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Wreck Trains by Ron Dukarm Available through the
MAITLAND TOWER HO Erie Lackawanna Historical Society NEW PUBLICATIONS Maitland Tower Erie Crossing Shanty
The Maitland Tower kit builds into a model of the tower's initial configuration and can be modified to represent a number of other Erie west end towers. Maitland also broke up the block between Glen Echo and Cold Springs on the Dayton Branch and was used by the DT&I to issue trains orders. This served to extend the tower life more than anything else and remained in service well into the Conrail years. Crossing Shanty not included
Member price $5200
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ERIE CROSSING SHANTY
This kit builds into a model representing crossing shanties located throughout the Erie west end.
This 100 page, five chapter spiral bound book includes 153 photos of Lackawanna, Erie, and EL wreck cranes and their associated equipment. Most of these photographs are being published for the first time. The book also includes 36 drawings and equipment charts. Ron thoroughly covers the complete roster of wrecking cranes, wreck trains, and wrecking procedures of all three railroads. Ron also provides the first ever explanation of Erie's mysterious Maintenance Of Way numbering system. Non-member price
Member price $1400
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Member price HO $5000
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Non-member price $1750
★ ★ STILL AVAILABLE ★ ★ DL&W Vestal, N.Y. Station
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Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Erie Steam Locomotive Diagram Book Book No. 2 (1944)
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Erie Passenger Equipment Diagram Book Book No. 76, May 1952
DL&W Locomotive Classificaton Diagram Book Revised July 1st 1939
Erie Passenger Equipment Diagram Book Book No. 76, May 1952
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DL&W Classification of Freight Equipment Corrected to May 1, 1952
Erie Lackawanna Passenger Equipment Diagram Book, Book No. 15, Issued Aug. 30, 1966.
Erie Lackawanna Freight Equipment Diagram Book, Book No. 78, Updated May 9, 1975
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ELHS membership at $35 per membership cycle. Cycle includes four issues of our magazine “The Diamond” and four newsletters with modeling
information. Separate check please. Send to: ELHS c/o Randy Dettmer, 290 W. Prospect St., Hudson, OH 44236
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Erie Lackawanna Freight Equipment Diagram Book, Book No. 78, Updated May 9, 1975
Erie Lackawanna Passenger Equipment Diagram Book, Book No. 15, Issued Aug. 30, 1966.
DL&W Classification of Freight Equipment Corrected to May 1, 1952
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Erie Waldwick Interlocking Tower HO & N plus
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Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Erie Steam Locomotive Diagram Book Book No. 2 (1944)
DL&W Locomotive Classificaton Diagram Book Revised July 1st 1939
Now available from the Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society is South- ern Pacific Passenger Cars Volume 5: Lounge, Dome & Parlor Cars, by Jeffrey Alan Cauthen and Donald M. Munger. In 21 chapters this substantial volume documents the cars’ development from the Associated Lines wooden cars of 1904 through the final lightweight cars of the 1960s and into the Amtrak era. In addition to cars owned by Southern Pacific and the El Paso & South- western, the authors discuss wooden Pull- man parlor cars from 1895-1924, Pullman- operated cars assigned to the SP between 1888 and 1963, and sleeper-buffet-lounge- observation cars assigned to the SP between 1937 and 1960. Separate chapters discuss the development and production of SP Com- mon Standard cars including observation- smoking cars, buffet-baggage cars, steel buf- fet-baggage and club-baggage cars,
steel
Non-member price HO $6500
lounges, tavern cars, parlor and parlor-ob- servations, dome-lounges, and articulated triple-unit diner-lounges. Also covered are SP’s two wooden, open-top observation cars, which would look more at home on a tourist railroad and were used on the Cascade Route. The chapter on the home-built dome cars is particularly interesting. Each chap- ter is profusely illustrated with well-printed roster, action, and detail photos, along with scale elevation and floor plan drawings. This 576-page, 12″×8¹/₂″ hardcover has 818 b&w and color photos, plus 97 drawings, a bibliog- raphy, glossary, and index. Several tables provide detailed car histories form from pur- chase through retirement. The book sells for $145.00 plus $15.95 shipping from Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society, 1523 Howard Access Rd., Suite A, Upland, CA 91786-2582;
sphts.org/store.php. CA resi- dents add sales tax. Wet Britches and Muddy Boots by John H.
White, Jr., has been released by Indiana University Press. Today we take for grant- ed the ability to hop in our cars and drive 20 miles for a quart of milk or fly across the country in six hours, but in the 19th century travel was a time-consuming, often uncom- fortable, and sometimes risky adventure. That’s the world John H. White explores in this book, which culminates in coverage of coach and first class travel by rail after ex- ploring every other public mode of travel. These include stagecoach; omnibus; street- car; ferry boat; canal; steamboats that plied rivers, lakes, and followed the coastlines; ships traversing the oceans under sail and under steam; and the final two chapters on travel by rail. White, curator of transporta- tion at the Smithsonian Institution’s Muse- um of American History from 1958 to 1990, writes of a time when several modes might need to be used to complete a long journey. He also discusses the people who drove the stages, piloted the riverboats, ran the loco- motives, and made travel possible. The en- tertaining and detailed text is accompanied by a good selection of 280 vintage b&w illus- trations; there are quite a few drawings of various marine vessels in elevation, plan and cross-section. On the railroad side are a
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fine etching of Philadelphia’s Broad Street station in 1888, many drawings and etch- ings of life aboard the cars and in the sta- tions, period advertisements, maps of the eastern and western rail systems, and two vintage photographs which show a Spring- field, Athol & Northeastern train along the Swift River in Massachusetts and another train on what became New Haven’s Shore Line in Connecticut. Both are powered by 4-4-0s. In addition to the illustration the text is full of facts and anecdotes that convey the trials and pleasures of travel in that time. This 540-page, 7″×10″ hardcover sells for $55.00 plus $5.00 shipping ($45.99 in electronic form) from Indiana University Press, 601 North Morton St., Bloomington, IN 47404-3797;
www.iupress.indiana.edu. 1- 800/842-6796.
Burlington Bulletin No. 49, published by
the Burlington Route Historical Socie- ty, is a book-length treatise on the history of the Davenport, Rock Island & Northwestern Railway (the “DRI Line”) written by Jerry Lundgren and F. Hol Wagner. Jointly owned by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and Milwaukee Road, the DRI Line was a switching line which served today’s Quad Cities area — Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline, Illinois. The authors trace the line’s history from its beginnings as the Davenport & Rock Island Railway Bridge Co. of 1884 through 1995, when the road was parceled out to Canadian Pacific (heir to the Milwaukee Road’s share) and Burlington Northern. The book is packed with photos, maps, track charts of the entire railroad, rosters, and diagrams from throughout the road’s history, most in b&w but including a nice selection of col- orized postcards and full-color views of lat- ter-day equipment and operations. Nearly every station and structure, and many on- line businesses are shown; these include the John Deere Plow Co., Moline Wagon, Cres- cent Macaroni & Cracker, White Lily Manu- facturing, and Bettendorf Steel Car. The railroad’s locomotive fleet is exhaustively represented, from 1901 4-4-0s Nos. 2 and 3 (shown as CB&Q 479 and MILW 732, re- spectively) through the red, orange, and black Alco switchers to the final, white ex- Burlington Northern and ex-Milwaukee Road EMD switchers. As befits a switching road, the steam fleet consisted of 0-4-0 and 0-6-0 types, most acquired second-hand from the Burlington and MILW with a few from the Cincinnati Southern, Belt Railway of Chicago, and Chicago Junction. All-time steam and diesel rosters are included and the road’s cabooses are also shown, from four-wheel wooden bobbers to ex-MILW transfer cabs an ex-Reading steel caboose. This 114-page, 8¹/₂″×11″ softcover sells for $30.00 plus $6.00 shipping from the Burlington Route Historical Society, P.O. Box 456, La Grange, IL 60525; www.burling
tonroute.com. IL residents add sales tax. Depots of the Nickel Plate Roadby Willard
Harvey, Jr. is available now from Highland Publishers & Photographs. The book is organized into five chapters, the first provid- ing an overview of NKP depots and then or- ganizing them by each of four districts:
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