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
Abdill, George B Rails West: A Collector's Album of a Vanishing Era in Railroadiana, Superior Publishing Company, 1960, pp191. The third volume in the author's Pageant of Railroad History. Inscription "snopaked" out. Large Format Hb. VG/VG. Dw internally repaired at the head of the spine. A largely pictorial tribute to railways in the American west during the turbulent years of expansion. £7.50
Adams, Kramer Logging Railroads of the West, Superior Publishing Company, 1961, pp160. Large Format Pb. Good+. Rubbing to the spine of the covers. An illustrated history. £5.95
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
Beckstrom, Paul and Braun, David W The Swayne Lumber Company: Narrow Gauge logging in the Merrimac Forest, Pacific Fast Mail, 1992, pp175. Large Format Hb. VG+/VG. A history of the Swayne family's logging, mill and railway operations in California in the 30 years before WWII. £42.50
Beebe, Lucius Trains in Transition, Bonanza, 1941, pp210. The third volume in a trilogy with High Iron and Highliners. Address stamp under the dw flap. Large Format Hb. VG/VG-. Some foxing to the page edges, wrinkling to the plastic coating of the dw. A well-illustrated survey of the American railway scene in the 30s. £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
Best, Gerald M Iron Horses to Promontory, Golden West Books, 1976, pp207 with 310 illustrations. Large Format Hb. VG/VG-. Corners of the covers slightly bumped; dw internally re-enforced at the head & base of the spine. . An illustrated history of the first trans-continental railway, with an emphasis on the locomotives and rolling stock. £12.50
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
Bohn, Dave and Petschek, Rodolfo Kinsey Photographer: A Half Century of Negatives by Darius and Tabitha May Kinsey Vol.3: The Locomotive Portraits, Chronicle Books, 1988, pp144. Large landscape format Pb. VG. A collection of Dave Bohn's pictures of logging locomotives, taken in the Pacific North West between 1907 & 1940, with essays on each locomotive by John Labbe. £8.50
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
Cahill, Marie and Debolski, Tom North American Steam: A Photographic History, Bison Group, 1991, pp240 with over 300 illustrations, many in colour. Introduction by Bill Yenne. Large landscape Format Hb. VG/VG with a faint stain down the edges of some pages. A pictorial tribute to the steam era in America with sections on: The Industrial Heartland, The Land of Dixie, The Southwest & The Santa Fe, The American Dream, The Far West, The Northwest Passage, and Across Canada. £10.50
Carper, Robert S American Railroads in Transition, Barnes, 1968, pp260 with over 200 illustrations. Large Format Hb. No dw. VG- with a three-inch stain on the front cover. A well-illustrated history of American railways in the years following World War II when the steam locomotive was replaced by diesels. £5.95
Christiansen, Harry Northern Ohio's Interurbans and Rapid Transit Railways, Trolleyville, 4th enlarged edition 1983, p725-p1036. Large Format Pb. VG. "The complete story of the great electric traction network that radiated through northern Ohio and adjoining states." The page numbering & the vol.5 on the spine, suggest that this volume was part of a series. £12.50
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
Colorado Rail Annual No.11, Colorado Railroad Museum, 2nd edition 1981, pp215. Large Format Hb. VG/VG. Contents include: Narrow Gauge in North Mexico: Ferrocarril Mineral de Chihuahua by Harold Stewart; Otto Perry : Railroad Photographer by Richard Kindig; and Train Time in Ouray: The Ouray Branch of the Denver & Rio Grande by Gordon Chappell with maps and a nostalgic photographic review of the branch in action. £16.50
Corns, John B Nickel Plate Road Publicity Photos 1943-1952 Vol.2, TLC Publishing, 1998, pp128. Large landscape format. Glazed Boards. VG+. Spine sunned. A second collection of high-quality official photographs taken for the New York, Chicago & St Louis Railroad (The Nickel Plate Road). £24.50
DeNevi, Don The Western Pacific: Railroading Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Superior, 1978, pp160. Inscription. Large Format Hb. VG-/VG-. Rubbing to the edges of the covers; slight wear & small tears to the dw edges. An illustrated history of Western Pacific Railroad. £12.50
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 The Lake Superior Iron Ore Railroads: The World's Heaviest Trains, Superior Publishing Company, 1969, pp144. Large Format Hb. VG/VG. An illustrated survey of the iron ore hauling railways in the Lake Superior region of North America. The following railways are involved: The Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range; The Lake Superior & Ishpeming, The Great Northern (USA); The Menominee Range, The Chicago & North-Western; The Milwaukee Road; The Soo Line; The Marquette & Ashland, The Cuyuna Range, The Canadian National; The Reserve Mining: The Erie Mining Company, and The Algoma Central. £12.50
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
Dorman, Richard L Durango: Always a Railroad Town, R. D. Publications, 1993, pp184. Vol.2 of the Narrow Gauge Collection. Large landscape Format Hb. VG/VG-. Front cover pulling away from the spine, but still sound. Tears to the top dw edge internally repaired. Dorman's second volume on the South-western Colorado narrow gauge. £32.50
Dorman, Richard L Gunnison: From Marshall Pass, Lake City and Crested Butte through to Ouray, R. D. Publications, 1993, pp223. Vol.5 of the Narrow Gauge Collection. The collector's edition. Large landscape format Hb. VG/VG-. Dw internally repaired at the head of the spine. The final volume of the series. £42.50
Dorman, Richard L The Chili Line and the Santa Fe The City Different, R. D. Publications, 1996, pp225. The Collector's Edition. Large landscape format Hb. VG/VG. A largely pictorial tribute to the long narrow gauge branch of the Denver & Rio Grande south from Antonio to Santa Fe. £32.50
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
Edmonson, Harold A Journey to Amtrak: The Year History Rode the Train, Kalmbach, 1972, pp104. Large Format. Glazed Boards. Good+. Some rubbing to the edges of the covers. A pictorial review of the named American express trains that were lost in the Amtrak took over. £7.50
Ehernberger, James L and Gschwind, Francis G Union Pacific Steam Eastern Division, National Railway Historical Society, 1975, pp200. Large Format Hb. No dw as published. VG- with slight wear to the covers. Combines three earlier books, Smoke Across the Prairie (Nebraska Division), Smoke over the Divide (Wyoming Division) and Smoke above The Plains (Kansas Division) in a single volume covering the last 25 years of steam on the Union Pacific. £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
Farewell R C Rio Grande Secret Places Vol.2: Ruby Canyon and the Desert, Colorado Railroad Museum, 1999, pp206. Large Format Hb. VG+/VG+. Featuring Rio Grande, Southern Pacific & Union Pacific Trains with both steam & diesel traction. £18.50
Farrington, S Kip Railroading Coast to Coast: Riding the Locomotive Cabs Steam, Electric and Diesel 1923-1950, Bonanza, 1976, pp305. Large Format Hb. VG/VG. Two small internally repaired tears in the dw. Brief logs of the author's many footplate journeys provide a framework for a wide-ranging collection of illustrations of American traction, mainly steam with some diesel and electric. £8.50
Feibelman W A Rails to Pittsburgh 1945-1970: A Train Watchers Collection, Superior, 1979, pp192. Large Format Hb. VG/VG with slight rubbing to the edges of the covers. Steam, Diesel and Electrics in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania & The East. £12.50
Ferrell, Mallory Hope Rails Sagebrush and Pine: A Garland of Railroads and Logging Days in Oregon's Sumpter Valley, Golden West Books, 1970, pp128 with 210 illustrations and 10 scale drawings. First published in 1967. Large Format Hb. VG/Fair. One-inch tear in the top front dw fold, small tears at the head of the spine. A well-illustrated history of an extensive logging railway. £18.50
Ferrell, Mallory Hope Colorful East Broad Top, Heimburger House, 1993, pp84. Large landscape format. Glazed Boards. VG. The less common hardback edition. An all-colour pictorial tribute to a narrow gauge mineral line in south-central Pennsylvania in the 40s & 50s. £12.50
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
Forrest, Kenton and Albi, Charles Denver's Railroads: The Story of Union Station and the Railroads of Denver, Colorado Railroad Museum, 1981, pp244. No dw. Large Format Hb. VG. A well-illustrated history. £12.50
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
Kratville, Wm W Steam, Steel & Limiteds: A Saga of the Great Varnish Era, Kratville Publications, 1967, pp422. Large Format Hb. VG/VG-. Dw internally repaired at the corners and at the head & base of the spine. A tribute to American named expresses of the inter-war period with details and illustrations of each service. £24.50
Krause, John with Reid, H Rails through Dixie, Golden West Books, 2nd edition 1970, pp176. Large Format Hb. VG/VG- with the dw internally repaired at the head & base of the spine. A pictorial tribute to both main and secondary routes in the American South in the steam era. £14.50
Leach G A P Industrial Steam Locomotives of Cuba, IRS, 2nd edition 1997, pp144 with 11 maps. Pb. VG. A completely new selection of illustrations was used for this 2nd edition. £6.95
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
MacGregor, Bruce A South Pacific Coast: An illustrated history of the narrow gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad, Howell-North, 1968, pp280, 2 colour paintings, 430 illustrations, roster, maps and builder's drawings. Large Format Hb. VG/Fair. Dw internally repaired at the corners and at the head & base of the spine. Also wear to the dw edges down the spine. A comprehensive history of a narrow gauge line in California. £24.50
McGuirk,
Martin J The New Haven Railroad
along the Shore Line: The thoroughfare from New York City to Boston,
Kalmbach, 1999, pp128. Golden
Years of Railroading Series. Large
landscape format Pb. VG. A
photographic album featuring the New Haven's main line from New York to Boston
in the 40s and 50s. £10.50
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
Middleton, William D The Railroad Scene, Golden West Books, 1st edition 1969, pp144. Large Format Hb. VG/VG-. Top front corner of the covers bumped; some wear to the top edge of the dw. A pictorial tribute to American railways in the two decades after WWII, the period of transition from steam to diesel traction. £10.50
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
Nichols, Jim Norfolk & Western in Color Vol.1 1945 – 1964, Morning Sun Books, 1997, pp128. Large Format Hb. Fine/Fine. A pictorial tribute to the years of transition from Steam to Diesel. £32.50
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
Nowak, Ed New York Central Color Photography: Book 1, Morning Sun Books, 1992, pp128. With Robert J. Yanosey. Large landscape format. VG. No dw as published. Ed Nowak was the New York Central's Company Photographer when he took these colour illustrations in the 40s & 50s. £16.50
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
Ormes, Robert Tracking Ghost Railroads in Colorado, Century One Press, 9th edition 1980, pp164 with numerous maps & illustrations. Large Format Pb. VG. A five-part guide to abandoned and scenic lines. £8.50
Parks, Pat The Railroad that Died at Sea: The Florida East Coast's Key West Extension, Langley Press, 1996, pp48. Pb. VG-. Superficial wear to the covers. An illustrated history of the line that island-hopped from the mainland tip of Florida through Key Largo to Key West. £4.95
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 slightly 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
Rattenne, Ken The Feather River Route Vol.1 A Geographical Tour: San Francisco to Keddie, Interurban Press, 1990, pp142. Large landscape format Hb. VG+/VG+. A well-illustrated pictorial tribute to the Western Pacific, featuring both steam & diesel traction. £32.50
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
Reid, H The Virginian Railway, Kalmbach, 1961, pp208 with folding map in the rear & numerous illustrations. Large Format Hb. VG/Fair. Dw worn along the top edge. "The birth to merger tale of the unique coal-hauler a millionaire built from West Virginia to the sea." £24.50
Repair Parts for Shay Geared Locomotives, McClain Printed Company, 1969, pp55. Large landscape format Pb. VG. Some foxing to the endpapers. A reprint of an illustrated catalogue, first published by the Lima Locomotive and Machine Company in 1908. £5.95
Repp T O Main Streets of the Northwest: Rails from the Rockies to the Pacific Vol.1 Oregon - Idaho – Montana, Trans-Anglo Books, 1989, ppp160. Large landscape format Hb. VG/VG. "Documenting the spectacle of Northwest railroading from 1969 until 1988." £12.50
Richardson, Robert W Narrow Gauge News: Colorado Rail Annual No.21, Colorado Railroad Museum, 1994, pp303 with 190 illustrations. Edited by A. D. Mastrogiuseppe, Richard A. Cooley and Charles Albi. Large Format Hb. VG/VG. Dw neatly protected with clear adhesive covering. Originally published by Robert Richardson as the Narrow Gauge News between 1949 and 1958, republished here with extensive illustrations. £18.50
Richardson,
Robert W Rio Grande - Chasing
the Narrow Gauge Vol.2, Heimburger House, 2005, pp208.
Large landscape format Hb. VG+/VG+.
A well-illustrated book focusing on Durango, Silverton, Farmington and
the Third Division. £28.50
Sanford, Barrie The Pictorial History of Railroading in British Columbia, Whitecap, 1981, pp144. Large landscape format Hb. VG+/VG with two small internally repaired tears to the dw edges. An illustrated history of railways in the most western state of Canada, with far more text than the title might suggest. £9.50
Schmollinger, Steve Desert Railroading, Heimburger, 1993, pp172. Large landscape Format. Hb. VG/VG. Slight rubbing to the edges of the covers, internally repaired tear in the dw at the base of the spine. An all-colour pictorial tribute to railway operations in the deserts of New Mexico, Arizona and California in the diesel era. £12.50
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
Shine, Joseph W Northern Pacific Color Pictorial - Vol.1: NP Motive Power - The Transition Years, Four Ways Publications, 1994, pp128. Large Format. Glazed Boards. VG. A pictorial tribute to the Northern Pacific locomotives, both steam and diesel, that existed in January 1955. £24.50
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
Solomon, Brian The Heritage of North American Steam Railroads: From the First Days of Steam Power to the Present, Amber Books/BCA, 2001, pp256. Large Format. Glazed boards with dw. VG+/VG with dw internally repaired at the foot of the spine. A well-illustrated history of North American railways. £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
Sutton, Stuart J Colorado Railroad Map, Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation, 1996. VG. The main map is 38 inches by 24 inches, with a series of smaller maps on the reverse side. "Covers all Colorado railroads and electric railways both operational and abandoned.” £0.95
Tayler,
Arthur Illustrated History of
North American Railroads, New Burlington Books, 1996, pp192.
Large Format Hb. VG/VG. Slight
rubbing to the corners of the covers. Railway
development in both America and Canada. £6.95
Turner,
George Narrow Gauge Nostalgia,
J - H Publications, 1st edition 1965, pp160.
Large Format Hb. VG-/VG-. Wear
to the covers at the head & base of the spine; dw internally repaired at the
head & base of the spine and at one corner. An illustrated history of narrow gauge lines in California
including the following: The Bodie & Benton, The Brookings Lumber & Box
Company, The Carson & Colorado, The Diamond & Caldor, The Merced Gold
Mine, The Mt. Lowe, The Nevada County Narrow Gauge, and The Plaster City Narrow
Gauge. £24.50
Turner, Robert D Steam
on the Kettle Valley: A Railway Heritage Remembered, Sono Nis Press,
1995, pp120. Landscape Format Pb.
VG. An illustrated history
of the Canadian Pacific’s secondary route through southern British Columbia.
£7.50
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
Westcott,
Linn H (editor) Model Railroader
Cyclopedia Vol.1 Steam Locomotives, Kalmbach, 1960, pp272.
Very Large Landscape Format Pb. VG-.
Slight wear to the edges of the covers.
127 individual drawings of American locomotives, accompanied by several
hundred photographs showing the engines in various stages of their development.
£16.50
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
Wilson,
Jeff Burlington Route across the
Heartland: Everywhere West from Chicago, Kalmbach, 1999, pp128.
Golden Years of Railroading Series.
Large landscape format Pb. VG-.
Slight creasing to the covers. A
photographic album featuring the Burlington's lines in the 40s and 50s.
£8.50
Wilson, Ian To Stratford under Steam: A CNR Division Point and Motive Power Shop in the 1950s, Canadian Branchline Miniatures, 2000, pp192 with 265 illustrations. Large Format Hb. Fine/Fine. An evocative description of steam operations in the Stratford, Ontario division of the Canadian National Railway. £32.50
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
Wolfe, Hugh & Wolfe, Ed Appalachian Coal Hauler: Interstate Railroad's Mine Runs & Coal Trains, TLC Publishing, 2001, pp160 with numerous illustrations. Large Format. Glazed Boards. Fine. Ed Wolfe's second book on the Interstate Railroad concentrating on the coal mines, tipples & switching operations. £12.50
Wood, Charles R Lines West: A Pictorial History of the Great Northern Railway Operations and Motive Power from 1887 to 1967, Bonanza Books, 1967, pp192. Large Format Hb. VG+/VG. £16.50
Wood, Charles & Dorothy Spokane Portland and Seattle Railway: The Northwest's Own Railway, Superior Publishing Co., 1979, pp159. Large Format Hb. No dw. VG-. Rubbing to the edges of the covers. An illustrated history of a railway that formed part of the Burlington Northern in 1970. £8.50
Wymond,
Charles E Atlas of Traffic Maps,
LaSalle Extension University, 10th edition 1924. Hb bound in green covers with gold lettering.
Fair. A series of 21 large "traffic" maps of USA and
Canadian railways in 1924, followed by a further 13 fold out maps dedicated to
individual railways. £24.50
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