BAKER STREET MISCELLANEA, NO. 52, WINTER 1987
Chicago: Sciolist Press, 1987. First edition. Soft cover. A monthly periodical with numerous articles and illustrations. 48 pages. A fine, as new copy. More
Chicago: Sciolist Press, 1987. First edition. Soft cover. A monthly periodical with numerous articles and illustrations. 48 pages. A fine, as new copy. More
Ocean, NJ: Specialty Press, Inc. [Baldwin Locomotive Works], 1973. Facsimile. Oblong hardcover. Facsimile reprint of a Baldwin Locomotive Catalogue of probable date of 1915. Code word MAZIEREN. 125 pages with builder's photographs and data tables. Bound in dark green cloth with lettering in yellow. Appears as new. More
Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott/M. Baird & Co./Baldwin Locomotive Works [about 1871-1872]. First edition. Hardcover. 134 pages with pages 5 through 45 a history of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. The rest of the pages feature sixteen builder's rod's down locomotive woodburytype photographs with backgrounds showing the buildings of the Baldwin..... More
Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott/M. Baird & Co./Baldwin Locomotive Works [about 1871-1872]. First edition. Hardcover. 134 pages with pages 5 through 45 a history of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. The rest of the pages feature sixteen builder's rod's down locomotive woodburytype photographs with backgrounds showing the buildings of the Baldwin..... More
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1881. Second edition. Hardcover. Signed by Wm. L. Austin and dated Jan. 1, 1887 on the preliminary page. Austin entered the firm Baldwin Locomitive Works in 1870 and in 1885 became a partner in the firm of Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co., and later..... More
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1885. First edition. Hardcover. From the introduction, "It is intended in this publication to place before our customers a work that may be found useful for ready reference in ordering duplicate parts of locomotives for renewals and repairs, and at the same time furnish..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1931. Magazine. The chapters include; 1) Railways of Norway; 2) Baldwin Passenger Locomotives Hauling Trains in Colorado; 3) The Development of the Electric Locomotive; 4) Arc-Welding Battered Rail Ends; 5) New Baltimore and Ohio Locomotives; 6) Improvements on the Reading; plus other articals. 84 pages..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1933. Magazine. The chapters include; 1) Mountain Type Locomotives on the Pannsylvania; 2) The Effect of Operating and Maintenance Savings with Modern Power on Income Account and Cash Position; 3) The Development of the "Standard" Quenched and Tempered Wheel; 4) When Nature Hampers the Railways;..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1933. Magazine. The chapters include; 1) Baldwin-Southwark Equipment and the Hoover Dam Project; 2) The Relation of Locomotive Operation to Railroad Net Operating Income; 3) At a Railroad Crossing; 4) The Glaenzer Poppet Valve Throttle; 5) New Westinghouse Electric Locomotives for the Pennsylvania Railroad; 6)..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1934. Magazine. The chapters include; 1) The Economic Life of Locomotives; 2) The Sunning Railway, China; 3) Riding Baldwin-Westinghouse Electric Locomotives on the Pennsylvania; 4) A New Whitcomb Diesel Locomotive for Puerto Rico; 5) Locomotives Recently Constructed at Eddysone; 6) High-Speed Trucks for the Texas..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1934. Magazine. The chapters include; 1) High Mileage Performance on the Milwaukee Road; 2) Why Should Railroads Buy New Locomotives?; 3) What Size Wheels?; 4) High Speed Railroad Service; 5) Materials Testing Machines; 6) The Hand Lever and Valve for Baldwin Power Reverse Gear; plus..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1934. Magazine. The chapters include; 1) Transporting Fresh Fruits and Vegetables; 2) Northern Pacific Railway Company's New Locomotive; 3) Steam Meets the Challenge; 4) Crossing the Susquehanna River at Rockville; 5) A new Locomotive for the Logging Industry; 6) Motive Power for High Speed Service;..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1935. Magazine. The chapters include; 1) The Dotsero Cut-Off; 2) Horsepower and Wheel Diameter; 3) Improved Rail Joints Make Better Track; 4) Materials Testing Machines, Part III; plus other articals. 48 pages with photographs and illustrations. Light wear along spine. A very good copy. More
Philadelphia, PA: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1935. Magazine. The chapters include; 1) The Dotsero Cut-off; 2) The Key to Recovery; 3) The Pennsylvania Buys New Electrics; 4) Appropriate Ceremonies Mark a Notable Export Shipment; 5) New Motive Power for the Lehigh Valley Railroad; 6) Horsepower and Wheel Diameter; 7) Improved Rail..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1936. Magazine. The chapters include; 1) The Pennsylvania Railroad's New Electric Lcomotives; 2) Automatic Oil-Fired Steam Switching Locomotive; 3) Simplex Unit Cylinder Clasp Brakes; 4) Railroading as a Career; 5) Baldwin Boilers and Fireboxes; 6) I Like Trains; 7) New Locomotives for Other Lands; 8)..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1937. Magazine. The chapters include; 1) The New Haven Streamlined Locomotives; 2) Formal Delivery of Locomotive 1400; 3) New Baldwin Locomotives for the Capital Cities Route; 4) $250,000,000 Reward; 5) A New Brake Shoe Testing Machine; 6) From Eddystone to Ecuador. 36 pages with photographs..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1937. Magazine. The chapters include; 1) Performance of Modern Passenger Power on the Burlington; 2) New Power for the Seaboard Air Line; 3) Century Old Bolts Now Obsolete; 4) Tate-Emery Load Indicaton System; 5) Two 0-6-0 Switchers for the Chicago, West Pullman and Southern; plus..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1937. Magazine. The chapters include; 1) Performance of Modern Passenger Power on the Burlington; 2) New Power for the Seaboard Air Line; 3) Century Old Bolts Now Obsolete; 4) Tate-Emery Load Indicaton System; 5) Two 0-6-0 Switchers for the Chicago, West Pullman and Southern; plus..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1929. Magazine. The chapters include; 1) The Newfoundland Railway; 2) The Texas and Pacific Railway; 3) The Latest Development in Testing Machinery of Railroad Laboratories; 4) Rebuilt Consolidation Type Locomotives, Chicago Great Western Railrod; 5) The Locomotives of The Louisville & Nashville Railroad; 6) A...... More
Philadelphia: Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp. 1951. Three hole brad binding. This book is a collection of the maintenance bulletins issed by the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation describing the operation and care of the various items comprising their Diesel-Electric Locomotives. Each bulletin contains the maintenance instructions applicable fo a sing item, or related group, with..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1945. Magazine. The chapters include; 1) Matthias William Baldwin; 2) Weighing Locomotives on a Knife Edge; 3) C&O Materials Testing; 4) Locomotives for the New France; 5) Christening the Seaboard Diesel, plus other articals. 32 pages with photographs and illustrations. Owner's stamp on the contents..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1946. Magazine. The chapters include; 1) First 3,000 H.P. Diesel Unit; 2) Hydraulic Turbine Research; 3) Alaska - Our Northern Frontier; 4) Baldwin Tire Testers; 5) LDredging with Standard Steel, plus other articals. 32 pages with photographs and illustrations. Owner's stamp on the contents page..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1949. Magazine. The chapters include; 1) From Mine to Mill; 2) A Car is Born; 3) White coal for Chili; 4) Susquehanna Power Development; 5) Six-Motored Diesels in Humping Service; 6) Desert Navy; plus other articals. 32 pages with photographs and illustrations. Owner's stamp on..... More
Westport, CT: Professional Team Publications, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 208 pages with numerous color photos, the events by day, the outcomes of the events. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Appears as new. More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office/GPO, 1920. Hardcover. On the front endpaper, signature of "Whtfield P. Shepard, 1st Lieut. 58th Infantry," later a General during WWII. 106 pages. Bound in original blue buckram with lettering and emblem on the front cover in gilt. A very good copy. More