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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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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: December 1967 *6TH ALL-DIESEL ISSUE*
Features: Railroad News Photos; Triple train threat on Horse Shoe - multi-tracked Pennsy curve on the east slope of the Alleghenies - photos; On Behalf of Baldwin - what happened when the Philadelphia watchmaker met Dr. Diesel - great article and photos; ALCO - as articulate as ever - photos; EMD - brief article and 10 photos; GE - brief article and 5 nice photos; Those Cincinnati Curiosities - The Queen city is home for the aged if not the infirm of dieseldom - article and photos; and more. Average wear. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The magazine of Railroading: December 1982 - Volume 43, Number 2
Features: Yuletide on the Santa Fe Trail; Last ride to Leadville; Dixieland in search of sun; the lady and the Pennsy; Yellow dog extra; News photos; New River Trains; and more. Moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: December, 1962
Features: How the Rails Won Back the Automobile Business - the story of one of the 180,000 new automobiles L&N delivered this year; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Great photo of a steam engine terminal at Ridgely, W.Va in 1952; Photo section; Why We Don't Electrify - a rebuttal to an article in April 1962 Trains; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: December, 1961
Features: How the Rails Won Back the Automobile Business - the story of one of the 180,000 new automobiles L&N delivered this year; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Great photo of a steam engine terminal at Ridgely, W.Va in 1952; Photo section; Why We Don't Electrify - a rebuttal to an article in April 1962 Trains; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: December, 1959
Features: Northern Pacific - the railroad that likes passengers!; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Nikita Khrushchev Rides the Rails of the Southern Pacific; The Railroad Image; Russian Notebook - what the alert train-watcher is apt to see today inside the U.S.S.R. - many photos with text; Photo Section - Happy Birthday, Long Island!; Last Train from Baltimore over Maryland & Pennsylvania on August 5, 1958; and more. Small date-stamp atop front corner else unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: December, 1958
Features: Soo Line - what makes them run so fast? - excellent illustrated article; Railroad news photos; Photo Section; Samples of printed cards issued to customers by a Southern Pacific commuter train out of San Francisco when its passengers were delayed; No Passenger Trains by 1970?; Are Freight Trains Too Long?; Photo of Southern's wondrous Ps-4 Pacific; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: December, 1957
Features: Long Island Rail Road - the nation's busiest passenger railroad - extensive and well-illustrated article; Railroad News Photos; Great 2-page photo of Great Northern's S-2 4-8-4, No. 2580; Over Niagara on a Wire - only four men in the world believed the railroads could span the boiling Niagara gorge with a thin cable... Two attempted the task and one achieved it - illustrated - Wow!; Chesapeake & Ohio presents 2-8-4 2727 to the Museum of Transport, St. Louis; Trainmaker - an idea to keep freight cars rolling more often; Oil-burning Pacific #153 preserved south of Miami; Nice color Pullman ad; and more. Date stamp on front cover else unmarked. Cover fold partially open else a sound copy., Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: February 1968
Features: The $4,000-a-minute question - Why do freight cars spend so much time standing still? - The Rolling Stock Riddle - 1; Railroad News Photos, including large shot of the Turbotrain preparing for a test run; Steam News Photos; The 7 percent investment credit; The Demise of a Dream - New York Central; How to Own and Operate a Short Line - article with photos and more; Cajon, Rat Hole, Sand Patch - L&N Style - an unsung sawtooth subdivision they call the Short Line; Photo Section; Under Pantographs - can you identify the motors?; Traction Classics - Built to Steam Railroad Dimensions - WCF&N 100-102; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: February 1964
Features: Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee's Electroliner twins; Railroad News Photos; Nice 2-page colour EMD ad; Steam News Photos; B&O Comes Back - nice photos with text; No. 106, alias 583, comes back from oblivion - the Colorado Railroad Museum jumps at the chance to add what is believed to be the only existing Rio Grande standard-gauge steam engine to its collection; Why should a railroad want to be anything else? - the case for diversification; photo section; The Heisler No. 3; Consolidation - when two trains equal one - article; J.F.K. - what he meant to railroading; I&C Combines, Alias TMER&L Duplexes - Traction Classics; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: February 1963
Features: The BIG story - how to fill empty cars - unless rates are revised, the industry may expire - long article; Winter over White Pass; America's Success Railroad; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Trains Go to Alaska - 1 - Super photos, text and map; Stuart Saunders and his money making machine - 4 years at the throttle of Norfold & Western (N&W) - long article with photos; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: February, 1960
Features: Raiload News Photos; Steam News Photos; The Diesel that Did it - Electro-Motive No. 103 - the 83,764-mile test that doomed steam - super photos and article; A case of suicide - Virginia & Truckee No. 26; Peabody Short Line; The Drawbridge Dilemma - what put No. 3314 in the drink?; Photo Section; and more. Date stamp to top of front cover else unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: February, 1959
Features: Short Line Steam Pictorial; Railroad News Photos; Business Cars at Lizar Head; Logging Line, 1959 Model - The McCloud River Railroad - nicely illustrated article; I Rented a Railroad for $35 - The Brighton and Harrison Railway of New England; I Don't Like Short Lines, However - by David P. Oregon; and more. Small date-stamp atop front corner else unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy., Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: February, 1957
Features: Yuma Division - 14 pages of Southern Pacific!; How fast is New York Central?; Railroad news photos; High Wheels and Low Efficiency - interesting illustrated article on wheels; Indian Summer 9 - a chance-medley of loneseome local and helpers, short lines and lonesome 2-10-2, by David P. Morgan; Great photo section; and more. Faint date stamp on front cover else unmarked. A sound copy., Magazine
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