; Com. Tillman Defends Alaska Lighthouses; Marine Insurance and Shipping Law Review; Full Court Decision re. Santa Rosa Stranding; Pacific Coast Casualties; An Industry That Prospers Here - Seattle Paint Co. - article with detailed photo inside their plant where Ironite Deck and Floor Paints are made; Extensive Repairs to S.S. AL-KI; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Coverfold mostly open, otherwise average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Features: 40,000 People Visit New Oregon-Washington Passenger Terminal - Over two pages of informative content including illustration of the new Seattle passenger terminal of the O.W. R. & N. Co. on opening day, May 20, 1911; C.M. & P.S. Ry. Co. Inaugurates Through Passenger Service; Former Seattle Mayor Robert Moran sees the Panama Canal causing trouble ahead for Seattle unless a change in system is effected; Professional biography of E.J. Pearson who, for the past five years, was chief engineer of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound (with photo of Mr. Pearson); The Lumber Trade and the Railways; "Railophone" tests in England allow phone calls from one moving train to another; Canadian Pacific to burn Oil; Government Must Act Now on Alaska Coal Cases! - major article; Description of the Pace Oil Engine - including photo; Influence of the Panama Canal on the World's Commerce; Death of Capt. Franz S. Moore - brief article and photo of "one of the best known, most experienced and skillful navigators on the North Pacific"; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Description of the largest-ever Air Reversing Propeller designed by L.H. Coolidge of Seattle for the barkentine Archer - article with photo; News of Tacoma; Prospects Are Promising for the Bering Sea Season; Casualties to Pacific Coast Shipping; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
Previous owner's name inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor rub to foot of spine and no bumping to corners. 64pp. Trains of all British regions with many of the locomotives in the colour liveries of their original companies.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Price corner on half-title page not clipped. Appears unread. 96pp. Pictorial study of the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. Also with separate 1973 K&WVLR Timetable.
154 pages. Features: Remembering the North Shore Line after 21 years; Pacific Coast Logging - Steam Locomotives; Harford Associates for Railroad Modeling; Plans for 5 small, but interesting, layouts; Easy Bridge Mounting - a simple way to avoid track allighment problems when installing bridges; The Milwaukee Road's latest paint scheme; Coal cars for the Colorado Midland; Signs and Philosophy; Beginning from Scratch; RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award - CPR Kootenay Divsion short van; Cathels & Sorenson's Prairie in the Mountains; The water tank at Chemainus, B.C. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Gateway Yard (Pittsburgh and Lake Erie); Push-Button Yards; Dollar a Division - Western Roads used to welcome the now-vanishing hobo; Concrete ties in Sweden; Roster of Maine Cental Lines; Louisville and Nashville Locomotives; and more. Small date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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
192p., illus. Hardcover Good condition in fair d.j. fair
1st edition, hardback in a protected dust jacket. VG/VG (price clipped). 21796. eng
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!
No marks or inscriptions. Very faint creasing adjacent to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny trace of label removal and no bumping to corners. 48pp. Mainly pictorial study plus some text of early Nottingham rail transport plus electric trams (part 2).
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley, 12347.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured and monochrome full-page illustrations, and smaller drawings in the text; original wrappers, backstrip mildly worn at head and tail (but binding wholly sound), a very good, bright, clean copy. Ottley, 6152.
76 pages. Features: Boeing photo ad features experimental military equipment powered by gas turbines; Korea Controversy; Ike's Patronage Problems; Senator Styles Bridges says "Atomize Foe if we Must"; High feelings in High Court on Dixie School Segregation; Investigations - Red Front Funds; Korean War coverage; Color ad for General Tires; Nice two-page color ad for National Steel; Fairbanks-Morse color ad highlights New Orleans; Riots and Riches in North Africa - many troubles beset France; Indo-China setback; White defiance in South Africa; Photo of Sweden's Greta Hoffstrom who now appears on that country's money; Nice one-page two-color Hilton Hotels ad features proclamation of Christmas; Illustrations of Moscow fashions; Nice illustrated two-color ad for Continental Motors Corporation features heavy equipment at work; Fantastic color-photo-illustrated centerfold ad for Lockheed features their new Super Constellation - awesome cabin photos!; Canada/CBC's TV "Iron Curtain" is finally pierced by private broadcasters; Artists with Brush and Talent Paint Americana for Americans - Norman Rockwell, Al Parker, Joe De Mers, Harold Von Schmidt, Floyd Cavis; Nice two-page color ad for General Motors (GM) trucks, locomotives and other heavy equipment; Nice two-color one-page ad for the Mallory UHF converter (radio); Basketball article; Fred Haney photo; Brief obituaries for Comdr. Charles H. Lightoller and Capt. Charles G. Duffy; Howard Hughes back in charge of RKO; Henry Hazlitt writes on the collapse of controls; Asiatic Fever; Gamma Globulin Bank; Champion spark plug ad features photo of Indianapolis 500 winner Louis Meyer; Hyster forklift ad on last page; and more. Covers heavily-worn and loose but present. Above-average external soiling. Minor tape repair to spine. A worthy vintage copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Details and photo for movie of the month "Presenting Lily Mars"; Lear Avia ad features A.F. (Duke) Krantz; Brief obituaries for William R. Grace, Cardinal Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti and Conrad Veidt; With Tunisian Victory Close, Where Will Allies Strike Next - major war coverage; What will the Italian Navy do?; Photos show Pilot Standring before he and other flew from a wire landing strip to attack the Japanese air base at Munda in the Solomons; World Bases After Victory - We Face a Delicate Problem - article with photo of Admirals King and Leahy, and General Marshall - plus large map proposing how US can be world's policeman; Great color-photo Camel cigarette ad centered on Navy men attracting ladies; Excellent color-photo ad for Diamond To Motor Trucks shows military activity in the high desert; Great color futuristic ad for Timken Axles shows orange super-transport; Very unique Ford centerfold ad for "The Toughest Fords Ever Built" shows Ford tanks!; Many other ads for suppliers of military supplies; Canaris loses to Himmler in contest for power - may cripple the vaunted Nazi intelligence system; Has U.S. enough aluminum?; Nice color ad for GM diesel locomotives; The Diamond Hill Machine Shop at Cos Cob, CT operated by Harold Powers - write-up with nice photo; Postwar planning on money; Basketball photo shows Kenny Sailors of Wyoming; Unusual photo ad for Douglas Fir Plywood shows it being used to make concrete ships!; Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio; Nice color ad for Studebaker shows trucks braving the snowy Alcan Highway; and much more. Above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
108 pages. Features: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Fiberglas ad shows military water tank in Pacific war theatre; Nice photo ad for the National Dairy Products Corp. features sailors doing laundry in South Pacific; United States Rubber ad features tractor tires from 1941 and tank tires from 1945; Uncommon E.H. Scott Radio ad features photo of E.H. Scott; Nice one-page two-color ad for Baldwin diesel locomotives; AiResearch ad features photo of Eddie Rickenbacker; Nice photo ad for Bristol Brass of Bristol, CT features snarly executive; Japs Lose Hope - Nazis Hide Away - Major war coverage; Amazing photos of Third Army rolling two columns along an autobahn while a massive column of prisoners marches the other way; Down Together - Wehrmacht and People; Photos of emaciated US POWs from near Limburg; Nazis killed Vienna's Spirit - Now they doom its beauty to ruin; Sea Blockade by Air - The Modern Way; Nice one-page color ad for Borden's features Elsie the Cow; Dodge Truck ad features nice photo of milkman; Veterans' Administration Under Fire - Hospitals said to be mismanaged; The Crumbling Reich; Nice one-page color ad for Johnson's Wax features photo of Fibber McGee and Molly; Ann Mealer of the Army Nurse Corps; Hunger in Manila; Photo of Billy Hamilton of Brooklyn who is the champion paper collector of his neighborhood; Really nice one-page ad for New York Central shows many jobs/services provided on their passenger trains; Futuristic lawn mower on one-page ad for Bohn; 1941 photo of Japan's Matsuoka signing neutrality pact with Stalin and many others; Lost battles and slap from Moscow shake props of Jap ruling clique; While Holland Starves; Nice color-photo Kokak ad; Photo of L/Cpl. James Howe and his mother Pvt. Minnie Howe of Collingwood, Ontario; Great one-page photo ad for Speed Nuts shows B-29 over Tokyo; Battle against Pellagra in Deep South; Photo of Babe Ruth as wrestling referee; Nice one-page two-color ad encourages people to move to Seattle; A planned economy for Germany; and more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
