Gladwin, DavidMareMagnum
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1990No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 128pp. A pictorial history of trams, from horse-drawn to electric-powered. With grand openings, failed experiments, breakthroughs, disasters and everyday realities. The author assesses the short history of the tram and the reasons for its demise and looks forward to its future as new city Metros.
1982Previous owner's small name sticker on front cover. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A clean tight copy with slightly marked boards and no bumping to corners. Mild wrinkling to entire book. 36pp. Captioned photographs of North Wales transport to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the opening of the electric tramway between Llandudno and Colwyn Bay on 19th October 1907.
1979No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Fold-out map at rear in excellent condition. 44pp. Pictorial history of trams and tramways in the London areas of Edmonton, Leyton, West Ham, East Ham, Barking, City, Ilford and Stratford.
1999No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. Scarce. 44pp. Public transport in Keighley in West Yorkshire.
1988No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 38pp. Textual and pictorial history of the tram system in Leicester.
194448 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railroad; A Railroad Plans for Tomorrow - operating after the war; Do You Know These Railroads?; New York Central 4-8-2; Main Line of the Narrow Gauge - Rio Grande three-foot rails over Cumbres Pass, with super photo centerfold of a Denver & Rio Grande Western train beginning its run from Alamosa to Durango; Beyond Ellicott's Mills - oldest main line sees few passenger trains but its two tracks shorten B&O freight route 15 miles; Yugoslav Railroads - Pathway to the Orient; Great full-page ad for Rock Island Lines; Case History with which Attorney Louis F. Meyer Jr. illustrates an important railroad legal point. Small date stamp atop front cover. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
194350 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: The Man in the Tower; What's in a Name?; Engines by Herbert Wallis; They were not Scrapped - New Haven saves $4,000,000 by rebuilding 58 engines and saving them for wartime traffic; Wartime Rail Ramble - New York to Milwaukee via Washington, Atlanta, and New Orleans - the 11-day trip of six Eastern railfans; The John Wilkes - Lehigh Valley's No. 28 - Great centerfold photo; Down in Maine - Two-foot gauge scenics; Thomas Leiper's Railroads; Old El Cars Find a New Home - Shipyard Railway is newest electric line; The Old Mullet Road - owned by the State of North Carolina, the A&EC was a political football till leased to private interests. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Book
194150 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Saga of the "400" - it was just an ordinary Pacific which started the high-speed Chicago-Twin Cities service; Dulith, Missabe & Iron Range - in the land of short, stubby cars and long, heavy trains; Empire State Express - Seventeen million miles are credited to New York Central crack train - centerfold photo of this train at the height of her glory; The Traveling Salesman - Railroad glimpses from a thumbworn diary recording 12 years of covering the West by train, by Victor H. White; C&O 4-4-2; Capital Cities Route - Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac is funnel for north and south Atlantic Seaboard traffic; A Vermont Short Line - Montepelier & Wells River Railroad transports heavy granite loads from the Barre & Chelsea to the Boston & Maine; Trains' Map of Vermont Railroads. Average soiling and wear. Small date stamp atop front cover. Centerfold loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
194150 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Railroad Vacations - suggestions for your summer trip - choice routes for scenic and rail interest; Gone From Our Town - Social life of village once centered around the station, but now the railroad's gone, by Vince Edwards; Fast Freight Line - Western Maryland Railway, rooted at the mines in West Virginia, is important as an Eastern trade trunk; Illinois Central Portfolio - Eight old engines and a touch of the flavlor of modern power from a great North-South route; SP Cab-In-Front; Norfolk & Western's Spring Cleaning - photos of manual labour; Groucho, Harpo & Rio Chico RR - A Reel Railway in which the Marx Brothers take over the Sierra RR. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
194546 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
194448 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
194150 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
196158 pages. Features: Railroad News Photos; Reading Rambles - Why and how should a railroad de-dieselize?; Amazing trestle-disaster photos from making of movie "Ring of Fire' at Shelton, WA; KCKV - The dying remnant of a Kansas Interurban; The Road to Paradise - The Strasburg Railroad makes money on passengers, but oh that freight deficit!; For Heavy Slogging Service on Steep Grades - the Union of South Africa's topography turned thhe land into a locomotive paradise - great article with many photos; Amazine two-page reprint of a 1960 night photo of the Canadian Pacific Mikado 5135 enroute to Toronto from London; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear A nice copy. Magazine
194444 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
194350 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
194150 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Colorado Railroads - Why the railroads built into a wilderness of rock and snow, railroad operation, and notes for the traveler; Rich Road, Poor Road - Florida, East Coast Railway is unique among bankrupt roads of the nation; Mail-Key Railroaders - The sort the mail as speeding trains whisk the nation's letters on their way; Railfans' Utopia - If New England men have their way, fans will have a private road of their very own; SP Articulateds - Siamese twins of the rails, sired by Mallet type, are themselves simple articulateds; Hiawatha 4-4-2's. Small date stamp atop front cover. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195066 pages. Features: 12 Hours with 6009 - watch this NYC engine as it is readied for the run, then ride the cab for the 403 fleeting miles - great photos and write-up; Burlington Route relocates 13.4 miles of line as Federal Government constructs new dam on the Big Horn River in Wyoming - article and photos; To Alaska Someday - The Great Pacific Eastern - a structly rural steam and diesel road in British Columbia - excellent photos, maps and article; Photo Section includes wonderful shot of sunbeams inside the concourse of Grand Central Station, New York, centerfold photo of a Union Pacific freight climbing Sherman Hill, west of Cheyenne, Wyoming - a 4-8-8-4 'Big Boy'; Millions for Signals - "Either slow down your streamliners or intall more signals", says Interstate Commerce Commission - long article with photos; The Morristown & Erie Railroad - article and photos; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195168 pages. Features: Travel - Family Style - many wonderful photos of a family traveling by rail; Route of the Flying Saucers - The New York and Erie Railroad - long article with photos and map; Centerfold map shows hundreds of rail vaction routes all over the U.S.; Photo Section; Narrow-Gauge Vacation - How to ride the last of Colorado's three-foot-gauge passenger trains - article with map and photos; Details of some planned rail trips; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195066 pages. Features: The Nation's Crossroads - stand at Chicago's 21st St. Tower and you'll see trains from Canada, the Gulf, and both coasts - great article and photos; Asa Packer's Railroad - Coal means so much to the Lehigh Valley Railroad that even its crack passenger train is known as the Black Diamond - long article with full-page map and many photos; The Hiawatha Story - How the first engine to carry the Indian totem came to be, as recalled by a C.H. Bilty, a Milwaukee Road man who helped create it; Photo Section; The Atlantic & Danville (A&D) - photos, map and article; Early Days in Oregon - at the turn of the century the Union Pacific had its eye on a group of little roads which held the key to the Puget Sound gateway - map, photos and article; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Cover holding by one staple, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
195160 pages. Features: Steam Cools Your Train - interesting article and photos about air conditioning systems on rails; Washington, D.C.'s small railroads - article with maps and photos; The Song of the Shay - twice a day the 'screwdrivers' of the Camino, Placerville & Lake Tahoe sing their concrete-mixer theme on there way to and from the timber - article with photos and map; Photo Section; Centerfold photo of the maiden trip of the EMD FP-7 Reading Railroad train No. 2618 at Jenkintown, Pa.; The Day Coach - Passenger Coaches have become more luxurious - lengthy article with photos; What Might Have Been - Artist Egerton illustrates ideas of George R. Henderson which were never built; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195158 pages. Features: Built by American Car & Foundry (A.C.F.) - a photo story; Official Guide - presents hundreds of pages of timetables; The Diesel's Big Year - in 1950 steam was on the way out, but the gas turbine was a new opponent to diesel; Photo Section - includes centerfold photo of a Santa Fe eastbound freight near Kingman, Az; Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern - uncommon interurban in Iowa - article, photos and map of the "Crandic Route"; Astra Domes in the Northwest - article with photos; The Stewart Special - awesome article and photos of rail action in the Korean War; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1956Features: All about Budd's new coast; Middleman of the Alphabet Route - Pittsburgh & West Virginia (P&WV) bankrupted its builder, turned to coal for a living, finally came into its own as a speed-conscious bridge road - latter day solvency stems in part from the travels of a very famous business car; A Virginia & Truckee Sampler; New York Central's Oldest Steam Engine - an Alco 1000-type diesel electric locomotive; nice photo section; Colour centerfold painting of Starrucca Viaduct; The Pioneer III - an 85 foot long car! - article with many photos/diagrams; Steam in Indian Summer - Concerning Henry Ford, a 4-6-0 built in 1900, small boys and bliss and ignorance; Railroad news photos; Nice black and white ad for Elector-Motive Division's (EMD's) Aerotrain; and more. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1977Features: Snow photos - storm of 1977; The AB&C Railroad; A case of railway mania - the railroad system of the United States was greatly overbuilt; 7,000 miles from here... - Narrow Gauge, Wooden Coaches, and a Steam Engine - the Kingston Flyer; Color Centerfold of 'The City of Denver behind a Milwaukee Road FP45/FP7 duo; Queen of the Red River Valley - Passenger Trains 31 and 32 of the Texas & Pacific; Piggyback and the Portager Dream - 2 - In a sea of Clejans, TTX's, NITX's, Flexis, and Railvans... Portager Drowned; Selected Railroad Verse; and more. Average wear. Date stamp to front cover. Sound copy. Magazine
1968Features: Is there a freight car shortage? - No! - The Rolling Stock Riddle - 4; 100 mph plus on the MILW (Milwaukee Road) - a quarter-century ago steam made time that would make a diesel blush; Parlor Car East - the Long Island caters to the carriage trade (LIRR); Photo Section; The Crow and the Kettle - Canadian Pacific's unremarked crossing of the Continental Divide - article and photos; The Demi-Empire of Georgia-Pacific; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1961Features: 'The St. Paul Road' - there is no train in service on any railway in the world that equals in equipment the pioneer limited trains in daily service between Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Minneapolis; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; The Pioneer Limited - the train they called the "Rolls-Royce of American Railroading!" - many great photos and article; The Schizophrenic Nevada Northern - Kennecott Copper's offspring; Black Smoke over Nebraska - amazing 2-page photo; Trains Goes Around the World - 6 - "The Best Travel Experience in the Whole of India" - 0-4-OT's to Shangri-la; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
