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Anniversary Reprint ................48.75


American Steel & Wire Company – Cleveland, OH.......60.00 American Steel Industy 1850-1970 – A Geographic Interpretation ........................................25.75 Amtrak Past Present Future ..........................................32.75 Appalachian Coal Mines & RRs in Color V1 Kentucky..48.75 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 Burlington Route Passenger Trains Vol 3 ......................55.75 Canadian Pacific’s Esquimalt & Nanaimo Ry – H/C......45.75 Canadian Trackside Guide 2013....................................32.50 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 Cable Cars ......................................................23.75 Cincinnati Railroad Heritage Color Pictorial ..................55.75 Colorado Rail Annual 31 Colorado RR Water Tanks .....40.75 Colours of Yesterday’s Trams.........................................52.00 Conrail in Color Vol 3.....................................................48.75 Dayton & Troy Electric Railway......................................20.75 Diesel’s First 50 Years ...................................................74.75 Dry Fork – Norfolk & Western’s Branch Line.................29.75 Erie Lackawanna in Color Vol 8 NY Division .................48.75 Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway 1885-1905 – s/c............27.75 Extra Narrow Gauge Junction – Maine 2ft.....................55.75 For Pullman Eyes Only-Rare Internal Files of Operating Dept23.75 From Abbey to Zorra via Bagdad-CP Passenger Service...42.75 Grand Central How A Train Station Transformed America ..27.75 Grand Central Terminal 100 Years of a New York Landmark...36.75 Great Northern Railway Route of the Empire Builder....34.75 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 Mastering Iron – The Struggle to Modernize and American Industry 1800-1868............40.75


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Transit Progress Derailed – Ontario Hydro’s Radial Electric Railway Scheme........27.75


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