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Erie Lackawanna Historical Society
CALENDAR CALL
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.
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
McMillan Publications offers a half dozen full-color 2014 calendars which feature ex- cellent contemporary and vintage diesel pho- tography on six large Class I railroads. Titles include CSX Transportation; Norfolk South- ern; Santa Fe; BNSF Railway; Rio Grande; and Union Pacific. Notable images include a sparkling clean set of four-stripe Rio Grande F3s on the California Zephyr; a set of Union Pacific Fast Forty SD40-2s on Santa Fe trackage rights at East Victorville, Calif.; a BNSF SD70MAC leading a grain train cov- ered in hoarfrost; a pair of Santa Fe RSD5s leading A-B-A PA’s on the Grand Canyon climbing Raton Pass; a night shot of NS Dash 9s bursting out of Allegheny Tunnel in Gal- litzin, Penn.; and another fine night view of a CSX Dark Future Dash 9 passing the station at Martinsburg,
W.Va. Each calendar folds out to 14 ″×19¹/₂″ and sells for $14.95 plus $5.00 shipping to the U.S., $6.00 to Canada; CO residents add sales tax. See ad on page 10 for bulk pricing. Order from McMillan Publications, 9968 West 70th Place, Arvada, CO 80004-1622; 800/344-1106;
www.mcmil
lanpublications.com. The Minnesota Rail Calendar 2014 from
the Northstar Railway Historical Socie- ty features a dozen large color photos of rail- roading past and present in the North Star State. Subjects include a BNSF Railway track inspection train crossing the Kettle River bridge near Sandstone; a pair of BNSF SD40-2s passing a Griswold crossing signal at Hibbing; a brilliant red Minnesota Com- mercial B398E; a Chicago & North Western SD40-2 at Tower CK in Winona; a Chicago Great Western RS2 on a C&NW transfer at Hoffman Ave. in St. Paul; Amtrak SDP40F’s leading the North Coast Hiawatha in Min- neapolis;
a Minneapolis, Northfield &
Southern Baldwin DT 6-6-2000 on a trans- fer
Member price $795
14 great photos plus
$4.25 s&h Visit us online at
US Funds Only each additional calendar
at Burlington Northern’s Northtown
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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yard; Metro Transit light rail vehicles in two paint schemes; Soo Line 0-6-0 running at the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Re- union at Rollag; a North Shore Mining ore train behind a trio of six-motor EMD’s at Toimi; Twin Cities Rapid Transit car 1300 at the Minnesota Transportation Museum; and a set of C&NW SD9s on a cold winter day at New Richland. Each calendar spread in- cludes a second photo that’s relevant to the main image, along with a detailed caption for each. The calendar folds out to 14″×22″ and sells for $22.50 postpaid to Minnesota addresses or $21.50 to addresses outside the state. Order from Minnesota Rail Calendar, Northstar Railway Historial Society, P.O. Box 120832, New Brighton, MN 55112 or
www.MnRailCal.com.
The 2014 calendar from the New York Central System Historical Society fea-
tures 11 well-printed b&w photos and four in color. Color subjects include a pair of clean lightning stripe E8s arriving at Sturgis, Mich., with an excursion; three clean pas- senger GP7s, also in stripes, with the James Whitcomb Riley arriving in Indianapolis, Ind.; a pair of lightning stripe F7s about to pass under the huge wooden coaling tower at Greensburg, Ind.; and P2b electric No. 224 at Harmon, N.Y. B&W subjects include a J1e Hudson on a passenger local at West Lafayette, Ind.; F-M H20-44 at Collinwood, Ohio; H10a Mikado on freight; a pair of Baldwin Sharks at Huron, Ohio; a Boston & Albany J2 Hudson doubleheading with an NYC L3a Mohawk at Chatham, N.Y.; Niaga- ra No. 6007 on display alongside EMD’s Train of Tomorrow E7 at the 1948 Chicago Railroad Fair; diesel tugboat No. 34 in New York Harbor; Hudson 5405 at Harmon, N.Y.; a Niagara on the Commodore Vanderbilt at Oscawanna, N.Y.; and an A-B-A set of Bald- win DR6-4-1500s on freight. The calendar folds out to 11″×17″ and sells for $11.00 postpaid from New York Central System Historical Society, Inc., Dept. R, 17038 Roo- sevelt Ave., Lockport, IL 60441-4734. Ohio residents add sales tax.
The 2014 calendar from the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society features 13 color and b&w photos. Color sub- jects include an SW1500 pulling sugar hop- pers on Delaware Ave.
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Penn.; an MP15 and SW1500 at the New St. Nicholas Breaker in Duncott, Penn.; a single GP35 pulling a Bee Line Service train at Douglasville, Penn.; two GP39-2s and a U30C leading coal at Rutherford, Penn.; Reading to Newberry Junction train RN16 at Tamaqua Tunnel behind EMD and GE power; a GP7 with two cabooses on a coal train
at Abrams Yard near Bridgeport,
Penn.; C630 No. 5310 leading two EMD’s on train PN-21 at Webster, Penn. B&W images include a Reading traveling crane loading a ship at Port Richmond in Philadelphia; a pair of F-M Train Masters in Allentown, Penn.; an EMD-repowered Baldwin switch- er with train at Lewisburg, Penn.; and Bald- win DS 4-4-1000 at Pottstown, Penn. The calendar folds out to 11″×17″ and sells for $12.00 plus $2.25 shipping from RCT&HS, P.O. Box 15143, Reading, PA 19612-5143;
www.readingrailroad.org. PA residents add sales tax.
The 2014 calendar from the Penn Cen- tral Railroad Historical Society features a dozen color photos of this black & white railroad. Subjects include an SD9 and GP30 under the wires at Browns Yard in South Amboy, N.J.; a shiny GG1 on the New York & Long Branch Raritan River bridge at South Amboy, N.J.; an SW1 switching Delaware & Hudson and New York Central coaches at Albany/Rensselaer, N.Y.; GP35 No. 2385 with a red “P” logo leading an NYC GP40 on freight; E40 electric (a former New Haven EP5) on freight at Spotswood, N.J.; a pair of Metropolitan Transportation Author- ity blue-and-yellow FL9s pulling commuters at Katonah, N.Y.; U33C No. 6557 and an SD45, both with red “P” logos, on freight coming off the Delair Bridge near Frankford Junction, Penn.; C636 No. 6337 leading a
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