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Featuring the Photos & Career of Preston Johnson.....46.50 British Columbia Railway to BC Rail Vol 1 .....................65.75 Budd Passenger Cars Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 7 .......each 36.50 Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh in Color Vol 4................48.75 Canadian Nat Motive Power Review V1 Roster 6/1999 ...36.75 Central Illinois Rails Color Pictorial 1950s-1970s...........55.75 Chasing the SP in California 1953-1956 ........................70.75 Chicago Post War Pass & Commuter Trains Photo Archive ...32.75 Chili Line & Santa Fe The City Different 3rd edition........55.50 Chicago Railroad Scenes in Color Vol 1 ........................23.75 Colorado Central Railroad..............................................74.50 Conrail in Color Vol 1 1976-1979 ...................................48.75 Crowell Lumber Mill – Rapidus Parish, LA ....................35.00 Cumbres & Toltec – A Photographic Tribute..................45.50 Diesels of the Reading Vol 1 ..........................................60.75 Durango & Silverton – Furukawa....................................45.50 East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Co Rockhill Furnace...35.00 East Broad Top Slim Gauge Survivor.............................45.75 Electro-Motive E Units and F Units.................................40.75 Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway – Signature Press .........56.50 Erie Lackawanna in Color Vol 7 Mahoning Division.......48.75 Frisco in Color Vol 2 .......................................................48.75 Gilpin Railroad Era .........................................................78.50 Golden Age of Railroads in New York’s Capital District....25.75 Grand Central’s Engineer – William J Wilgus.................45.75 Hot Spots Guidebook .....................................................23.75 Hull-Oakes Lumber Company – Benton OR ..................27.00 Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad in Color.............................48.75 Interstate Railroad History of an Appalachian Coal Road ....38.75 Interstate Railroad - Memories of an Appalachian Short Line ..33.75 J.E. Henry’s Logging RRs Revised & Expanded 2nd Ed....27.75 Jersey Central Communipaw Engine Terminal & South Brooklyn 29th St Pier .....................................25.00


J&O Railroad Productions – Erie Pennsylvania 2012.....19.50 J&O Railroad Productions – Longest Day in Fostoria ....19.50 JPM – Lehigh & New England Vol 3...............................27.75 JPM – Railfanning the Appalachian Region Vol 1..........27.75 JPM – Short Lines & Branch Lines V1 – Lehigh River Valley.27.75 Pentrex – California Northern.........................................27.75 Pentrex – Northeast Sampler .........................................27.75 Pentrex – Return to Feather Canyon..............................27.75 Sunday River – 611 Across the Mountains ....................28.75 Sunday River – Daylight on Tehachapi ..........................32.75 Sunday River – SP Daylights As They Were..................28.75 Sunday River – The Big A 1218 .....................................38.75 Tell Tale – Alco Heaven Vol 1 ........................................22.75 Tell Tale – Alco Heaven Vol 2 ........................................22.75 Tell Tale – Vermont’s Island Line Revisited ...................22.75


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