London: HarperCollins Publishers / Harper Collins, 2011. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 272 pages with numerous illustrations, and black and white and color photographs. A fine copy, without the dust jacket. More
New York: Bonanza Books, 1981. First Bonanza edition, first printing. Hardcover. Over 200 accounts of locomotive cab rides on 39 different railroads. 305 pages with locomotive photographs, many of them builder's photos, plus locomotive data. Fine in fine and bright, price-clipped dust jacket. More
New York: Promontory Press, 1994. Hardcover. A pictorial anthology of railroading in the grand manner and in its golden age with beautifully painted wood burners of the early days of overland transport and the ultimate devising of the genius of steam engines that highballed at eighty miles an hour. 303..... More
London: Railway Gazette, 1943. Softcover. Manufacturing economies are achieved in a simple design of British-built 2-8-0-type tender locomotives in which fabricated and cast-iron parts are used wherever possible. 8 pages with photographs, data, construction diagrams, tables, plus large foldout locomotive diagram in the rear. One short tape mend to the..... More
Clifton, VA: Boynton & Associates, 1977. Revised edition. Softcover. Everything you need to know about model railroad trackwork. A complete reference manual for the construction of quality track. 120 pages with illustrations, instructions, and templates. A fine and bright copy. More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. A collection of writings about railways by various authors. 555 pages with illustrations, references, and index. Very good in good only dust jacket. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. First US edition, first printing. Hardcover. A ride on the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to the Pacific, a journey of 6,000 miles. 267 pages with photographs, bibliography and index. Fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket. More
Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1945. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Deals with fact and theory in fiction form. It is concerned with the past, present and future of railroads and railroading. Bound in original black cloth with lettering in gilt. 323 pages with photographs. Map endpapers. A very good..... More
Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1984. First edition, first printing. Oblong softcover. Significant facts, figures, and features of over 140 railroads in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico..219 pages with photographs with index. A near fine copy. More
Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1980. First edition, seventh printing. Oblong softcover. 459 pages of photographs and data information on diesels with new models added and corrected production totals since the 1967 version of this book. A handy 5.5" X 7.5" guide. One very light corner crease to the front..... More
Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1981. First edition, third printing. Oblong softcover. An update to THE SECOND DIESEL SPOTTERS GUIDE. 161 pages of photographs and information on diesels with new models. A handy 5.5" X 7.5" guide. A fine and bright copy. More
Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1982. First edition, first printing. Oblong softcover. A reference on over 28,000 locomotives on 91 class 1 railroads. 123 pages of rosters with phtographs. Bound in original color pictorial limp card covers. Some creasing from use. A very good copy. More
Amsterdam / New York: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Presents thirteen papers by various authors. 265 pages with photographs, tables, equations, graphs and diagrams. Bround in original black cloth with lettering in white. A fine copy, issued without dust jacket. More
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003. Second printing. Trade paperback. An essential reference guide to steam locomotives: how they work, and how they have developed across the world over the past 150 years. 348 pages with photographs, illustrations, graphs, tables, diagrams, and index. A near fine, bright copy. More
Lynchburg, VA: TLC Publishing, 1999. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. A look at the D&RGW's standard gauge steam locomotives in the "big Power" era and ending with the last of steam. 104 pages with photographs, some in color. Bound in lustrous color illustrated boards. A fine and bright copy, issued..... More
Denver, CO: Sundance Publications, Ltd., 1983. First edition, first printing. Oblong hardcover. A survey of the railways of Northern California during the decade and a half after the end of World War II. 224 pages of text with numerous photographs, many in color. Fine and bright in fine original clear..... More
Oxford, New York: Pergamon Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. The purpose of this symposium was to critically review some of the problem areas, to supplement these with accounts of ongoing improvement projects, and to provide a forum for railroad planners and managers and other interested parties to exchange ideas about..... More
Hove, UK: Off the Rails Publication, 2004. First edition. Softcover. 132 pages with photographs. A fine and bright copy. More
Harrisburg, PA;: The National Historical Society, 1987. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of the 1900 edition published by the Government Printing Office. North Atlantic Blockading Squadron from October 28, 1864, to February 1, 1865. 915 pages with foldout maps. Bound in original blue cloth with lettering in gilt. Very fine, issued without..... More
Ouray, CO: Wayfinder Press, 1985. Second edition. Softcover. The comprehensive planning guide to rail travel in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Descriptions and photographs of attractions along the routes. Where to saty and what to do. Maps of rail routes anc cities. Station locations, transportaion information and other services..... More
Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1979. Second printing. Softcover. A photo album of a century of transcontinenetal railroading 1869-1969. 103 photographic plates. Bound in stiff paper illustrated covers. Moderate spine lean. A very good copy. More
Harrisburg, PA: Geological Survey of Pennsylvania / Board of Commissioners, 1884. Hardcover. Extended title reads, "Illustrated by a Map of Pennsylvania showing the Glaciated Region, Eighteen Photographic Views of the Moraine, and Thirty-Two Page Plate Maps and Sections." Lengthy letter of transmittal xlix. 299 pages with index. All plates present..... More
Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey/USGS/Government Printing Office/GPO, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Contains in condensed form the results of the work of the divisions of hydrography and engineering in the arid region of thewest up to June 30, 1890. 395 pages with maps and illustrations. All plates present. Bound in..... More
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1977. Uldis Klavins. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. The First Edition Society issue. Bound in full burgandy leather with three raised bands, red silk moire endpapers, the design and lettering stamped in gilt, and gilt edging to the text block. Fine and bright, issued without..... More
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1980. Edward A. Wilson. First edition thus, first printing. Hardcover. A volume in Easton's 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series. Introduction by John Mason Brown. Illustrated throughout by Edward A. Wilson. Bound in maroon full leather with design and lettering stamped in gilt. Lavender silk moire..... More
