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CALENDAR CALL
If your organization publishes a rail-oriented calendar, we’ll mention it here, subject to available space. Send a copy to Calendar Call, RAILFAN & RAILROAD, 108 Phil Hardin Rd., Newton, NJ 07860. Be sure to provide com- plete ordering information including a mail- ing address, web address, retail price, and ap- plicable charges for shipping and sales tax. First up this year is the Norfolk & West- ern Historial Society 2014 calendar, which folds out to 12″×18″ and includes 13 large b&w images including the cover plus eight smaller photos presented four to a page. Sub- jects include “skunk” GP38AC’s on an office car special at Roanoke, Va.; Class J No. 601 on the Pocahontas at South Norfolk, Va.; ex- Pennsy E-3 Pacific No. 502 at Petersburg, Va., still with its PRR pilot and headlight; a high nose GP30 pulling the Amtrak Hilltop- per’s dead P30CH at Montgomery Tunnel; 4-8-0 No. 375 on the Huckleberry; a K-2a with a combine and wood caboose for a mixed train at Hagerstown, Md.; K-1 No. 100 with an mty hopper train at Omega, Ohio; and a pair of SD35s at Portsmouth, Ohio. Smaller photos include four Virginian subjects: an H-24-66, a USA class 2-8-8-2, an SB 0-8-0, and a heavyweight baggage/RPO, plus sec- ondhand N&W steam including a Winston- Salem Southbound 2-6-6-2, an Interstate 2-6-6-2, a Santa Fe 2-8-8-2, and an RF&P 4-8-2. The calendar sells for $12.95 a copy plus $5.95 shipping for up to three copies; add $1.00 for each copy over three. VA resi- dents add sales tax. Order from N&WHS, P.O. Box 13908, Roanoke, VA 24038-3908;
www.nwhs.org; 540/342-0575. The New Haven Railroad Historical &
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Technical Association full-color 2014 cal- endar is available, featuring 13 large photos and six smaller ones. Subjects include an Al- co S1 at Providence, R.I.; GP9s on a passen- ger train at Newington, Conn.; several views of FL9s, two open-platform m.u. cars on a fan trip at New Rochelle, N.Y.; an EP-3a electric on the Patriot at New Haven, Conn.; a green PA on a passenger train at Stoning- ton, Conn.; a Roger Williams RDC at Back Bay (Boston), Mass.; an EP-5 under triangu- lar catenary at Cos Cob, Conn.; a pair of clean ex-Virginian EF-4 electrics climbing the approach to Hell Gate Bridge; a set of four FA’s on the Maybrook Line; and two PA’s arriving New Haven in the snow. The smaller images include a steam locomotive tender in work train service; a heater trailer (steam generator car); a green DL-109, and an EF-1 electric. The calendar folds out to 12″×18″ and sells for $10.95 a copy plus $3.00 shipping per calendar; 3 copies or more, $5.00 shipping. MA residents add sales tax. Order from NHRHTA Inc., c/o Gor- don O. Cochrane, 256 Central St., Foxboro, MA 02035-2611. The 2014 Railway Calendar from the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Rail- way Historical Society is available. It fea- tures 14 color and b&w photos in the area around Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Penn. Subjects include a pair of Delaware & Hud- son Alco switchers on a freight; Lehigh Val- ley PA’s on the Black Diamond at Coxton
Yard (Pittston); Lackawanna A-B-A F7s at Taylor Yard; a Reading & Northern freight passing CN power on Norfolk Southern 31T at Mountain Top; a Delaware-Lackawanna C425 waiting as coal is loaded into hoppers at Archbald; Erie hood units on a Wyoming Division excursion at Elmhurst, Penn.; a Laurel Line car crossing Roaring Brook in Scranton; a Wilkes-Barre Railway car meet- ing a CNJ steam switcher at Hanover; Susquehanna C430s at Honesdale; a pair of Jersey Central babyface Baldwins in south Wilkes-Barre; a Scranton Transit car pass- ing the Scranton Electric Co. generating plant; and the Burlington Route’s shovel- nosed Lincoln Zephyr at the LV station in Wilkes-Barre. The calendar folds out to 11″×17″ and sells for $8.50 postpaid and in- cluding PA sales tax from L&WV Calendar, Dept. CC, P.O. Box 3452, Scranton, PA 18505-0452. The Mid-Continent Railway Museum
Whistle on the Wind 2014 steam calendar is available now. Spiral bound, it folds out to 12″×18″ and features 13 large color and b&w photographs of Museum equipment over the years plus historic images from the museum’s region (and elsewhere). Subjects include volunteers moving the Museum’s first piece of equipment, 0-4-0 No. 701, over panel track; Southern Ps-4 No. 1385 (an “other” 1385 besides the Museum’s C&NW 4-6-0); a LaCrosse & Southeastern 4-6-0 at Coon Valley, Wis.; Soo Line 4-4-0 No. 7 at Barron, Wis.; a view of the Algonquin Tan- nery at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.; Chicago Great Western 2-6-2 No. 902 at Clarion, Iowa; Saginaw Timber 2-8-2 No. 2 on a log train; and Chicago & North Western 4-4-0 No. 946 near Lakewood, Wis. The calendar sells for $8.95 plus $2.00 shipping per copy. Order from Mid-Continent Railway Histori- cal Society, P.O. Box 358, North Freedom, WI 53951-0358;
www.midcontinent.org.
BOOK REVIEW
The Maybrook Gateway By Peter A. Brill. Published by Anthracite Railroads Historical Society, http://www.
anthraciterailroads.org/sale/index.php. 8¹/₂″×11″ pages, b&w. Hardcover softcover
256 $54.95, $39.99 plus shipping. Available
exclusively from
Lulu.com. Dealer inquiries:
arjay3@comcast.net.
This extremely well- researched book pro- vides a detailed look at the rail traffic that moved over the rail- road bridge across the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie,
N.Y.,
and through the New Haven Railroad yard at Maybrook from 1889 through 1974.
Its focus is not on the facility itself, but rather on Maybrook’s role in freight move- ments between New England and the West and South via its direct connections and their affiliates. At Maybrook’s peak, the huge, double- hump classification yard handled traffic
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