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British Columbia Railway to BC Rail Vol 1......................65.75 Budd Passenger Cars Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 7 ........each 25.00 Burlington Route Passenger Trains Vol 3 .......................55.75 Canadian Pacific’s Esquimalt & Nanaimo Ry – H/C.......45.75 Canadian Trackside Guide 2013 ....................................32.50 Chesapeake & Ohio A Concise History and Fact Book .27.75 Chesapeake & Ohio K-4 Class 2-8-4 Steam Locos.......23.75 Chicago & North Western in Color Vol 4 1965-1995 ......48.75 Cincinnati Railroad Heritage Color Pictorial ...................55.75 Colorado Rail Annual 31 Colorado RR Water Tanks......40.75 Conrail Atlantic Region in Color Vol 1 1976-1978 ..........48.75 Conrail in Color Vol 1, 2 or 3 each..................................48.75 Crowell Lumber Mill – Rapidus Parish, LA ....................35.00 Cumbres & Toltec – A Photographic Tribute...................45.50 Dayton & Troy Electric Railway.......................................20.75 Detroit & Toledo Shore Line RR - Expressway for Industry ..70.75 Diesel’s First 50 Years ....................................................74.75 Durango & Silverton – Furukawa ...................................45.50 Durham Union Station –Durham, NC.............................27.00 East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Co Rockhill Furnace ...35.00 East Broad Top Slim Gauge Survivor.............................45.75 Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway – Signature Press.........56.50 Electric Pullman – History of Niles Car & Mfg Co ..........27.75 Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway 1885-1905 – s/c ............27.75 Extra Narrow Gauge Junction – Maine 2ft .....................55.75 For Pullman Eyes Only – Rare Internal Files of Operating Dept.23.75 Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the American West ..........25.75 Ghost Rails Vol 9 State Line Legends- Ohio/PA Industrial Lines.36.75 Gilpin Railroad Era.........................................................78.50 Great Northern Railway Route of the Empire Builder ....34.75 Heisler Locomotive 1891-1941 – Reprint s/c .................36.75 Industrial Railroading in Color Vol 1 or 2 each ...............48.75 Interstate RR History of an Appalachian Coal Road......38.75 L&N Cumberland Valley Division Album 1945-1985 ......27.75 Lackawanna Plant – Bethlehem Steel Co Ore to Iron to Finished Steel........................................27.00 Lehigh & New England RR & Its Successors in Color ...48.75 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 an American Industry 1800-1868.................................40.75 Merchants Despatch ......................................................60.75 Milwaukee Road Locomotives Vol 2 or 3 ea 55.50; V4...55.75 Milwaukee Road Thru Passenger Service V1 1941-1956....48.75 Minnesota RRs A Photographic History 1940-2012.......36.75 Missouri-Kansas-Texas in Color Vol 2 The Red Era.......48.75 Modeling the White Pass................................................32.75 Nevada Central Sagebrush Narrow Gauge - Ferrell .....40.75 New York Central Trackside Big Apple to Buffalo 1965-69....48.75 New York City Electrified RRs in Color Vol 1 or 2 each ..48.75 New York Subway Cars From R-1 to R-160 ...................60.75 North Philadelphia Pennsylvania Railroad Station.........27.00 Nothing Could be Finer than a Frisco Diner...................55.75


A History of Union Pacific Steam ...................................39.75 American Steel & Wire Company – Cleveland, OH........60.00 American Steel Industry 1850-1970 – A Geographic Interpretation.........................................25.75 Amtrak by the Numbers..................................................75.50 Amtrak Past Present Future...........................................32.75 Baldwin: Fifty Years at Eddystone Book 1: 1906-1939 ...25.75 Baltimore & Ohio Rails Across the Heartland Toledo to Cincinnati......................................................55.75 Baltimore & Ohio R.R. – Steam on the West Slope........19.50 Baltimore & Ohio Vol 2 Sunburst Trail to Chicago ..........40.75 Bangor & Aroostook Stations & Structures ....................32.75 Billboard Refrigerator Cars.............................................56.50 Boston & Maine Memories- Featuring the Photos & Career of Preston Johnson ....46.50


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Broken Knuckle – Providence & Worcester Coal Trains on D&H...23.75 Broken Knuckle – Remembering Guilford 1986-1988....23.75 Charles Smiley – Milwaukee Road Scrapbook ..............28.75 Charles Smiley – Municipal Ry Vintage Scrapbook .......25.75 Greg Scholl – 2101 Story...............................................27.75 Greg Scholl – 844 The Early Years.................................27.75 Greg Scholl – Challenger Goes East .............................27.75 J&O RR Productions – Norfolk Southern Pittsburgh Line Vol 2 ..40.75 JPM – Lehigh Valley Transit Vol 1 The City Lines...........27.75 RailTrek – Into the Desert-BNSF’s Transcon Fullerton to Cadiz..23.75 Sunday River – Boston & Maine Steam 4-4-0 to Superpower ...32.75 Sunday River – New England Steam: Six Main Lines....32.75 Sunday River – Two Foot Gauge in Maine .....................28.75


A Mill on the Point: 125 Years of Steel Making at Sparrows Point, MD ......27.75 America’s Greatest Circus Train .....................................50.75 Amtrak Power in Color Vol 1...........................................48.75 An Illustrated Guide to American Freight Train Equip.....32.75 Angola Horror - 1867 Train Wreck that Shocked the Nation.24.75 Baltimore & Ohio Pacific Locomotives- Handsome Passenger Workhorses..............................27.75 Big Hooks – Railway Cranes..........................................36.75 Boston Below – Boston Subway ....................................36.75 Brooklyn Elevated Equipment ........................................60.75 Burlington Northern Diesel Locomotive Diagrams.........29.50 Burlington Northern Railroad Branch Lines The Nebraska Experience ...........................................27.75 Canadian National Steam Vol 1 h/c 65.75; s/c ...............45.75 Cass Scenic Railroad – 50 Years a State Park...............55.75 Central of Georgia Railway Locomotive Diagrams 194729.50 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 Delaware & Hudson RR Corp Equipment Dept Freight Car Diagrams 1976..........................................34.50 Delaware & Hudson RR Corp Equipment Dept Locomotive Classification 1946....................................34.50


Denver & Rio Grande RR San Juan Ext-Wolf Creek Trestle 1883..27.00 El Camino Real and the Route of the Daylight...............36.75 Electric Traction Along the Stillwater – Dayton Covington & Piqua...........................................22.75


Elgin Joliet & Eastern in Color Vol 1 Eastern Subdivision....48.75 Erie Lackawanna Power in Color Vol 1...........................48.75 Expansion of the Norfolk & Western Railway to include the NKP, Wabash.........................................27.00


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Fast Trains World Wide...................................................27.75 Gateway Yard – Youngstown, Ohio – Pittsburgh & Lake Erie...60.00 General Electric 70 Ton Diesel Locomotives..................34.75 Ghost Rails 10 – Iron Phantoms – Jones & Laughlin.....55.75 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 John Frank Stevens – Civil Engineer .............................36.75 Joint Line -1880-1995 ....................................................40.75 Lehigh River Valley Trackside with Kulp .........................48.85 Lehigh Valley Diesel Pictorial ........................................23.75


Republic Steel –Corrigan, McKinney Works – Cleveland, Ohio..60.00 Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac Linking North & South .38.75 Rio Grande -Chasing the Narrow Gauge – Vol 1 or Vol 2 –@ 52.50; Vol 3......................................54.75 Rio Grande A Last Look Back 1974-2010......................65.75 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 Historic Diesels Vol 18 Alco & GE Diesel Switchers.........................................32.75


O. Winston Link: Life Along the Line...............................36.75 Off the Main Line A Photographic Odyssey ...................50.75 Pacific Electric Cars A Pictorial Journey 1911-1953......65.75 Penn Central in Color Vol 1, 2, 3 or 4 each ....................48.75 Penn Central Power in Color Vol 1 Freight Cab Units.....48.75 Penn Central Through Passenger Service .....................48.75 Pennsylvania RR Facilities in Color Vols 1 - 17 each .....48.75 Pennsy RR Gondolas Revenue & Work Equip 1869-1968 .......45.75 Pennsy RR Volume 1: Building and Empire 1846-1917 .70.75 Pennsylvania Railroad’s Cleveland Docks......................27.00 Pittsburgh Steel Company 1901-1986 Monessen PA ....25.00 Prophet’s Pennsy ...........................................................45.50 Pullman Std. Library V1-50.50;Vol 8-10 or 12 - 16 each 25.00 Railroad Atlas of No. America: GLE; GLW; PNW; Texas, Prairies West, Prairies East, So. East; AZ&NM; Appl. & Pied; Mtns & Plains; So. States, Dakotas & MN each .26.50 Railroad Atlas of NA –Ont, Manitoba, Quebec, W. Canada, New Eng., CA&NV or CO&UT @28.50; Northeast .....32.50 Railroad Atlas of United States Vol 1, 2, 3 or 4 each......65.75 Railroad Critters in Color Vol 1, 2 or 3 each..................48.75 Railroad Night Scenes ...................................................40.50 Railroads For Michigan ..................................................45.75 Rails Around Lake Tahoe ...............................................56.75 Rails Around Missouri ....................................................50.75 Railway Prototype Cyc. Vol 10 - 14 @ 23.50; Vol 15, 16, 18 @ 26.50; Vol 19, 25, 26 @ ....................28.50


Louisville & Nashville Diesel Locos 1972, revised 1976...29.50 Maps of Interurban Lines ...............................................27.00 Maybrook Gateway – H/C ..............................................53.75 Memories of the Cab Forward A Personal View.............70.75 Milwaukee Road Locomotives Vol 5...............................55.75 Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern ...............................50.75 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 New Haven Description of Passenger Equipment 1956.34.50 New York Central Freight Car Directory 1967.................34.50 Norfolk Southern Heritage in Color ................................48.75 Norfolk Southern Pass Equipment Diagrams 1985........29.50 Northern Pacific Tacoma, WA Passenger Station ..........27.00 Northwestern Pacific RR – Eureka to Willits – Arcadia ..21.50 Oregon & Northwestern Railroad – Arcadia...................21.50 Over the Alleghenies – Early Canals and RRs of Pennsylvania .36.75 Penn Central Power in Color Vol 2 .................................48.75 Pennsylvania Railroad Advertising Art ...........................85.75 Pennsylvania Railroad Harbor Facilities .........................27.00 Pennsy Railroad Inspection of Physical Property 1948..70.00 Pennsy Railroad Record of Transportation Lines 1940 ..30.00 Potomac Yard – The Gateway Between North and South....65.75 Prairie Depots in Color Vol 1 GN, MP, A&O, SLSF & MKT........48.75 Railroad Atlas of the United States Vol 5 MN & IA.........65.75 Railroad Critters in Color Vol 4.......................................48.75 Railway Prototype Cyclopedia 27...................................28.50 Rock Island Line ............................................................45.75 Rock Island Requiem .....................................................34.75 Routes Not Taken - A Trip Thru NYC’s Unbuilt Subway System.32.75 Santa Fe Depots V1 Engineering Series Vol 7 or 8 ea...23.75 Santa Fe Loco Facilities Vol 2 West End Western Lines 55.75 Santa Fe Los Angeles Division ......................................75.50 Southern Pacific Facilities in Color Vol 1 CA, OR, NV & UT.....48.75 Southern Pacific Lines Standard Design Depots ...........65.75 Southern Pacific Painting and Lettering Guide...............55.75 Southern Railway Passenger Equipment 1954..............34.50 Steel Mill Railroads in Color Vol 5 ..................................48.75 The Railroad Was Our Life – Boston & Maine................39.00 The Un-Driving of the Golden Spike ..............................23.75 Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad – Nevada Short Line .....55.75 Vancouver Island’s Esquimalt & Nanaimo Ry – H/C ......45.75 Via in Color The First 25 Years .......................................48.75 West Florida Rails in Color V1 ACL & SCL 1957-1967..48.75 Western Pacific Freight Cars 1966.................................29.50


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Western Maryland Ry Cumberland Extension 1904-1906 –IA..60.00 Western Maryland Ry Revenue Equipment: Gondolas..35.00 Wood & Steel Maintenance of Way Structures & Fixtures-O&W.23.75 Zephyr Rocket ................................................................36.75


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 Co Spencer Shops 1896-1960..........27.00 SP Narrow Gauge Locomotives and Freight Equipment80.75 Spokane International Ry – Idaho’s Main Line to Canada....45.75


Alcos Northeast..............................................................85.00 Articulated Steam Locomotives Vol 1 or 2 each ..........100.00 Burlington Route Early Zephyrs .....................................75.00 Cincinnati & Lake Erie....................................................60.00 Diesel Builders Vol 1, 2 or 3 each.................................175.00 Green Bay & Western Color Pictorial ...........................135.00 Gulf Mobile & Ohio Color Pictorial ...............................150.00 Lima A History................................................................85.00 Modoc – SP’s Back Door to Oregon.............................195.00 Napa Valley Route..........................................................75.00 New York Westchester & Boston 1906-1946................100.00 PA Alco’s Glamour Girl .................................................125.00 Pullman Standard Library Vol 2, 3, 5, 6 or 7 each........150.00 Rails in the Shadow of Mt Shasta ..................................50.00 Rock Island Motive Power ..............................................40.00 Santa Fe Waycars ........................................................125.00 Southern Pacific Passenger Trains Consists and Cars ..60.00 Texas & Pacific – Collias ..............................................200.00 To the Mountain by Rail................................................110.00 Virginia’s Belt Line Railroad – Norfolk & Portsmouth ...200.00


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