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191 p. Pictorial end papers. Bookplate of Dr. John O. Haman on front paste down and first fly leaf. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, spine slightly faded. Origina dust jacket, slightly rubbed at extremities. First Edition. Signed by the author. Hardbound. Very good. Good information on famous outlaws like: Black Bart; Rattlesnake Dick; Dick Fellows; Tom Bell; etc. W7
191 p. Pictorial end papers. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Second printing. Hardbound. Very good. Good information on famous outlaws like: Black Bart; Rattlesnake Dick; Dick Fellows; Tom Bell; etc. W7
ill., ril. Il trasporto intercomunale di Torino in un periodo storico che va dall'inizio del '900 a oggi, ripercorso attraverso i suoi mezzi con una completa documentazione che li presenta dalla loro entrata in funzione fino alla dismissione. Sono presentate anche immagini di veicoli restaurati, il tutto completato da tabelle con dati tecnici.
Magazine of the Austin Apprentices Association with various articles on their activities and interests. Various photographs. 40 pages.
Coloured flier, 4pp, single fold, folded measuring 8.5 x 5.5 ins (apporox. 22 x 14 cms); a fine copy.
134 pages. Cover photo of funnels of the SS "United States", queen of the transatlantic carriers; Nice color ad for a baby blue 1953 Cadillac; Fine color ad for a green 1953 Chrysler Imperal; Wedding photos of the Earl of Dalkeith to Jane McNeill, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Stanley Briggin and James Wadsworth Syminton with the former Sylvia Caroline Schlapp; Color-photo ad for the 1953 Ford Lincoln features dark teale two-door on city street; Nice Packard car ad features red two-door; Photos of 'Blaze Tapering" (hair singeing) as performed by D.J. Brown who owns a salon on New York's East Side; Amazing one-page color photo of General Motors' 'dream car' Le Sabre two-door convertible (silver) accompanies a great photo-illustrated article on futuristic North American car designs; Illustrated article on highway design by Robert Moses; Great color photo of Mrs. Edward C. Bridgman , Jr. fashionably dressed in yellow with yellow locomotive speeding behind her; Photo feature on the Wayzata, Minnesota home of Mr. and Mrs. George Halpin; Article on tourists taking their cars to Europe for driving trips; Many gorgeous pages of photo fashion ads in color and black and white; The Annual Tour of the Metropolitan Opera; Fashion photos upon a cruise ship; Two pages of photos from the Inauguration Ball for President Dwight Eisenhower; Beautiful fashion photos of Mrs. Bruce Thayer Benepe (the former Ruth Fillebrown of Boston and Newport), Mrs. John Livingston Beers (former Jane Gilbert of New York and Westport), Mrs. John H. Scott-Paine of Greenwich, Ann Reinicke, Bettina Thayer, Mrs. Hubert Faure, and Barbara Cavanagh; Beautiful fur fashion photos modelled by Catherine Manning Hannon, Mrs. Clayton Winship Johnson, and Mrs. Dino Yannopoulos; United States Lines ad includes photos of Sir Colin and Lady Anderson, Mrs. Casimir de Rham, Sir Shane Leslie, Mrs. Vincent Astor, and Mr. and Mrs. Staunton Williams; Six photos of the Las Madrinas Debutante Ball in Los Angeles include Charles Getchell and Alan Jordon with escorts, Adrienne Hepburn, Dorothy Lucile Donath, Judith Noyes Roach, Sally Ann Smith with Geroald Saltonstall Silsbee, Gretchen Helene Dockweiler, Richard Dockweiler Brady, David V. Homme, Barbara von Briesen, Dr. Hans van briesen, Marie Casey, Thomas Ingersoll, William Duffy Keller and Palmer Casey; Color Nash car ad (red) features photo of etiquette author Amy Vanderbilt; Mens fashion photo includes John Cameron Swayze and William Raiser; several page of high-end real estate ads; Color-photo Mary Grey hosiery ad inside back cover features sexy Seniorita in red dress with fan. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
108 pages. Cover photo of Italy's Isola dei Pescatori. Features: Many beautiful photo fashion ads in black and white and color; Five photos of the Moonlight Mist Ball include Vivian Goodman, Prince and Princess Artchil Gourielli, Nina Foch, Mrs. John Leib, Martha Crawford, Mary Elliman, Mrs. John Hilson, Minnie CassattMrs. Edward F. Hutton, Maurice Moore, Prince Serge Belosselsky-Belozersky, Mrs. Alfred L. Loomis, Jr., and W.E. Hutton; Herbert Tareyton cigarette ad features color illustration of Mrs. James "Monty" Waterbury fishing; Wedding photos include Hugh Montgomery Adams with the former Leta Margaret Nichols, Francis Arthur Carmody and the former Stalla Marie Carvin, Mr. and Mrs. William Barker Pattison (she the former Charlotte Preble Cabrera), Ensign Robert Woodhull Hopkins, the former Joan Elizabeth Dreher, Martin Hopkins Potter, Jean Drake Dreher, Robert C. Hopkins, and James Bovaird; Article on travel between Paris and Venice; Fur fashion photos with Rosalind Russell; Fashion photos of Mrs. Amory S. Carhart, Jr., Mrs. Dmitri Negroponte, Mrs. Winston Frost, Elinor Patricia Jones, Mrs. R. Thornton Wilson, Jr., Mrs. Joseph A. Meehan, Mrs. Charles H. Hornburg, Jr. (formerly Gwenn Welter), Mrs. Robert Hare (formerly Martha Michalis), Mrs. Bertrand Taylor III outside the Hotel Pierre, Mrs. James Averell Clark, Jr., Cornelia Lyman, Mrs. James F. Donovan, Mrs. Daniel G. Tenney, Jr., Mrs. Francis C. Lawrance, Catherine Campbell, Mrs. John S. Radway, Elaine Reed, Mrs. Robert P. Gibb, Mrs. William G. McKnight (formerly Le Brun Rhinelander), Mrs. Fletcher Godfrey (formerly Paulette Bragg), Mrs. Herman Harjes (formerly Tauni de Lesseps), Marguerite Higgins, Geraldine Page, Mrs. Thomas W. Phipps (exiting car at the Waldorf-Astoria), Susan Sexton (at the Drake Hotel), and Mrs. John R. McDonnell (formerly Dorothy Root), at the Lombardy Hotel; Jet vs. Prop - the new concept of jet air transportation, by Henri J. Lesieur, General Manager of Air France for North America; Misia Sert and the Muses (part II) - article with photos of Marcel Proust, Bone de Castellane, Princess "Dolly" Radziwill, Mrs. Eugene Kelly, Jr., Sergei Diaghilev, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Caruso; Photo feature on the farmlands home of Mr. and Mrs. Webster Tilton in Cooperstown; Photos of the Watch Hill residence of Ambassador to Cuba and Mrs. Arthur Gardner; Happy Birthday Oscar (Hammerstein) - a wonderful one-page photo-illustrated note from Richard Rodgers; United States Lines ad includes photos of Mr. and Mrs. Kingman Douglass, Hildegarde (famous chanteuse), Helen Hayes, and Messrs. Burnet, Grant and Vaughan; Half-page phot ad for the Waldorf-Astoria features Los Chavales who will be performing on the Starlight Roof; Color Nash car ad includes black and white photo of Miss Margaret Sullavan; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this charming issue. Book
32 page booklet, bilingual English/French. Appears to be circa 1986. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Apparently this item was offered to guests of the passenger Dayliner which traversed the rails of the E&N for decades. Includes details of place names, map, and answers to frequent questions. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Laid-in is menu for a 1984 E&N dinner of celebration at the Empress Hotel. Book
46 pages. Black and white illustrations. Features: Washington & Old Dominion Railway; Center Entrance Cars for KC & St. J.; Express & Freight Traffic in Providence; Boston's Two Rooms & Bath Articulateds; Illinois Traction Freight House at Springfield; Erie Railroad Electrified Branch; The Oregon Electric Railway; New Double Deck Cars for Pittsburgh; Track Reconstruction in San Francisco; Express Car for Auto Shipments (NOT&L); Center Entrance Cars for Memphiis; THI&E Terre Haute Terminal; New Cars for Michgan United; Chicago's Oil Delivery Car; Recent Passenger Stations in Los Angeles on PE; also other items, plans, maps and charts. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
58 pages. Features: Western Pacific orders Budd car after successful 10-day trial (short story); The Rutland Railroad - article with photos; The Locomotive in 1949 - railroads cut back diesel orders, almost forgot steam & admired the gas turbine - long article with photos; Ohio's last Narrow-Gauge - The Ohio River & Western - article with two great photos; Photo Section - including centerfold photo of Southern Pacific's Suntan Special in California; Broad Gauge Route - The Erie Railroad - photos; My Finest Train Trip - David P. Morgan describes his trip from New Orleans on the Panama Limited - with photos; Big Hook - the machinery and crews who clear away wrecks - super photos; Hub of the Washington Terminal - Ivy City Enginehouse services the steam, diesel and electric locomotives of the five railroads using the capital's Union Station - article with two photos; Los Angeles at Night - nice long-exposure photos; Casey Jones Died 50 Years Ago - article with photo; Lancaster & Chester - Miniature Division at Elliott Springs; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: F.O.B. Philadephia - The Budd RDC-1 - article with diagrams and many photos; International Dieselization - Canadian Pacific holds the honors for operating the first entirely dieselized North American international railroad division - photos and article; Extra 1555 West - from Pocatello to Portland over Union Pacific's Idaho and Oregon Divisions - long article with map and great photos; Photo Section - including centerfold of a Mallett K-4c class 2-6-6-2 No. 7533 leading 105 cars through Lewis Run, Pa.; The Miracle of Turtle Creek - The Story of George Washington's invention of the modern Air Brake - Long article with photos and detailed diagrams; The Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad - brief writeup with photos; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: News Photos; A Salute to Southern Pacific's Overland and Shasta Route - poetry with photos; Tide 470 - Two Chesapeake & Ohio hopper cars star in a drama (cover story); The Elegant Virginia City Private Rail Car; The Architecture of the Locomotive - photos and article; Samuel Unsull's - exit the Electric Interurbans (3); Britain invaded by Diesels; To Chama, Colorado and back on two pieces of D&RGW narrow iron; Southern Pacific's new Englewood Yard at Houston; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Songs Sung by Rail Crews; Canada's best trains - a pair of new streamliners have made two world records; Oasis in Dieseldom - Smoke over the Prairies - 8 - A Chicago & Illinois Midland 2-10-2 declares war on a Petersburg Hill - photos, captions and more; Chalk up another for RDC (Rail Diesel Car); Photo Section includes an awesome photo of the copper pit at Ruth, Nevada; Wonderful centerfold photo of Baltimore & Ohio's BR&P Pacific 5235 high above the Allegheny River at East Mosgrove, Pa; Air photos of the Hook & Dye Division of Louisville & Nashville's 8,000-foot Hiwassee Loop around Tate Mountain between Farner and Apalachia, Tenn; British Signals - and why they look that way - a detailed and interesting report; and more. Faint date stamp atop back cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Feature interview with James Miller Symes of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Atomic Locomotive Quiz; Smoke Over the Prairies - 7 - The Quaint and the Quiet; East Bay - photo section including great centerfold of the only Southern Pacific streamliner still drawn by steam - a 4-8-4; Where Time Stood Still - Mann's Creek; Sand Springs Railway's 10 miles of busy interurban; When Steam Ruled the B&M in New Hampshire - photos with captions; Nice colour Budd car ad on back cover; and more. Faint date stamp atop front cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Passenger Train speed is increasing but the big gains may be just ahead - a detailed article; How to hold a rail fan trip; Illinois Central Steam Power - Smoke over the Prairies - 5; Hundreds of Facts and Figures about Budd's remarkable Diesel Car; Train's 7th Annual Motive Power Survey; Diesel Sales of 1954; Daylilght photos of Southern Pacific's Coast Daylights; Nice color-illustrated ad for Budd passenger cars on back cover; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Latest fashions for the passenger-train wardrobe - including a wide choice of suspensions and transmissions; The Great Locomotive Chase - Walt Disney coaxes 2,000 miles of backwoods running out of two celebrated 4-4-0's; Nine Pages of Union Pacific's sublime locomotive Big Boy; Trains' 8th annual motive power survey looks back at 1955; Those new trains - more splash than speed?; Steam in 1956 - tracking down the last steam strongholds; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Burlington Railroad - What Makes it Tick? - Feature illustrated article (Part 1); Winter on the Glory Road; The Cliffside Railroad Co.; Photo Section including a super night photo of a steam loco at work; Hot Rods a Vapeur - the French have a matchless approach to the intricacies of valve motion and compounding and inside steam passages - article with photos; The Black Cat Wreck, by James Daugherty; Color Budd car ad on back cover; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Nice EMD ad celebrating their 25,000th locomotive - photo shows new car body and underframe being placed on trucks; Railroad News Photos; The $35 million dollar line relocation - revamp of tight spots on the 337-mile Cincinnati-Chattanooga line nears completion - photos; Sunshine Special, 1937; Unretarded Progress - GTW's Battle Creek Yard - super article, photos and diagrams; 5632 revisited - text and photo; Super-Interurban in Sunset - Farewell to the North Shore Line - nice article and photos; The Big Diesel That Didn't - when Baldwin tried to cram 6,000 HP into one cab - Max Essl; - great article with photos and diagram; On Reporting Marks; The Self-Sufficient Nomad - the Sperry Rail Detector Car; Great photo of a Rotary snowplow; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; The Pure Railroad - Why Reserve Mining's line is a lesson as well as an intraplant rock-hauler - great photos and article; "The Finest Parlor Car Ever Built for teh Electric Service" - Parlor 500 from the J.G. Brill works in 1904; great Photo section; The World's Greatest Mikado - Big g's unremarked 0-8 2-8-2's could outperform Berkshires - tables, photos and article; Railroading - does shrinkage equal survival? - article; and more. Average wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Big news for coach passengers; Nice color Fairbanks-Morse ad inside front cover; Railroad News Photos; Half page article on Southern Pacific's 13-mile solid fill across Great Salt Lake; Overshadowed by the Hoosac - illustrated article on other rail tunnels; The Railroad that Parliament Forgot - the Talyllyn in Wales; Super photo section including a shot inside the Paducah, KY steam locomotive shop; Four Aerotrain Photos; Washout - the monthly treatment of a steam locomotive; What Price Sleep? - the domes and diesels, decor and dining of Burlington's latest are de luxe indeed, but the big news lies in a bed just 24 inches wide; RDC (Rail Diesel Car) Breakthrough - Baltimore & Ohio takes the Budd (car) by the horns and shows what can be done; Missourie Pacific (Mopac) - maps; Steam in Indian Summer 8 - by David P. Morgan; Very nice color ad for the Northern Pacific Railway on back cover; and more. Unmarked. A sound copy., Magazine
Features: Editorial - Biggest News from EMD since 1939; What EMD will have in its showrooms in 1966 - 2 pages of diagrams and photos; Photos of the Mississippi Maelstrom; Steam News Photos; Night photo of No. 45684 in England; Can New York City live happily ever after with 34,000 commuters? - what price rails to suburbia? - long article with illustrations and map; The Case of the Curved-Side Lightweight, introduced by the Cincinnati Car Company - Traction Classics; Photo Section - American Railroading... in 1908; Monarch Branch... after; Boarding the Century at Utica - excerpt from a 'Trains' reader letter; 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
Features: Super Power Survives! - 14 pages of NKP 759; Exclusive - Viet Nam Rails, firsthand! - long article with many illustrations; Railroad News Photos; Southern's Computer records car locations; Daniel "Uncle Dan" Willard and his one of a kinds; Modesto & Empire Traction... diesel style - a short but solvent story by Ted Benson; and more. Average wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Is there a freight car shortage? - No! - The Rolling Stock Riddle - 4; 100 mph plus on the MILW (Milwaukee Road) - a quarter-century ago steam made time that would make a diesel blush; Parlor Car East - the Long Island caters to the carriage trade (LIRR); Photo Section; The Crow and the Kettle - Canadian Pacific's unremarked crossing of the Continental Divide - article and photos; The Demi-Empire of Georgia-Pacific; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Railroad news photos; New Haven's FL9's under the Waldorf-Astoria; My favorite cars are not automobiles! - David P. Morgan pages through a portfolio of extraordinary passenger cars - wonderful photos; The Clean Window Train - the Empire Builder - nicely illustrated article; Meet the M1 - awesome photo section; Speed on Rails - an exclusive analysis of North American Train Speed; What the recession means to the locomotive world; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine