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5 Miles of Family Ties. Recollections of Missouri’s family operated Rock Port, Langdon & Northern Rwy. by J. Pete Hedgpeth, edited by James J. Reisdorff. 5.6 mile short Line Rwy constructed in 1890 and left a legacy of colorful shortline memories. Scvr 72 pge b&w.Good cond. front cover has bend on upper right hand
corner. Lightly soiled covers. $24.95pfb

A Century of Model Trains by Allen Levy
HC 208 pge b&w/color photos second ed. 1975. Mostly photos of European model
trains mint cond. $39.95pbNow $9.95

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Across Iowa on the Keokuk & Western and
The Humeston & Shenandoah RRs by Bernard G. Corbin & Associate editor J.C.Hardy. ©1986 Book perpetuates memory of Keokuk & Western & The Humeston & Shenandoah RRs which became part of the Burlington system. Very good cond. Nice copy.
HC no DJ 144 pge b&w $87.50rs
America’s Colorful Railroads by Don Ball Jr
Reed Books First Ed Oct. 1978. History of RRs in the 1940 and 1950’s and a study of RR photography. The first all color book on the subject HC 210 pge all color. Boo is in good cond.
DJ has some tears at top of spine. $5.95pb
America’s Railroads The Second Generation
by Don Ball Jr. ©1980 First ed. W.W. Norton & Co. Photos of RRs in the 1960’s
and ’70’s. Good cond. Nice copy $6.95pfb
Amtrak at Milepost 10 K.Zimmerman. 1981
1st printing. Sc 80 pge b&w some color. Mint cond $3.95jwb

B&O Power. Steam, Diesel and electric power
of the B&O. 1829-1964. by L.W.Sagle and Alvin f. Stufer ©1964 Staufer RR Books. Complete history of B&O motive power HC 351 pge, b&w photos. Book in very good cond. Dust
jacket some wear $39.95pfb

B&O Steam Finale V. 1 by Deane Mellander
and Bob Kaplan. Photos by Wm P. Price ©1986,First ed. by National Rwy Historical Society. HC no dust jacket, all color photos, 120 pge good cond. Five pages w/bent upper corners
other then that a nice copy. $27.95pb
Bradford The Railroad Town. by Scott D.
Trostel, ©1987 Cam-Tech Pub. First ed. second printing June 1987 “A Railroad town history of Bradford, OH. a Pennsylvania RR town. Founding, Growth and demise of a RR town. HC 152 pge b&w photos. Book is in good cond. DJ fair cond. w/tears and spots on the
front cover. $29.95pfb
Canadian National Steam Power Anthony
Clegg and Ray Corley ©1969, A railfare Book. Book Contains almost everything you need to know about CN Rwys steam locos from initial purchases through final dispositions. HC 128 pge b&w, Horizontal Book is in good cond. DJ has
some tears front and back $9.95pfb
Canadian Steam edited by David P.Morgan
©1961 Kalmbach books. Canadian Steam recalls vanished glories in a splendid portfolio of steam photos. HC b&w photos.
Good cond. nice copy $8.95pfb
Canadian Steam edited by David P.Morgan
©1961 Kalmbach books. Book recalls vanished glories in a splendid portfolio of steam photos. HC b&w photos.
Good condition, nice copy $8.95jb
Car Builders Cyclopedia of American
Practice 1946 Seventeenth ed. Simmons-Boardman Pub. Editor Roy V. Wright. Definitions and typical illustrations of RR and industrial cars, their parts and equipment and more. Hc 1,444 page, b&w photos. Book in poor condition. shows wear. Parts of the first end sheet page missing on bottom corner due to bug damage. (bugs long gone) All text and photos are complete. Hcvr front and back in poor cond.
A wealth of information. Original owner, C&NW section boss in our town, Morgan, MN.
our price $39.95pb
Chard Walker’s Cajon Rail Passage to the
Pacific. by Chard Walker, ©1985 Trans-Anglo books. First printing Winter 1985. Here is the complete story of Cajon Pass in words and photos. HC 254 pge b&w. Book in unread cond.
Dust jacket good cond. $21.50jwb

Chard Walker’s Cajon Rail Passage to the
Pacific. by Chard Walker, ©1985 Trans-Anglo books. First printing Winter 1985. Here is the complete story of Cajon Pass in words and photos. HC 254 pge b&w. Very good cond.
Nice copy $21.95pfb
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Colorado on Glass Colorado’s First half
century as seen by the Camera. by Terry Wm. Mangan. ©1975, Sundance Books. First printing. A special limited ed. of 250 copies each one bearing a contact solar print made from an original glass plate by Wm Henry Jackson book #00049 of 250. Print #30. Hc 405 page. Sepiatone photos. Red cardboard slip cover. Very good cond. nice copy. Photos from Colorado’s early years
1853 through the gold rush. ours. $39.95pfb

Colorado Rail Annual #9 ©1971 Colorado
RR Museum CONTENTS; Tin feathers and Gasoline Fumes; Prospector; The Judge’s train. A Tribute to Fred Jukes. Track of the C.A.T.S. HC 126 pge b&w. book is in good cnd. DJ in poor con. w/tears/
wrinkles. ours. $5.95pb
Colorado Rail Annual #16 Short Line to
Cripple Creek. by Tivis E. Wilkins ©1983 Colorado RR Museum. Story of the Colorado Springs & Cripple creek District Rwy. HC 180 page at0 b&w photos. Collection of photos, postcards and other advertising material reproduced in full color. Rosters of locos and cars with several maps. Good cond. DJ has small tear
on top front. Nice copy $21.95pfb

Colorado Railroads, Chronological Development. compiled by Tivis E.Wilkins ©1974 first ed. Pruett Pub. Co. Hcvr 309 pge, 250 b&w photos. 15 maps. Book good cond. dust
jacket has small tears, nice copy $27.50pfb

Colorado’s Loneliest Railroad; The San
Luis Southern. by P.R. “Bob” Griswold. ©1980 Pruett Pub. Hcvr 190 page b&w w/21 pages of detailed diagrams from tracks to coach cars and floor plans of depots. Traces beginnings of RR in 1909 to 1980 operations. Book in mint
cond. still in original plastic wrap. $32.95pb
Daylight 4-8-4’s The complete story of
Southern Pacific GS class 4400 ser. locomotives by R. J. Chjurch ©1976 Krativille Publications. From the Daylights to the Bicentennial Freedom Train. The book goes into the background and operatins of all GS locos including the latter day Ex-Cotton Belt Series. This edition also contains a new chapter on the nation’s most famous 4-8-4 GS-4 #4449 the loco used on the Bicentennial’s American Freedom Train. Hc 97 page plus new chapter. B&W photos and back to back full page color photos of the 4449 in Daylight colors and one in Freedom Train colors. Book is in bood cond. DJ has some wear and discoloration on spine. Pages in good
cond. Nice copy $79.00pb
Daylight 4-8-4’s The complete story of
Southern Pacific GS class 4400 ser. locomotives by R. J. Chjurch ©1976 Krativille Publications. From the Daylights to the Bicentennial Freedom Train. The book goes into the background and operatins of all GS locos including the latter day Ex-Cotton Belt Series. This edition also contains a new chapter on the nation’s most famous 4-8-4 GS-4 #4449 the loco used on the Bicentennial’s American Freedom Train. Hc 97 page plus new chapter. B&W photos and back to back full page color photos of the 4449 in Daylight colors and one in Freedom Train colors.Book and pages in good cond. DJ has some wear, discoloration and small tears at
top of spine. Nice copy. ours. $69.95pfb
Daylight Reflections by Nils Huxtable
©1987 Steamscenes, First printing. Golden Jubilee Ed. “The most Beautiful Train in the World.” Hc horizontal, 104 page, all color. Good tight, unread condition. DJ has very slight wear on bottom spine, but
very nice copy $10.95jwb

Decade of the Trains the 1940s Don Ball,Jr
& Roger E.M. Whitaker, ©1977 New York Graphic Society, First Ed. the story of the industry, focusing on the human side on the people who made it all work. Hcvr 287 pge b&w photos. Boo in good cond. DJ has tears on the front top and bottom $3.95pb
Delaware & Hudson the Bridge Line to New
England and Canada. by Jim Shaughnessy ©1967 Howell-North Books. Fifth printing Nov. 1974. ...the story of a RR, still vigorous today which began in 1823 as a cana system to transport coal. A thorough study of the D&H. Hcvr 488 page 625 b&w illustrations, rosters maps and more. The book and pages are in good cond. DJ shows some wear,
no tears our $19.95pb
Denver’s Railroads Revised & enlarged Ed.
by Kenton Forrest & Charles Albi ©1986 Colorado RR Museum. Well illustrated history of the Railways of Denver and Union Station. HC 256 page b&w photos and 4 large maps loose in folder back of book. Very good cond. Still in
shrink wrap. $39.95pb
Desert Railroading by Steve Schmollinger
Heimburger House Pub. The book is a variety of spectacular modern day images of RRing in the desert. HC 172 pge all color.
good cond. nice copy $R9.95jwb
Down South on the rock Island 1940-1969
by Steve Allen Goen ©2002 Four Ways West Pub. HC comes w/o DJ 128 page, all color. Few steam locos, mostly diesel with a section on
depots. Very good cond. nice copy $89.95rs
Eastern Steam Pictorial The Anthracite roads
by Bert Pennypacker ©1975 A.D. Carleton Railbooks. second Ed. Hc 384 pge b&w photos. “...back to the smoky days of the nine anthracite roads.” Book is in good cond. DJ tears
on the top and bottom front. ours $19.95pfb
Echoes Down the Canyon A Western Pacific
Journal 1968-1986. by Ted Benson ©1987 Westrail. First printing Feb.1987 A pictorial history of WP’s last 20 years of independence and its subsequent exciting transformation into Union Pacific’s Feather River Division. Hc 64 page b&w photos. Very nice cond. nice copy
ours $44.95pfb
Echoes Down The Canyon by Ted Benson
©1987 Westrail Pub. A Western Pacific Journal 1968-1986. First printing Feb 1987. WP’s last two decades of independence along with the RR’s exciting transformation into UP’s Feather River Div. HC 64 pge, b&w photos. Book and pages are in good cond. DJ in very poor cond. w/large and small tears. Spine in good cond.
our price $39.95rs
Emil Albrecht’s Union Pacific Small
Steam Power. by James W. Watson & F. Hol Wagner, Jr. ©1985 Motive Power Services. Scvr 112 page b&w photos. Book good cond slight dog ear top right corner otherwise in
unread cond. $5.95jwb
George L. Beam and the Denver & Rio
Grande V.1 by Jackson C. Thode ©1986 First printing July 1986. V.1 contains photos from 1892 to 1934 taken by George Beam and present a graphic tour along the lines of the DRGW between Denver and Grand Jct. CO. HC 280 pge b&w photos very good, unread
condition Has original mylar plastic cover.
Signed by author #646 ours $13.95jwb
George L. Beam and Denver & Rio Grande Vol II. First printing July 1989, Sundance Books. by Jackson C. Thode. V.2 focuses on the narrow gauge Rwy that entered the San Luis Valley and the San Juans. Book very good cond.
nice copy HC 280 pge b&w photos $43.95pfb
Georgetown and the Loop by P.R. Bob
Griswold; R.H. Kindig, Cynthia Trombly. ©1988 first ed. by Rocky Mtn RR Club. “A pictorial history of the “old Loop” and the story of the incredible rebuilding of the “New Loop.” signed by Authors. Very good cond. nice copy.
Hc 254 pge b&w photos Price $19.95pfb
Georgetown and the Loop by R.P. “Bob” Griswold, Richard H. Kindig and Cyntha Trombly. A pictorial history of the “old loop” and the story of the incredible rebuilding of the “new loop” HC 254 pge. pages in good cond. b&w, some color. $39.95rs
Getting Started with Lionel Trains; Your
introduction to Model RRing Fun. by Allan W. Miller 2001 Scvr b&w/color, 126 pge
very nice copy $3.95 pfb
Golden Rails by Wm. Kratville. Kratville
Publications, Omaha, NE 1965. 100 years of operation of UP RR. 320 page b&w photos, portraits, timetables and maps. Bound in original gold cloth w/lettering stamped in blue. Near fine in very good cond. DJ has taped tear on top back, some wear on DJ. Book unread, clean and tight. Autographed by author to past
owner. ours $49.95 jwb

Golden State Rails; A California Railroading
Pictorial. by Wesley Fox 72page soft cover. 1980. ISBN 0960412204. Very good cond.
b&w photos. $2.95jwb

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Great Northern Steam & Electric in Color
by David H. Hickcox. ©Morning Sun 1999. 128 page Hard cover in original plastic wrapping from publisher Mint $59.95jwb

Great Railroad Photographs USAby Lucius
Beebe & Charles Clegg ©1964 Howell-North Books. Subscription edition of 2000 copies signed by authors #251. Book is in very good cond. Plastic DJ has a chip on the bottom front cover. Has cardboard slip cover HC 243 pge b&w. Has previous
owners’ name front end paper $79.95pfb
Headlights & Markers, An Anthology of RR stories. edited by Frank P. Donovan and Robert S. Henry. Much text. HC 396 pge. Good cond. dust jacket has some dents
$6.95pb
Highball A Pageant of Trains by Lucius Beebe
©1982 Bonanza Books. Action shots of varnish trains and hotshot freights of famous flyers and lowly locals of RR workers, yards, terminals and servicing scenes. Very good cond.
nice copy. HC 223 pge b&w photos $5.95pb
Howard Fogg and the Diesel Image
by John Scala, ©1987 The Weekend Chief Publ Co. first ed. “A color compilation of choice diesel Loco renditions from Americas foremost RR Illustrator. Hcvr Horizontal, 175 page. Book is tight, clean copy. Book and Djacket in very good cond.
Our price $35.95jwb

Illinois Central; Main Line of Mid-America
by Donald J. Heimburger with photographers Jerry Carson & Owen Leander. ©1995 Heimburger House Pub. All color photos of the largest North-South RR in the US. HC 128 page. Good cond. Hcvr has small dent on te bottom corner front and back. Pages good cnd.
Nice copy $27.95rs
Illinois Central; Main Line of Mid-America
by Donald J. Heimburger with photographers Jerry Carson & Owen Leander. ©1995 Heimburger House Pub. All color photos of the largest North-South RR in the US. HC
128 page.
Book & DJ in excellent, unread cond. $27.95jwb
Iron Horses The Illustrated history of the
Tracks and trains of North America. by Michael Del Vecchio ©2000 Courage Books. A trip back to the age of steam when the steamer carved out a new history for N. America. Book also features an up to date, illustrated A to Z guide to preservation sites and museums. Book good cond. DJ has small tear on back top spine and a small black mark on top back DJ.
Nice copy never read. $6.95pfb

Key System Album by Jim Walker ©1978
Interurban Publications. First printing spring 1978. Back to the glory days of conventional traction and celebrate the Key system’s rich and changing personality. Hcvr Horizontal 120 pge b&w. Good cond.
DJ good cond. nice copy ours $14.95pb
Lehigh Valley 2 In Color. by Robert J. Yanosey. 1st printing ©1991. our of print. Good cond. Nice copy dust jacket in fair cond.
$29.95pfb

Lines West By Charles R. Wood. A pictorial
history of the Great Northern Rwy operations and Motive power 1887 to 1967. ©1967 Superior Publishing Co. second printing. Great Northrn story from the days when steam was king. HC 192 pge b&w photos of steam, electric and diesel motive power. Good cond. DJ has few small tears.
ours $5.95pfb
Lionel’s Model Builder Kalmbach books.
The magazine that shaped the toy train hobby. From the publishers of Classic toy Trains. by GTerry Thompson and Roger Carp. a collection os some of the best layouts. How to and modeling articles from the pages of this influential magazine Scvr b&w photos. Very good cond. $9.95jwb

Loco 1 the Diesel A survey of North American Railcars and diesel locos from 1900 to 1966. Compiled by staff of Railroad Model Craftsman. HC Horizontal, 142 pge b&w photos and drawings ©1966 Carstens Publication. Book is in good cond. Hard cover and all pages have a bend at the bottom front corner. DJ is in poor cond., has
tears and is worn. ours $2.95pb
Locomotive 4501 by David P. Morgan
©1968 Kalmbach Books. Story of one steam locomotive Southern Rwy 2-8-2 #4501. HC horizontal, 127 pge b&w Book/DJ are in
good cond. Nice copy $5.95pfb
Locomotives of My Life by Don Wood.
©1974 First printing. Audio-Visual Designs. Book is about motive power Don Wood loved and phtographed. HC 320 pge b&w photos of steam and diesel locos with a few color photos. Book in good cond. DJ
poor cond. w/tears front and back $5.95pfb
Midland Route; A Colorado Midland
Guide and Data Book. by Edward M. McFarland. ©1980 Pruett Co. 350 pge b&w photos, charts and 4 color pge. Pages clean and intact. Lare envelope fastened inside back cove contains clean and neatly folded; large fold-out with a System Map 1883-1921 printed on one side and four Station Maps, a 10-page CMR time table reproduced from 11/2/1908. Some wear on right edge of back cover of dust jacket. Front of Dust jacket was tear, now taped. Book itself in
very good shape.. $29.95pb
Mixed Train Daily by Lucius Beebe A book
of short line railroads. 300 photos by C.M. Clegg, Jr and the Author ©1947, Howel-North Books, 4th ed. HC 367 pge, b&w photos and six colored plates from original oil paintings by H.Fogg. Very good
cond. Nice copy. $29.95pfb
More Classic Trains by Arthur D. Dubin
©1974 Kalmbach books. Book recaptures the era and the enjoyment of riding America’s Finest trains. Hc 512 pge, 1500 photos, car floor plans, menus, timetable covers & more. Good cond. DJ has some small dents and tears on the top.
Nice copy. Our price $9.95pb

My Iron Journey. A life with steam and steel.
by Otto Kuhler ©1967 National Rwy Historical Society. b&w and color photos. HC 244 pge. Autobiography of a life with steam and steel. Book and DJ in very good, unread
condition. $29.95jwb
Narrow Gauge Country 1870-1970 by
Mallory Hope Ferrell ©2006 Heimburger House Pub. First Ed Deluxe, Hc, Horizontal. 371 pge b&w. Very good cond. Never read. Has black cardboard slip
cover. $29.95pfb

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New York Central Steam in Color by David
Sweetland ©1994 Morning Sun Books First printing. Book gives a color photographic display of NYC steam during the 1940’s and 1950’s. HC 128 pge very good cnd. nice copy
ours $19.95pfb
Norfolk & Western Giant of Steam. by
Major Lewis Ingles Jeffries. ©2005 Pruett Pub.Co. Revised edition; first printing. The most definitive history of the N&W Rwy steam power ever written has been expanded and updated in this new revised ed. A variety of historic and modern Photographs. Frontispiece, drawings, table, Bibliography. Hc 350 pge b&w photos.
Book in good cond. DJ has cfreases and wrinkles at the front. Spine and back still good.
Nice copy. (second copy) $49.95pfb

Northern New England Color Gde to
Freight and passenger Eq. B&M; Maine Cent.; Rutland RR; Bangor & Aroostook RR. Central Vermont Rwy. by David Sweetland w/Stephen Horsley ©1994 first printing. HC 128
page all color. Very good cond. ours $26.95rs

Ocean Liners of the World. by Wm. H.
miller, Jr. ©1984 Sc Ocean Liners grouped by Company. 94 pge b&w good cond. nice copy
price $7.95pfb
Off The Beaten Track A Railroader’s life in
pictures. by Robert G. Lewis. Foreward by Tony Hiss ©2004. First ed. first printing. One man’s lifetime chronicle of the RRs and the important role they have played in American life. Good cond. DJ and book have a dent at the bottom of the spine on the back. Very nice copy
Hcvr 192 pge, b&w and color . $29.95pfb
On Memory Sideing. A colorful story of
RR building and progress of SP. Nice copy. some wear. $9.95pfb
Otto Perry and the Union Pacific Nebraska
Division. by Michael Bartels and James J. Reisdorff. Great Plains chapter of NRHSociety. S.cvr Horizontal format. Still in
original plastic wrap...$20.95jwb
fPenn Central Power, by Robert J. Yanosey
©1987 Morning Sun Books, First ed. Diesel and Electric locos of PC. Good cond. nice copy. HC 248 pge b&w/color $34.95pfb
Pennsy Diesel Years. Bk #1 by Robert J.
Yanosey ©1988, Morning Sun Books, first printing Hc 160 pge all color book in good cond,
DJ in poor cond. w/tears $39.95pfb
Pennsy Power. Steam/electric Locomotives
of the PRR 1900-1957. by Alvin f. Staufer ©1962 “...when the Nation’s largest RR presided over the largest and most unique fleet of steam power in the Land.” HC 319 pge b&w and section of Pennsy Calendar paintings. Book in good cond. First and second page have tears at
the top of pages. Dust J. in poor cond $18.95pb
Pennsy Power Steam/electric Locomotives
of the PRR 1900-1957. by Alvin f. Staufer Text writing by Bert Pennypacker. ©1962 “...when the Nation’s largest RR presided over the largest and most unique fleet of steam power in the Land.” A picture-work study of the steam and Electric era on the Pennsy. HC 260 page b&w devoted to steam and 60 to electric. Also a section of Pennsy Calendar paintings and art. Book in good cond. Dust jacket has some small
tears. our price $15.95pfb

Pennsy Steam and Semaphores by Fred Westing ©1974 first ed. Superior Publishing. A story of the Pennsy rolling stock, locos and the trains in photos and text/captions during 1890-1920 period. HC 187 pge b&w. Book in good cond. DJ has a wrinkle on
bottom back $3.95 pb
Pennsy Steam Years V. 2 by Ian S. Fischer ©1997 Morning Sun Books. First printing. Hc 128 page all color. Very good cond. $24.95pb

Pennsy Steam Years V. 3 by Bert Pennypacker
© 2001, Morning Sun Books, first printing. A wide rance of photos that come from the 1940’s and until end of steam in 1957. Hcvr 128 pge all color. Book in very good cond.
$49.95pfbm
Rails to the Rockies by Gregore LePak
A pictorial of Rring in the Rockies.HC 126 pge b&w photos, maps and more. Book is in good cond. DJ has a tear on the back
top. ours $11.95jwb

Rails in Richmond by Carlton Norris
Mckenney.©1986 interurban Press. fascinating history of the electric street Rwy system in Richmond, VA and the interurbans to Ashland and Petersburg. HC 191 pge b&w
photos. Very good cnod. nice copy. $47.95pb
Railroads of Nevada and Eastern Califronia
V.1 by David Myrick ©1962 Howell-North Books. second printing Dec. 1963. Here is the record of over 43 RRs of Northern Nevada, many of them never before chronicled. it explains how RR development mostly paralled the eras of mining prosperity. Hcv 453 page, b&w photos and maps. Book in good cond. DJ has a few small tears top
of spine. Nice copy $59.95pb
Railroads by Don Ball, Jr. All color book about
the changes in RRing over the last three decades. Here is coast to coast coverage of end of steam; switching to diesel; coming of Amtrak, rail mergers and more! Here we have some of the finest of Ball’s vast collection--many images reproduced for the first time. Hcvr 160 page all color. 10x11” format. Book and DJ are in very
good cond. Unread. $6.95jwb
Railroads by Don Ball, Jr. W.W. Norton & Co.
All color book about the changes in RRing over the last three decades. A coast to coast coverage.Here we have some of the finest of Ball’s vast collection. Hcvr 160 page all color. 10x11” format. Very nice
condition $6.95pfb
Railroads The Great American Adventure
by Charlton Ogburn, Photographed by James A. Sugar. ©1977 National Geographic Society. HC 7 1/4”x 10 1/2” 199 page w/index. Relive a glorious age of RRing in the book from the first steamer to efficient diesels. Carefully researched historical illustrations, contemprary color photos and special picture essays enrich the text symbolized by the steam age as well as the streamliners and the golden age of RRing.
Book in good cond. Unread, slight wear on DJ
DJ has photos of NKP 759 on excursion train.
ours $2.95jwb
Rails by DonBall, Jr ©1981 W.W. Norton & Co
B&w offering the power, the drama and glory of American RRing. HC 150 pge Book & DJ
in good cond. $3.95pfb

Rails to the Mother Lode by Adolf Hungry
Wolf. Second printing 1978. Darwin Publ. “...story of the Mother Lode’s more picturesque RRs and of the men who built and operated them. Story of tiny trains plying the rails from commercial centers into the forests.” Hc 205 page b&w. Good cond. DJ has chip on bottom front.
Ours $29.95pb
Railroading Tehachapi on a Desert
Mountain by Steve Schmollinger ©1993 Boston Mills Press. Hc 160 pge all color. Very good cond.
nice copy $29.95pfb
Railways Across the Andes, by E.A. Haine
Publisher; 1981 Pruett Pub. First Ed. H.cvr 259 pge b&w photos. “Book highlights the tremendous engineering achievements that brought the iron horse into the mighty Andes. This new work discusses the history of over 96 different railroads and includes 100 photoss, 68 maps and 12 charts along with extensive appendices, index of names and bibliography.
Good condition. Nice Copy. $27.95pb
Railways Across the Andes, by E.A. Haine
Publisher; 1981 Pruett Pub. First Ed. H.cvr 259 pge b&w photos. “Book highlights the tremendous engineering achievements that brought the iron horse into the mighty Andes. This new work discusses the history of over 96 different railroads and includes 100 photoss, 68 maps and 12 charts along with extensive appendices, index of names and bibliography.
Book/dust jackt in excellent unread
condition. $23.95jwb
Reading Lines- RDG Color Guide to
Freight and passenger Equipment. by Craig T. Bossler. ©1993 Morning Sun, first printing. HC 128 page all color. Very good cond.
our price $41.95rs
Rio Grande in the Rockies, A Contemporary Glimpse by Ronald C. Hill. ©1977 Colorado RR Museum. 80 page soft cover, b&w. Four titled sections; “the Joint Line,” “Tennessee Pass”, “The Moffat Road,” “Passenger Service,” give a vast array of photos in the 1960’s. Book in very nice, unread condition.
Signed by author $5.00jwb
Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Recollections
by John B. Norwood ©1986 Heimburger house Pub. First ed. “... an authoritative, historic overview of the D&RGW’s three-foot lines in Sou. Colorado and Northern New Mexico. HC 272 pge b&w and a few color photos. Book is in good cond. DJ small tears and
some wear $29.95pb
Roaring Fork Valley An Illustrated Chronicle
by Len Shoemaker. ©1958 Sundance books. Saga of pioneer days in one of the most beautiful regions of the world-roaring Fork Valley of Western Colorado. HC 216 pge, b&w/color. third ed, second printing Feb 1979, signed by author. Has clear plastic cover wrapper. Very
good cond. Neve read. nice copy $23.95pfb
Santa Fe’s Early Diesel Daze. 1935=1953
by J.B. McCall. ©1980, Kachina Press. The story of SF’s change from steam to diesel locos. HC 269 pge Horizontal, b&w. very good cond. dust jacket has some wear,
nice copy $39.95pfb
Snow Plow Clearing Mountain Rails. by
Gerald M. Best ©1966 Howell North Books. The intriguing subject of snow clearing equipment and methods covered. HC 119 pge b&w photos. Book is in good
cond. DJ has some small tears. $15.95pfb
Some Classic Trains by Arthur D. Dubin
Book is about sleeping and dining cars that changed overland travel and the locos that pulled the cars. Hc 434 pge b&w photos. Kalmbach Books 4th printing 1972.
Good cond. nice copy, never read $9.95pb
Southern Pacific Steam Pictoral V. 1by Guy
L.Dunscomb, Don K. Dunscomb & Robert A. Pecotich. 1000 ser to 2800 series. HC 17.5”x11”. 154 page, b&w photos. Good cond. HC & jacket have small dent on top right corner. Nice copy
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Southern Pacific’s Blue Steak Merchandise
Six decades of the Great American Freight Train. by Fred W. Frailey ©1991 Kalmbach Pub. “Story of a train and the dedicated railroaders of the Southern Pacific that ran it.” HC 168 pge b&w/color Book is in good cond. nice copy. $49.95rs
(2)Southern Railway Color Guide to Freight
and Passenger Equipment by James Kinkaid 1996 Morning Sun. Hcvr 128 page all colo. Very good cond. nice copy. Still in original
shrink wrap. ours. $44.50pfb
Steam, Steel & Limiteds, by Wm. Kratville
“A Saga of the Great Varnish Era.”
© 1967, Kratville Pub. H.cover 413 page b&w photos.. Book in good cond. DJ is in poor cond. with large tears on top and bottom of spine and top of front and back of DJ $27.50pb

Steam Trains A modern view of yesterday’s
Railroads by James P. Bell ©2006 Voyageur Press. HC 192 pge b&w photos.
Very good ocnd. Like new $19.95pb
Steel Rails to the Sunrise. The Long Island
Railraods. byRon Ziel and George H. Foster. ©1965 Amereon House Pub. 4th printing (revised ed. 1987) Photgraphic essay..complete story of one of America’s oldest and most unusual RRs Hc 325 pge b&w phots very good
cond. nice copy $14.95pfb.
Tehachapi; Southern Pacific & Santa Fe
by John R. Signor ©1983 Golden West Books. “... book is a stirring pageant of freight and passenger trains, about dispatching trains on the hill, the signal systems, the use of helper power, proposed line changes, electrification proposals, floods, earthquakes and wrecks, and the men who ran the trains, all in one book.” Hcvr 272 pge 375 illustrations, 12 color plates, 22 maps. Book and DJ in very nice, tight, clean
cond. A nice copy $29.95 jwb

The 400 Story C&NW’s passenger Trains
by Jim Scribbins ©1982 The book recaptures the excitement of the 400 era. Horizontal, 231 page b&w photos and a few color. Very good cond. nice copy, no wear on
pages. $18.95pfb
The American Heritage History of Railroads in America. by Oliver Jensen. by American Heritage Publishing Co. Jacket/slipcover. Hc 320 pge b&w & few color. Book mint cond. Slipcase good cond.
Nice copy $19.95pfb
The Art of Railroad Photography. by
Gary J. Benson. “Techniques for taking dynamic trackside pictures.” Hcvr 148pge all color. Kalmbach, 1993. An intelligent and thorough guide for photographing trains.
Good cond $2.95pfb

The Call of Trains Railroad photographs by
Jim Shaughnessy with text by Jeff Brouws ©2008 W.W.Norton & Co. HC 224 pge 170. The best of Shaughnessy’s duotone photos taken over his 40-year career between 1946 and 1988.
Very good cond. Like new $99.95pb

The Canadian National Railway’s Story
by Patrick C. Dorin ©1975 Superior Pub Co. 1st ed. Hcvr 206 pge b&w photos w/ rosters and maps. Well-done history of CN detailing its operations and equipment from formation in 1919 through 1975. Book in good cond. DJ has small tears. nice
copy ours $13.95pfb
The Central Pacific & The Southern Pacific
Railroads, by Lucis Beebe ©1963 Howell-North. Hard C. 631 page b&w photos. Appendix and index. Missing Dust jacket. Book in mint unread condition. Tight binding. $35.95jwb
The Central Vermont Railway, A Yankee
Tradition. V. I 1830-1886 by Robert C. Jones Signed by author #164. © 1981 Sundance Pub. Silverton, CO. First printing Sept. 1981. “The early years.” 192 b&w pages H.cvr with plastic cover. Book in near mint cond. tight binding and in unread cond.
Book in mint, unread cond. $29.75jwb
The Central Vermont Railway, A Yankee
Tradition. V. II. 1887-1910 “The busy years.” ©1981 Sundance Pub, Silverton, CO. 1st printing Dec. 1981 H.cvr 192 b&w page in mint cond. Unread copy in original vinyl plastic dust cover. ISBN 091358228X
Price $29.95jwb

The Central Vermont Railway, A Yankee
Tradition. V. III 1911-1927 “Austerity and Prosperity, 1911-1927” ©1981 Sundance Pub. Silverton, Co. First printing Feb. 1982. ISBN 0913582298. Hardcover. plastic dust cover has slight bend bottom front. Hard cover in excellent cond. 192 b&w page Book in mint, unread cond. $25.75jwb
The Collected Colorado Rail Annual ©1974
Colorado RR Museum. Reprinted from issues numbers one through seven. A journal of RR history in the Rocky Mountain West. HC 136 pge b&w photos Book is in
good cond. nice copy $5.95pfb
The Crookedest Railroad in the World.
California’s Mt. Tamalpals & Muir Woods RR. Revised and enlarged ed. by Ted Wurm and Al Graves First Printing 1983 Trans-Anglo Books. 281 Curves in 8 1/2 miles of track 7 1/2% grades. A readable history of the Rwys 30 year existence. HC 132 pge 216 b&w photos good
cond. DJ has some wear. $17.95pfb
The Doodlebugs, by John McCall
©1977 by Kachina Press Inc. A word and picture history of over six decades of self-propelled passenger car service on America’s most colorful major railroads, the Santa Fe. Hcvr, Horizontal format, 256 pge over 300 b&w and color photos and drawings, many rare. DJ and book in very nice cond. Book unread, tight and
clean throughout. $43.95jwb

The Electric Way Across the Mountains
Stories of the Milwaukee Road Electrivication, by Richard Steinheimer, Carbarn Press, ©1980 Richard Steinheimer. Hcvr 168 page b&white photos. For nearly 60 years the electrics of the Milwaukee Road wheeled freights and passenger trains up and over the Bitter Root and Cascade mountain ranges. Now, one of America’s celebrated RR photographers, Richard Steinheimer, directs his talents to the popular subject of the late Milwaukee Road electrification project. Book in good, unread condition. Dust cover shows some wear.
Ours $49.00jwb

The Erie Lackawanna Story by Paul Carleton
©1974 D.Carleton Railbooks. An all time photographic remembrance of the E-L and its two predecessor companies. Steam & Diesel HC 479 pge b&w photos. Book is in good cond. DJ in
poor cond with tears. $29.95pb
The Gilpin Gold Tram Colorado’s Unique
Narrow gauge by Mallory Hope Ferrell ©1970 Pruett Pub. Co. “..Story of two foot gauge RR that hauled ore from the mines above Central City to the smelter at Black Hawk.” Hcvr 112 pge. Historic b&w photos, maps, sketches and scale drawings of cars and Shay Locos. Good cond. DJ has a fe small tears and discoloration on
spine. All pages in very good cond. $15.95pb
The Grand Trunk Western Railroad A
Canadian national railway. by Patrick C. Dorin ©1977 Superior Pub. Co. First printing. The book traces the early history, motive power, trains and train service of the Grand Trunk Western in the U.S. Descriptions of the routes traveled, maps, equipment rosters and more. HC 174 age b&w photos. Good cond. Book cover and DJ have bumps on th front and top corner.
Pages in good cond. $19.95pb
The Great Trains by Bryon Morgan ©1973
Crown Pub.Inc. The “Great Trains” is a ticket to the scores of colorful trains which ran or run all around the world. Hc 259 pge b&w
photos. Good cond nice copy $9.95pfb
The History of the New York Central
System. A.E. Klein HC 128 pge b&w
some color. 1995 ed mint cond. $2.95pb
The Iron Horse; by Henry B. Comstock.
The illustrated history of steam locomotives. ©1993 Greenberg Pub. Co. Second printing. The story of steam power on American RRs. HC 222 pge b&w color.Very good cond.
nice copy. Never read $4.95pfb
The Iron Horse and I, A personal recount
byJames Burke ©1995 Hcvr all b&w photos. Captions/text is in long hand, no printing. Pages aren’t numbered but must be 200+. Interesting read. Book in mint cond. Dust jacket slight wear on right edge. $5.95jwb
The Iron Horse & I by James Burke. HC 500 pge b&w photos. Captions/stories are handwritten. Signed copy #701/1000 copies. Good cond. dust jacket has some wear. Small
tear on dust jacket. $5.95pfb
The Lakers V. II by Eric Hirsimaki 1st ed. 1988. Lake Boats on the Great Lakes. HC 127 pge all color. Good cond nice copy$17.95 fb
The Love of Trains Steam and diesel locos in action around the world. by Victor Hand & Harold Edmonson. ©1974 Octopus Books. Hc 104 pge color photos. Book & DJ in good
cond. Ours. $2.95pb
The Ma & Pa A history of the Maryland and Pennsylvania RR. by George W. Hilton ©1963 third printing Mar 1966. Here is the Ma & Pa in all its Glory. Complete history from its narrow gauge origin to struggles for survival in recent years. Hcv 183 pge b&w. Good cond. DJ shows
some wear $10.95pb

The Moffat Road by Edward T. Bollinger
and Frederick Bauer. A great book about America’s most colorful RR. ©1962 Sagb Books. Limited signed/numbered ed. #232. Hc 359 pge b&w photos. Book in good cond DJ has a few
tears. $23.95pfb

The Northern Pacific Railway of McGee and
Nixon. by Richard Green ©1985 Nortwest Short Line. Classic photographs of NP equipment and environment during the 1930- 1955 period. Hcvr Horizontal, 270 page b&w.
Very good cond. DJ very good also $29.95pb
The Northern Pacific Railway of McGee
and Nixon by Richard Green. Autographed by the author and both photographers. ©1985 Northwest Short Line. Horizontal Hcvr 270 pge b&w photos. Classic photos of NP equipment and environment during the 1930-1955 period Very good
cond. still in shrink wrap. $49.95pb
The Peoria Way by Joe McMillan & Robert P.
Olmsted ©1984 First printing Aug. 1984. A tour of the entire TP&W covering the years between the late 1960’s and Jan. 1984 when Toledo, Peoria & Western ceased to exist. Hcvr 136 pge b&w. Book in very nice, unread cond.
DJ very slight wear ours $24.95jwb

The Pennsylvania 1940-1950s by Don Balljr
©1986 First Ed. Sthe standardß Rr of the world, a vast photographic coverage of the PRRs great engines and trains HC 404 pge, all color. Very good cond. nice copy
$9.95pfb
The Railroad Night Scene by Preston Cook
with Jim Boyd Old Line Graphics Hc 128 pge color photos. Night photos of numerous locos from different RRs. Very good cond.
Nice copy. $5.95pb
The Railroad Scene by William D. Middleton ©1969 Golden West Books. First printing. A photo album of the total North American Railroading scene of locomotives, trains, and RR people and places. Hc 144 page b&w photos Book is in good cond.
DJ has small tears. $3.95pfb
Like new, nice copy $239.95pb
The Santa Fe Diesel V.1 Dieselization 1960
by Dr. Cinthia Priest second printing 1998 Hc 192 pge Horizontal format. b&w and color
photos. very good cond. nice!! $69.95rs
The Southern A Narrow Gauge Odyssey V.1
by Richard l. Dorman ©1986 R.D. Publications Inc. History of The Rio Grande Southern RR and Trains. HC 153 page Horizontal, b&w and color photos and maps. Book is in clean, unread cond. DJ shows some slight wear but pretty good. ours. $59.50jwb

The Streamlined Era by Robert C. Reed ©1975
Golden West Books. The evolution of semi-streamlined steam locos, the comingof the Burlington’s famous Zephyr and UP’s City of Salina streamliners. The book discribes every aspect of streamlining. Hcvr 298 pages, 500+ illustrations. four color plates. Complete list of streamliners 1933-1942 and more. Very good
cond. DJ has bump on bottom of spine $24.95pb
The Story of the California Zephyr by
Karl Zimmermann ©1972, third printing 1984 The silver streak passenger service run by the Burlington, rio Grande and WP. Book describes predecessor trains and the origin of the Cal Zephyr. Good cond nice copy, never read.
Sc 104 pge b&w $19.95pfb
The Train Robbery Era A encyolopedic
history. by Richard Patterson. Book contains references to more than six hundred events plus informatin on places pertaining to train robberies. Good cond. nice copy HC
274 pge b&w photos ours. $3.95jwb
The Trains We Rode V. 1 by Lucius Beebe
& Charles Clegg. ©1965 Howell-North Books. V. 1 embraces the main line carriers of the land from Alton through New York Central HC 465 pge, b&w photos 801 illustrations, 6 in color. 5 new paintings by Howard Fogg. Good cond. Nice copy
ours $10.95pfb
The Trains We Rode V. 2 by Lucius Beebe & Charles Clegg ©1966 Howell North Books
V.2 continues the Alpabetical presentation of the RRs from Northern Pacific to Wabash. HC 511 pge. 750 illustrations, 5 in full color, 2 paintings by Howard Fogg. Good cond. DJ has some small tares on top spine Nice copy.
Our price $13.95pfb
The Virginian Rwy. by H. Reid. ©1961 2nd
printing 1970. Kalmbach Publishing. Birth to merger tale of the VGN rwy. Hcvr 208 pp b&w
photos, very good cond. Nice copy $24.95pb
The Whistles Blow No More by Hank
Johnston. Railroad Logging in the Sierra Nevada 1874-1942. HC 160 page, b&w photos and maps. Detailed loco rosster. Good cond. Dust jacket has some wrinkles at top of spine.
Ours $9.95pb
The White Plume. A Pictorial representation
of the Steam Locomotive. by Charles Bowman. ©1976 Railfare Enterprises, Montreal, Canada. Sections in book about steam in Canada, USA, England, Scotland, West Germany & Austria. Hcvr 160 pp b&w. Dust J. and pages in
book in good cond $11.95pb

This Was Railroading. by George B.
Abdill. ©1958 Superior Publishing. Hc 192 pge b&w. An historical collection of rare photos and true stories about rthe tracks, trains and trainmen of the Pacific Northwest, including Northern California. Book in good unread cond.
dust jacket in good cond. $5.50jwb
To Seattle by Trolley; by Warren W. Wing ©1988. Story of Seattle-Everett Interurban and trolley that went to the sea.
Good cond. Hc 159 pge b&w $6.95pfb
Trackside Around Chicago 1957-1965 with
George G. Speir, by Ed M. DeRouin. 128 page all color. Morning sun 1999. Book in mint cond. Still in original plastic wrap. $37.95jwb
Tragic Train, “The City of San Francisco”
by Don DeNevi; ©1977 Superior Publishing, Seattle. The development and historic wreck of a streamliner. Hcvr w/nice dust jacket. 188 page, b&w photos. True story of historic sabotaged wreck on Aug. 12, 1939. Subsequent investigation, and SP’s entire collection of evidence and records in print for the first time. Book in very nice
cond. Ours $11.95jwb

Two Feet Between the Rails V.I, the
early years. by Robert Jones ©1979 Sundance Publications. H.cvr 416 page mostly b&w, several color photos.Book in very good cond. Tight binding. Never read $$39.95jwb
Traction Classics V.1 The Interurbans; The
Great wood and Steel cars. ©1983 Golden West Books. V.1 details the development and history of more than 30 classic interurbans from the era of wood, composite wood and steel and heavy weight steel cars that characterized the insutry’s rolling stock from its beginnings into the 1920’s. HCv 257 pge b&W photos and drawings. Good cnd. some wear on dust jacket.
ours $29.95pb
Twilight of the Monongahela, by Harry
Stegmaier & Jim Mullison.© 1994 H&M Productions. Flushing, NY Scvr 88 page all color photos. S.cvr, Horizontal format. Book in like
new unread cond. $23.95jwb
Uintah Railway The Gilsonite Route by
Henry E. Bender, Jr ©1970 second printing Feb 1971, Howell North Books. Complete story of the only RR to penetrate the vast Uintah Basin of Western Colorado and Eastern Utah. HC 240 pge b&w Good
condition nice copy $29.95pfb

Union Pacific Motive Power Review
1968-77 by F. Hol Wagner,Jr, ©1978 Second printing, Motive Power Service. A tribute to one of Ameica’s Great railroads, one which has rostered possibly the greatest variey of modern power of any RR. S.cvr 120 page b&w and some color. Very good cond. nice
copy $29.95pfb
Union Pacific Railroad Painting Guide
1903-1930 common standard #22. first printing June 1981 w/color chip page.
Very good cond. ours..$29.95pfb
Western Maryland Rwy Color Guide to
Freight and passenger Eq. by Jack Brown©1995, first printing. HC 128 page all
color. Very good cond. ours $29.95rs
Western Pacific Locomotives and Cars.
Steam, Diesel, Passenger, Freight. by Pat C.Dorin ©1998 TLC Pub, secon printing 1999. Book shows diverse equipment of the WP from 1930s until the 1985 merger w/U.P. and beyond. Hcvr no DJ 128 pge b&w Photos w/color
section. Very good cond. $$27.95rs
Western Pacific’s Diesel Years by Joseph
Strapac An Overland Models Railbook. ©1980 Scvr 208 page b&w photos. Book in
good, unread condition. $9.90jwb
Western Pacific Diesel Years by J.A. Strapac ©1980, Overland Models books & Shade Tree Books. Very good cond. Nice copy HC no DJ
208 pge b&w photos ours $49.95rs

Western Trains by Richard Steinheimer &
Donald Sims. Photos of J.L.Ehernberger; Henry R. Griffiths, Jr; Robert J. Knoll; Wade J Stevenson; Wilbur C. Whittaker. ©1967 Golden West Books. ...Far western mainline RRing in the last 20 years following the end of WW II. Book in good cond. DJ has a bend on top front and back and a tear bottom of the spine. HC
horizontal, 72 pages, b&w ours. $5.95pfb
Wheels rolling West. by Dave Styffe & Ted Benson. ©1979 “Book explores steam and diesel years of the late 1940s and early 1950’s through the first generation diesels of the early 1960’s. Hc
80pge b&w nice copy. Inside tight, clean, unread.
DJ shows slight wear $9.95pfb