Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Two New ELHS Exclusives
Erie and DL&W
Wreck Trains by Ron Dukarm Available through the
MAITLAND TOWER HO Erie Lackawanna Historical Society ART PRINT 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
plus $8.95 s&h (US Funds Only)
Non-member price $6500
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
plus $8.95 s&h (US Funds Only)
Member price HO $5000
plus $8.95 s&h
Non-member price $1750
★ ★ STILL AVAILABLE ★ ★ DL&W Vestal, N.Y. Station
(US Funds Only)
Member price HO $5000 N
$1696
Member price $3800 (US Funds Only)
plus $8.95 s&h $8.95 s&h
Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Erie Steam Locomotive Diagram Book Book No. 2 (1944)
Books from
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
$32.00 $24.00
$32.00 $24.00
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
plus $8.95 s&h
(Book prices are non-member. Please allow 4-6 weeks delivery) (US Funds Only)
plus $8.95 s&h (US Funds Only) (Book prices are non-member. Please allow 4-6 weeks delivery)
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Order from: ELHS, Department RF Jay Held, 10-10 ELLIS AVE, FAIR LAWN, N.J. 07410 No phone calls will be accepted For information send SASE
N.J., PA & Ohio res. add sales tax. Outside US extra s&h.
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
$30.00 $21.00
$30.00 $21.00
$32.00 $32.00 $32.00 $32.00 ★ ★ STILL AVAILABLE ★ ★
Erie Waldwick Interlocking Tower HO & N plus
US Funds Only N Books from
$1995
Non-member price HO $6500
$4800
Erie Lackawanna Historical Society Erie Steam Locomotive Diagram Book Book No. 2 (1944)
DL&W Locomotive Classificaton Diagram Book Revised July 1st 1939
Here’s another frosty image from Minnesota artist Terrence Fogarty that will help cool you off on a hot summer day (see May’s RAIL- ROADIANA column for his Northern Flyer). Crow River Crossing is a nostalgic look at a simpler time in which a thinly-disguised Soo Line Pacific No. 2719 provides the power as a passenger train momentarily distracts the young hockey players on the riverbed below. The 1913 iron truss bridge that frames the locomotive in this piece still carries BNSF Railway’s ex-Great Northern branch be- tween Lyndale Junction and Monticello over the Crow River just west of Rogers, Minn. The work is available in three forms: as a 15″×20″ glicée on paper print for $150.00 or as a 30″×40″ glicée on canvas print for $1200.00; and the original 30″×40″ oil is available for sale. Contact the artist to order or for more information at P.O. Box 345, Vic- toria, MN 55386;
www.terrencefogarty.com; or 952/443-0028.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Non-member price HO $6500
In time for the 50th anniversary of Califor- nia’s Roaring Camp & Big Trees Scenic Rail- road, Arcadia Publishing has added Roar- ing Camp Railroads by Beniam Kifle and Nathan Goodman to its Images of Rail se- ries. The authors trace the popular tourist attraction’s development from Norman Clark’s late ’50s arrival in Felton with a dream of rebuilding the narrow gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad to San Jose, through Clark’s acquisition of Southern Pacific’s standard gauge line between Felton and Santa Cruz in 1985, to the present day. A well-chosen and nicely-printed collection of b&w photos illustrate nearly every facet of the story, from regular service images of South Pacific Coast 4-4-0s and SP steam to today’s standard gauge diesel and narrow gauge steam operations. You’ll see Shay No. 1 Dixiana on its journey from Virginia to California, the first narrow gauge right of way and track being built through the red- wood groves, West Side Lumber narrow gauge equipment being loaded onto flatcars for delivery to the tourist line, and the con- struction of the line’s buildings. Building the main line from Felton to the top of Bear Mountain is thoroughly covered through an excellent collection of photos including the massive, curved Spring Canyon timber tres- tle. The trestle’s destruction by a suspected arson fire in 1976 is also well documented, as is the construction of the switchback that bypassed the bridge on a 9.25 per cent grade and is still used today. If you tend to write off RC&BT as “just a tourist line,” this 128- page, 6¹/₂″×9¹/₄″ softcover may help change your mind. It retails for $21.99 and is avail- able from local booksellers, online book- stores, or from Arcadia Publishing at
www.arcadiapublishing.com; 888/313-2665. Railroads for Michigan by Graydon M. Meints is new from the Michigan State University Press. In seven chapters it tells the story of the Great Lakes State’s rail in- dustry beginning with the never-built Ponti-
ac & Detroit Railway in 1830 through Con- rail and Amtrak to the dawn of the 21st cen- tury,
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each chapter covering roughly 25
years. The b&w illustrations are fairly few, as this is a detailed history, but a good as- sortment of maps, period illustrations, and photos help tell the story. The development, flowering, and decline of street railways as well as the “steam roads,” and of course the state’s many rail marine operations, are all thoroughly documented.
This 640-page,
8¹/₂″×11″ hardcover sells for $49.95 plus $5.00 shipping. Order online at http:// msupress.
msu.edu/ or from Michigan State University Press, c/o Chicago Distribution Center, 11030 South Langley Ave., Chicago, IL 60628; 800/621-2736. New from South Platte Press is Burlington Northern Railroad Branch Lines: The Nebraska Experience by Michael M. Bartels and James J. Reisdorff with J. Pete Hedgpeth and Paul R. Boslaugh. Set mostly in the “Green Machine” era of Cascade green SD9s pulling short trains of covered hoppers punctuated by cabooses over rickety, but serviceable, branch lines, the book provides a detailed, line-by-line look at BN’s former Burlington Route branches in the Corn- husker State. Some 14 branches are covered individually,
along with chapters on
Burlington operations in the 1950s and BN’s later operating practices, along with J. Pete Hedgpeth’s first-person account of working the routes in the ’50s. Photographic coverage is very thorough, mostly in color except for two very early steam-era photos and a cou- ple of Burlington diesel shots. Many bridges, depots and on-line industries, mostly grain elevators, are pictured, along with diesels ranging from the aforementioned SD9s to U30C’s, Oakway SD60s, and the occasional second-generation Geeps. A nice, clear map shows the area then and now, and is indexed to locations pictured in the book. This 80- page, 8¹/₂″×9³/₄″ softcover sells for $29.95 plus $5.00 shipping from South Platte Press, P.O. Box 163, David City, NE 68632. NE res- idents add sales tax.
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