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1949réf. 228251npl: Pennsylvania Railroad 1949. Pamphlet. 20p.; alkaline coated paperstock with b&w pix descriptions and technical stats for a number of specialized choo choos including six curious switching engines: electric diesel steam and combinations. Staplebound pamphlet in 5.5x8 inch oblong pictorial wraps cover bears an unobtrusive smudge and a couple numerals in red pencil else an unhandled-looking copy nice and sound. Pennsylvania Railroad unknown books
1866réf. 1008228vo pamphlet original printed wrappers 20 pp. Wrappers with some tears and chips at the extremities a 1x3 piece missing from top of front wrapper notation on front wrapper front wrapper and title page partially detached small tear in the middle that runs through not affecting text or particularly visible middle crease number and library stamp on title page some minor soiling normal aging; still a good or better copy. The Philadelphia and Reading represents one of the nation's oldest railroads with its roots going back to 1832. The Atlantic and Great Western is a railroad that would merge and morph several times and become the New York Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad. The present agreement is actually between several railroad companies and the goal appears to be to share rail and transport to Philadelphia. H.G.Leisenring's Steam Printing House, books
1960réf. 152748Chicago: Railroad Retirement Board 1960. Paperback. 103p. wraps 4x6.75 inches wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Railroad Retirement Board paperback books
1948réf. 36032Chicago: Railroad Workers Industrial Union 1948. Four panel brochure not folded 8.5x11 inches full paper size paper evenly browned else very good condition. Miles 4346. Railroad Workers Industrial Union unknown books
1948réf. 62853Chicago: Railroad Workers Industrial Union no. 520 1948. Leaflet printed on both sides creased horizontally with closed tears along the fold paper browned chipping on edges else good condition 9x12 inches. Miles 4455. Railroad Workers Industrial Union no. 520 unknown books
1926réf. 98686Rutland VT: The Tuttle Company printers 1926. paperback. 103p. wraps 6x9 inches wraps lightly worn else very good condition. The Tuttle Company, printers unknown books
réf. 7075Lincoln Nebraska: Burlington Route 1886. Journal Company State Printers. 8vo 8.5" x 5.75" printed orange wrappers. 15 pp. folding map 22" x 39.25" plus margins; map of the Burlington Route on back wrapper 2" x 5.75". CONDITION: Good tape marks near spine on both front and back wrappers light dampstaining to a few pages creases and small chips to back wrapper. A pamphlet promoting the developing town of Broken Bow Nebraska including a large map produced two years after the railroad arrived in the area. Platted in 1882 Broken Bow in Custer County Nebraska allegedly took its name from the suggestion of a settler who found a broken bow in the field of a former Native American camping ground. In 1884 the railroad reached Broken Bow and the town was incorporated. This pamphlet opens with an account of how to get to Broken Bow via the Burlington Route on the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad. Excerpted from the Chicago Western Rural of July 24th 1886 and Chicago Times of June 5th 1886 are overviews of the "thriving little metropolis"-"a growing center of Western thrift and enterprise." Matters covered relating to Broken Bow and its vicinity include farming labor new towns soil shelter "Most of the settlers who have already located in this region have their homes in sod houses. How many have ever seen a sod house" education organized religion the climate and so forth. "The trader artizan banker speculator can find profit in operating there and should go and see." The last page gives ticket rates on the Burlington Route to Broken Bow. The map entitled Map of Nebraska shows towns counties military installations Native American reservations and the network of railways in the state with those of southeastern Nebraska highlighted in red. Lincoln, Nebraska: Burlington Route, 1886. Journal Company, State Printers unknown books
1920réf. 1523St. Paul MN: Great Northern Railway 1920. Card 9 cm x 16 cm printed in red and black ink. Vertical bend at left side. One side contains an advertisement and rail schedule for the Great Northern. Stops listed are: Winnipeg Noyes Crookston Fergus Falls Alexandria St. Cloud Minneapolis and Saint Paul. "You will enjoy traveling on this fine fast air-conditioned train with every modern convenience. [Great Northern Railway] unknown books
1950réf. 1809Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1950. Color map 48.5 cm x 80 cm on a single sheet 51 cm x 81 cm Light overall wear. Very good. Map shows the routes of The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System. The reverse is blank. The Kolob section of Zion NP is listed as a National Monument it was incorporated into the park in 1956. Rand McNally & Company unknown books
1935réf. 1252Denver: Williamson Haffner Company 1935. Giant post card 15 cm x 19.5 cm printed in color. Near fine. "Centuries before the dawn of human story the elements chiseled out the huge grooves at right angles to one another that forms the sacred cross. The snows fill the great gulches and lo! the cross appears as it is flashed upon a dark screen by an electrical appliance. Just after leaving Tennessee Pass the cross can be seen from the Denver & Rio Grande car windows." - from the back. Williamson Haffner Company unknown books
réf. 47608Washington DC: Southern Railway nd. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 30pp. Light rubbing else very good in publisher's stapled wraps. Southern Railway paperback books
réf. 7376Chicago 1914-1920. Common Sense" binder 8.5" x 11" and 2" thick trade-mark patented in 1904 by Asa L. Shipman's Sons tan cloth over boards. 102 cyanotypes 23 silver prints 1 map 4.5" x 9" plus margins and 47 reproductions of drawings most on blue print-out paper some folding; 8 catalogs a total of 324 pp. as follows: two Electric Railway supply catalogs a total of 30 pp. Railway Line Material for Direct Suspension 92 pp. Line Material and Rail Bonds for Mine and Industrial Haulage 72 pp. Rail Bonds and Bonding Tools 54 pp. General Electric Company Supply Department-Shaft Couplings 12 pp. Railway Motor Gears and Pinions 24 pp. and Railway Substations 40 pp. The back-cover bears the following title "Electric Traction. Descriptions of Systems. Technical Papers on Electrification. Regenerative Braking. Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul General Description & Data." CONDITION: Contents very good overall a handful of the cyanotypes faded; no losses to the text. An impressive and apparently unique photographically-illustrated shop manual relating to the early phase of electrification of the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad supplemented with eight illustrated electric railway parts catalogs published by General Electric Co. between 1914 and 1920. This manual includes photos and illustrations of locomotives rail lines and railway electrification equipment and components in addition to a regional map of the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad line through parts of Idaho and Montana. Many photos bear an ink stamp stating they are the property of General Electric Co. and cannot be reproduced without permission indicating that the manual was assembled by someone working on the electrified Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul line from materials supplied by General Electric Co. The line eventually connected St. Paul Minnesota and the Pacific Northwest passing through Wyoming Montana Idaho and into northern Washington during the early electrification period of the railroad from 1914 to 1920. Photos show many railroad and municipal railway systems supplied by General Electric Co. of Schenectady NY. Besides the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul R.R. these include the Butte Anaconda and Pacific Railroad; the Greenville Spartanburg and Anderson Railway; London and Port Stanley Railway Co.; Commonwealth Edison Co.; Ft. Dodge Des Moines and Southern Railroad; Wilkes Barre and Hazleton Railway Co.; Minneapolis St. Paul Rochester and Dubuque Electric Traction Co.; Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad; Portland Railway Light & Power Co.; Grafton & Upton Railroad Co.; University of Michigan; Nashville Interurban Railway; Claremont Railway & Lighting Co. and the Detroit River Tunnel. Incorporated in 1892 General Electric Co. was heavily involved in the electrification of America including its railroad and railway systems. The company designed and manufactured-along with the American Locomotive Co.-locomotives and their motors frames transmission lines generators and a host of equipment necessary to outfit and power trains and streetcars and maintain them. The company's plant in Schenectady NY had a short railroad built along the Erie Canal on which it tested new locomotives and railway equipment. The illustrated catalogs from General Electric included here consist of two Electric Railway supply catalogs Railway Line Material for Direct Suspension 1916 Line Material and Rail Bonds for Mine and Industrial Haulage 1918 Rail Bonds and Bonding Tools 1914 General Electric Company Supply Department-Shaft Couplings 1914 Railway Motor Gears and Pinions 1916 and Railway Substations 1915. A highly visual manual with extensive photo-documentation of railway electrification in the early twentieth century. [Chicago?, 1914-1920.] unknown books
réf. 5490Rhode Island and Massachusetts: Boston & Providence Railroad 1880s. 2 oblong 8vo photograph albums 7.5" x 10.5" brown cloth over boards gilt titles at front-cover; 1 8vo disbound album. 62 bromide print photos 4.5" x 8" with printed and manuscript labels mounted on paperboard leaves; all photos numbered and arranged in sequence: 1-23 in Album 1 19 total lacking 12 13 15 and 20; 26-49 on loose leaves from disbound album 2 23 total lacking #24 #25 and #40; 50-64 plus 5 unnumbered and unlabeled images in album 3 20 total. An impressive photo archive documenting a range of locomotives built for the Boston & Providence Railroad by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works; the Taunton Locomotive Mfg. Co.; Mason Machine Works; the Hinkley & Williams Works and the Boston & Providence itself. Forty-two of the various engines pictured were produced between 1867 and 1887 by the R. I. Lo. Works; seven by the Bos. & Prov. from 1854-1873; six by Taunton L. M. C. from 1868-1886; two by Hinkley & Williams from 1868-1887; and one by Mason Machine Works in 1884. Also included here are images of the Highland and Mount Hope train stations as well as an unidentified railroad bridge. A typical label reads: "26. Squantum. Taunton L. Mfg. Co. 1886. 37.5 / 16 / 20 / 4.5 / 59564 Outside." The engineers and others who operated the trains appear in many photos enlivening the scenes. Incorporated 1831 the Boston and Providence Railroad was built in two sections in 1834 and 1835 and was acquired in 1888 with a ninety-nine year lease by Old Colony Railroad. Of particular note was Master Mechanic George S. Griggs 1905-1970 who was hired in 1834 at age twenty-nine to organize the department and improve the early engines built in the Roxbury shops. As Charles E. Fisher details "Perhaps the highest compliment that can be paid him was that his work on the locomotive was closely followed by the Taunton Locomotive Works and Hinkley & Drury. Mr. Griggs continued to build inside connected locomotives long after the other roads had discarded them and they were a common sight on this road as late as the seventies." Given the date of the Old Colony's acquisition of the Boston & Providence these photos may relate to the takeover. A valuable record of the Boston & Providence fleet of locomotives. REFERENCES: Fisher Chas. E. "Locomotives of the New Haven R.R." The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin No. 47 September 1938 pp. 79-89. CONDITION: Spine perished on one album some images and mounts toned or foxed damp stains to edges of some leaves bindings worn at extremities photos with generally good tonality. Rhode Island and Massachusetts: Boston & Providence Railroad, 1880s unknown books
1971réf. 76210Milwaukee:: Kalmbach Publishing Company. Very Good. 1971. Paperback. Black and white photographs and line drawings throughout including fold-outs at rear. First edition paperback. Previous owner's stamp on title page else very good in oversize pictorial wraps. . Kalmbach Publishing Company, paperback books
1919réf. 6459Washington D.C.: United States Railroad Administration Agricultural Section 1919. First edition. 9x8" 1 35 1pp including wrappers. Photographs map. Illustrated wrappers staple bound. Some toning to wraps light vertical crease throughout small chip and some smudging to rear wrapper. Very good or better. Nicely preserved and scarce Wyoming promotional issued as part of the Agricultural Series No. 10 by the U.S. Railroad Administration. Copiously illustrated with photos of the state's scenery and agricultural industries from livestock to farmland. We date this publication by the governor's message at the front written by Robert D. Carey who took office in 1918 and served until 1922. OCLC cites only a copy at the Newberry Library in Chicago. United States Railroad Administration, Agricultural Section unknown books
1916réf. 010685Pennsylvania Railroad 1916. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Large 8vo faux crushed leather covers gilt titles spine 136 pages. Pictorial organizational and statistical record of all the "company" or "intrmural" athletci teams of the Eastern Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad covering all kinds of indoor and outdoor sport - shuffleboard basketball football tennis volleyball etc withphots of both railriad executives and teams and individual athletes at sport plus hundreds of advertisements for Penn vendors and businesses allied to the railroad. In fune unused condition. Scarce. Pennsylvania Railroad hardcover books
réf. 5718St. Louis: St. Louis Globe-Democrat Job Print; Woodward Tiernan & Hale Map Engr's 1878. Broadsheet with map 20.75" x 6.5" plus margins printed in black and red. Map size 11" x 5". Faded purple stamp of agent Henry H. Hannan. CONDITION: Very good upper-half of right margin rough cut. A scarce and attractive promotional broadsheet with map issued by the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway advertising special railway offers to emigrants headed to Texas. This broadsheet announces cheap excursion tickets free baggage up to 200 lbs. and reduced emigrant rates for departures from St. Louis on the Short Line Route which runs through Arkansas into Texas. A table of rates on the verso lists first class and emigrant rates. The Texas Short Line extends from St. Louis Missouri to Galveston and Austin and cuts diagonally across the map with various spurs along the way including intersections the Texas & Pacific R'y and the International & Great Northern R'y. Interested parties seeking assistance information on Texas maps time-tables rates of fare etc. are encouraged to call upon or address the nearest of the railroad's Agents located in Missouri Chicago New York City and Ohio whose names are provided on both recto and verso. The St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway began selling off land holdings in Arkansas in the mid-1870s and continued to do so into the early twentieth century. OCLC records some twenty maps published by the railroad company promoting land it owned in Arkansas issued during this time period. These lands extended from the northernmost point of the state around Little Rock to the line's southern terminus in Texarkana. The company offered various inducements for settlers deep discounts for putting money down as well as reduced freight should homesteaders wish to transport their belongings via the railway. As demonstrated by the present broadsheet the railroad also capitalized on emigration to Texas. OCLC records only three copies at Yale Princeton and University of Texas at Arlington. St. Louis: St. Louis Globe-Democrat Job Print; Woodward, Tiernan & Hale, Map Engr's, 1878 unknown books
1858réf. 78316Washington DC: Congress. Very Good. 1858. Disbound. 2 p. This document is a single leaf disbound removed from a larger binding with wear/remnants on the spine. The contents are bright and clean with light toning/offsetting. . Congress unknown books
1947réf. 7196Chicago: Poole Brothers 1947. 32pp. Duodecimo 19 cm Color illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Promotional tour guide produced by the Union Pacific with photographs and color illustrations throughout with a fold-out map pictured at rear panel. Nice mid-century design and aesthetic. "Yellowstone is the largest the oldest and perhaps the best known of America's many national parks. It is at once weird incredible and magnificent in its rugged wild beauty. It is one of the greatest wildlife sanctuaries in the world." - p.1. Poole Brothers unknown books
1950réf. 6934Chicago: Poole Bros 1950. 48pp. Duodecimo 19 cm Color illustrated wrappers. Very good. Name small in ink on the first page. Date small in ink on the cover. Promotional tour guide produced by the Union Pacific for Dude Ranches in Wyoming Montana Idaho Colorado Oregon Washington Nevada and California with photographs and color illustrations throughout and descriptions of each. Nice mid-century design and aesthetic. "The Dude Ranch vacation is annually becoming more popular with Americans. It is little wonder that this is true since this type of vacation pays large dividends in health brought about by long hours in the open and in relief to frayed nerves grown weary of the bustle and din of city life. Poole Bros unknown books
1922réf. 3527Buffalo: The Matthews-Northrup Works 1922. Color map 65 cm x 52 cm on a single sheet 69 cm x 56 cm printed on both sides and folds to pamphlet size 23 cm x 9 cm Very good. Folds as issued. Large map color map of California that locates the Southern Pacific rail lines. Printed over Nevada is an index to places in California and the adjacent border towns of Nevada. Three inset maps 'The Bay Region About San Francisco' 18 cm x 13 cm; 'Los Angeles and Vicinity Showing Pacific Electric Railway ' 8 cm x 13 cm; 'Comparative Area' 14 cm x 10 cm. Reverse contains "A Brief Description of its Resources Attractions Topography and Climate" over 15 numbered panels. "It is worth while to know the California of today to know what you can do in it; what money you can make and what comfort you can find in it; what home life it offers. New opportunities await the newcomer because new activities are developing. Irrigation has made the great valleys attractive and created farms and town where only ranches existed. The Matthews-Northrup Works unknown books
réf. 5618Denver Colo.: Denver & Rio Grande and the Rio Grande Western Passenger Department 1903. 8vo 9" x 6" pictorial color wrappers ticket agent stamp on cover. 4 64 pp. laid in folding map 8" x 16" by the Poole Bros. of Chicago. A travel guide and map issued by the Denver & Rio Grande and the Rio Grande Western railroads with descriptions of numerous towns cities springs resorts boarding houses roads gorges passes and other points of interest located along the line. The map ranges from Chicago to California and from Montana to New Mexico. The Denver and Rio Grande and the Rio Grande Western are highlighted. Also shown are various other railroad lines and spurs. CONDITION: Good some soiling to covers half inch split in paper at head of spine interior clean and fresh. Denver, Colo.: Denver & Rio Grande and the Rio Grande Western Passenger Department, 1903 unknown books
1951réf. 77654Columbus Ohio.: The Auxiliary. Very Good. 1951. Softcover. This book is soft-bound in gray wrappers with blue printing on the upper cover. The covers show light edge-wear. The staple binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean. . (The Auxiliary) paperback books
1867réf. 76723Washington D. C.: Publisher Not Stated. Good. 1867. Hardcover. This item has been removed from a larger binding with some wear/remnants to the spine. There is some toning to the page edges with a damp-stain to the lower right corner of the first few pages. . (Publisher Not Stated) hardcover books
1858réf. 74242Wash D. C.: GPO. Very Good. 1858. Pamphlet. GPO unknown books
