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When Steam Ran on the Streets of San Francisco by Walter and Emiliano Echeverria Rice W-9A

Chip Savoye — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:47:12 +0000

A fascinating history for anyone interested in the evolution of urban transport. This is a detailed history of transit lines in San Francisco beginning with the first cable cars. I Before everybody owned cars, working people, tourists, and sometimes millionaires got around by public transport. Some of the details would be hilarious today, such as the effort to disguise steam locomotives as horse cars. Recommended as an entertaining and enlightening read.

Paperback

Good condition

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The Circus moves by Rail Parkinson Fox. W-9A

Chip Savoye — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:39:55 +0000

400 pages of the most colorful trains and railroad equipment of all time, from tiny two car circuses to the giants of the industry. This giant circus filled volume is the greatest compilation of photos, posters, text and data ever compiled on the transportation systems that made modern circuses possible. Just filled with vintage photographs and circus histor

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Switzerland Trail of America by Grossen W-9A

Chip Savoye — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:33:55 +0000

Fascinating and detailed history of two romantic narrow gauge lines running west from Boulder, Colorado: the Greeley, Salt Lake & Pacific and the Colorado & Northwestern (later the Denver, Boulder & Western). Covers construction, expansion into the mining districts, the tungsten boom, and mile-by-mile description of stations. Includes chapter on Stanley Steamers that provided tourists with transportation as well as F. O. Stanley’s establishment of the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park. This 1978 edition has an additional chapter on William Arthur Tipps, engineer on the Denver, Boulder & Western, based on interviews with his son, Carl. Packed with black and white photos of the locomotives, stations, towns, and mountains. Cover, frontispiece and four full page color paintings by noted railroad artist Howard Fogg. With maps, ads, and timetables. There are four maps are on two sheets tucked into a rear pocket. With decorative end papers showing timetables. 422 pages with index.

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Cavalcade of New Zealand Locomotives by Palmer and Stewart W-9A

Chip Savoye — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:30:03 +0000

This revised edition (updated from 1956) showcases 160 different kinds of New Zealand locomotives. Beginning with the broad gauge “Pilgrim” that puffed from Christchurch to Ferrymead in 1863, it traces the evolution of the steam locomotive in New Zealand through the “Ten-wheeler” and “Pacific” era to the sleek 4-8-2s and 4-8-4s of the 1950s. It also describes the electric and diesel electric motors as well as the long-forgotten and often unique locomotives that served some of the bush tramways, quarries and construction projects. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With maps, index to locomotives and index to locomotive builders. 174 pages.

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Railroads of Nevada Volume1 and 2 by David Myrick W-9A

Chip Savoye — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:08:21 +0000

Valuable as these volumes are in relation to railroad operations in Nevada and California, their usefulness as authoritative reference sources embraces a much broader scope. Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California is as much a history of the region as it is a study of the railroads. The principal mines and mills and their production are scrupulously detailed, together with the personalities who created them.

A map has been provided in Volume I to orient the reader to the locales described. It is an accurate and reliable travel aid for readers who choose to wander the region’s historic railroad routes. In this volume, Myrick begins his history with coverage of the sprawling network of the northern railroads.

The setting for Volume II is the varied and spectacular geography of southern Nevada and eastern California—from Death Valley and the Mojave Desert to the hard rock tunnels of Goldfield and the isolated communities of Rhyolite and Pioche. This volume also contains a handy index and an updated locomotive roster.

Price is for the set of both Volumes. Please write for individual pricing.

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Vermont’s Covered Bridge Road, The Story of the St. Johnsbury and Lamoile County Railroad by Edward Lewis W-9A

Chip Savoye — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:55:45 +0000

Detailed history of the St. Johnsbury & Lamoille County Railroad. Packed with black and white photos of the railroad, its locomotives, stations, ferries, bridges, etc. With roster of steam locomotives. Also includes a short chapter on the Hardwick & Woodbury Railroad.

Paper Back. Good Condition. Rare find

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Never Come, Never Go! The Story of the Nevada County’s Narrow Gauge Railroad by Robert Wyckoff W-14

Chip Savoye — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:23:08 +0000

The Nevada Country Narrow Gauge Railroad has been widely celebrated in song and story since its demise in 1942. Not much was written about the short line during its lifetime. It was appreciated by those who relied on it, but many in the outside world who were familiar with the road or its name, simply smiled at its mention. After all, wasn’t it just a toy railroad, a narrow gauge? Never Come, Never Go! tells the story of Nevada County’s narrow gauge railroad, edited, selected and introduced by Robert M. Wyckoff, with a section by Gilbert H. Kneiss, and photographs and black and white illustrations by Albert Krebs.

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Union Pacific The Reconfiguration: Americas Greatest Railroad from 1969 to the Present, by Maury Klein W-14

Chip Savoye — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:28:08 +0000

Praised by the Chicago Tribune as “thoroughly and compellingly detailed history,” Volumes I and II of Maury Klein’s monumental history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969. Now the third and final volume brings the story of the Union Pacific–the oldest, largest, and most successful railroad of modern times–fully up to date.

The book follows the trajectory of an icon of the industrial age trying to negotiate its way in a post-railway world, plagued by setbacks such as labor disputes, aging infrastructure, government de-regulation, ill-fated mergers, and more. By 1969 the same company that a century earlier had triumphantly driven the golden spike into Promontory Summit–to immortalize the nation’s first transcontinental railway–seemed a dinosaur destined for financial ruin. But as Klein shows, the Union Pacific not only survived but is once more thriving, which proves that railways remain critical to commerce and industry in America, even as passenger train travel has all but disappeared. Drawing on interviews with Union Pacific personnel past and present, Klein takes readers inside the great railroad–into its boardrooms and along its tracks–to show how the company adapted to the rapidly changing world of modern transportation. The book also offers fascinating portraits of the men who have run the railroad. The challenges they faced, and the strategies they developed to meet them, give readers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of one of America’s great companies.

A capstone on a remarkable achievement, Union Pacific: The Reconfiguration will appeal to historians, business scholars, and transportation buffs alike.

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The Chili Line by Gjevre W-14

Chip Savoye — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:20:00 +0000

History of the building of the narrow gauge Chili Line, a branch of the DRG that ran from Santa Fe, NM to Antonita, CO. Includes histories of the towns and industries along the way, black and white photos, maps, timetables, gradient profiles, track layouts, ephemera, etc. With oversized foldout black and white photo of early Taos, NM.

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Narrow Gauge to the Redwoods. The Story of the North Pacific Coast-Railroad and San Francisco Bay Paddle Wheel Ferries by Graves and Dickinson W-14

Chip Savoye — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:13:00 +0000

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