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100 Years of Canadian Railway Recipes .............................28.50 72-82 Western Pacific’s Final Decade .................................75.50 Akron, Canton & Youngstown and Akron & Barberton Belt in Color..48.75 American Steel Industry 1850-1970 – A Geographic Interpretation..25.75 Baldwin: Fifty Years at Eddystone Book 1: 1906-1939.........25.75 Billboard Refrigerator Cars ..................................................56.50 Brix Logging Story In the Woods of Washington & Oregon .28.75 Budd Passenger Cars Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 7 .............each 25.00 Burlington Northern Historical Review 1970-95...................55.75 Burlington Northern Power in Color Vol 1, 2 or 3 each ........48.75 Burlington Northern RR Branch Lines The Nebraska Experience.....27.75 Canadian National Railways Diesel Locomotives Vol 2 .......54.75 Canadian National Steam Vol 2 – 8 each ............................27.75 Carolina Short Lines in Color Vol 1......................................48.75 Central Illinois Rails Vol 2 1950s-1970s...............................55.75 Chesapeake & Ohio E7 and E8 Diesel Passenger Locomotives ......23.75 Chesapeake & Ohio Paint Creek Subdivision......................23.75 Chesapeake & Ohio Tunnels ...............................................23.75 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Facilities in Color Vol 1 or 2 each.........48.75 Chicago & North Western Power 1963-1995 in Color V1 or 2 each..48.75 Clinch Valley Norfolk & Western District Line.......................32.75 Colorado & Southern #9 One Short Season .......................27.75 Conrail Central Region in Color Vol 1 ..................................48.75 Conrail Power in Color Vol 1: 1000-3999 .............................48.75 Cumbres & Toltec – A Photographic Tribute ........................45.50 Delaware & Hudson Bridge Line Freight Vol 2.....................70.75 Dereco (EL & D&H 1968-72) in Color..................................48.75 Diesel Demonstrators ..........................................................50.75 Diesel’s First 50 Years..........................................................74.75 Durango & Silverton – Furukawa.........................................45.50 EMD SD70 Class Vol 1........................................................36.75 Encyclopedia of B&O Cabooses Vol 1 or 2 each.................38.75 Florida East Coast Railway in Color ....................................48.75 Franklin Co. Narrow Gauge Next Stop is Rangeley – Maine NG......50.75 Franklin County Narrow Gauge Vol 2 Next Stop is Phillips..50.75 From Nickel to Token-Journey from Board of Transportation to MTA..32.75 General Electric 70 Ton Diesel Locomotives .......................34.75 Ghost Rails Vol 10 – Iron Phantoms – Jones & Laughlin ....55.75 Ghost Rails Vol 11 – Sharon Steel, Erie, NYC.....................60.00 Great Northern Ry Steam & Electric Loco Diagrams 1946.......34.50 Heisler Locomotive 1891-1941 – Reprint s/c.......................36.75 Historical Guide to North American Railroads 3rd Edition...23.75 Hollywood’s Railroads Vol 3 Narrow Gauge Country...........23.75 Interstate Railroad History of an Appalachian Coal Road ...38.75 Iowa Route – Hist of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Ry...70.75 Jersey Central Facilities in Color Vol 1.................................48.75 Just A Short Line-Story of the Rahway Valley RR Vol1 50.75; V2 ..55.75 L&N Cumberland Valley Division Album 1945-1985............27.75 Lackawanna Plant Bethlehem Steel Co Ore to Iron to Finished Steel ..27.00


American Streamliner – Post War Years ..............................42.75 Anthracite Collieries and RRs of the Western Middle Field .60.75 Bangor & Aroostook Stations & Structures..........................32.75 Buckets, Flanges & Black Diamonds- Mining & Moving Coal in PA..55.75 Canadian Pacific’s Esquimalt & Nanaimo Ry – H/C ............45.75 Chicagoland Commuter Railroads.......................................30.50 Conrail in Color Vol 1 ...........................................................48.75 Dayton & Troy Electric Railway ............................................20.75 Historic Journeys by Rail – CNJ Structures & Marine Equipment......19.50 Inland Empire Electric Line – Spokane & Inland Empire RR......36.50 Kansas City Street Scenes..................................................19.50 Lehigh & New England A Color Retrospect.........................40.75 Lehigh Valley Railroad – New York Division.........................45.75 Lehigh Valley Railroad – Wyoming & Buffalo Divisions........60.75 Lehigh Valley Selected Facilities NY Harbor Region ...........27.75 Lehigh Valley Selected Facilities Vol 2 West to Packerton Yard............27.75 Making Connections – Ironton RR.......................................60.75 Michigan Rail Disasters 1900-1940 S/C 19.50; H/C............27.75 Narrow Gauge to Boston .....................................................19.50 New York Central RR Stations & Structures V1 23.75; V2 or 3 each.27.75 Norfolk & Western Steam Pictorial.......................................27.75 Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet ..........................................27.75 Railroad in the Sky – Bodie Railway & Lumber Co..............27.75 Rails Across Central New Jersey.........................................20.75 Rails Around Reading in Color ............................................36.75 Rails Around South Jersey Vol 1 .........................................19.50 Rails of Western Pennsylvania Vol 1....................................19.50 Reading Railroad Mighty Pacifics ........................................36.75 Reading Railroad Wreck Trains & Disasters ........................40.75 Reading Station Pictorial Lines G-M....................................19.50 Shortlines of New Jersey Vol 1 or 2 each ...........................23.75 Shortlines of New Jersey Vol 1 & 2 Ltd Ed H/C ...................45.75 Southern Pacific Lines Across Texas & Louisiana ...............82.75 Spokane International Railway – Steam in Action...............27.75 Wheeling & Lake Erie The East End....................................45.75


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Alaska Railroad in Color Vol 1 .............................................48.75 All Aboard the Wonderful World of Disney Trains.................45.75 Atlanta & West Point, Western Railway of Alabama & Georgia Railroad Equipment Diagrams ..........34.50 Canadian Pacific Color Guide to Frt & Pass Vol 2 ...............48.75 Canadian Pacific The Golden Age of Travel.........................40.75 Capital Streetcars Early Mass Transit in Washington DC ....21.50 Chesapeake & Ohio Allegheny 2-6-6-6 A Retrospective.....32.75 Chesapeake & Ohio Mountain Type Locomotives ...............23.75 Chessie System in Color .....................................................48.75 Chicago & Eastern Illinois V1 Locos & Pass. Car Drawings 1961.....34.50 Chicago & Eastern Illinois Vol 2 Freight Car Diagrams........34.50 Chicago & North Western Power in Color Vol 3...................48.75 Chicago & North Western: The 400 Club – Presidential F Units.........27.75 Chicago Streetcar Pictorial The PCC Car Era 1936-1958...65.75 Classic Railroad Signals ......................................................32.75 Conrail Central Region in Color Vol 2 ..................................48.75 Conrail, Frisco & Southern RR Business Cars ....................29.50 Conrail Under Pennsy Wires Vol 2.......................................48.75 Conrail’s North Jersey Line..................................................23.75 Contemporary Diesel Spotter’s Guide Update 2008-2015 ..32.75 CSX in Action.......................................................................27.75 Dominion Atlantic Railway 1894-1994 .................................23.75 Elkin & Alleghany Railway Revisited....................................19.50 EMD SD70 Class Vol 2........................................................36.75 Freight Cars of the ‘40s & ‘50s.............................................20.75 German Railway Gun 28cm K5(E) Leopold.........................38.75 Ghost Rails Vol 12 Seamless, Babcock & Wilcox ................60.00 GM&O The Alton Route in Color Vol 2.................................48.75 Heckman’s Canadian Pacific – A Photographic Journey.....55.75 Hiawatha – Nothing Faster on Rails ..................................100.00 Hollywood’s Railroads Vol 1 Virginia & Truckee ...................23.75 Illustrated Atlas of Maine’s Street & Electric Railway 1863-1946.....40.00 James J Hill’s Legacy to Railway Operations ......................38.75 Jersey Central Power in Color Vol 1.....................................48.75 Lake Superior & Ishpeming RR in Color Vol 1.....................48.75 Lehigh Valley Diesel Pictorial ..............................................23.75 Lost Steel Plants of the Monongahela River Valley .............22.50 Mine to Mill – History of Great Lakes Iron Trade- Sault Ste Marie – Lower Lakes..........................................27.75 Mines Around Silverton – Arcadia .......................................21.50 Missouri-Kansas-Texas RR Pass. & Freight Car Diagrams 1950s ...34.50 Monon RR Passenger & Freight Car Diagrams 1940s-60s ...34.50 New York Central in the Adirondacks...................................45.75 Nobody Walks Now-A-Days - Merrill Railway & Lighting Co (WI)...27.75


Lehigh Valley Railroad A Photo Album ................................45.50 Logging Along the Moose River – Story of Victory Branch RR.....23.75 Logging RRs of the Blue Ridge & Smoky Mtns V1 50.50; V2 ....44.75 Maybrook Gateway – H/C....................................................53.75 Merchants Despatch............................................................60.75 Milwaukee Road Power Vol 1, 2 or 3 each...........................48.75 Mine to Mill – History of Great Lakes Iron Trade – Iron Ranges –Sault Ste Marie ...........................................27.75 Modeling the White Pass .....................................................32.75 Morristown & Erie Vol 2 Service is Our Business 1952-1982.....45.75 Newburgh, NY and the Erie .................................................33.75 New Orleans Fabulous Streetcars .......................................24.75 Norfolk & Western Steam Last 30 Years ..............................27.75 Norfolk & Western’s Clinch Valley Line ................................60.75 Norfolk Southern Heritage Locos One Year Later S/C.........45.75 Northern Pacific Engines of Growth 1887-1905 ..................60.75 Pennsy RR 1939 Passenger Consists Vol 1 or 2 each ........34.50 Pennsylvania Railroad Harbor Facilities ..............................27.00 Pennsylvania RR Volume 1: Building an Empire 1846-1917 .....70.75 Pennsylvania Railroad’s Cleveland Docks ...........................27.00 Pittsburg & Shawmut in Color..............................................48.75 Pittsburgh Trolleys in Color Vol 2..........................................48.75 Pullman Std. Library Vol 1 -50.50;Vol 8, 9 or 12 - 16 each ..25.00 Railroad Atlas of No. America: GLE; GLW; 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 Vol 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 ea.....65.75 Railroad Critters in Color Vol 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 each.................48.75 Railroading on the Wabash Fourth District ..........................36.75 Railroads and Trolleys of Amherst, MA ...............................27.75 Railway Prototype Cyc. Vol 10 - 14 @ 23.50; Vol 15 or 16, @ 26.50; Vol 19, 28 or 29 @ ........................28.50


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Norfolk & Western in Ohio – Scioto Division 1890-1930......32.75 Norfolk & Western Steam Pictorial.......................................27.75 Norfolk Southern Color Pictorial 1950’s-1970’s ...................52.75 Norfolk Southern in Action...................................................27.75 Overland Route Passenger Trains .......................................65.75 Pavonia Yard & Shops..........................................................19.50 Pictorial History of the C&O Train and Auto Ferries & Pere Marquette Steamers..................................30.00 Railroad Photographs of Jack Delano .................................55.75 Railroad Postcards of Yellowstone – Arcadia.......................22.50 RR Visions Steam Era Images from Trains Magazine Archives.......55.75 Railroaders Without Borders – Hist of the RR Development Corp....40.75 Rails Across the Rock – Newfoundland Railway – H/C.......28.75 Rails Around the Rock – Newfoundland Branchlines – H/C 28.75 Rails in Rochester & Monroe County (NY) – Arcadia..........21.50 Rails to the Atlantic-Exploring Ry Heritage of Quebec & the Maritimes...27.75 Railway Prototype Cyclopedia Vol 30 ..................................28.50 Reading Company Facilities in Color Vol 2 North of Philly...48.75 Rio Grande Narrow Gauge in Color Vol 2............................48.75 Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes RR & Predecessors Equip Vol 4 ....55.75 Santa Fe Across the Great Plains – Photography of Lee Berglund ..40.75 Served by London’s Trolleybuses.........................................62.00 Service With Courtesy The Story of the Durham & Southern Ry.......24.50 Shortlines of the Desert Southwest .....................................55.75 Silver Rails – The Railroads of Leadville, Colorado.............55.75 Southern Oregon Timber – The Kenneth Ford Family Legacy...21.50 Southern Pacific Along the Pacific Coast.............................70.75 Southern Pacific Business Cars ........................................130.00 Southern Pacific Trackside at Transition...............................70.75 Southern Pacific’s Eastern Lines 1946-1996.......................65.75 Southern Railway Power in Color Vol 1................................48.75 SP Vol 43 Majestic Coast Line Pictorial LA to Santa Cruz...26.50 Steel From Mine to Mill the Metal that Made America .........32.75 Steel Road Nostalgia Vol 1 The Northeast ..........................36.75 The Tower to Bispham – Blackpool Tramway Since 1960 Vol 2...62.00 Tracks of the New York Subway 2015 Edition ......................40.00 Trackside Around Newport News w/Friedhaber...................48.75 Virginia Blue Ridge Railroad................................................21.50 Virginian Railway Memories ................................................54.75 West Florida Rails in Color Vol 3 Bone Valley Phosphate....48.75 Western Maryland Railway – Arcadia..................................21.50 Western Pacific Power in Color............................................48.75 X Car (Private Owner) Color Guide Vol 2 ............................48.75 You Can’t Beat the Train - Highway Rail Grade Crossing Safety..19.50


Southern Pacific Through Passenger Service in Color........48.75 Southern Pacific’s Sacramento Shops.................................80.75 Speedliners- Milwaukee Road’s Hiawatha Steam Locos.....27.75 Spokane International Railway – Idaho’s Main Line to Canada.45.75 Steel Making – Cleveland District Plants – Republic Steel ..27.00 Steel Mill Railroads in Color Vol 2, 4, 5 or 6 each................48.75 Steel Rails Across East Carolina.........................................39.75 Steelton Plant – Bethlehem Steel Company........................27.00 Strasburg Rail Road in Color...............................................48.75 Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad – Nevada Short Line...........55.75 Trackside in the Maritimes 1967-1993 w/Linley ...................48.75 Twilight & Dawn on the East Broad Top 1945-1965.............25.75 Union Pacific Big Boys in Action..........................................23.75 Union Pacific Northwest – Revised & Expanded Edition .....80.75 Union Pacific’s M-10000 and the Early Streamliner Era 1934-1941..70.75 Vancouver Island’s Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway – H/C....45.75 Virginian Rails 1953-1993....................................................45.75 Waynesburg & Washington Railroad Second Number 4 .....25.75 West Virginia RRs –Vol 2 C&O, 3 B&O, 4 VGN, or 5 Logging @ ...27.75 Western Maryland Railway Final O.S. (On Sheet)...............45.75 Wilfred Sykes The Story of a Modern Ore Boat...................27.00 X Car (Private Owner) Color Guide Vol 1 ............................48.75


Remember the Sussex Branch of the Lackawanna RR – H/C........40.75 Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac Linking North & South............38.75 Rio Grande Heart of the Rockies.........................................75.50 Roads, Rivers & Rails Vol 2 D&H Oneonta to Binghamton..70.75 Rock Down, Coal Up The Story of the Quincy & Torch Lake RR......23.75 Santa Fe Railway Diesel Loco Painting & Lettering Guide ..65.75 Soldiers in the Woods-US Army’s Spruce Production Div in WW1...54.75 Soo Line Remembered........................................................55.75 Southern Pacific & The Krauss Maffei Hydraulics................70.75 Southern Pacific Hist Diesels V20 Pass Cab Units Reprise ......35.75 Southern Pacific Ten-Coupled Locomotives ........................80.75


Southern Pacific Passenger Trains Consists & Cars ...........60.00 Southern Railway’s Spencer Shops.....................................60.00 Steam-Liners- Streamlined Steam.......................................60.00 Steel Rails to the Sunrise ....................................................25.00 The Search for Safety (Signals)...........................................60.00 TM –Milwaukee Electrics ...................................................100.00 Two Divisions to Blue Water.................................................75.00 U-Boats................................................................................95.00 Under Pennsy Wires ............................................................85.00 Union Pacific Diesel Vol 1 Dieselization...............................85.00 Union Pacific’s Central Division Hub- Marysville .................95.00 United States Military Railway Service ................................40.00 Victorian Stations of Long Island .........................................60.00 Virginia Railway Depots.......................................................25.00 Walt Disney’s Railroad.......................................................100.00 Warbonnets .......................................................................100.00 West Penn Traction ..............................................................75.00 Western Maryland Steam Album.......................................100.00 Western Pacific Pictorial ....................................................175.00 Zephyr Through the Rockies H/C.........................................75.00


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