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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 Central Illinois Rails Color Pictorial 1950s-1970s...........55.75 Chasing the SP in California 1953-1956 ........................70.75 Chili Line & Santa Fe The City Different 3rd edition .......55.50 Chicago Railroad Scenes in Color Vol 1 or 2 each ........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 Detroit & Toledo Shore Line RR - Expressway for Industry .70.75 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 Grand Central’s Engineer – William J Wilgus.................45.75 Hot Spots Guidebook .....................................................23.75 Hudson & Manhattan Railroad in Color..........................48.75 Hull-Oakes Lumber Company – Benton OR ..................27.00 Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad in Color.............................48.75 Interstate RR History of an Appalachian Coal Road ......38.75 Interstate RR – 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 L&N Cumberland Valley Division Album 1945-1985......27.75


RON’S DVDS - CHARLES SMILEY PRESENTS Canadian Rails Vintage Scrapbook................................25.75 Conrail Hall of Fame.......................................................27.75 Diesel Power of the Santa Fe.........................................27.75 Electric Rails Around the Bay.........................................32.75 Empire of the North ........................................................27.75 Great Shortlines West ....................................................27.75 Milwaukee Road Scrapbook...........................................27.75 Mountain Grades of the B&O .........................................27.75 Northeast Rails Remembered Vol 1 or 2 each...............27.75 Santa Fe Vintage West ..................................................27.75 Scarlet & Grey Memories ..............................................27.75 Soldier Summit Reflections ............................................27.75 SP By the Bay................................................................27.75 Union Pacific Scrapbook ................................................27.75 Western Pacific The Last Decade..................................25.75


Alco Century Series Vol 1 32.50; Vol 2 ..........................36.50 Along the Chicago South Shore & South Bend Rail Line – Arcadia..............................................21.50 Amtrak Across America..................................................30.75 Amtrak by the Numbers..................................................75.50 Anthracite Railroads & Mining in Color Vol 2 .................48.75 Baltimore & Ohio Vol 2 Sunburst Trail to Chicago .........40.75 Before Guilford ...............................................................35.75 Bethlehem Steel Bethforge Division ..............................25.00 Bethlehem Steel Lackawanna Steel Plant .....................25.00 Billboard Refrigerator Cars.............................................56.50 Billion Dollar Coal Field – McDowell County West Virginia ..71.50 Bluestone – Norfolk & Western Branch Line..................25.75 Boston & Maine Memories-


American Steel & Wire Company – Cleveland, OH .......60.00 Appalachian Coal Mines & RRs in Color V1 Kentucky...48.75 B&O Railroad Museum Cabooses .................................29.75 Baldwin: Fifty Years at Eddystone Book 1: 1906-1939 ..25.75 Baltimore & Ohio Rails Across the Heartland Toledo to Cincinnati .....................................................55.75 Bangor & Aroostook Stations & Structures ....................32.75 Betz’s Mill – Lynnville Vicinity, PA .................................27.00 Burlington Route Passenger Trains Vol 3 ......................55.75 Canadian National Railways Diesel Locomotives V1.....54.75 Canadian Pacific’s Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway - H/C...45.75 Canyon Lands and Super Chiefs –Santa Fe – Arizona..65.75 Chesapeake & Ohio A Concise History and Fact Book .27.75 Chicago & North Western in Color Vol 4 1965-1995......48.75 Chicago & North Western’s Air Line Subdivision ...........55.75 Chicago Cable Cars .......................................................23.75 Cincinnati Railroad Heritage Color Pictorial ...................55.75 Colours of Yesterday’s Trams........................................52.00 Conrail in Color Vol 2 .....................................................48.75 Conrail in Color Vol 3 .....................................................48.75 Dayton & Troy Electric Railway......................................20.75 Diesel’s First 50 Years ...................................................74.75 Erie Lackawanna in Color Vol 8 NY Division..................48.75 Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway 1885-1905 – s/c ............27.75 For Pullman Eyes Only - Rare Internal Files of Operating Dept..23.75 From Abbey to Zorra via Bagdad-CP Passenger Service ..42.75 George Mansfield and the Billerica & Bedford Railroad.50.75 Ghost Rails Vol 9 State Line Legends- Ohio/PA Industrial Lines...............................................36.75 Grand Central Terminal 100 Years of a New York Landmark .36.75 Great Northern Railway Route of the Empire Builder.....34.75 Heisler Locomotive 1891-1941 – Reprint s/c .................36.75 How a Steam Locomotive Works ...................................27.75 Industrial Railroading in Color Vol 1...............................48.75 Logging RRs of Humboldt & Mendocino Counties-Arcadia .21.50 London Transport Trams A Black & White Album..........42.00 Lost Railroads of Western NY Vol 2 – Lehigh Valley .....23.75 Milwaukee Road Steam Era in Wisconsin V1 The Main Line..27.75 Minnesota RRs A Photographic History 1940-2012.......36.75 Montreal Streetcars Vol 1...............................................19.50 More Chicago & North Western in Minnesota................60.75 New York Central Trackside Big Apple to Buffalo 1965-69..48.75 Norfolk & Western Electrics – S/C..................................36.75


Electrically Through the Rockies – Milw Rd.................23.75 Lehigh Valley in Color Vol 5 or 6 each ...........................48.75 Lehigh Valley Railroad A Photo Album ..........................45.50 Lincoln Inaugural Train -1861 Journey of Pres.-Elect Lincoln to Washington DC.....................32.75 Logging RRs of the Blue Ridge & Smoky Mtns Vol 2.....44.75 Long Island Railroad in Color Volume 1, 2, 3 or 4 ea.....48.75 Madame Queen – ATSF 5000 .......................................45.75 Merchants Despatch ......................................................60.75 Milwaukee Road Locos Vol 2 or 3 each 55.50 V4..........55.75 Model Railroading with John Allen .................................60.75 My C&O..........................................................................55.75 Nevada Central Sagebrush Narrow Gauge - Ferrell .....40.75 New York City Electrified RRs in Color Vol 1 or 2 each .48.75 New York Short Lines in Color Vol 1 or 2 each..............48.75 New York Subway Cars From R-1 to R-160 ..................60.75 Norfolk & Western’s Pocahontas Division......................55.75 North Fork Norfolk & Western’s Branch Line .................25.75 Northern Light – A Portrait of BC Rail ............................75.50 Pacific Electric and the Growth of the San Fernando Valley...62.75 Penn Central in Color Vol 1, 2, 3 or 4 each....................48.75 Penn Central Through Passenger Service.....................48.75 Pennsylvania RR Facilities in Color Vols 1 - 17 each ....48.75 Pennsy RR Gondolas Revenue & Work Equip 1869-1968..45.75 Pennsylvania Railroad in Columbus, Ohio.....................70.75 Pittsburgh Steel Company 1901-1986 Monessen PA....25.00 Prophet’s Pennsy ...........................................................45.50 Pullman Std. Library V1 -50.50;V8-10 or 12 - 16 each...36.50 Quincy Mining Company –Hancock, Michigan...............35.00 Railfan for Life – Photography of Hal Carstens – h/c .....32.75 Railroad Atlas of No. America: GLE; GLW; PNW; Texas, Prairies West, Prairies East, So. East; AZ&NM; Appl. & Pied; Mtns & Plains; So. States, Dakotas & MN each 26.50 Railroad Atlas of NA –Ont, Manitoba, Quebec, W. Canada, New Eng., CA&NV or CO&UT @28.50; Northeast .....32.50 RR Atlas of the United States Vol 1, 2, 3 or 4 each .......60.50 Railroad Critters in Color Vol 1 or 2 each.......................48.75 Railroad Freight Car Slogans & Heralds ........................30.75 Railroad in the Sky – Bodie Ry & Lumber Co H/C .........27.75 Railroad Night Scenes....................................................40.50


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Northern Pacific Through Passenger Service ................48.75 North Philadelphia Pennsylvania Railroad Station.........27.00 Nothing Could be Finer than a Frisco Diner...................55.75 O. Winston Link: Life Along the Line ..............................36.75 Official Locomotive Rosters 2013 Edition.......................36.75 Penn Central Power 25th Anniversary Reprint ...............48.75 Pennsylvania RR V1: Building and Empire 1846-1917..70.75 Pittsburgh Trolleys in Color Vol 1...................................48.75 Rails Around Lake Tahoe...............................................56.75 Rails to Shafts-Paul Kuehner Photos-PA/NJ RRs & Mining....55.75 Railway Prototype Cyclopedia 25...................................28.50 Road of Service – Perspectives on the North Shore Line...30.75 San Francisco’s F Line...................................................85.75 Sawdust on Leatherbark – Mills at Cass, WV ................23.75 South Park’s Gunnison Division Memories & Then Some..58.75 Southern Pacific Depots in California Vol 2....................52.75 Southern Pacific Lines Across Texas & Louisiana 1934-1961.82.75 Southern Railway in Color Vol 3.....................................48.75 SP Pictorial Vol 39 Along the Golden State Route.........26.50 SP Pictorial Vol 41 Around the San Francisco Bay........26.50 Spokane International Ry - Idaho’s Main Line to Canada..45.75 Steel Mill Railroads in Color Vol 4..................................48.75 Trackside Around Pittsburgh 1965-2005 w/ Baer...........48.75 Trackside with Via Cross Canada Compendium & Roster (2 Vols) ...................................36.75 Train Wreck The Forensics of Rail Disasters.................27.75 Trams and Trolleybuses Worldwide...............................40.75 Transit in the Triangle –


A Century Look at Pittsburgh Public Transit ................60.75 Underground and Overground Trains –London .............22.00 Union Pacific in the Los Angeles Basin..........................75.50 Union Pacific Locomotive Directory 2007-2012 .............32.75 Union Pacific Nebraska Depots......................................23.75 Union Pacific’s Big EMDs –DD35 & DDA40X ................36.75 Vintage Cubano..............................................................70.75 Washington & Old Dominion Railroad – Arcadia............21.50 West Branch Mill of the Sierra Lumber Co. – Early NE Calif Logging.................................................19.50 West Virginia Railroads Vol 5 Geared Logging Locos ...27.75 Western Maryland Ry Cumberland Extension 1904-1906-IA..60.00 Western Ohio Railway....................................................20.75 Wilmington & Weldon Railroad in the Civil War .............32.75 Zephyr Rocket................................................................36.75


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Railroads of the Civil War An Illustrated History.............32.75 Rails to the Osage – Missouri Pacific.............................24.00 Ry Prototype Cyc. V10-14@23.50; 15-18@26.50; 19 ...28.50 Republic Steel - Corrigan, McKinney Works – Cleveland, Ohio..60.00 The RGS Story Vol 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 11 or 12 each............70.50 Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac Linking North & South ..38.75 Rio Grande -Chasing the Narrow Gauge – Vol 1 or Vol 2 – Richardson @.....................................52.50 Rio Grande Southern Chasing the Narrow Gauge Vol 3...54.75 Rio Grande A Last Look Back 1974-2010......................65.75 Rio Grande Crest of the Continent.................................75.50 Roads, Rivers & Rails –


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