Mainly books on railways in the USA and Canada, with a few titles on the railways of Central and South America. For books on modelling North American railways see the Model Railways section.
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Years: A History of the Pacific Coast Chapter, Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, 1972,
pp64. Large Format Pb. VG-. Some wear
to the spine of the covers. A
substantial illustrated booklet reviewing the chapter’s activities.
Includes a letter dated March 27th 1977, from Fred Stindt, the Chairman
of the chapter, to O. S. Nock regarding the latter's forthcoming visit to
California. £3.95
Alexander E P Iron Horses: American Locomotives 1829-1900, Dover Publications, 2003, pp240. First published in 1941. Large Format Pb. VG. Slight crease to the rear bottom corner of the covers. A pictorial survey of 96 early American locomotives. Each locomotive has a full-page illustration with brief technical details opposite. £8.50
Allen, Geoffrey Freeman
North American Railroads Today, Brian Trodd, 1990, pp123.
Large Format Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good.
A graphic account of the resurgence of one of America's greatest
industries, well-illustrated throughout. £6.95
Baldwin Locomotives, Baldwin
Locomotive Works, Vol.15, No.4 April 1937, pp36.
Large Format Pb. Very Good with slight wear to the covers. Contents include: The New Haven Streamlined Locomotives,
Formal Delivery of Locomotive 1400, New Baldwin Locomotives for the
Capital Cities Route, A New Brake Shoe Testing Machine, and From
Eddystone to Ecuador. £4.95
Baltimore and Ohio Transportation Museum, Baltimore, USA, nd, pp32. Pb. VG+. Contains pictures and details of the early American locomotives housed in the museum. £0.95
Beebe,
Lucius Highball: A Pageant of
Trains, Bonanza Books, pp223 with over 190 photographs. No date, first published in 1945. Large format Hb. VG/Fair.
Tears to the dw along the top & bottom edges.
A classic American railroad book. £7.50
Benson, Gary J The Art of Railroad Photography: Techniques for taking dynamic trackside pictures, Kalmbach, 1993, pp148 with 130 colour illustrations. Large Format Hb. Fine/Fine. Worthwhile for both the photographic tips and for the illustrations of American railways in the diesel era. £8.50
Berton, Pierre The National Dream: The Great Railway 1871-1881, McClelland & Stewart, 1973, pp439. Hb. Very Good+ / Poor. Torn dw with piece missing near the base of the spine; The Last Spike: The Great Railway 1881-1885, McClelland & Stewart, 1974, pp478. Hb. Very Good / Good+. A definitive study of the struggle to build the Canadian Pacific and to bind Canada together as a single transcontinental nation. The two volumes: £14.50
Binns,
Donald (editor) South and
Central American Special, Locomotives International, 1993, pp68.
Large Format Pb. VG+.
Illustrated articles on Cuban Sugar Steam, Narrow Gauge in Minas, Steam
in Argentina 1992, The Quinta Normal Park Museum (Chile), Brazilian
"Usina" Steam 1992/93, The Donna Thereza Christina Railway, and Steam
in Paraguay/Uruguay 1992. £8.50
Binns,
Donald The Anglo-Chilean Nitrate
and Railway Company (Ferrocarril de Tocopilla al Toco): A History of the Company
and its Locomotives, Trackside Publications, 1995, pp76. Large Format Pb.
VG+. An illustrated history
of a Chilean narrow gauge railway that was constructed to transport nitrates to
the port of Tocopilla for export. £16.50
Boyd, Jim Outbound
Trains in the era before the mergers, Boston Mils Press, 2005, pp192. Large
landscape format. Glazed boards
with dw. Generally VG/VG with a
slight indentation to the top edges of the covers. A superb collection of colour
photographs from the 60s and 70s, covering most major American railroads and
many minor lines. £12.50
Bryant,
H Stamford The Georgian
Locomotive: Some elegant steam locomotive power in the South and Southwest,
1918-1945, an episode in American taste, Weathervane Books, 1962, pp90 with
51 illustrations. Inscription.
Hb. VG+/VG.
Small tear to the rear bottom edge of the dw.
A series of essays on the steam locomotives used in the American south
between the wars. £8.50
Carstens, Hal Slim Gauge Cars, Carstens Publications, 1991, pp112. Large Format Pb. VG-. Superficial wear to the corners of the covers, and at the head & base of the spine. Drawings of American narrow gauge freight & passenger rolling stock, with photographs & supporting text, all taken from articles in the American magazine Railroad Model Craftsman over the preceding 50 years. £12.50
Cohen, Marvin H Steam Passenger Service Directory including Electric Lines and Museums, Empire State Railway Museum, 18th annual edition 1983, pp176. Pb. Very Good. An illustrated North American directory listing tourist railroad, trolley & museum operations with regularly scheduled or intermittent passenger service. £1.95
College of Engineering of the University of Illinois Information relating to the faculty, buildings and equipment and the engineering experiment station, Urbana, Illinois, June 1907, pp16. Pb. Generally VG with a 0.5 inch tear at the bottom of spine and "Edward C Schmidt" stamped at the top of the cover. £0.95
Deimling, Gene Southern
Pacific Steam Switchers of the Pacific Lines, Benchmark Publications, 1987,
pp98. Large Format Pb.
Very Good. A comprehensive
pictorial survey of the shunting engines used by the Southern Pacific on its
lines west of El Paso. £10.50
Diski,
Jenni Stranger on a Train,
Virago, 2002, pp280. Hb. Fine / Fine. English
author Jenni Diski travels around the periphery of America on Amtrack.
£3.95
Dorin,
Patrick C Santa Fe Passenger
Trains in the Streamlined Era, TLC Publishing, 2004, pp143.
Large Format. Glazed Boards. Fine.
A well-illustrated study. £12.50
Drury,
George Guide to Tourist
Railroads and Railroad Museums including schedules, fares, how to get there, and
annual special events, Kalmback, 4th revised edition 1995, pp320.
Landscape format Pb. G+ with
superficial wear to the cover edges. Provides
details of more than 350 sites in the United States and Canada - a useful guide
for anyone planning a trip to North America.
£2.95
Duke,
Donald and Kistler, Stan Santa
Fe: Steel Rails through California, Golden West Books, 1964, pp184. Large
Format Hb. VG/VG-. A mainly pictorial history of the Santa Fe in California.
£16.50
Erie Railroad: Trains Album of Railroad Photographs No.14, Kalmback, 1946. Very Large Landscape Format Pb. Covers fair, contents VG. A one-page introduction followed by 20 single-sided pages of illustrations. The illustrations were selected by the editors of Trains to give a representation view of the Erie system in 1946. £5.95
Fawcett,
Brian Railways of the Andes,
Plateway, 2nd edition 1997, pp224. First
published in 1963. Address label
inside front cover. Hb.
Fine/Fine. A classic
illustrated account of South American railways.
£22.50
Finch M H J South
American Steam, Bradford Barton, 1974, pp96. Hb. Very Good /
Very Good. An album of South
American steam locos in the 1960s. £16.50
GO System Timetable, 7 January 1995,
pp20. Pb. Fine. A 1995 timetable of Toronto suburban services in Canada - GO
stands for Government of Ontario. £1.95
Hauck,
Cornelius W Narrow Gauge to
Central and Silver Plume, Colorado Railroad Museum, 1st edition 1972, pp223.
Colorado Rail Annual Issue No.10.
Large format Hb. VG+/VG-. Bottom
front corner of the covers slightly bumped, some wear to the top and bottom
edges of the dw with tiny loss. An
illustrated history of the Clear Creek narrow gauge line, later an important
constituent of the Colorado & Southern.
£16.50
Heimburger, Donald J Illinois Central: Main Line of Mid-America, Heimburger House, 1995, pp128. With photographers Jerry Carson and Owen Leander. Large Format Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good+. "All-colour photography of the largest north-south railroad in the United States." Captures the essence of the Illinois Central in the 40s, 50s and 60s. £14.50
Hendy A American Railroad Stock Certificates, Stanley Gibbons, 1980, pp168. VG+/VG+. No fewer than one hundred and fifty different stock certificates are illustrated and described. £5.95
Hollingsworth J B and Whitehouse P B North American Railways, Hamlyn, 1977, pp190. Large
Format Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good
-. Some wear to the dw along
the top edge. A well-illustrated
history of railways in North America. £5.95
Hollingsworth, Brian The Illustrated Encyclopedia of North American Locomotives: A historical directory of over 150 years of North American rail power, Salamander, 1997, pp208. Large format Hb. VG/VG. Top of spine slightly bumped, dw repaired at the head of the spine. Illustrations and descriptions of 150 historic American locomotives, both steam and diesel. £6.95
Information Concerning Courses in Railway Engineering and Administration, University of Illinois, USA, June 1913, pp15. VG-. The middle four pages have worked loose and have been re-stapled at the top only. An unusual illustrated booklet describing the courses offered in Railway Engineering by the University of Illinois prior to WWI. The equipment illustrated includes a dynamometer car and a stationary locomotive testing plant. £2.50
Johnson,
Robert Wayne Through the Heart
of the South: The Seaboard Air Line Railroad Story, Stoddart, 1995, pp160.
Large Format Hb. Fine /
Fine. A comprehensive history of Seaboard, a railroad that served
Virginia, North & South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida until it lost
its individual identity in 1967. Well-illustrated
throughout. £24.50
Kerr, James W Locomotive
Rosters and News: The Official 2001 edition, DPA-LTA Enterprises, 2000. Unpaged. Small
format Pb. VG. Complete locomotive rosters for all American, Canadian and
Mexican railways with pp11 of colour illustrations. £4.95
Kindig R H My
Best Railroad Photographs No. 9, IA, 1948, pp32. ABC Locomotive Series. Small landscape Format Pb.
Very Good. Steam and diesel
traction in the American west. £2.95
Lewis,
Robert G The Handbook of
American Railroads, Simmons-Boardman, USA, 2nd edition 1956, pp251.
Inscription and an address stamp from City Model & Toys, Liverpool.
Hb. No dw. VG- with light
rubbing to the covers at the top & base of the spine and to the bottom
corners. "Written to provide a single source of facts and information on
each of the 113 Class 1 railroads." In 1956 the total mileage of these
railways was 224,838, about 96% of the American total.
An illustration, map and operating statistics are provided for each
railway. £8.50
Link, O Winston America's
Last Steam Railroad: Steam Steel & Stars, Abradale
Press, 1998, pp144. Very Large
Format Hb. VG+/VG.
Small internally repaired tear at the foot of the spine.
An American classic, first published in 1987, featuring Winston Link's
famous pictures of the final years of steam operation on the Norfolk and
Western, with text tracing the history of the Norfolk and Western by Tim
Hensley. £18.50
Locomotive Laboratory (The), University of Illinois, USA, November 1915, pp18. Pb. Some rust on the staples else VG. An illustrated booklet describing the stationary locomotive testing plant at the University of Illinois. Opened in 1913, the stationary testing plant was capable of absorbing a drawbar pull as high as 125,000 pounds. Churchward installed a similar plant at Swindon in 1904. £3.95
Lyden, Anne M Railroad Vision: Photography, Travel, and Perception, J. Paul Getty Museum, USA, 2003, pp164 with 31 colour and 113 duotone illustrations. Large landscape format. A slight indentation in the bottom edge of the cover and several small internally repaired tears in the lower edge of the dw, otherwise VG+/VG+. A collection of American railway photographs, many from the Getty Museum Collection. £10.50
Lyle K L Scalded To Death by the Steam, W.H. Allen, 1985, pp192. Large landscape format Hb. VG/VG. A one inch internally repaired tear in the top edge of dw else VG/VG. Tales of American railroad disasters, and the ballads that were written about them. £6.95
McGonigal,
Robert S Heart of the
Pennsylvania Railroad - Main line: Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, Kalmback,
1996, pp128. The Golden Years of
Railroading Series. Large
landscape format Pb. VG. A
pictorial tribute with sections on: Philadelphia Terminal & Philadelphia
Division, Middle Division, and The Pittsburgh Division. £8.50
Meeks, Carroll L V The Railroad Station, Castle, 1978, pp203 with 231 illustrations. First published in 1956. Front corners of book slightly bumped else VG. The foil-protected dw complete but with several internally repaired tears. A comprehensive American architectural study. £6.95
Moore, Herbert F First Progress Report of the Joint Investigation of Continuous Welded Rail, University of Illinois, USA, 1939, pp29. Conducted by the Engineering Experimental Station, University of Illinois, in cooperation with The Association of American Railroads. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the American Railway Engineering Association, No.411, June-July 1939. Pb. VG. A technical study of the strength of the welded joints in continuous welded rails. £5.95
Moore, Herbert F Third Progress Report of the Joint Investigation of Fissures in Railroad Rails, University of Illinois, USA, 1937, pp29 with 21 figs and 1 table. Conducted by the Engineering Experimental Station, University of Illinois, in cooperation with The Association of American Railroads and The Rail Manufacturers Technical Committee. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the American Railway Engineering Association, No.395, March 1937. Pb. VG- with some wear to corners. A technical report on rail fissures. £5.95
Moore, Herbert F Fifth Progress Report of the Joint Investigation of Fissures in Railroad Rails, University of Illinois, USA, 1939, pp34 with 14 figs and 7 tables. Conducted by the Engineering Experimental Station, University of Illinois, in cooperation with The Association of American Railroads and The Rail Manufacturers Technical Committee. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the American Railway Engineering Association, No.411, June-July 1939. Pb. Slight corner wear else VG. A technical report on rail fissures. £5.95
Nock O S Railways
of the USA, A&C Black, 1979, pp317 with 81 illustrations and 42 maps
& diagrams. Railways of the
World 6. From the British
Railways Eastern Region Staff Railway Society, with the society name stamped
inside the front & rear covers. Hb.
VG+/VG. O. S. Nock's
personal survey of the American railway system in A. C. Black's ambitious
railways of the world series. £12.50
Norwood, John B Rio
Grande Narrow Gauge, Heimburger House, 1983, pp312 with several hundred
illustrations. Large format Hb.
Fine/VG. A comprehensive
history of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.
John Norwood helped to manage and operate the line from 1937 until his
retirement in 1975. £24.50
Norwood, John B Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Recollections, Heimburger House, 1986, pp272 with several hundred illustrations. Large Format Hb. Fine/VG-. Several small tears to the dw edges. John Norwood recounts his days on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. John was employed by the railroad for 39 years, retiring in 1975. £28.50
Norwood,
John B Rio Grande Memories:
Operations & Stories of the Rio Grande, Heimburger House, 1991, pp192
with several hundred illustrations. Large
format Hb. Fine/Fine.
John Norwood's third book on the Rio Grande considers both the standard
and narrow gauge lines. £24.50
O'Connell,
John Railroad Album, Popular
Mechanics Press, 1954, pp156. Pb.
Good+ with wear to the covers, particularly the spine; contents VG.
An illustrated history of American railways, half text and half pictures,
rather than an album as we would understand the term today, with the following
chapters: The Rail Road Comes to America, Railroads become America,
Wooden Cars and Iron Men, Tycoons and Troubles, Off the Main
Line, The Golden Age of Railroading, The Great Age of Steam Power,
and Diesels and Streamlining. £4.95
Ogburn, Charlton Railroads:
The Great American Adventure, National Geographic Society, 1977 pp204.
Hb. VG/VG-.
Wear and small tears to the dw edges.
A history of American railways, well-illustrated in b/w and colour.
£4.95
Osterwald,
Doris B Cinders & Smoke: A
mile by mile guide for the Durango to Silverton narrow gauge railroad,
Western Guideways, 7th edition 1998, pp168.
Pb. VG.
A comprehensive illustrated history of the line, its operation and its
locomotives. £3.95
Pennsylvania
Railroad Rolling Stock 1960-1968: Vol.1 Diners, PC Railroader Magazine, 1975,
pp93. By the staff of PC Railroader
Magazine. Large Format Pb. Very Good. A
comprehensive collection of scale drawing of Pennsy restaurant cars.
£8.50
Pennsylvania
Railroad Rolling Stock 1960-1968: Vol.2 Coaches, PC Railroader Magazine, 1975,
pp112. By the staff of PC
Railroader Magazine. Large
Format Pb. Very Good.
Slight wear to the covers at the rear top corner and a tiny nick to the
rear vertical edge. A collection of
scale drawing of Pennsy passenger carriages.
£8.50
Purdom D S British Steam on the Pampas: The Locomotives of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway, MEP, 1977, pp118. Glazed Boards. Very Good. Spine of covers sunned. Until after WWII most Argentinean Railways were British owned. This book tells the story of one of these lines, the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway, with an emphasis on the locomotive history. £7.50
Ramsey,
Dirk P and Lawrence, George E Locomotive
346: The First Hundred Years, Colorado Railway Museum, 1981, pp40.
Large Format Pb. Very Good. An
illustrated history of a narrow-gauge 2-8-0 originally built for the Denver
& Rio Grande Railway in 1881. £3.95
Reed, Brian The
Norris Locomotives, Profile Publishing, pp245-268 with colour centrepiece.
Loco Profile 11. Pb.
Very Good. The story of the American locomotive builder Norris, who
built the first locomotives to work the Lickey incline. £2.95
Reed, Brian Union Pacific 4-12-2s, Profile Publishing, 1971, p73-96. Loco Profile 16. Pb. Very Good. Mark on the front cover from an old price label. An illustrated booklet. £2.95
Reed, Brian The
American 4-8-4, Profile Publishing, pp169-192 with colour centrepiece.
Loco Profile 20. Pb.
Very Good. Unlike Britain,
American railways made extensive use of the 4-8-4 wheel arrangement for both
passenger and freight work. £2.95
Reed,
Robert C Train Wrecks: A
Pictorial History of Accidents on the Main Line, Superior, 1968 pp183.
Large Format Hb. VG/VG. A history
of railway accidents in the USA. £7.50
Scribbins,
Jim Milwaukee Road in its
Hometown: In and around the city of Milwaukee, Kalmback, 1998, pp128.
Golden Years of Railroading Series.
Large landscape format Pb. Very
Good+. Portrays the last days of
Milwaukee's steam era of railroading with a guided tour of the Milwaukee Road in
southeast Wisconsin. £8.50
Solomon, Brian Railroad Stations, Metro Books, 1998, pp80. Very Large Format Hb. Very Good / Very Good. Top corners bumped. An American pictorial survey of some of the world's great railway stations. In colour throughout. £8.50
Southern Pacific Lines: Trains Album of Railroad Photographs No.11, Kalmbach, 1945. A one-page introduction followed by 20 single-sided pages of illustrations. Very Large Landscape Format. Pb. Covers fair, contents VG. The illustrations were selected by the editors of Trains to give a representation view of the Southern Pacific in 1945. £5.95
Tuthill, John K The Railroad Dynamometer Car of the University of Illinois and the Illinois Central Railroad, University of Illinois, USA, 1947, pp36 with 23 figs. Pb. VG- with some foxing on the title page, and several numbers & "dupe" written along the top of the front cover. A history of the development of dynamometer cars at the University of Illinois from 1898 to 1947, followed by a detailed description of the current car. £4.95
Walker, Mike Railroad
Atlas of North America: Pacific North West, including Alaska & Hawaii,
Steam Powered Publishing, 1998, pp76. Large
Format Pb. Very Good+.
Shows all currently operated common carrier, tourist and major industrial
railroads along with abandoned routes. £5.95
Whitaker, Roger E M and Hiss, Anthony All Aboard with E.M. Frimbo: World's Greatest Railroad Traveller, Andre Deutsch, 1974, pp235. VG/VG. Tall tales about Frimbo, a legendary American railroad buff. £4.95
Whitehouse, Patrick Great Trains of North America, Hamlyn New English Library, 1974, pp142. Large Format Hb. VG/VG-. Slight wear and two small tears to the top edge of the dw. An illustrated history of the railways and steam locomotives of the USA and Canada. £5.95
Wolf, Adolf Hungry Rails in the Canadian Rockies, Canadian Caboose Press, 1993, pp176 including pp16 of colour. Revised pictorial edition. Large Format Pb. VG+. A largely pictorial tribute to the Canadian Pacific lines through the Rockies. £10.50
Zimmermann,
Karl Burlington's Zephyrs,
MBI Publishing, 2004, pp156. MBI
Great Passenger Trains Series. Large
Format Hb. Very Good+ / Fine.
The story of the network of Burlington Zephyrs that linked the states of
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado & Texas
with California and the Pacific Ocean. Well
illustrated throughout. £14.50