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L&N Cumberland Valley Division Album 1945-1985 ......27.75 Lackawanna Plant – Bethlehem Steel Co Ore to Iron to Finished Steel........................................27.00 Lehigh Valley Railroad A Photo Album...........................45.50 Logging RRs of the Blue Ridge & Smoky Mtns Vol 2.....44.75 Long Island Railroad in Color Volume 1, 2, 3 or 4 each.48.75 Mastering Iron – The Struggle to Modernize and American Industry 1800-1868.............40.75 Merchants Despatch ......................................................60.75 Milwaukee Road Locomotives Vol 2 or 3 each 55.50 V455.75 Milwaukee Road Thru Passenger Service V1 1941-1956..48.75 Minnesota RRs A Photographic History 1940-2012 ......36.75 More Chicago & North Western in Minnesota................60.75 Nevada Central Sagebrush Narrow Gauge - Ferrell .....40.75 New York Central Trackside Big Apple to Buffalo 1965-69 ...48.75


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A History of Union Pacific Steam ...................................36.75 American Steel & Wire Company – Cleveland, OH .......60.00 American Steel Industry 1850-1970 – A Geographic Interpretation.........................................25.75 Amtrak by the Numbers .................................................75.50 Baldwin: Fifty Years at Eddystone Book 1: 1906-1939 ...25.75 Baltimore & Ohio Rails Across the Heartland Toledo to Cincinnati..........55.75 Baltimore & Ohio Vol 2 Sunburst Trail to Chicago ..........40.75 Bangor & Aroostook Stations & Structures ....................32.75 Before Guilford ...............................................................35.75 Billboard Refrigerator Cars ............................................56.50 Boston & Maine Memories - Featuring the Photos & Career of Preston Johnson ....46.50


A Mill on the Point: 125 Years of Steel Making at Sparrows Point, MD ..........................27.75 America’s Greatest Circus Train.....................................50.75 Amtrak Past Present Future...........................................32.75 Amtrak Power in Color Vol 1...........................................48.75 An Illus. Guide to American Freight Train Equipment.....32.75 Angola Horror-1867 Train Wreck that Shocked the Nation...24.75 Atlantic Coast Line Freight Equipment Data Book 194729.50 Baltimore & Ohio Pacific Locomotives- Handsome Passenger Workhorses .............................27.75 Baltimore & Ohio R.R. – Steam on the West Slope .......19.50 Big Hooks – Railway Cranes..........................................36.75 Boston’s Orange Line –Arcadia......................................21.50 Burlington Northern Diesel Locomotive Diagrams.........29.50 Burlington Northern RR Branch Lines The Nebraska Experience.27.75 Canadian National Steam Vol 1 h/c 65.75; s/c ...............45.75 Central of Georgia Ry Locomotive Diagrams 1947........29.50 Central of Georgia Ry Passenger Equipment 1954.......34.50 Columbia, Newberry & Laurens RR – Dutch Fork Line..34.75 Delaware & Hudson Bridge Line Freight 1960-1983 Vol 1 The North End...................................70.75


Erie Lackawanna Power in Color Vol 1...........................48.75 Fast Trains World Wide...................................................27.75 Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the American West ..........25.75 Gateway Yard-Youngstown, Ohio-Pittsburgh & Lake Erie...60.00 Great Northern Railway Freight Car Diagrams 1955 .....34.50 Harriman vs Hill – Wall Street’s Great Railroad War ......27.75 Illinois Central Freight Equipment 1954 .........................34.50 It’s Lonely at the Top – Narrow Gauge Railroad Logging in California’s Lake Cty ....................19.50 John Frank Stevens – Civil Engineer .............................36.75 Joint Line -1880-1995 ....................................................40.75 Lehigh & New England RR & Its Successors in Color ...48.75 Lehigh River Valley Trackside with Kulp .........................48.85 Lehigh Valley Diesel Pictorial ........................................23.75 Life on a Locomotive – C&NW.......................................27.75 Long Island RR Port Jefferson Branch – Arcadia ..........21.50


Denver & Rio Grande RR San Juan Ext -Wolf Creek Trestle 1883....27.00 Durham Union Station –Durham, NC.............................27.00 El Camino Real and the Route of the Daylight...............36.75 Electric Pullman – History of Niles Car & Mfg Co ..........27.75 Electric Traction Along the Stillwater – Dayton Covington & Piqua...........................................22.75


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Republic Steel-Corrigan, McKinney Works-Cleveland, Ohio..60.00 Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac Linking North & South.38.75 Rio Grande-Chasing the Nar. Ga. V1 or 2@52.50; V3 ...54.75 Rio Grande A Last Look Back 1974-2010......................65.75 Road of Service – Perspectives on the North Shore Line .30.75 Rock Island in Minnesota...............................................48.75 Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad & Predecessors Equipment Vol 3....................................55.75 Santa Fe The Final Years in Color Vol 1 or 2 each.........48.75 Sawdust on Leatherbark – Mills at Cass, WV................23.75 Seaboard Coast Line in Color........................................48.75 South Park’s Gunnison Div Memories & Then Some.....58.75 Southern Pacific Hist Diesels V18 Alco & GE Diesel Switchers..32.75 Southern Pacific Lines Across Texas & Louisiana 1934-1961...82.75 Southern Pacific Pass Cars V2 or 3 @125.00; V4 or 5 @.145.00 Southern Pacific’s Golden Empire 1954-1958 ...............80.75 Southern Railway Montpelier Station.............................35.00 SP Narrow Gauge Locos and Freight Equipment ..........80.75


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Louisville & Nashville Diesel Locos 1972, revised 1976...29.50 Maybrook Gateway – H/C ..............................................53.75 Missouri-Kansas-Texas in Color Vol 2 The Red Era.......48.75 Modeling the White Pass................................................32.75 Montana Central Ry: Copper, Coal and the Empire Builder.23.75 More Black Bear Tracks – Algoma Central.....................25.00 Morristown & Erie Vol 1 The Early Years 1895-1952......48.50 Nashville, Chattanooga & St Louis Pass Cars 1947......29.50 Norfolk Southern Pass Equipment Diagrams 1985........29.50 Northern Pacific Tacoma, WA Passenger Station ..........27.00 Off the Main Line A Photographic Odyssey ...................50.75 Over the Alleghenies – Early Canals and RRs of Pennsy ...36.75 Pacific Electric Cars A Pictorial Journey 1911-1953......65.75 Penn Central Power in Color Vol 2 .................................48.75 Pennsylvania Railroad Advertising Art ...........................85.75 Pennsylvania Railroad Harbor Facilities.........................27.00 Pennsylvania RR Inspection of Physical Property 1948...70.00 Pennsylvania RR Record of Transportation Lines 1940...30.00 Pennsylvania Railroad’s Cleveland Docks .....................27.00 Potomac Yard – The Gateway Between North and South .65.75 Prairie Depots in Color Vol 1 GN, MP, A&O, SLSF & MKT48.75 Railroad Atlas of the United States Vol 5 MN & IA.........65.75 Railroad Critters in Color Vol 4.......................................48.75 Railroads For Michigan ..................................................45.75 Railway Prototype Cyclopedia 26 ..................................28.50 Rock Island Line ............................................................45.75 Rock Island Requiem.....................................................34.75 Routes Not Taken - A Trip Through NYC’s Unbuilt Subway System....................................32.75 Santa Fe Depots Volume 1 Engineering Series Vol 7 ....23.75 Santa Fe Depots Volume 2 Engineering Series Vol 8 ....23.75 Santa Fe Los Angeles Division ......................................75.50 Southern Pacific Lines Standard Design Depots ...........65.75 Southern Pacific Painting and Lettering Guide ..............55.75 Southern Ry Company Spencer Shops 1896-1960.......27.00 Southern Railway Passenger Equipment 1954..............34.50 St Paul Union Depot.......................................................36.75 Steel Mill Railroads in Color Vol 5 ..................................48.75 The Railroad Was Our Life – Boston & Maine................39.00 Via in Color The First 25 Years.......................................48.75 Virginian Railway Heritage Trail......................................29.75 West Florida Rails in Color V1 ACL & SCL 1957-1967..48.75 Western Maryland Ry Revenue Equipment: Gondolas..35.00 Western Pacific Freight Cars 1966.................................29.50


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Transit Progress Derailed –Ontario Hydro’s Radial Electric Railway Scheme ..................................27.75 Union Pacific in the Los Angeles Basin..........................75.50 Union Pacific’s M-10000 and Early Streamliner Era 1934-1941.70.75 United States Steel Corporation Duquesne Works, PA..25.00 Vintage Cubano .............................................................70.75 Virginian Rails 1953-1993..............................................45.75 West Virginia RRs – Vol 1 24.50; Vol 2 C&O, 3 B&O, 4 VGN, or 5 Logging @ ................27.75


Western Maryland Ry Cumberland Extension 1904-1906 –IA..60.00 Western Ohio Railway....................................................20.75 Wood & Steel Maintenance of Way Structures & Fixtures-O&W...23.75 Zephyr Rocket................................................................36.75


Erie Lackawanna Story................................................75.00 Erie Memories..............................................................45.00 Erie Power ...................................................................85.00 Milwaukee Rails – Olmsted..........................................50.00 Narrow Gauge to the Rockies......................................35.00 New England Diesels ..................................................45.00 PCC The Car that Fought Back ...................................90.00 Rail City Chicago .........................................................75.00 Route of the Warbonnets .............................................50.00 Some Classic Trains.....................................................50.00 Texas Electric Railway –CERA 121 .............................50.00 TM – Milwaukee Electric ............................................100.00


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