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A History of Union Pacific Steam ...................................39.75 A Mill on the Point: 125 Years of Steel Making at Sparrows Point, MD ..........................27.75


A Trip by Rail in the Shenandoah Valley on the B&O RR and Southern Ry................................55.75 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 Power in Color Vol 1...........................................48.75 Baldwin: Fifty Years at Eddystone Book 1: 1906-1939 ...25.75 Baltimore & Ohio Pacific Locos- Handsome Pass. Workhorses.27.75 Baltimore & Ohio Rails Across the Heartland Toledo to Cincinnati.55.75 Baltimore & Ohio Vol 2 Sunburst Trail to Chicago ..........40.75 Bangor & Aroostook Stations & Structures ....................32.75 Big Hooks – Railway Cranes..........................................36.75 Billboard Refrigerator Cars.............................................56.50 Budd Passenger Cars Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 7 ........each 25.00 Burlington Northern RR Branch Lines The Nebraska Experience.27.75 Canadian Pacific’s Esquimalt & Nanaimo Ry – H/C.......45.75 Canadian National Steam Vol s/c...................................45.75 Cass Scenic Railroad – 50 Years a State Park ..............55.75 Chesapeake & Ohio Coal River District .........................23.75 Chesapeake & Ohio K-4 Class 2-8-4 Steam Locos.......23.75 Chesapeake & Ohio Passenger Service 1847-1971......32.75 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 Delaware & Hudson RR Corp Equipment Dept Freight Car Diagrams 1976...............34.50 Delaware & Hudson RR Corp Equipment Dept Locomotive Classification 1946.........34.50 Diesel’s First 50 Years ....................................................74.75 Durango & Silverton – Furukawa ...................................45.50 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 in Color Vol 1 Eastern Subdivision.....48.75 Empire Development of Timber Industry in Tuolumne Co., CA...55.75 Erie Lackawanna Power in Color Vol 1...........................48.75 Extra Narrow Gauge Junction – Maine 2ft .....................55.75 Gateway Yard – Youngstown, Ohio – Pittsburgh & Lake Erie...60.00 Ghost Rails Vol 9 State Line Legends-Ohio/PA Industrial Lines..36.75 Ghost Rails Vol 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 Great Northern Railway Route of the Empire Builder ....34.75 Great Northern Ry Steam & Electric Loco Diagrams 1946...34.50 Harriman vs Hill – Wall Street’s Great Railroad War ......27.75 Heisler Locomotive 1891-1941 – Reprint s/c .................36.75 Interstate RR History of an Appalachian Coal Road......38.75 Joint Line -1880-1995 ....................................................40.75 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 River Valley Trackside with Kulp .........................48.75 Lehigh Valley Railroad A Photo Album...........................45.50 Logging Locomotives of the West ..................................32.75 Logging RRs of the Blue Ridge & Smoky Mts V1 50.50; V2...44.75 Long Island Railroad in Color Volume 1, 2, 3 or 4 each.48.75 Maybrook Gateway – H/C ..............................................53.75 Merchants Despatch ......................................................60.75 Milwaukee Road Locomotives Vol 2, 3, 4 or 5 each.......55.75 Missouri-Kansas-Texas in Color Vol 2 The Red Era.......48.75 Modeling the White Pass................................................32.75


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I am the Train –Boston & Maine Locomotive Engineer ..58.00 Lackawanna R Passenger Equipment Floorplans 1941 34.50 Lehigh Valley Diesel Pictorial ........................................23.75 Lehigh Valley RR Diagrams of Engines & Tenders 1934.....34.50 Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States ....48.50 London Underground Manual ........................................32.75 Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Railroad ..................36.75 Maine Central Railroad Freight Car Class Book 1971 ...34.50 Maine Central RR Loco Diagrams 1923,1924,1947,1956 ...34.50 Milwaukee Road Power in Color Vol 1............................48.75 Milwaukee Road Power in Color Vol 2............................48.75 Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern ...............................50.75 Morristown & Erie Locos & Cabooses 1895-1998 .........32.75 Narrow Gauge to the San Juans....................................50.75 Nevada’s Virginia & Truckee Railroad – Arcadia ............21.50


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