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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
THIS WILL BE THE LAST CALENDAR CALL for the 2014 season. If you publish a rail-orient- ed 2015 calendar we’ll be happy to mention it here next fall, 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 including a mailing address, web address, retail price, and all applicable charges including shipping and sales tax. The Long Island — Sunrise Trail Chapter NRHS 2014 calendar features a dozen b&w and color images of the Long Is- land Rail Road past and present, plus a full- color cover. Subjects include MP54C m.u. cars at Hollis, N.Y.; Ten-Wheeler No. 143 on the Morris Park turntable; the LIRR car float bridges at Long Island City; GE 25-ton shop switcher No. 397; N5 cabin car No. 1; Alco S1 No. 418 at Long Island City; Penn- sylvania Railroad E6s 4-4-2 No. 198 at speed; the operator at PD Tower hooping up orders to the crew of DE30AC No. 402; a post-Hurricane Sandy push-pull set cross- ing the Reynolds Channel drawbridge; and M7 m.u. cars in the snow at Mineola. The calendar folds out to 11″×17″ and sells for $15.15 postpaid including tax to New York addresses or $13.95 postpaid to non-New York addresses. Order from LIST-NRHS, P.O. Box 507, Babylon, NY 11702-0507;
www.nrhs-list.org.
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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The 2014 calendar from the Monon Rail- road Historical-Technical Society fea- tures the photography of Monon operator Joe Bennett. Two color photos feature red-and- gray F3s, one set shown shortly after deliv- ery on a Pullman green Louisville passenger train. B&W subjects include black and gold F3s on freight at Wallace Junction, Ind.; Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville 4-6-0 No. 107 pulling a train of wooden passenger cars at Smithville, Ind., in the 1920s; an as-deliv- ered RS2; a J2 Mikado near Harrodsburg; Mikado No. 551 meeting new freight F3s at Gosport; an overview of McDoel Yard shot from the coaling tower; a possible self-por- trait of J.F. Bennett in the McDoel yard of- fice; EMD’s FT 103 demonstrator set on freight at Bloomington; the GM-Pullman Train of Tomorrow at Harrodsburg; and Clear Creek station in the 1920s. The calen- dar sells for $10.00 plus shipping from Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Socie- ty, Inc., P.O. Box 6926, Bloomington, IN 47407-6926;
www.monon.org. IN residents add sales tax.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Death Rides the Zephyr by Janet Dawson is a new mystery available from Persever- ance Press. We don’t often mention fiction in these pages, but this book has a sharper rail focus than most, with the action taking place aboard the California Zephyr on its run between Oakland and Denver around Christmastime in 1952. The story is related through the voice of fictional Zephyrette Jill McLeod, whose character was developed through interviews with retired Zephyr- ettes. Dawson also has a good eye for opera-
tional detail and the physical characteristics of the equipment, having ridden a Budd- built sleeping car through the Feather River Canyon on ex-WP rails and examined for- mer Zephyr equipment belonging to Rail Journeys West and the Western Pacific Rail- road Museum. Death Rides the Zephyr is an entertaining tale of spies, counterspies, and intrigue which also captures nuances of a transcontinental train trip in the early ’50s. The 232-page softcover sells for $15.95 from Perseverance Press/John Daniel & Co., P.O. Box 2790, McKinleyville, CA 95519; 800/ 662-8351;
www.danielpublishing.com. Star Publishing has released The One &
Only by A.J. Peoples and Mark A. Stevens, the story of Clinchfield Railroad 4-6-0 No. 1, a diminutive fan trip icon from the 1970s. This horizontal format, 148-page 11″×8¹/₂″ hardcover tells the story of the 1882-built Ten-Wheeler from its days as a workaday lo- comotive on the Black Mountain Railroad in North Carolina through its rebirth as Clinchfield’s (and later Family Lines’) excur- sion ambassador to its retirement in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum in Maryland. The book tells of the “nearly 42- ton” locomotive’s construction as Chicago & Indiana Central No. 423 and its various owners and renumberings through its first purchase by the Clinchfield in 1908, then the Black Mountain in 1913, its repurchase by the Clinchfield in 1955, its sale to the city of Erwin, Tenn., for display, and its final re- acquisition by CRR in 1968. 18 pages are de- voted to No. 1’s tenure in regular service on the Black Mountain, when it would occa- sionally journey to Clinchfield’s Erwin shops for repairs, and the other epochs in the loco- motive’s history are also well-covered. The engine’s excursion travels, at first confined to the Clinchfield but later extending as far as Florida under Family Lines auspices, are well-documented, including the Clinchfield Santa Train and two whistlestop campaign trips for Senator Howard Baker. The story is interesting and well-written and accompa- nied by a fine selection of b&w and color photos. The book sells for $29.95 plus $5.00 shipping from Star Publishing, 300 Syca- more St., P.O. Box 1960, Elizabethton, TN 37644-1960; 423/542-4151. TN residents add sales tax.
Heimburger House Publishing has re-
leased Garratt Locomotives, a softcover reprint of the 1925 Beyer, Peacock & Co. cat- alog. Between 1855 and 1966 in Manchester, England, Beyer-Peacock built nearly 8000 of its unique, twin-engine Garratt patent steam locomotives, with their boilers slung between two sets of drivers which carried water and fuel. While they never caught on in North America, Garratts were used by railroads around the world in a wide variety of sizes and track gauges and in wheel arrangements as large as 4-8-2+2-8-4. This catalog shows locomotives from Argentine North-Eastern; Burma Railroad; Indian State Railway; London & North Eastern; London, Midland & Scottish; Rhodesia Rail- ways, South African Railways, and Victorian Government Railways, among others which include industrial users. While most exhibit non-North American features, some, such as
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