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Locomotives International No. 24, Vol. 5 June 1994
Features: Yankee Moguls in England; Railways Above the Streets of New York; AD60 Class Beyer Garratt Locomotives of the New South Wales Railways; Locomotives of the Jamaica Government Railway - Concluding Part; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Model Railway Constructor Magazine, July 1984
56 pages. Features: Locomotive kit construction - 3; Motors, gears and your model; Collector's Corner - recalls those superb Trix LNER Pacifics; Barrie Walls and his Wallsea layout; D.M. Shore describes his 4mm scale layout; M&GN Full Brake No. 196The Highland Railway - the stations at Garve and Attadale; LNER coach sides for N gauge; The Southern's Class 33 diesel locomotives; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Rail Classics, May 1973 *British Columbia Electric Railway - With Colour Photos*
82 pages. Features: Scotty's Fantastic Trip - record run from Los Angeles to Chicago on the Santa Fe, chartered by Death Valley Scotty in 1905; Memories of Frisco Steam - some of the most beautiful locomotives in the country; Farewell, GM&O (Gulf, Mobile & Ohio) - merger spells the end; Rio Grande on the Run - Utah's Wasatch Range offers quite a barrier to the D&RGW's run to the west; Steam at Christchurch; Commuting in British Columbia - great article with map and colour photos; Guide to Night Photography; Through Illinois on the Locals; Little Dumpy Steams Again - restoration of a locomotive for the Monticello and Sangamon Valley Railway. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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Railroad Magazine: October 1958, Vol 69, No. 6
Features: Gateway Yard (Pittsburgh and Lake Erie); Push-Button Yards; Dollar a Division - Western Roads used to welcome the now-vanishing hobo; Concrete ties in Sweden; Roster of Maine Cental Lines; Louisville and Nashville Locomotives; and more. Small date stamp atop front cover else unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Railroad Model Craftsman Magazine, February 1984
154 pages. Features: Remembering the North Shore Line after 21 years; Pacific Coast Logging - Steam Locomotives; Harford Associates for Railroad Modeling; Plans for 5 small, but interesting, layouts; Easy Bridge Mounting - a simple way to avoid track allighment problems when installing bridges; The Milwaukee Road's latest paint scheme; Coal cars for the Colorado Midland; Signs and Philosophy; Beginning from Scratch; RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award - CPR Kootenay Divsion short van; Cathels & Sorenson's Prairie in the Mountains; The water tank at Chemainus, B.C. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Railway World Magazine, October 1975
Features: The Kings Cross - Cleethorpes Expresses; To Rail 150 (photos); North Road Museum; Locomotives of 50 Years ago - 2; The Last Years of the LNER - 2; Woodhams at Barry in Retrospect - second in the roll of famous scrapyards only to the Steptoe establishment; South African Railways; Springboard in the Savoy; A Royal Event; New Trains for Piccadilly Line; Motive Power Miscellany; and more. Unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
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Railway World Magazine: April 1968
Features: The LNER B1 4-6-0s in Retrospect; Beyer-Garratt Locomotives in South Africa; Past, Present and Future at Yieldingtree; Two Miles a Minute - by steam - LNWR 2-2-2 No. 3020 Cornwall; Light Railway Timetables 1968; Around Britain's Light Railways; End of Steam to Buxton; End of BR's Observation Cars; and more. Moderate wear. Writing on front cover and throughout contents. Sound copy. Magazine
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Railway World Magazine: July 1973
Features: Last Bite at the Orange; GN Electrification Progress; A Look at CIE in 1972; Two American Preserved Lines; Festival of Steam in York; Torbay Steam; Isle of Man Glimpses; Goals to Newcastle; The LCGB in Portugal; The West Highland Today; Solving an LCDR Picture Puzzle; Steam Returns to Scotland; Deptford Wharf in the Early Twenties; Capitulation on the Somme; A Worcestershire Industrial Locomotive; Railway Locomotives - No. 6 - a Midland Railway Boundary Marker; A Hall at Bourne End; and more. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
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Railway World Magazine: June 1964
Features: The "Queen of Scots" - Half-a-century of Train Travel, No. 28; Modern Czechoslovakian Steam Locomotives - Part I; The M.& G.N. Route to Cromer; London Midland Steam - Locomotive Causerie; Memories of the Bristol-Birmingham mainline 60 years ago; A Swiss Tank Takes a Bathe; The County Down Railway and The Tourist Trophy Race; and more. Moderate wear. Price stamped atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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Railway World Magazine: March 1966
Features: North Eastern Train Services of 1905 - Half a Century of Train Travel, No. 49; The Lyme Regis Branch; Last of the Midland 0-6-0s; Some Trips to Remember; Snowplough to Blaenau Ffestiniog; Then Came the Snow; Early Railway Photographers; End of the Isle of Man Railway?; TW Saloon No. 9044 Preserved; Fireless Locomotives at Glaxo Plant; and more. Moderate wear. Small marking atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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Railway World Magazine: October 1973
Features: Swindon Reminiscences; Steam in the Twilight Years; It's Not Just the Engines - The Search for the Less Obvious Railway Features is Often Worth While; Mystery Tour in Sardinia; Sails on Rails; Worcester Winners; Some Other A3s; Gresley Engines at Work; Adams Radial Back on the Bluebell; Lillie Bridge Loco Memories; Crewe Basford Hall Disappears - 1; Return to Steam in Canada; Conversion Rail - permanent way for locomotives and tramway vehicles in the 1830s; and more. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
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The Saturday Evening Post, November 1, 1941 *The First American Crusade, By Herbert Hoover*
104 pages. Features: Great color photo Studebaker ad inside front cover features military insert; Plymouth ad; Great colour photo ad for Armstrong's Asphalt Tile; The First American Crusade - Herbert Hoover's personal memoirs of World War I, originally intended for release after his death but printed here in view of the imminent entrance of the US into World War II - with photos; Go Fly a Kite, story by Eddy Orcutt; Hearts of Oak, by Walter Havighurst; Cellini to Hearst to Klotz - the sale of fine art and objects by Gimbel Brothers; Stanford Football Coach Clark Shaughnessy behind the Eight Ball - article with photos; The Liar That Laid an Egg, by William Hazlett Upson; First Baby, by Dorothy Thomas; Botany Bay, by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall; Morale in a Test Tube - Research at the Merck plant in Rahway, NJ; Great color photo ad for Campbell's Soup; The Phantom Filly, by George Agnew Chamberlain; Nice color ad for Oldsmobile cars, featureing a red two-door model; Great color ad for GM locomotives; Nice two-page Buick ad; Chrysler ad; Color Cadillac ad; Dodge Fluid-Drive car ad; Wonderful full-page two-color cartoon strip-style ad for Hotpoint appliances; Wonderful two-page color ad for Del Monte canned foods and their 3rd annual Round-Up; Nice two-color full-page ad for Champion spark plugs shows lady in top-had being hit by snowball; Fantastic Timken bearing ad shows all the military applications of its products; Wonderful color ad for the 1942 Packard Clipper, featuring a blue Clipper Club Sedan; Large color ad for RCA Victor Radios; Great color ad for Old Gold Cigarettes shows smooching young couple; Underwood typewriter ad; Dramatic illustrated Eveready Battery ad depicts the attack on the Egyptian liner ZamZam as experienced by C.A. McCarthy; Nice two-color ads for Nunn-Bush shoes and Aunt Jemima Pancakes; Lovely full-page color ad for Roblee shoes for men; Luden's cough drop ad illustrates 'Clothespin Nose"; Nice color ad inside back cover for Van Camp's pork and beans features Mrs. Lou Little; Ivory Soap ad on back cover. Average external wear and soiling. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Illustrated Magazine about Railroads, March 1950 - Cover Photo of the Texas & Pacific 4-8-2 No. 909 Leaving Dallas Westbound
58 pages. Features: Steam Success Story - Louisville and Nashville's Eastern Kentucky Division - article with many great photos; Mr. Walter Giger''s Remarkable Locomotive - d design that might have prolonged the life of steam power and delayed the diesel; The Texas & Pacific - long article with photos, map and list of locomotives; Photo Section - includes centerfold of a West Shore passenger train of the New York Central on the Hudson River; How to get rid of smoke - article with photos; Only One of Her Kind - Baldwin 2-6-6-4 - Beautiful photo; The Capital to Chicago - Baltimore & Ohio's Capital Limited - article with photos; In Pursuit of the Mail - Great Northern wanted the mail contract and not even a landslide could hold it back; Married to a Train - Esther Probst married a rail fan (J.P.) - article with photos; Streamlined Makeshifts - Before and after photos of some steam locomotives born after 1933 - article with photos; 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, April 1950 - Cover Photo of the Milwaukee Road Express to Chicago Behind a 4-6-4
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
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Trains - The Illustrated Magazine of Railroading, July 1950 - Wabash Railroad Feature Article
58 pages. Features: The Wabash Railroad - a very extensive article with many photos, list of locomotives and large map ; Photo Section - including centerfold of a 2-hour exposure photo ofTehachapi Loop in Southern Pacific's Joaquin Valley Line, 122 miles north of Los Angeles; It Could Happen Here - an expert examines the nationalization of British Railways - why it took place and what happened; Worcester, Mass. - served by three class 1 railroads - short article and photos; The Indomitable Epes Randolph - Harriman's right-hand man helped Southern Pacific save its line in the Imperial Valley - article with amazing photos; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, August 1957 - Special Report on the Death of New York, Ontario & Western
66 pages. Features: Railroad news photos; Easy Does It - great photo of a wrecker and its crew at work; The Colorado Midland Story - 1 - 4'8.5" to the Narrow Gauge Country - informative article with photos; Big as B&O but not as busy - the New South Wales Government Railways - great article with photos; Fantastic 2-page photo in Philadelphia, August 4, 1933 showing two locomotives of the Reading Philadelphia to New York service; Photo Section; The Passenger - keep him happy! - article about the passenger service industry; Would You Believe it?; Tripmaster - details of a rail trip along California; Steam in Indian Summer - Steam still at work in Quebec - article with photos; Beware the Wrath of the Editor - a photo test - identify the railroad and wheel arrangement; When a Man Wishes he'd never left the farm - large super 1951 photo of a Southern Pacific (T&NO) local freight crossing the intracoastal Waterway at Houma, La.; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Three-inch opening along bottom of coverfold, otherwise a sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, February 1956
58 pages. Features: News Photos; The Steel-Muscled Rail Gang - with a gang that rel-lays rail on the C & O; Taking Down the Markers - final instalment of the "Smoke over the Prairies" photo series; White Pass Meets its Match - two diesels with the qualities of a polar bear are helping the White Pass & Yukon; Saved by the Shovels - Opening of a huge strip coal mine in 1936 was the salvation of the Galesburg & Eastern; I Never Worked a Day in My Life - Bill Thomas; Steam Questionaire; When Steam Ruled the Dixie Line - see NC&StL's famous flanged-stacked locomotives and its celebrated Dixie 4-8-4's; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, July 1954
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Engineers I Have Known , by Thomas O. Acree; Famous Locomotives - 25 - Two incredible photos of the Beyer-Garratt 6000 - locomotive hallmark of the British Empire; American Locomitive Company (Alco) - We're not a foundry any more! - impressive article with photos; Photo Section; When Steam Ruled the Monon; A Mikado & Friends - super photo of loco and crew atop bridge near Clear Creek, In; The Piedmont & Northern Story - 2; 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 1955
66 pages. Features: News Photos; A comprehensive report on the fabulous Beyer-Garratt articulated locomotives; Residents of Carthage, Ms bought the Canton & Carthage Railroad; Smoke over the Prairies - 6 - Illinois Incidents; Photo Section; 207 Miles per Hour! - French National Railroads' electric engine CC 7107; Crossings Under Cover - Covered Bridges - fascinating photos and article; When Steam Ruled the Soo Line - great photos; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, November 1957
66 pages. Features: Photo portrait of James M. Symes, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (in GM ad); News Photos; Patron Saint of the Prairies - the William Crooks introduced steam locomotion to Minnesota - with photos; Poor Man's Mallets - super photos with captions; Motive-Power Metamorphoses - photo quiz; The 2-10-0's that thought they could - and did- after stalling a 9,000 ton load of iron ore on the Shamokin Branch of the Susquehanna District of the Northern Region between Sunbury and Mount Carmel, Pa. - FANTASTIC photos and article; Would You Believe it? - tiny steam locomotives made by Sentinel (Shrewsbury) Limited of England; Steam After Dark - wonderful night photos including a SENSATIONAL black and white centerfold photo of a massive 2-8-8-2 on Shaffers Crossing turntable, plus an ultra-unique photo of a nighttime steam locomotive roaring past a drive-in theater screen, with many classic 1950s cars in the lot - including a young couple in a convertible!; The Hudson Locomotive of the New York Central - magnificent archival photos and lengthy article ; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Small date stamp atop back cover. Covers detatched and separated but present. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, November 1954 - Norfolk & Western Steam Locomotives
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Faith in Steam - The Story of Norfolk & Western Locomotives - sensational article with many photos; Photo Section; Across Norway on 4-8-0's; Exit... the Trolley - photo section; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, October 1957 - True Story of Kate Shelley
66 pages. Features: Perlman's piggyback; Photo ad/portrait of Howard E. Simpson of GM Electro-motive division; News Photos; Formula for a Chant - photos of the 'chanting' V-16 2-stroke diesel engine; Be (Berea)Tower in Ohio - more than 50 trains converge on this 111-lever plant daily - excellent article and photos; Where Diesels Fear to tread - a steam loco replaces a deisel in 38" floodwaters in Louisiana - near the Red River; Would You Believe it? - news bits with photos; Flat Faces - a wonderful photo study of multiple cab-forward locomotives; "2-in-1" Engines - Austrian railroaders move iron ore up 7% grades using a rack and adhesion line; North of Lake Erie - many wonderful pages of photos of interurbans, etc. in southern Ontario; The True Story of Kate Shelley - the girl they stopped the trains for - an 1881 Iowa wreck and a 15-year-old girl - wonderful story and photos; Question of Survival - how can railroads survive?; Where Are We? - fun photo test; Trona Totes Trona - three Baldwins haul Trona on the Mojave Desert - article and photos; ; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Short opening along cover fold which is loosening from bottom staple. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading, September 1955
66 pages. Features: News Photos - Will You Have Steam or Diesel?; Memories of the New River Gorge on the C&O in the days of Imperial Salon Cars and pump-heavy steam power - photos and article; Berkshire on the Move - Smoke over the Prairies 9 - Nickel Plate; The Alaska Railroad - the railroad that had it too good and too bad - Frank Kalbaugh was brought in to apply the rod to the spoiled child; Illinois Terminal Traction in Twilight - photo section; De-Dieselization - a diesel shortage means the Pennsylvania railroad has to bring steam locomotives out of mothballs; Here Comes Tomorrow - GM's new lightweight passenger speedster; From Throttle to Typewriter - Cy Warman; Wonderful photos from Lookout Pass - when steam ruled; Nice colour ad for Great Northern Railway's new Dome Cars on back covere; and more. Two-inch opening at base of coverfold. 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: August 1954 - Volume 14, Number 10
Features: News Photos; I Still Like Trains, by Al Kalmbach; Steam and where to find it in 1954; Rails vs. Rubber; An American Beauty - a native of France, an American Architect and a Swedish genius pooled their talents to produce one of the finest American 4 - 4 - 0 type locomotives of all time; When Steam ruled San Antonio; The Argonaut heads east; Hy Gailey - Railroader Extraordinary; Interchange with Cuba; Photo of CN's new dome caboose; and more. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked else average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: August 1963
Features: 18 wonderfully illustrated pages of the North Coast Limited with substantial text (including photo of Babe Ruth)!; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Locomotives you didn't expect to meet on the Santa Fe Trail - big, new AT&SF engine book includes surprises; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: August 1966
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Passengers for the Graham County; In Canada in '67 - Trains vs. Cars and jets - Turbotrain/Go Train; These 567's speak any language - a passport for dieseldom's most famous power plant - in gauges from 36" to 5'6" - EMD; Can Mr. Barriger Save Miss Katy? - one man's fight to save the sickest railroad west of the Mississippi; G.I. in Civvies - locomotives have been subject to the draft since the time of Lincoln; The most uncommon Garratts of all - in Europe - nice photos; Rio Grande laid rails to Wet Mountain Valley Twice - long article, photos and table; The Pennsy 6100; 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 1972
Features: The Power of Amtrak - with table of locomotives and details; Penn Central route map; A Royal Blue Line Recall - sentimental story of a B & O passenger showcase; South Shore's Steel Standards - the speedsters were interurbans in name only; Centerfold black and white photo of hardy miners of Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper, Co. and 5 of their locomotives; Story, table of locomotives and article re: Calumet and Hecla; Is Amtrak Legal? - the courts say yes; Only EMD and GE left? No - the diesels of the past live on, and require spare parts - long article and photos; and more. Moderate wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: March 1968
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
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: September 1968
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; The Fast and Frequent Railroad - an operating ratio isn't necessarily holy writ; The Tennesse Railroad of Oneida, Tenn. - article, photos, list of locomotives, map; Photos of a derailment in progress!; Photos - these sharks survived; Pleasures and Pitfalls of a Railroad Museum - the Kentucky Railway Museum; Rail Recollections by C. Grattan Price Jr.; and more. Average wear. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Trains - The Popular Magazine of Railroading, March 1951 - Cover Photo of the Clinchfield 4-6-6-4 No. 651, Class #-1, Near Marion, N.C.
58 pages. Features: Florida Woodburners - Lumber railroads still use scrap-burning locomotives - article and many great photos; Today's Monon - the story of what the new president has done since the CI&L came out of receivership - article with photos; The Busy Beeliners - After several months trial in actual service, it appears the Budd-built RDC-1 has a solid rail future - photos with article; Photo Section includes dramatic centerfold photo of the Cumberland-Pittsburgh line at the top of the hill at Sand Patch Tunnel; Night ride on the El Capitan - board Santa Fe's biggest money-maker in Kansas City and ride to Chicago - article with photos; The Evolution of Railroad - fascinating article with great historic illustrations; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains and Travel Magazine: October 1953 - Volume 13, Number 12
74 pages. Features: A Train Leaves Cleveland; Toledo's got a new front door; Mexico - my greatest railroad adventure; Famous steam locomotives - Swashbuckling speedsters; trains for the thrifty; Railroads get the Shriners to and from Miami; Notable feats of railroad engineering under the continental divide; Escape by Train. Two small date stamps upon front cover else unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Trains and Travel: August 1953: Volume 13, Number 10
Features: Famous steam locomotives - for 6 years the 4 - 4 - 0 sat in the mud at the end of a forgotten spur in Idaho, then Northern Pacific recalled that she was its last American Standard locomotive; Runaway - Engineer Harry Brower tried his brakes. They didn't work. The Federal Express was out of control!; The 'impossible' railroad - along the north shore of Lake Superior; Whistle in the Valley - the Interstate Railroad; The Wobbly comes of age; and more. 5" opening at bottom of coverfold. Average wear. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Worthy copy. Book
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Trains Magazine, April 1943, Vol. 3, No. 6
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Locomotives - Data on Cotton Belt L-1, Southern Pacific P-13; The Man in the Tower; Baltimore Belt Line - tunnel route replaced time-consuming ferry transfer across Baltimore Harbor - is electrified in tunnels; Yosemite Valley Railroad - Gateway to Yosemite National Park; Pennsylvania Special - 3 miles in 85 seconds! - a speed record that stands today, 38 years after it was made; Helper Engines - used where mountains must be crossed; By Rail to Guatemala - U.S. and Mexican freight cars roll into Central America with the completion of the Suchiate Bridge; The Bear and the Semaphore - bear forces young signalman up a signal pole; Locomotives of the Wisconsin Central, including No. 96. Average wear and soiling. Small date stamp atop front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains Magazine, April 1944, Vol. 4, No. 6
44 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Belfast & Moosehead Lake - a short line; The Man in the Tower; The Caboose - the traveling office of the freight train is teh most individualistic of railroad vehicles - many super photos with article; Caboose Anatomy; South American Electric Locos - the Estradade Ferro Sorocabana of Brazil; Canadian-Built Locomotives for India - 145 Mikados; Swiss Tourist Railway - 60-mile-long Furka-Oberalp route electrified as war diminishes coal supply; The Signal in the cab; Southland Carrier - the 8,000-mile Southern Railway. Average wear and soiling. Small date stamp atop front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains Magazine, December 1941, Vol. 2, No. 2
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Florence & Cripple Creek - famous narrow-gauge line of an earlier day hauled rich ores through a scenic empire; The Ma & Pa - two narrow-gauge lines were the ancestors of this successful and picturesque standard gauge railroad; 18 Selected Railroad Photographs; Railroad Photography; The Railroad Treasurer - Handling a railroad's money is as big a job as handling its cars and locomotives; Milwaukee Road S-2; Tintic, Utah; A Locomitive is Born - the engineering department strives for a design that will meet all operating needs; Wow! - Two-page photo of Union Pacific No. 4002 - the world's biggest. Average soiling and wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Trains Magazine, February 1941, Vol. 1, No. 4
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Lake St. Tower - focal point of the entire Chicago & North Western Railway is the six-track terminal throat; Off the Beaten Track - Round Trip Tickets are Honoured over this interesting mountain branch of the Northern Pacific; Passenger Agent - Making friends by satisfying passengers is his job - satisfied passengers ship freight too; Mother Hubbard Locomotives - Wide fire boxes of anthracite-burning locos crowded the cab forward; Keeping the Line Open - The railroads, more than any other private enterprise, strive to maintain service and give relief in major disasters; Now and Then - Cripple Creek Short Line in Colorado; Cross Roads of the North - Rouses Point, New York, first served by Champlain & Ogdensburg Raiway, now part of Rutland system; A Streamliner is Born - Dixie Flagler is one of three new high speed trains, pioneers in fast Chicago-Miami service; Wabash Railway at Chicago - best time of year for photographing Wabash locomotives is now - best place is Landers Yard - many locomotive photos; Illinois Central 4-6-0. Small date stamp atop front cover. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains Magazine, February 1965
62 pages. Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Photo feature on the US Railroad Administration's 4-6-2 of WWI - the Atlantic Coast Line (ACL); A Tale of Two Railroads - Jersey Central and Lehigh Valley have more in common than their deficits - article with photos and map; Ad with colour photos for GM's new locomotives at work in the Rockies; Photo Section; Super 1.5-page 1909 photo of the Delaware & Hudson Camelback 837 on the turntable at Oneonta, NY; And Then There Was One - What's ahead for South Shore, sole survivor of Insull's Traction Triumvirate? - article with photos and map; and more. Unmarked with average wear A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains Magazine, January 1942, Vol. 2, No. 3
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Two Daylights Daily - Southern Pacific's West Coast streamliners carry 1,500 passengers a day; Greatest Show on Earth - New York Division P RR; Washing Locomotives - article and photos; David Moffat's Dreams Come True - his life work - a transcontinental railroad west from Denver; Grizzly Flats Railroad; Please note: we believe this is the January, 1942 issue, not January 1941 as stated on title page. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Trains Magazine, January 1966
62 pages. Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Photo of a Pennsylvania Railroad D16; California's Two-Hat Railroad - Oro Dam Railroad - U25C's and dump cars - dam work - article with photos; Search for Steam in Britain - "It's Dying Where it All Began"; 4-page colour ad section for GM's new locomotives; Traction Classic - WB&A's Mile-A-Minute Articulateds; Great photo from the archives - the original Big G 2517 which set a speed record between Seattle and St. Paul, MN; and more. Unmarked with average wear A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains Magazine, July 1941, Vol. 1, No. 9
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Milwaukee Electrification - CMStP&P electric locomotives help each other climb the Rockies and the Cascades; Varnish Vignettes - Passing thoughts, railroads and travel; Loss- $5,500 /day - railroad companies often lose money but must maintain their service - New Haven case story; Southern Pacific old-timers at Sacramento; Electricity powers trains in Chicago; One-Man Railroad in Rhode Island - 5.6-mile Wood River Branch Railroad is the link between Hope Valley and the New Haven; ; Shay Locomotives - Lima's best seller is an out-puller too! - Shays pull extra heavy loads on sharp curves, steep grades; Engine "999"; Blue Ridge Railway - with aspirations of a thorough line nipped by the Civil War, BR Ry. becomes traffic link; Pennsylvania's "The Jeffersonian" - new fast coach train between St. Louis and the East follows success of Trail Blazer; Hiawathas at New Lisbon - when four steam-powered streamliners meet at a single point there's bount to be real activity. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Trains Magazine, June 1944, Vol. 4, No. 8
48 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: NYC West Side Freight Line - a photo story on the only all-rail freight route into Manhattan; Haunted Roundhouse - Hudson River roundhouse is a memory of the past; Recent 4-8-4's - specifications; Water Holes for Iron Horses - from L&N Magazine; The Man in the Tower; D&RGW in Eagle River Canyon - super centerfold photo; Uruapan Express; Two Early Trains - old-time photos; Great Britain's Garratt Locomotives; Women Railroaders. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Trains Magazine, June 1945, Vol. 5, No. 8
46 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: NYC replaces Busy Switches - new slip switches at Harmon, N.Y.; The Rio Grande - General Palmer's little narrow gauge road of the Colorado mountains grew into one of America's most important 'bridge' systems; Driving Gear for Turbine Locomotives - Pennsylvania Railroad's experimental unit has uniform torque, fully balanced drive wheels, high efficiency at speed; new locomotive; Built in Roanoke - Norfolk & Western has been building most of its locomotives at its Roanoke Shops; Railroad Ticket Man - What does the passenger look like to the man on the other side of the ticket window?; Tall Stacked Old Timers - Three gems from a leading locomotive photo collection; Chicago Station Gets New Shed - Illinois Central Rebuilds - Illinois Central tears down old high arch and builds slotted roof. Average wear. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Magazine
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Trains Magazine, May 1943, Vol. 3, No. 7
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Great Northern Electrics - The Cascade electrification ; The Man in the Tower; Colorado Midland - a martyr to the cause of commerce and industry - major article with many super photos; Old EL Locomotives - they turned on a nickel; New Illinois Central 4-8-2's - Data on the 2600 class; Worth it in Cold Cash - capable legal and claim departments often save a railroad their cost many times over; Chicago Subway - after 39 years of planning, Windy City approaches goal of underground transit; "War Babies" - denied new locomotives by War Production Board, railroads turn to rebuilding some of their older power - many shop photos; First "Pacific"? - CM&StP conversion. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Trains Magazine, October 1961 - German Diesel-Hydraulics for D&RGW and SP
58 pages. Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Fantastic two-page photo of train passing over Marent Trestle, west of Missoula, MT (R.V. Nixon's 25,000th photo!); New Haven - What Went Wrong? - even bankruptcy offers no haven to the New Haven Railroad - extensive article with map and photos; David Morgan writes of locomotives in Japan - with great photos; Mr. Beebe ponders the Pullmans; Moguls and Mikes - the Bevier & Southern Railroad of Bevier, MO; Feature article on Krauss-Maffei 4000 h.p. C-C's bound for U.S. service; and more. Unmarked with average wear A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains Magazine, September 1942, Vol. 2, No. 11
50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Saga of the UP Streamliners - many years of experimentation led to 17-car coast streamliners of today; Utah Interurbans; The Lady Said No - Lady Baltimore balked at pulling trains for which she was not designed - awaits dismantlers; By Rail Across Lake Michigan - car ferries run every day, winter or summer, cutting mileage and avoiding the congested Chicago area; Railfans on Parade - the New Yorker's reporter-at-large takes a look at an institution which has vanished for the duration; Diesel in the Rockies - internal combustion and steam work together on the climb to the Moffat Tunnel; Your Guess is Good - Railroad picture quiz; White Pass & Yukon - Bill Moore's Trip, Part II - a trek on a three-foot gauge grapevine stepped in mining lore; Locomotives of the White Pass & Yukon; New Tunnel - larger locomotives force replacement of tunnel 85 years old - the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) between Afton and Waynesboro, Va; Average wear and soiling. Centerfold lookse but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Munn, Orson D.
Scientific American April 1931 Volume 144 Number 4
A particularly interesting issue with topics ranging from the 100 horsepower blower for the organ in the new Chicago Stadium to an English vending machine which dispenses individual lit cigarettes. Features: The eyes and ears of the railroad - the complicated signal system that spells safety for rail travel; Editorials - Arthur G. Halfpenny - An Awakening Due - Lopsided progress; International Affairs; Did a meteorite strike a car in Crawfordsville?; New light on old fools - ultr-violet irradiation to create vitamin D; Unique solutions of bridge construction problems - caissons sunk on artificial islands - divers employed; Vacuum tubes in industry - thermionic tubes, grid-glow relays, photo cells find wide use; A new use for radium - radiography possible without combersome apparatus; Radio goes man-hunting - radio alarm system reduces the criminal's chance of escape; New temperature measurements of the sun, moon, mars - sensitive thermo-couples reveal surface conditions; Chicago's "Madison Square Garden" - called "world's largest sports arena"; has unusual features; Butterfly farming - an intriguing business started by Iowa youth; When locomotives go to sea - special steamers built to accomodate monsters of the rails (excellent photos); A machine-age "milk maid" - the "rotolactor' milks 240 cows in one hour; Centrifugally spun concrete piles - new manufacturing process; mass production of preserved foods - a huge industry that grew from a market basket; Salt making in India - Primitive methods illustrated and described. Average wear. Unmarked. Crease to front cover. Advertisement inside front cover features photo of luxurious Cord front drive automobile manufactured by the Auburn Automotive Company. Book
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New South Wales. Baldwin Locomotives Inquiry Commission
Report of the Royal commission of inquiry into the alleged defectiveness and unsuitability of the Baldwin locomotives. Presented to Parliament by command 1892
2020. Paperback. New. Lang: - eng Pages 434. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1892. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. paperback
Bookseller reference : PB1111000173315
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New South Wales. Baldwin Locomotives Inquiry Commission
Report of the Royal commission of inquiry into the alleged defectiveness and unsuitability of the Baldwin locomotives. Presented to Parliament by command 1892 Hardcover
2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng Pages 434. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1892. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1111000173315
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Nicolas Thierry
3V Chemin de fer des 3 vallées. De 3 vallein Spoorweg
Nicolas collection sd In-4 à l’italienne broché 20,5 cm sur 29. Français-Flamand. 28 pages. Très bon état d’occasion.
Bookseller reference : 109082
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Nick Pigott & Nigel Harris (Editors)
Steam Railway Magazine (5 issues) 1992 No 145, 149, 1994 Nos 167, 176, 1995 No, 184
Five editions of the magazine. No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. Very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. No 149 is slightly damp wrinkled but no loss to text or photos. 3 x 78, 1 x 90, 1 x 98pp. Steam Railway magazines May 1992, Sep 1992, Mar 1994, Dec 1994 and Aug 1995.
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