Kennbunkport, ME: New England Electric Railway Historical Society, 1955. Second edition. Softcover. Staple bound papmplet in glossy illustrated softcovers. 29 pp. plus appndix of Seashore Cars Indexed by States and Railways and Roster of Equipment 1954. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Second edition. Survey of electric trolley cars that ran along.....
Langhorne, PA: Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society, 1997. Softcover. Staple bound oversized softcover, 28 pp. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Near fine. The second installment regarding the Philadelphia Improvements of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The first installment covered the plan as it evolved in the 1920s; this part carries the.....
Chapel Hill: Univ Of North Carolina Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Fine, unused copy with some faint foxing edges of the text block in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xvi+486 pp. with bibliography, index. The North Caolina Railroad ran from Goldsboro west to Raliegh as was a major.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2017. First edition. Softcover. Illustrated softcovers. Fine, bright copy. 127 pp. Illustrated throughout with vintage photographs and reproductions. Pictorial history of the legendary passenger train the "Blue Comet", an limited that ran from the New York City area to Atlantic City from 1929 to 1941. It was run.....
Stationery Office Books, 1986. Paperback. AS NEW. Oversized in color illustrated softcovers. 118 pp. with bibliography. Illustrated throughout with photographs. The story of two pioneering British railway engineers--born a year apart in 1876--describing their careers and achievments and illustrating and assessing many of their designs. (REDUCED INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING AVAILABLE ON.....
Metro Books, 2001. Hardcover. Oversized hardcover. Fine, fresh example in equally fine, price clipped dust jacket. 144 p. with index. Illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs and reproductions of vintage items such as advertising. A tribute to one of the most elegant land-based form of transportation, the.....
Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Greene Books, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Slim hardcover in yellow cloth, 78 pp. with equipment roster appendix and appendix of specifications of principal Hudon Tunnel mother power. Illustrated with photographs. Fine in dust jacket with wear to the extremities. In the early part of the.....
Montreal: Canadian Pacific Railway, 1920. Softcover. Printed wrappers. 39 pp. with folding charts, large color folding map of the systen at the rear. Contemporary insurance company file stamp on front wrap as is a university library deaccession stamp, otherwise fine.
Montreal: Canadian Pacific, 1912. Softcover. Printed wrappers. 31 pp. with folding charts, large folding map of the railway system at rear. Very good, deaccessioned from a university library with their stamp on the front cover, short closed tear to the rear cover.
New York: Moody Corporation, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Quite scarce. A tight, fine example, mere touch of wear at the spine ends and one rear tip. Thick 8vo hardcover in green cloth lettered in gilt. 762 pp. plus publisher's catalog at rear. Folding map at front. A volume.....
New York: Creative Age Press, 1950. Hardcover. Hardcover in pale yellow cloth with green stripe and lettered in gilt. Generally fine, in edgeworn dust jacket. (note: the map endpapers of this particular copy were bound in upside down). xviii+ 490 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with maps, reproductions and photographs.....
Altoona, Pa: Consolidated Rail Corp. Softcover. )NO EXPEDITED SHIPPING ON AMAZON, ALIBRIS OR B&N ORDER. These order will ONLY ship media mail and will ship to Canada) Spiral bound oblong folio sized volume (11" x 17") in glossy color illustrated softcovers. Contaims 63 plates of schematics for the GP40PH-2B locomotivesm.....
London: Crompton Parkinson Ltd Traction Dept and Sulzer Bros. 1961. First edition. Staplebound. First Edition. Softcover in light blue illustrated covers depicting a train. 71 pp. Decorated with diagrams and drawings. A detailed description and instructions on operating a manuel locomotive. In very good condition.
New York: D. Appleton, 1867. Softcover. 8vo. in printed wrapper, front wrap with handsome engraving of a representative town showing railroad trains (one emerging from a tunnell in the foreground, another chugging across a bridge), steamboats and sailing boats. 380 pp. With extremely large folding map at p. 25...
Lexington, GA: Mobile Post Office Society, 1992. Softcover. Oversized in illustrated sotfcovers. 24 pp. Illustrated with drawings. Fine. An anthology of short reminiscences of the Railway Mail Service. The RMS was a significant U.S, Mail service from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. The manager of the Chicago Post Office, George.....
Withers Pub.], 1992. First edition. Paperback. First printing (stated). Overized color illustrated softcovers. 56 pp. with index. Illustyrated with vintage black and white and modern color photographs. Fine, fresh example except for a very small obscured ownership stamp corner of first page. Story of one of America's most famous train-watching.....
Delaware and Hudson Co., (1921). Softcover. Quarto-sized in printed stiff wrappers. Large folding map of the D&H ststem tipped in at front cover. 48 pp. plus additional map at rear. Very good, internally clean, old insurance company stamp front cover.
Belvidere, NJ: JSD Books, 2016. Softcover. 29 pp. in illustrated stiff wrappers. Signed by Sullivan on the title page. Illustrated with photos. Short monograph on the history of the 18-mile Washington & Easton Traction Company that ran between Port Murray and Phillipsburg, New Jersey.. Service on this trolley line was.....
1926. Softcover. Oversized in printed stiff wrappers. 28 pp. with folding map of the route at rear. Near fine, bit of edge toning, old insurance company file stamp front cover.
Denver and rio Grande Western Railroad Company, (1928). Softcover. Ovesized in printed stiff wrappers. 30 pp. with folding map of the line at rear. Near fine, some toning about the edges of the wraps, light private company stamp front cover.
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, 1927. Softcover. Oversized in printed stiff wrappers. 30 pp. with folding map of the line at rear. Near fine, edegs a bit toned, private company file stamp front cover.
Clifton Forge, VA: Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Society, 1994. Softcover. Color illustrated softcovers. Fine, fresh copy. 62 pp. with bibliography. Illustrated with vintage photos, drawings, tables and a route map inside rear cover. The story of one of the most famous and often discussed steam locomotives on the Chesapeake &.....
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. NEW IN DUST JACKET. First edition. Hardcover. 352 pp. Index of writers and speakers, index of subjects and key words. Authoritative compendium of quotations about railways from 1608 to the present day. More than 3400 entries drawn from over 1300 writers and.....
New York: Quadrant Press, 1994. Hardcover. Oversized in glossy color illustrated hardcovers. Fine, fresh copy. Illustrated endpapers.160 pp. Profusely illustrated with vintage photography, maps. A look at the motor power, operations, and people of the Erie Railroad, concentrating primarily on the years after the 1960 merger with the Lackawana and.....
Elmhurst, IL: Pixels, 2003. First printing. Softcover. Near fine, tight and clean with a bit of bumping to the tips. Errata slip laid in. First printing stated. Oversized softcover. 96 pp. A glimpse into the exciting history of and daily operations at Chicago Union Station in the years before Amtrak.....
