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Erie Lackawanna Historical Society
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The Merchant’s Engines by Jerry Segrue
The history of the Lackawanna Railroad’s Pacific Steam engines with a concentration on the famous “Streamstyled Pacifics”. This 60 page softbound book includes over 50 photographs and separate scale drawings of each of the four streamstyled engines. Also covered is the construction of the DL&W’s several classes of 4-6-2s and their unorthodox numbering. Member price
$2100 plus $8.95 s&h
Non-member price $2495
Erie USRA Heavy Pacifics
by D.G. Biernaki
This 80 page book provides comprehensive coverage of these fascinating locomotives
Member price Non-member price
$1500 plus $8.95 s&h $1800 2014 ELHS Calendar
Member price $795
14 great photos plus
$4.25 s&h Visit us online at
US Funds Only each additional calendar
Payments in US funds will only be accepted Add $1 shipping
Non-member price $995
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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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. David Styffe’s full-color 2014 calendar of railroad photographs is something a little different, in that the images are more artis- tically representative than documentary. Beautifully printed on good paper, spiral- bound, and larger than most, the calendar folds out to 14″×22″ and features a dozen images of contemporary Golden State rail- roading in an impressionistic, yet journalis- tic style. Subjects include Modesto & Empire Traction RP20BD’s under a canopy of trees; a Union Pacific SD70ACe passing windmills on San Gorgonia Pass; a BNSF Railway Warbonnet C44-9W leading a unit steel coil train at Sandcut on Tehachapi Pass; a broadside of Amtrak train 799 on the Gavio- ta Beach trestle; fireworks exploding over a Metrolink baseball special at Angels Stadi- um; a waterfront view of Amtrak F59PHI No. 450 at San Clemente Pier; and Metro- link meeting a UP stone train in the hills at CP Quartz. The calendar sells for $20.00 plus shipping and is available online only from
www.magcloud.com/user/davidstyffe. The 2014 Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association calendar features 13 color and b&w photos of NP subjects in the steam and diesel eras. These include three photos of A-B-B-A F units in freight and passenger service; several views show- ing passing freight trains taken from F unit cabs; 2-8-8-2 No. 4001 in mid-train helper service; Spokane-Lewiston, Wash., train 311 behind a Q-6 Pacific at Marshall, Wash.; a nice view of the Glendive, Mont., yard with the North Coast Limited making its station stop; The NCL again, behind F’s in the orig- inal green and black at Thompson Falls, Mont.; a Mikado on local freight 644 at Glen- dive, Mont.; a meet between the Cheney (Wash.) local with a wooden bay-window ca- boose and the NCL in pre-Loewy paint at Marshall, Wash; a local freight in the clear at Gary, Minn., as shot from the cab of train 13; and Challenger No. 5136 pulling out of Laurel, Mont. Each photo is accompanied by an extensive and detailed caption. The cal- endar folds out to 11″×17″ and sells for $7.00 plus $1.75 shipping per order from NPRHA Calendars, 5916 West 21st Pl., Kennewick, WA 99338; www.
nprha.org. Back issues are also available; see website for details. The 2014 calendar from the Niagara
Frontier Chapter NRHS features 13 b&w photos taken in and around Buffalo, New York, and Fort Erie, Ontario. Subjects in- clude a Niagara, St. Catherines & Toronto four-wheel snow sweeper; a New York Cen- tral L2a Mohawk on freight; a Buffalo & Pittsburgh GP9 and SW1500; a Baltimore & Ohio, ex-Buffalo & Susquehanna 4-4-2 Atlantic in Galeton, Penn.; the Canadian National Turbo Train at Danforth, Ontario;
Erie Mikado No. 3214 at Lawtons, N.Y., on what’s said to have been the last steam- powered freight on the Buffalo & South- western Division; Nickel Plate 0-8-0 No. 303 working Abbott Road Yard in Buffalo; Erie DS4-4-1000 No. 606; Chesapeake & Ohio 2- 8-4 No. 2701, newly placed on display in Buffalo’s La Salle Park; a six-car train of NStC&T arch-windowed wooden interur- bans on a boat train near Niagara Falls, On- tario; and Genesee Valley Alco RS32 No. 2035 on a passenger extra in Lockport, N.Y. The spiral bound calendar measures 11″×17″ when open and sells for $12.00 postpaid to the U.S. or $13.00 postpaid to Canada from Niagara Frontier Chapter NRHS, c/o Robert Andrycha, 49 Seward St., Buffalo, NY 14206;
www.nfcnrhs.com. O&W Steam Power Through the Years, the 2014 calendar from the Ontario & Western Railway Historical Society is a nicely illustrated b&w photo roster. Loco- motives shown include the Class G 4-4-0, with beautiful photos of Nos. 77 and 76; the Class S double cab (Camelback) 2-8-0 show- ing Nos. 157, 159, and 188; the U class Moguls that were rebuilt to Ten-Wheelers (Nos. 244, 251, and 255); the Class V double cab 2-6-0s (three views of No. 278); The Class W and W-2 Consolidations before and after rebuilding; three Class X “Bullmoose” 2-10-2s; and three Y class light Mountains, including streamstyled No. 405. Coverage continues with three Y-2 4-8-2s, which were copies of New York Central’s L2c Mohawks; two P class double cab 2-8-0s; double cab Class L 0-6-0s 52 and 53; three Class E 4-6- 0s; and finally, two Class T double cab Moguls. The locomotive photos are accom- panied by color images of preserved O&W artifacts such as marker lamps, buttons, and paperwork, along with detailed cap- tions. Three 4-4-0s grace the back cover. The calendar folds out to 11″×17″ and sells for $10.00 plus $4.00 shipping from the OWRHS, P.O. Box 713, Middletown, NY 10940-0713;
www.nyow.org. Back issues are also available at clearance prices; see the website for details. The Erie Lackawanna Historical So-
ciety calendar for 2014 features 14 large, well printed color and b&w images of The Friendly Service Route and its predecessors. Subjects include a pair of six-motor EMD’s on an eastbound freight along New York’s Canisteo River; two views of Erie PA1s in New York area commuter service; Two EL F units on the former Erie about to cross the former Lackawanna at BD interlocking in Binghamton, N.Y.; a Lackawanna Pocono on the Lackawanna Limited; a three-way meet at Dover, N.J., between an eastbound Lack- awanna Hudson, a Pacific, and a 2-8-0; a pair of New Jersey Department of Trans- portation U34CH diesels on a westbound freight at Waldwick, N.J.; an Erie Pacific crossing under the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh at Belvidere, N.Y.; eastbound EL A-B-B-A F units on the Boonton Line about to cross the Greenwood Lake Branch dia- mond at Mountain View, N.J.; an F3 and E8 on mail train 21 at Glen Rock, N.J.; second generation power on a westbound freight at Carson, N.Y.; two covered wagons leading an
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