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Ride the Big Red Cars by Spencer Crump (W 26)

Gene Harmon — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:08:52 +0000

This is the history of how Pacific Electric built Southern California. The 75,000 word text with more than 200 illustrations, maps, rosters and an index. This book was published by Trans-Anglo Books in 1962 (3rd edition -revised) and is in like-new condition with a paper jacket.

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Some Classic Trains by Arthur Dubin (W-29)

Gene Harmon — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:44:06 +0000

Published by Kalmbach Books in 1966 (second printing), Arthur Dubin produced a history of many famous name trains in 433 pages with many photos and indepth descriptions of these trains. Ranging from the 20th Century, Merchants Limited, Florida Special, North Western Limited, Route of the Rockets, North Coast Limited, and The Overland Limited, among many others are described in detail. The book is in used condition with an edge worn jacket.

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The A Norfolk & Western’s Mercedes of Steam Revised & Expanded Edition by Ed King (W 29)

Gene Harmon — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:05:00 +0000

This is the 2009 2nd printing of this popular book 212 page book has both 20 color and over 200 B&W images, an index, and three appendices. The N&W built 43 of these powerful 2-6-6-2 locomotives between 1936 and 1950 in their Roanoke shops. Test results and compariosns with other locomotives are included. The book is in like-new condition with a paper jacket which has some edge wear.

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Historic Railroads by Rupert Sargent Holland (JD)

Gene Harmon — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 18:30:27 +0000

Holland, Rupert Sargent, Historic Railroads, 1927. Book is boxed; box has a dramatic color cover image of a locomotive in winter. A 1963 house fire deposited soot on part of the box cover and other areas of it, but the book itself was protected and has no soot. Jacket is a parchment-like patterned paper with some age-darkening and small tears. The book has a sound binding with no damage or shelf wear. Endpapers and title page have stylized color images of railroads and industry. 343 pages.

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Colorado Rail Annual #19 edited by Cornelius Hauck (JD)

Gene Harmon — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 20:34:59 +0000

Hauck, Cornelius W., Managing Editor, Colorado Rail Annual Number Nine, 1971. Sound binding, plastic cover on jacket; some edge wear and spine fading on the jacket.

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Silver Short Line by Ted Wurm and Harre Demoro (JD)

Gene Harmon — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 20:22:37 +0000

Wurm, Ted and Demoro, Harre, The Silver Short Line – A History of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, first edition, 1983. Sound binding, jacket intact with light shelf wear.

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Sisters of the Iron Road by Shirley Burman (W 27)

Gene Harmon — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 21:56:17 +0000

Long anticipated and many years in the making, “Sisters of the Iron Road” is the first book that completely examines the women who have kept America’s railroads rolling for more than a century. There are personal stories and striking photography spanning more than a half century.

Author Shirley Burman has drawn upon more than four decades of studying and photographing women railroaders to present their unique story. She begins with women’s contributions to the early development of railroads, continuing through two world wars that gave women their first significant opportunities to handle traditional “man’s jobs” . . . and their slow but steady fight for equality in a challenging, dirty, but rewarding railroad environment.

Burman has uncovered fascinating stories of women who overcame the odds and endured overwhelming hardship, including sexism, but ultimately proved their resilience, strength and ingenuity. Burman never loses sight of their pride, their dignity, and above all, their colorful personalities. Her photographer’s eye has helped her assemble a rich collection of historic rail women portraits made both trackside and aboard trains, complete with her own dynamic pictures.

From engineers, brakemen, and conductors to clerks, machinists, and laborers from bridge tender operators and yard masters to administrative assistants and management, Shirley Burman tells their inspiring stories in this beautiful 289 page hardcover book.

New Book

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Colorado Rail Annual #13 1976 (JD)

Gene Harmon — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 21:23:54 +0000

Colorado Rail Annual No. 13, Florence & Cripple Creek RR, 1976. Clear plastic cover over paper jacket. Sound binding; jacket has some shelf wear but no fading.

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Ships and Narrow Gauge Rails by Gerald Best (JD)

Gene Harmon — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 21:20:34 +0000

Best, Gerald M., Ships and Narrow Gauge Rails, The Story of The Pacific Coast Company, 1964. Jacket intact, some shelf wear, some fading along spine.

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Narrow Gauge Railways in America; signed by the compilers and editor, limited edition (JD)

Gene Harmon — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 21:16:44 +0000

Fleming, Howard, Narrow Gauge Railways in America, first edition, 1949. 5-1/2 by 9 inches. Sound binding, light wear on dust jacket. A 1963 house fire covered the jacket’s spine and page edges with soot; front and back covers and page surfaces are unsooted. This is a facsimile reproduction of the 1875 book by Fleming. It was published in 1949 by Grahame Hardy. Editors were Hardy and Paul Darrell. The facsimile has 101 pages and numerous illustrations. Brian Thompson compiled a comprehensive 21-page directory of American NG railroads 1875-1949. A page before the title page reads as follows: “This is number 516 of a limited edition of nine hundred and fifty copies, signed by the compilers and printed by El Camino Press on El Camino Real in September 1949.” Below this are Hardy, Darrell, and Thompson’s original ink signatures. Cover, endpaper, and spot illustrations are by rail artist E.S. Hammack.

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