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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 Merchants Despatch ......................................................60.75 Milwaukee Road Locos Vol 2 or 3 each 55.50 V4 ..........55.75 Milwaukee Road Thru Passenger Service Vol 1 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 Montana Central Ry: Copper, Coal and the Empire Builder ...23.75 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 Norfolk Southern Passenger Equip Diagrams 1985.......29.50 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 Pacific Locomotives- Handsome Passenger Workhorses..............................27.75 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 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 Electric Traction Along the Stillwater – Dayton Covington & Piqua.22.75 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 the Operating Dept ....................23.75


Allen Keller Vol 54 Hoover’s Santa Fe............................35.00 Allen Keller Vol 59 Allen Keller .......................................35.00 Allen Keller Vol 65 David Trussel’s Oregon, Calif. & Eastern Pt 2.35.00 Black 5 – Adventures in Backyard Railroading...............24.00 Black 5 – Berkshire Flyer ...............................................20.00 Black 5 – Capitol Limited – New England Southern ......20.00 Black 5 – Potomac Narrows – CSX................................20.00 Goodheart – Winter Daylight ..........................................20.00 Herron – American Standard 4-4-0................................36.75 Herron – Grand Canyon Steam Spectacle.....................36.75 Herron – Pennsylvania Glory Machines Vol 1 ................36.75 Herron – Reflections of American Railroading ..............36.75 Herron – Streetcars of River City (Louisville, KY) ..........27.75 Wayne Freed – Above the Hickory Creek -NYC.............24.00 Wayne Freed – Adirondack Scenic RR Special Excursions....24.00


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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 A Trip by Rail in the Shenandoah Valley on the B&O RR and Southern Ry................................55.75 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 RR 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 Chesapeake & Ohio Passenger Service 1847-1971......32.75 Clinchfield Railroad Co Freight Equipment 1980 ...........29.50 Columbia, Newberry & Laurens RR – Dutch Fork Line..34.75 Conrail Loco Classification Book January 1, 1978.........34.50 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


Erie Lackawanna Power in Color Vol 1...........................48.75 Erie Locomotive Diagrams 1928....................................34.50 Expansion of Norfolk & Western Ry to include the NKP, Wabash..27.00 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 Great Northern Ry Passenger Car Diagrams 1952 .......34.50 Harriman vs Hill – Wall Street’s Great Railroad War ......27.75 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 Louisville & Nashville Diesel Locos 1972, revised 1976 ......29.50


Denver & Rio Grande RR San Juan Ext-Wolf Creek Trestle 1883...27.00 El Camino Real and the Route of the Daylight...............36.75 Elgin Joliet & Eastern in Color Vol 1 Eastern Subdivision....48.75 Empire The Development of the Timber Industry in Tuolumne County, CA...............................................55.75


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 Ry Company Spencer Shops 1896-1960.......27.00 SP Narrow Gauge Loco and Freight Equipment ............80.75 Spokane International Ry – Idaho’s Main Line to Canada...45.75


Republic Steel-Corrigan, McKinney Works-Cleveland, Ohio ...60.00 Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac Linking North & South .38.75 Rio Grande-Chasing the Narrow Gauge-V1 or V2@ 52.50; V3 .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 Railroad Advertising Art ...........................85.75 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;V8-10 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 the United States V 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; 15, 16, 18 @ 26.50; 19, 25, 26 @................................28.50


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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 More Black Bear Tracks – Algoma Central.....................25.00 Morristown & Erie Vol 1 The Early Years 1895-1952......48.50 Nashville, Chattanooga & St Louis Passenger 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 North American Railroad Family Trees...........................36.75 Over the Alleghenies – Early Canals and Rs of Pennsy.....36.75 Penn Central Northeast Region Power Book August 1972..34.50 Penn Central Power in Color Vol 2 .................................48.75 Pennsylvania Railroad Harbor Facilities .........................27.00 Pennsylvania RR Inspection of Physical Property 1948....70.00 Pennsylvania RR Record of Transportation Lines 1940 ....30.00 Potomac Yard – Gateway Between the 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 Remember the Sussex Branch of the Lackawanna RR-H/C.....40.75 Rock Island Line ............................................................45.75 Rock Island Requiem .....................................................34.75 Routes Not Taken-Trip Thru NYC’s Unbuilt Subway System...32.75 Santa Fe Depots Engineering Series Vol 7 or 8 each....23.75 Santa Fe Loco Facilities V2 West End Western Lines....55.75 Santa Fe Los Angeles Division ......................................75.50 Southern Pacific Facilities in Color V1 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 Steam’s Last Season – A Portfolio of Steam Loco Photographs 1955-60.........65.75 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


St Paul Union Depot.......................................................36.75 Steam Locomotives of the Great Northern Railway .......55.75 Steel Mill Railroads in Color Vol 2, 3 or 4 each ..............48.75 Tank Cars Color Guide Vol 1 or 2 each..........................48.75 Trackside Around Pittsburgh 1985-2005 w/ Baer...........48.75 Train Wreck The Forensics of Rail Disasters..................27.75 Transit in the Triangle – A Century Look at Pittsburgh Public Transit.................60.75 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 Virginian Railway Heritage Trail......................................29.75 West Virginia Railroads –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 Maryland Ry Revenue Equipment: Gondolas..35.00 Wood & Steel Maintenance of Way Structures & Fixtures-O&W...23.75 Zephyr Rocket ................................................................36.75


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1871 Grant Loc Works Catalog Signed & #’ed...............70.00 Alaska/Yukon Railroad – Illustrated History ...................75.00 Backwoods Railroads of the West..................................50.00 Central New England Railway Story Vol 1....................275.00 Colorado on Glass .........................................................70.00 Connecticut River RRs & Connections Vol 2, 8 or 10 each..250.00 Denver & New Orleans –signed...................................175.00 Duluth Missabi & Iron Range in Color- Shrinkwrapped150.00 History, Making & Modeling of Steel ...........................100.00 Iron Mine Railroads of Northern New Jersey – H/C.....125.00 Milwaukee Road Narrow Gauge ...................................85.00 Monongahela Railway – History & Operation.................50.00 Narrow Gauge in Ohio ...................................................65.00 Narrow Gauge Nostalgia................................................65.00 Pacific Coast Shay .........................................................50.00 Railroads in Mexico Vol 1 .............................................150.00 Railroads of Arizona Vol 1 or 2 each............................150.00 Rails Sagebrush & Pine .................................................50.00 Ride the Sandy River .....................................................95.00 Shay Logging Locomotives at Cass, WV 1900-1968 .....75.00


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