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Railway World Magazine: November 1960
Features: Bricklayers Arms and the Southern Region Light Pacifics; Rival Routes to Bristol - Part 1; Two Irish Idylls - Evening Train from Enniskillen; Diesel over Dingle Bay; The "Left Bank" Electrics of Paris - Part One; Orphans of a Brighton Storm - a little-known and somewhat unsavoury episode in L.B. & S.C. locomotive history a century ago; An Early Railway Photograph; Progress in Preservation; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Bottom inch of cover fold open. Magazine
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Railway World Magazine: November 1967
Features: Memories of Stewarts Lane - Part 2; 1942-1967 Ian Allan Ltd - a publishing success story; Steam on Pilatus; The "Royal Scots" - Part Two; "City of Truro" and the "Rheingold" - locomotive running past and present - No. 182; End of Steam in the North-east - many photos; The Leukerbadbahn - a Swiss Tragedy; Kinnaber - junction no more; The Didcot Derailment; East Coast Specials; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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Railway World Magazine: November 1969
Features: Steam in the 1960s - Part Three; Scotland's Vanished Railways; The Waverley Route - Profit not Preservation; Liverpool Street and the GE Line; Industrial Quarterly; The Iron Horse Railway; Flying Scotsman Farewell; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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The (Victoria, British Columbia) Daily Colonist Newspaper: Wednesday, October 26, 1904 Issue
8 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Mr. Borden to Electors; Seattle Electric Cars in Collision; Aeronaut startles World's Fair Visitors; reaction to trawler outrage; Latest from Yukon capital; Sir C.H. Tupper in Saanichton; Cartoon which is critical of the "Railroad Hog"; Captain Wolley at Mount Tolmie; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including "For Sale - 50 acres water frontage on Cordova Bay, $50 per acre." Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Two clippings from page 5. Book
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The (Victoria, British Columbia) Daily Colonist Newspaper: Tuesday, November 22, 1904 Issue
8 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Farewell Banquet to Earl Grey; Russo-Japanese War; American Federation of Labor petitions congress to legislate against Mikado's subjects; The Rock Bay Bridge Question; Alberta Company Makes Big Strike - Fine Flow of Oil near the B.C. line and the Rich Flathead Valley - Pincher Creek; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including "Esquimalt & Nanaimo (E&N) Railway Time Table No. 53 with stops in Victoria, Shawnigan Lake, Duncan, Ladysmith, Nanaimo and Wellington" Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Clipping from lower corner of page 2. Fatigue crack to central portion of all pages. Book
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The (Victoria, British Columbia) Daily Colonist Newspaper: Sunday, October 16, 1904 Issue
12 pages. A wonderful snap shot of life as it was on Vancouver Island 100 years ago. News of the day includes: Major coverage of the Russo-Japanese War - General Kuropatkin's World Famed Advance has probably ended in complete disaster; Interior Booze factories to be amalgamated under one management; Cartoon on a railway theme; Scenes from Episcopal Convention in Boston, with photo of J.P. Morgan in top hat ; and much more. Dozens of advertisements including: "Solid Oak Tables - $1.90" Significant chipping along fold. Some yellowing. Few edge tears. Book
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The Beaver - Canada's History Magazine - December 1993/January 1994
56 pages. Features: Christmas Past - Maritime traditions with a touch of Dickens; Making fun of the hero of the Plains of Abraham; The fate of Tecumseh - learning from 'war crimes' and the lesson of 5 October 1813; Fifth Column crisis - war jitters on the home front, 1940; Canada's forgotten railway tycoon - Charles Melville Hays; Feasting with the North Westers at Old Fort William. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
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The Beaver - Canada's History Magazine - June/July 1997: Leslie McFarlane, Father of the Hardy Boys
56 paages. Features: The father of the Hardy Boys - Leslie McFarlane; Medals for the volunteers - after the rebellion there was glory for all; Protecting Toronto's working girls; Joseph Banks - a naturalist in Newfoundland; A Quebec doctor and his bishop clash over evolution; Helping hands in the west - successful farms were good for the railway business. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
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The Buzzer - Weekly Publication of the British Columbia Electric Railway Co., Ltd., Wednesday, April 20, 1955, Vo. 40, No. 16 - Rails To Rubber Issue
22 pages. This issue of the Buzzer commemorates the conversion of Vancouver's urban rail transportation to rubber/bus transit. Reproductions of many interesting archival photos in text recount the history of the rail phase of the company's operation. Moderate wear. Usual library markings. Mounted in protective card covers. An interesting piece of Vancouver history... which may one day return. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: January 1997
Articles: Ginseng, Otter Skins, and Sandalwood - The Conundrum of the China Trade; Management Response in British Coastal Shipping Companies to Railway Competition; Toponymie ancienne et origine des noms Saint-Pierre, Miquelon et Langlade; Death was Their Escort, and glory passed them by - Life in the Marine Convoys of World War II; plus several book reviews. 3 items high-lighted in table of contents and sunning to spine else a clean and lightly worn copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine - November 1949
Features include: A Matter of Magic - a battle of wits between a white man and an East African witch-doctor; Hill Section - a 115 mile section of railway linking Northern and Southern Assam; The Amateur Elephant Hunter; The Lead-Dog's Warning - Told by a Canadian trapper, illustrates the perils awaiting dwellers of the far north; The Captain's Mutiny - Captain Arnas Loivikas in 1931; The Lion-Men of Ussure (Part 3); Philo's Dream - an amazing affair in a tribal village in Papua; Monkey Business - A Moroccan Story; Spawn of Evil - A wild stallion the author endeavoured to break; Memorable Voyage - A South African Story; Pennies for Fools - The Australian Prospector; Four Shark's Teeth; Chasing Red Sea Smugglers - a breezy account of a decidedly interesting job; Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear to covers. Contents good. Name atop back cover. Magazine
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The Wide World Magazine, August (Aug.) 1918: Thrilling Stories of the Air
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, December 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: Terror of the Zambezi Swamps - Crocodiles Story; Dance of the Pygmies; Target Lightship - "Twixt Sea and Sand," Continued - the story of a lightshipman who helped to man the North Goodwin vessel; The Secret of the Reef - a treasure hunt on the coast of Western Australia; Riding in Rough Waters - a canoeist in Britain's Backwaters; Short Cut - a Sierra Leone Railroad Tale; Sutty of the Railroad - a tale from the Kootenays in British Columbia; Sons of the Snake - the bushmen of Southwest Africa; Tin-Tacks - the author and his wife are captured by Japanese Pirates; The Rogue Male of Kazimvimba - an elephant adventure; Australia's Lonely People - Lighthousemen; Bypaths to Adventure - the third instalment of the gripping story of world traveller; and more. Average wear. Price adjusted in ink upon front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, July 1937
Stories: The Nazco Patrol; North for Timber; The Keeper's Tale; The Editor's Post Bag; The Hunting Down of Sultana; Three Dogs; The Grey Shark; Blackmailing a Railway; The Grey Shark; The Blue Grass Amulet; New Zealand Hermits; Missing; The Blue Glass Amulet; Indian Jugglers; Major the Outlaw. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, March 1953 - Australian Edition
Features: The Death-Bore - A nightmare experience on a railway in the Andes of South America; Wilderness Wandereres - the barren ground caribou of Canada, many photos; Terror by Night - visiting the lonely northwest coast of Australia in search of the alleged footprints of a prehistoric dinosaur; The Spell-Binder - a Natal farmer describes a curious incident related to an African courtship; The Rest Cure - recuperating from tropical fever, the author takes an open-air job hoping it will aid his health...; A Papuan "Pig Festival", with great photos; Time is Money - a story from Bombay by P. Stones; The Steamer will not call; Stolen Gold - ramifications of Far East Gold Smuggling as revealed in Western Australia; The Onlooker - making the only pleasure cruise of his life, a ship's officer is unable to enjoy himself; Slumach Lost Creek Mine Ltd.; and more. Average wear. Chips and openings along backstrip. Binding intact. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, November 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: 'Twixt Sea and Sand - Part I - Those who man the lightships that keep the world's shipping off the dreaded Goodwins; Build or Die - an Igloo story; Diamonds are Dangerous - Diamond Smugglers and the 'big men' behind them; Danger - Loco Adrift - a giant locomotive slips its lashings in a stormbound ship; Destination Unknown - the second instalment of the adventures of Peter Pinney; The Rain Stoppers - on the West Coast of Africa; Search for Living Gold - Andean Chinchilla; Ghost of the White Chief - John Roberts; The Very Mysterious Eel; A Thousand Miles to Railhead - Motor Transport in North Australia - Road Trains; Horses on Showshoes - an idea which originated 75 years ago at Lardo, British Columbia; Jungle Hideout - the adventures of a white woman who spent nearly 4 years in the jungle running from the Japanese, eating dog, and teaching Guerillas to sing; Paddy's Lapse - A Merchant Navy Officer's Scary Experience; Covers holding but weakly; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, September 1947
Stories: Valley of Headless Men; Typhoon Warning; How Pond Creek Fought the Railroad; A Memorable Lion Hunt; Find the Woman!; The House at Luzolo; S-A-L-T!; The Python; Arab Dhows; The Lost Oasis; Hunter's Luck; Australian Diviners. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
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Time Magazine (Canadian Edition), July 6, 1970 - Fight Over the U.S. Flag
60 pages. Features: Ad for the Peugeot 504; Challenges for Ed Schreyer in Manitoba; Nova Scotia fishworker labour strife; Photo of offshore drilling rig 'Sedco H" leaving Halifax; Great photo of people storming police line to shake hands with Richard Nixon in St. Louis; Who Owns the Stars and Stripes? - feature article with four pages of wonderful color photos showing the stars and stripes incorporated into bedding, clothing, vehicles, and more; Admiral Thomas Moorer takes over Joint Chiefs of Staff; Assessment of the Cambodian adventure; Nixon's Champion - Robert Dole of Kansas; Photo and brief article on Charlie Rangel; The Middle East - Statesman Speak and Guns Answer - article with photo of Arab leaders watching Libyan military parade; Phnom-Penh - What is going on?; Bernadette Devlin; Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber; Rehabilitation of Stalin in the Soviet Union; The Ordeal of A. Dubcek; Joseph Mobutu of the Congo; Pele and Brazil win soccer's World Cup; Their hearts belong to daddy - article on stripping; The Green Wrist Mania; Tony Jacklin wins golf's U.S. Open; Lord Snowdon on Pets; Michael Dann of Sesame Street; Quenching California's Thirst; Abortion on Demand; Pantsuits for Nurses; Debate over Catholic Marriage; Passing of the Maharajah of Jaipur, Rupert C. Thompson Jr., Colonel Roscoe Turner and Heenrique Galvao; Penn Central - the biggest bankruptcy Ever; The Case For - and Against - Railway Nationalization; Tremendous growth in amount of commercial paper outstanding; Cashing in on Campers - KOA (Kampgrounds of America); and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Illustrated Magazine about Railroading, February 1950 - San Francisco's Belt Line
58 pages. Features: Madam Queen - Missouri Pacific Lines - article with photos; $2 million investment in the new Powhatan Arrow by Norfolk & Western - article with photos; San Francisco's Belt Line; Passengers and Trailer Trucks ride the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad - article with map and photos; Photo Section including nice centerfold photo of St. Louis - San Francisco's train No. 409 steaming across Oklahoma; Welded Rail - Continuous Rail promises to be worth the investment - article with photos; The Wandering West Penn - a trip on the pastoral electric line - article with map and nice photos; Southern Pacific innovative photo feature; Archival photos of early days on the Soo Line; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Illustrated Magazine of Railroading, August 1950 - Railroading on Chesapeake Bay
58 pages. Features: Narrow-Gauge Summer - nice photos; Railroading on Chesapeake Bay - Pennsylvania Railroad's saltwater fleet serves Norfolk and provides an alternate north-south route along the Atlantic Seaboard - article with photos; Third Morning Delivery - U.S. and Canadian Roads cooperate in hauling perishable and manifest freight the long way 'round from Chicago to the East - long article with map and photos; Photo Section; Nice centerfold photo of the Cornwall Railroad of 1895 - the American Standard locomotive Penryn is standing at the Lebanon, Pa. station; $7.50 to L.A. - That's the price Southern Pacific charges to ride the 470 miles from San Francisco - long article with photos; Last Train from Carson City - Virginia & Truckee closes its books - Photos and article; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Illustrated Magazine of Railroading, September1950 - Cover Photo of Louisville & Nashville's Lima-built Berkshire No. 1985 Thunders Out of Norton, Va.
58 pages. Features: Union Pacific shuttles 2400 cars a day through its new hump yard at North Platte; Pennsylvania Railroad's new Reservation System - article with photos; 2-10-4 to Revelstoke, B.C. - Canadian Pacific Selkirk No. 5927, defeated last winter by a diesel, is still slugging it out across the Rocky Mountains - article with photos; Pacifics to Placid - Oil-burning K-11's wheel tonnage and tourists over an Adirondack Mountain branch which New York Central Leases from Delaware & Hudson - article with photos; Photo Section - includes great centerfold photo of Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 3780 taking water at San Bernardino; Prairie State Railroad - Peoria-St. Louis passengers travel via the electric way when they ride the Illinois Terminal's streamliners on the only through route between the cities - article with photos, list of rolling stock, and map; Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company - this West Virginia private lumber road gets a boost from new coal mines; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Illustrated Magazine of Railroading, October 1950 - Rahway Valley Railroad
58 pages. Features: Train Time at Grizzly Flats, California - The Emma Nevada - photos and article; What's Right with the Airlines? - the passenger problem - article with photos; Ps-4 - Southern Railways first ladies of the Pacifics - long article with photos; Photo section including centerfold of Sierra Railroad locomotive 34, a 1925 Baldwin Mikado, taking water at Oakdale, California; New Jersey's Streak o' rust - The Rahway Valley Line - article with photos and map; Great photo of Engineer James MacMahon of the Union Pacific at the controls of 4-8-2 No. 7856 near Hillgrove, California; Erie Railroads with Radio - Erie Railroad has purchased the largest four-way train radio network in the world; Two great 1883 photos of Van Buren St., Chicago; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railoading: August 1971, Volume 31 Number 10
58 pages. Features: Many great photos; Mr. Young's X - the dream that died; All Railroads are living in glass houses; Over high trestles, into ocean mists - the last steam train leaves the Nanaimo River Camp of MacMillan Bloedel Limited on Vancouver Island; Voyaging Coast to Coast on an iron ocean. Small date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - the Magazine of Railraoding: March 1973, Volume 33, Number 5
Features: News Photos; What's new in Amtrak's roundhouse; Tom's Engine - Clinchfield; How to streamline a steam locomotive; The case for train-watching in Connecticut; E6 curtain call; and more. One-inch opening at base of cover-fold. Somewhat above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railraoding: November 1961; Volume 22 Number 1
Features: Here comes No. 58... in a remarkable movielike sequence of photos; Railroad New Photos; How Great Northner conquered the Cascades; A look at Japanese Trains; Portrait of a C62; and more. Small date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, April 1954 - Exclusive Interview with Ken Browne
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Feature interview with engineer Ken Browne of the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) on RDC, piggyback, diesels, yards and - of course - his own streamliner of tomorrow; In Search of Steam - 1 - Steam Safari - searching the Canadian woods for a vanishing species - great article with photos; Photo Section includes a super centerfold photo of a Broken Hill Express Shark Nose pulling out of Adelaide; When Steam Ruled the West End - West End, Cumberland Division; Baldwin's Barnstorming Behemoth - the strange story of the 60000 4-10-2 - super article with great photos; Narrow Gauge in the Hawkeye State; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, April 1955 - 1955-Model Interurban!
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Tribute to Philadelphia's Railroad Station; Canadian National's Lynn Lake Line - Rails toward the Arctic, by Peter C. Newman; Smoke Over the Prairies 4 - the first Burlington Steam Power; 3 and a half days from coast to coast - reprint of a1923 article from Mutual magazine; Photo Section; A Steam School in 1955? - at Fort Eustis, Va. the Army teaches men to railroad under any conditions; Cleveland's "Rapid" - electric passenger railway; When Steam Ruled the Saluda - Southern Railway; The Preservation of Illinois Terminal; and more. Small date stamp atop back cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, December 1955 - Burlington - The Big "Do-It-Yourself" Railroad
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Grand Trunk Western and Detroit's only rail suburban service; Photo-illustrated Article on Trucks; Adding large chunks of ice to reefers; TVA to the Rescue - Its demand for coal keeps coal-hauling short lines in business; Photo Section; Nice photo centerfold shows the Polar Star pausing at Badminton Station at night; Inside Burlington - Part 2 - a detailed illustrated article; Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania - photos; Great vintage ads; and more. Small faint date stamp atop back cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, December 1954
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Is the Pennsylvania Railroad Coming Back?; The greatest of All Railroad Builders - James J. Hill; Photo Section, including centerfold image of 'Grade Crossing at Dawn"; When Steam Ruled the Blue Mountains - Union Pacific; Helpers out of Hilgard - Union Pacific's 2-8-8-0's; Trains Do Make Music; Lima Reclaims Her Own - The story of the Shay that came home for good; Ore Hauler - Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, December 1969 *8TH ANNUAL ALL-DIESEL ISSUE*
Features: From the U.K. to the U.S., the 4472; First Generation East - what yesterday was novelty now has become nostalgia - great black and white photos; Those people made a good locomotive - Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing - an unremarked chapter in dieseldom; Wayfarers of Waycross - first- and second-generation units, demos, secondhanders, experimenters, visitors, boomers - they all came to the cross-roads of the Coast Line. Average wear. Unmarked. Small white sticker on back cover. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, February 1955
58 pages. Features: News Photos; Engraving - The Promise of the 1890s for Baldwin Locomotive Works; The Shawmut Line; The Problems of Grade Crossings; Destroyed by Fire - The Waterlook, Cedar Falls & Northern lost more than statistics can tell; Photo Section; When Steam Ruled the Keeler Branch; Ore-carrying Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range's husky power - second of the series; New York Central's curious compound 4-8-4; What you think about subsidies for railroads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, January 1956 - Interurbans in Iowa
58 pages. Features: Railroad news and editorial comment; Railroad news photos; The Saddest Train of All - The death of Oneida & Western and the life of L&N and Morehead & North Fork; The Antique Dealers; When Railroading Went to (the Civil) War - to the stripling railroads the Civil War was more than a "War Between the States"; Iowa - land of the steam road trolleys - super photos and article; Pilots (Cow-Catchers) - the Symbolism of the Art - article with photos of various designs ; Black Diamonds and White Diesels - Over Soldier Summit by moonlight move the paradoxes that keep Utah running; Steam rules B&O's Lake branch; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Small, faint date stamp atop back cover, otherwise unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, July 1957 - Special Report on the Death of New York, Ontario & Western
66 pages. Features: Recess for Railroading - nice photo of children and train; ; Steam in Indian Summer - Little saddletankers still slyly puttering about in the back yard of New England industry (quarries and sawmills)- article with photos; This Little Engine; The Story of the unfortunate birth, beauty, lingering illness, and inevitable death of the 541-mile New York, Ontario & Western railraod - informative article with photos; The Mixed Train - superb nostalgic photos - it runs between Abingdon, Va., on N&W's Bristol Line, and West Jefferson, N.C., end of track - 108 bridges, 3% and 40,163lb of tractive effort; ; All About Signals - II, by John S. Armstrong - very informative text with helpful diagrams; Trains Turntable - a page of opinion; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, June 1954 - 10 Pages of Southern Pacific Photos!
66 pages. Features: News Photos; In Search of Steam - 3 - The Dominion Atlantic Railway; Valhalla of the Iron Horse - Baltimore & Ohio's Transportation Museum - article with photos; Great Photo Section - Santa Margarita Hill; When Steam Ruled the Clinchfield Railroad - photo section; Catenary over the Carolinas - The Piedmont & Northern Story - 1; Short Line Scrapbook - amazing photos and article of the old Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade Railroad - incredible photo of loco atop the Cowlitz River Bridge -200' above the river!; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, June 1957 - Steam in History in Maine and Russia
64 pages. Features: Katy - Cause & Effect; "I'm Getting a Ticket"; "I'm a Railroad Fan - Alfred Edward Perlman - detailed article with photos"; Steam in Indian Summer - paying final respects to the beetle-browed power of Grand Trunk behind a snorting bone-shaker of a geared 0-2-2-0; Would You Believe it? - Synchromesh 0-12-2; Railroading As They See it - a peak at the world's most unknown railroading in Russia and China - article with many photos, including an INCREDIBLE black and white centerfold of a Chinese train surrounded by crowds; ; Nomad of the Nineties - Sam Vauclain, grand old man of steam and his compound Baldwins - includes amazing photos of twenty, (yes 20!) new Forney 0-4-4s in a column; This Device Spots Broken Wheel Flanges; All About Signals - 1 - John S. Armstrong explains in easy steps the progress from crude but effective manual-block safety to the speed insured by 1957's complexity of wires, relays, motors and lights - superb article with many helpful diagrams; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, June 1970 *UNDER CATENARY (AND BESIDE THIRD RAIL) ... FOR THE FIRST TIME - TRAINS GOES ALL ELECTRIC*
Features: Ben W. Heineman; The great Tug-of-War - pushing match at Kent, Washington on 22 February, 1920 between a GE 261-ton bipolar No. 10254 vs. a 278 ton 2-6-6-2 Mallet No. 9520; Classics under catenary (and beside third rail) - from the power in the trolley to the motors fed, electrification has had a common theme - nonstandardization - B&O No. 1 was first, Central's tinplate prototype, New Haven's A.C./D.C. box-cab motors, Norfolk & Western's side-rod box-cabs, Milwaukee's bipolar gearless motors, The Classic GG1, Great Northern Had the Biggest; Muskingum's prototype for the future; The when and if of wires; Those Russian Electrics; The Mystique of Electrification - when we regarded electric traction as noncontagious - hence safe; First Generation M.U. Average wear. Unmarked. Small white sticker on back cover. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, March 1954 - Western Maryland - 3 Railroads in 1, Plus Photo of Marilyn Monroe
66 pages. Features: News Photos, including glamorous photo of Marilyn Monroe (Joe Di Maggio's wife) hanging out the window of Canadian National's No. 8472 on a ride to Jasper, Alberta; California's Mountain Midget at Quincy, California; Piggyback - boom or bust?; A Baldwin 2-8-0 is transported by truck in Seattle - super photos!; London-Paris - in the days before the Chunnel passengers traveled by train from London to Paris via night ferry - great article with photos of the Golden Arrow Night Ferry; Picture Report on the Western Maryland plus informative articles; Super centerfold night photo of the H8 Consolidation No. 776 riding the turntable at Elkins, W. Va.; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, March 1970 *STEAM SPECTACULAR OF 1969*
Features: Lean days for three West Virginia short lines; The Steam Event of the Year in South Africa; Rolling, Rolling... To Where? - a railroad report card; Drive-train dynamics; Turbotrain Revisited - is there a chance for the Northeast Corridor Project's Stepchild? (with piec on William D. Middleton, the man behind the train); Pullman - from the peak of troop travel to the impact of the jet - diary of a Pullman Conductor - 2; Mid-Continent makes a movie - Swedish filmmakers working on The Immigrants in 1969. Average wear. Unmarked. Small white sticker on back cover. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, May 1954 - Survey of America's Fastest Trains
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Railroad News - Shades of Jay Gould!; Short article and photo of the world's fastest train - the S.N.C.F. CC-7121; Tales of the Century - The 20th Century Limited - article with photos; Cover Story - The Story of Speed - America's fastest trains of 1954; Photo Section - includes great centerfold photo of a Texas & New Orleans (Southern Pacific) 4-4-0; When Steam Ruled Cajon Pass - great photos; In 1953; Nobody wanted a steam locomotive for the first time in 125 years; In Search of Steam - 2 - along an obscure branch in New Brunswick is the oldest living locomotive in Canada; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, May 1957 - Locomotive Catalog
66 pages. Features: 1957 Locomotive Showroom - great photos and write-ups for offerings from Electro-Motive, Alco Products, Fairbanks-Morse, and General Electric; Confessions of a Train-Watcher - great article by David P. Morgan; 05 - Pictorial Diagnosis of a Great Locomotive (4-8-4); Twenty Years of Speed - the only complete and authoritative annual analysis of North American train speed - detailed report - a Trains exclusive; Dieselization hits the 90% mark - what comes next?; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Openings at each end of cover fold, otherwise a sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, September 1957 - Steam in the South
66 pages. Features: President for Re-Election - gorgeous photo of a Baldwin President at work; ; News Photos; 9035 Hoppers and a Hotshot - The Bessemer & Lake Erie - and ore hauler and more - article with photos; The Gainesviille Midland - a Georgia short line - great article with photos; Photo Section; INCREDIBLE - black and white photo centerfold shows three gorgeous electro-motives side-by-side at the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal; Great before and after photos of the Rutland, Vt. rail yard - 1874 and 1957; The Colorado Midland STory - Part II - excellent article with photos; Would You Believe it? - interesting news bits with photos; Pennsy's Pluperfect Pacifics; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: April 1963
Features: D&RGW 3600's out of Minturn - nice photos and article; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Night photo of Chicago & Elgin No. 320 with text; The Finest Train in the World - the short-lived Golden Gate Special - article with fine photos; Three photos of the Hillcrest Lumber Company No. 10 Climax running between Honeymoon Bay, Mesatchie Lake, and the Canadian National-Esquimalt & Nanaimo Interchange at Lake Cowichan, B.C.; Trains Go to Alaska - 3 - Uncle Sam's Railroad Experiment - what happened because land grants were taboo; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: April 1969
Features: Railroad News Photos - 6 pages; Turbotrain - Canadian National's New Train - photos, specs and article; When it's Shortline time down south; Three Tales of Train Travel - diary entries during the decline and fall; Journey into the Unknown - an interview with Werner von Penncentral (by Art Buchwald); Rails Through Viet Nam - 2 - Every Viet Cong attack on it is an indirect complement to the line - photos, table, article, maps; and more. middle page loose from one staple. Average wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: April 1970
Features: Fastest President on Wheels - Richard and Mrs. Nixon take the Metroliner (photos and article); Railroad News Photos - 6 pages; The Trains of Turkey - great article with photos and map; Is GTM/TH Valid? - tonnage x speed = deception; So you want to run a railroad? - management training programs offered by the railroad industry; and more. Moderate wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: April 1982 - Volume 42, Number 6
Features: Women in Railroading; Big (and small) Steam; news photos; Favourite Railroad photos of John W. Maxwell; The Yellowstone Story - 2 - From 'largest' to 'some of the largest'; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: April, 1958
Features: All West Issue; Robert R. Young 1897-1958; Railroad news photos; Great Photo of 'The Day They Tamed the West', 10 May, 1869 - rails meet in Utah; What the 'W' stands for in D&RGW - Rio Grande's Salt Lake Division; A Place to Watch Trains - David P. Morgan thumbs his diary back to 1945 and recalls Denver Union Station in 1945; Photos through the Rockes; Nice 2-page photo of a train puffing through Marias Pass in 1940; Day of a Railroader - 2 - a fan goes firing for pay and falls in love with 4-6-6-4s; The Case of the Verdi Villains; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: August 1965
Features: BR (British Rail) - a new image; South Vietnam - progress under fire; Railroad news Photos; Steam News Photos; Photo of Mexico's National Railway TR-3 Mountain type No. 3306; 17th Annual Motive Power Survey - The Common Denominator - 2,500 HP; A generation passes - Southern Pacific's locomotive 6153 ends its 15 year career; The Aging Dignity of Chicago Union Station - many photos; 4-panel colour fold-out centerfold ad by GM's EMD; Identify 10 diesels by looking at their wheels; If New York Central Says Yes - Central's second look at commuters; Photo of Cass Scenic No. 7, a balloon-stacked three truck Shay, in action in 1964; and more. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: August 1969
Features: Steam News Photos; Railroad New Photos; The 550's of Q's Texas kin; Canadian Pacific's Hudson Royalty - very long article, many photos, chronology of the H-1's; locomotive specs, and cover photo; steam retreats in Europe - article with photos; One Day in May, 1953 - the last year of the GP7 - six pages of super photos; When did the age of the steam locomotive truly end in North America? - in 1968, in Mexico (short story and photos); and more. Average wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Middle page loose but present. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: August, 1956
Features: Railroad News Photos; Tales of a Ten Wheeler - the biography of Northern Pacific 1356, a Baldwin 4-6-0 that served half a century of mountain railroading - amazing photos; Of Black Upholstery and Commanding Exhaust - Cessation of Virginian (VGN) passenger service provokes warm memories of orange cars, shoebox lunches, and Teddy Roosevelt regaling the riders with tales of San Juan Hill; Illustrated article on locomotive faces, with parts identified; Steam in Indian Summer - 3 - Little Railroads in faraway places; Super steam photo section, including centerfold of a P-4a in full stride (the 3713); The Story of a Pacific - the world's greatest - K.4.s - Super article with many excellent photos; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: August, 1960
Features: 10 pages of CPR's Tripleheader!; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Is there no cure to what ails Katy? - why Missouri-Kansas-Texas got into trouble and what Dr. Deramus has prescribed - many photos and article; Steaming in the Rain - the Moscow, Camden & San Augustine Railroad; Where 65 cars still make a train - B&O's crossing of the Alleghenies - the West End story - 1; What's Up with the U25B?; Push-Pulls for Profit - double-deck suburban passenger cars used by the Chicago & North Western Railway; Photo Section; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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