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 CALENDAR CALL 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)


www.erielackhs.org Dealer Inquiries Welcome


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


IF YOUR ORGANIZATION PUBLISHES a rail-ori- ented calendar, we’ll be happy to 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 complete ordering information in- cluding a mailing address, web address, re- tail price, and all applicable charges includ- ing shipping and sales tax. One of our favorite calendars each year comes from the East Penn Traction Club, and their 2014 calendar is no exception. With a color cover and 13 monthly b&w pho- tos, subjects include a 1973 fan trip on the Red Arrow Lines with a center door car and a lightweight at Drexeline in Philadelphia, Penn.; a snowy Philadelphia Suburban Transportation view of a Jewett car at West Chester; an NJ Transit LRV at Riverfront Stadium in Newark, N.J.; a Baltimore (Md.) Transit PCC car on Liberty Heights Ave.; a Scranton (Penn.)


Transit Electromobile


Non-member price HO $6500


crossing the Delaware & Hudson’s Green Ridge Branch on Capouse Ave.; a PSTC work car along West Chester Pike; a Philadelphia & Western Brill Bullet at Gulf Mills; a PSTC Brill lightweight in Upper Darby; a Lehigh Valley Transit center en- trance car at Germantown Pike; two Con- estoga Traction cars meeting at Gamber’s Siding; and finally, LVT car 302 on its way to scrap at Bethlehem in 1952. The calendar folds out to 11″×17″ and sells for $10.00 plus $2.00 shipping from East Penn Traction Club c/o Charles Long, 227 Locust Rd., Fort Washington, PA 19034. The Bridge Line Historical Society


2014 calendar features 13 color and b&w photos of the Delaware & Hudson. Subjects include the Sharks and an RS3 at Whitehall, N.Y.; PA’s meeting an RS3m; RS3m’s on the Adirondack Branch at Warrensburg, N.Y.; a link-and-pin era shot of D&H Canal Co. 0-6- 0T decorated by its crew; a rugged Hy-Rail work truck; Camelback 4-4-0 No. 453 at North Creek, N.Y.; two more shots of RS3m’s, at Oneonta, N.Y., and Bethlehem, Penn.; Pacific No. 652 posed in front of the D&H office building in Albany, N.Y.; an RS3 on the Laurentian at Port Kent, N.Y.; RS3 No. 4094 surrounded by three leased RS3s in Providence & Worcester paint; and Camelback Consolidation No. 806 in the mid-’20s. The calendar folds out to 11″×17″ and sells for $15.00 plus $2.50 shipping; Canadian orders add $1.00 extra per calen- dar; payment must be in U.S. dollars drawn on a U.S. bank. Make checks payable to Bridge Line Historical Society, Publications Office, 2476 Whitehall Ct., Niskayuna, N.Y. 12309. NY residents add sales tax. The Valley Railroad’s faux-New Haven Mikado No. 3025 is the focus of the 2014 cal- endar from the Friends of the Valley Rail- road, which features 14 large color, sepia, and b&w photos of the former Knox & Kane No. 58 in regular service and on photo char- ters. In addition to day and night solo por- traits and action shots, No. 3025 is shown with Valley 2-8-2 No. 40 and General Elec- tric 44-tonner No. 0900. The spiral-bound calender is nicely printed on heavy paper


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and folds out to 11″×17″. It sells for $12.00 plus $2.00 shipping from the Friends of the Valley Railroad, 1 Railroad Ave., Essex, CT 06426 or www.friendsvrr.org. Proceeds from the calendar will go toward the restoration of the Friends’ H.K. Porter 0-6-0T and the group’s Pennsylvania Railroad N5 caboose.


PUBLICATION NEWS


Merrill Publishing Associates regrets to announce that it has failed to reach an agreement with the heirs of Dave Campbell, who owned the photos from the Roy E. Campbell collection that have been used in more than a dozen Merrill books. Dave’s sudden death in April placed the future of the collection in question and Merrill sus- pended sales during negotiations with his heirs, who have decided not to continue to make the photos available in book form. The Roy E. Campbell collection is notable for its variety of fine pre-World War II images. At press time, five titles were still avail-


able: Milwaukee Road Steam in the West; The Green Bay & Western Steam Era; The Milwaukee Road Steam Era in Wisconsin Vol. 2, Secondary and Branch Lines; South Shore Steam (Duluth, South Shore & At- lantic), and Green Mountain Steam (Ver- mont railroads circa 1939). The remaining stock is being sold through www.merrill publishingassociates .com, and no re-prints are planned. Visit the website for prices and ordering information.


BOOK REVIEWS


Off the Main Lines By Don L. Hofsommer. Published by Indiana University Press, 601 North Morton St., Bloomington, IN 47404-3797; www.iupress. indiana.edu; 1-800/842-6796. Softcover, b&w with color cover. 320 9¹/₂″×8¹/₂″ pages; $55.00 plus shipping and tax; e-book, $45.99.


In 320 pages of fine b&w pho- tography, Don Hofsommer covers the less glamorous side of rail- roading, most- ly in the coun- try’s mid- section,


from


the 1940s through the 1990s, beginning with reminiscences of his growing up in a small town along the Minneapolis & St. Louis. His early years there, spent in Callender, Iowa, and later in Fort Dodge, whetted his appetite for railroading, and his photographic efforts began with a Kodak Brownie 127 which was eventually supplanted by a Graflex. So of course, the story begins at Callender with photos of the Louie’s Train 2, a baggage/RPO doodlebug trailing a single swanky Budd lightweight coach; he also caught a home- built Rock Island “motor” on trains 19 and 20. Not much escaped his lens: Illinois Central steam around Fort Dodge, baggagemen han- dling crates of baby chicks, Chicago Great Western steam, and interurbans such as the


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