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gauge and their Heisler roster. PY&A Bessemer Branch and Crucible Steel’s Midland quarries. Dynamite RR and plant at Coverts (New Castle). First time photos of Burton Explosive, Grasselli Powder, DuPont and American Cyanamid, plant ops, maps, drawings, dynamite packing houses, the famous July, 1964 explosion, and 36 inch Plymouth narrow gauge. $45 includes shipping to:
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232 glossy pages, hardback, 16 color pages. History P&LE Gateway Yard, the Stone Yard, Lowellville Branch to Ohio Iron and Sharon Steel plant and ops, Burton Powder mill, P&LE switchback to Carbon Limestone, Carbon history, pit oper- ation and narrow gauge “critters.” Shaw Junction, Hillsville United States Steel Michigan Limestone ops with Porters and GE critters. P&LE Walford Branch to Bessemer. Bessemer Limestone 38 inch narrow
features 13 full-color images of the WM in the diesel era. In addition to five photos of F units on freight,
coal and water at Dresser, Wis.; subjects include a high-
nose GP9 leading an all-black consist on freight; two circus SD40s leading black RS3s; a pair of chopnose Geeps in both schemes; a nice down-on view of Alco S6 No. 151; an SD35 leading two GP40s across the Pennsy diamond in Hagerstown, Md.; an RS2 switching hoppers; and a very nice shot of five F units curving through Thomas,
W.Va., taken from the rear unit. The back cover features a pair of F units on freight, and there are also six pages of b&w photos covering the Class B 0-6-0 switchers. The calendar folds out to 11″×17″ and sells for $11.00 plus $2.00 shipping from the Western Maryland Railway Historical Society Dept. RF, P.O. Box 395, Union Bridge, Md., 21791;
www.westernmarylandrhs.com/catalog/. MD residents add sales tax. The 2013 calendar from the Reading Company Technical & Historical Socie- ty features the color and b&w photography of David C. Augsburger. On the cover, C430 No. 5211 leads a C630 east at Emmaus, Penn.; inside, Baldwin road switchers con- gregate at Shamokin, Penn.; a GP39-2 leads a freight out of Black Rock Tunnel; a DS4-4- 1000 switches at Darby Creek Yard; pooled Reading and Jersey Central F units lead a freight; a GP7 switches at Quakertown, Penn.; an FP7 leads the Wall Street east at Hopewell, N.J.; an RS3 trundles across a street in Exton, Penn.; two SD45s and a GP35 lead a freight into Port Richmond Yard; 4-8-4 No. 2102 powers an Iron Horse Ramble at Gardners, Penn.; an AS16 pulls a passenger train through Quakertown; and an RS3 hauls freight south out of Emmaus on the Perkiomen Branch. The spiral-bound calendar folds out to 11″×17″ and sells for $12.00 plus $2.25 shipping from RCT&HS Dept. RF, P.O. Box 15143, Reading, PA 19612-5143;
www.readingrailroad.org. PA residents add sales tax. The Ontario & Western Railway His- torical Society 2012 calendar features a nice selection of color and b&w views of the Old Woman between Weehawken, N.J., and Cadosia, N.Y. Unlike most calendars, this one presents a montage of photos for each month. Subjects include a pair of F3s on a fan trip consist of New Haven equipment at Maybrook, N.Y.; three passenger trains at Weehawken; five steam and diesel trains on New York Central’s West Shore trackage in New Jersey; 4-8-2s on freight at Campbell Hall, N.Y.; steam and diesel action at Mid- dletown, Liberty, Livingston Manor, Sum- mitville, and Cadosia, N.Y.; and steam at Mayfield, Penn. In addition, a nice selection of photos of O&W railroadiana are distrib- uted among the pages of the calendar, which folds out to 11″×17″ and sells for $10.00 plus $4.00 postage (foreign orders remit in U.S. funds plus $5.00) from the O&WRHS Dept. RF, P.O. Box 713, Middletown, NY 10940- 0713;
www.nyow.org. The Soo Line Historical & Technical Society 2013 Photo Calendar contains a good selection of steam and diesel era pho- tos. Subjects include three white Geeps on Byron Hill; a snowy mix of EMD and GE power on a freight at Fond du Lac; a classic roster shot of F7 No. 2200-B; SD60s on a unit grain train; an ex-Milwaukee “bandit” leading Soo power at Oshkosh; a GP30 on freight at Laona Junction; SD60s in two schemes on freight; Pacific No. 2718 taking
two
sparkling clean, white GP38-2s; and Mikado No. 1003 on a recent fantrip. A sprinkling of smaller photos add to each spread. Folding out to 11″×17″ the calendar sells for $15.00 plus $2.00 shipping from 2012 SLHTS Cal- endar Dept. RF, 2124 N. Locust St., Apple- ton, WI 54914;
www.sooline.org. The Ann Arbor Railroad Technical & Historical Association offers its 2013 cal- endar with 13 current and vintage b&w pho- tos of the Annie and its successors. Subjects include a pair of FA2s passing a Grand Trunk Western 0-8-0 at Durand, Mich.; car- ferries Ann Arbor No. 3 and Ann Arbor No. 7; a GP50 leading Nickel Plate Berkshire across the Huron River at Ann Arbor; the handsome Urania station; a builder photo of 2-8-0 No. 159; three Great Lakes Central Geeps on freight at Howell, Mich.; 4-6-0 No. 151 on a short passenger train at Owosso, Mich.; Whitcomb switcher No. 1; a Tuscola & Saginaw Bay Geep and Alco at Owosso, Mich.; and a set of three Ann Arbor GP39-2s and a GP40 at Toledo, Ohio. The calendar folds out to 11″×17″ and sells for $12.00 plus $2.00 shipping from the Ann Arbor Railroad Technical & Historical Association Dept. RF, P.O. Box 1691, Holland, MI 49422-1691;
http://trainweb.org/annarbor/Society/ ForSale.html. The 2013 Railroad Calendar from the Ni- agara Frontier Chapter NRHS features a dozen current and vintage b&w images of railroading in and near western New York State. Subjects include a Canadian Pacific Mikado at Toronto’s Lambton Yard; an Inter- national Railway Peter Witt car in Buffalo, N.Y.; Amtrak’s Maple Leaf crossing the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge; three Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Geeps at North Tonawanda, N.Y.; a New York Central Alco switcher on freight; three Erie Lackawanna GP35s on a Conrail trailer train at SK Yard in Buffalo; a Pennsy M1 4-8-2 at Franklin- ville, N.Y.; Delaware & Hudson Alcos and EMDs with NS power at Buffalo; brand-new Buffalo Creek S2 No. 47; two Jamestown, Westfield & Northwestern interurbans at Maple Springs, N.Y.; and Canadian National 4-8-4 No. 6218 on a fan trip in the snow in Ontario. The calendar folds out to 11″×17″ and sells for $12.00 postpaid ($13.00 to Cana- da) from Niagara Frontier Chapter NRHS Dept. RF, c/o Robert Andrycha, 49 Seward St., Buffalo, NY 14206;
www.nfcnrhs.com.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Adolph Hungrywolf’s new book Vintage Cubano is a fascinating first-person look at Cuba’s antiquated rail system as he experi- enced it during a dozen visits totaling 18 months from 1993 to 2005. Brill interur- bans and steeplecab electrics still worked the former Hershey Railroad and invari- ably antiquated U.S.-built steam power of many gauges toiled in the sugar cane fields, while a motley collection of diesels from around the world handled the main line traffic. Far from being a typical Gringo tur- ista, Hungrywolf enjoyed nearly unfettered access to all of it thanks to the close friend- ships he developed with the locals over the years. Steam power is obviously his first love and while Central Orlando Gonzalez standard gauge 4-6-0 No. 1732, an ex-Cuba Railroad Alco built in 1916, may be the star of the show, even the lowliest narrow gauge kettle gets its share of attention, and then
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