Erie, PA: Heisler Locomotive Works, 1923. Softcover. Twenty-four pages with builder's photographs with class number and capacities, numerous photographs of working locomitives for logging, coal, slag, and excavations, part illustrations with descriptions. Every page with an informative description. Bound in original brown stiff paper covers printed in tan, black and..... More
Lima, OH: Lima Locomotive Works, 1925. Softcover. This is not a later facsimile reprint issue. This is the original first printing. A catalogue of 28 pages with builder's photographs and data plus mail in sheet in rear. Bound with staples plus string tie, tan stiff paper covers printed in dark..... More
Lima, OH: Lima Locomotive Works, 1921. Softcover. This is not a later facsimile reprint issue. This is the original first printing. A catalogue of 24 pages with builder's photographs and data plus mail in sheet in rear. Bound with staples plus string tie, tan stiff paper covers printed in dark..... More
Corry, PA: Climax Manufacturing Company [circa 1901]. Oblong softcover. An early Climax catalogue which states they have already built 250 locomotives, having passed the experimental stage. Fifty-one pages with a description of the various Climax type of locomotives, engraved illustrations of the geared trucks, upright locomotives, horizontal locomotives, and logging..... More
Corry, PA: Climax Manufacturing Company, 1924. Oblong softcover. Western Union code word, "Climaxloco." Thirty-one pages with a description of the various Climax type of locomotives, builder's illustrations with data on opposing page, full-page photographs of locomotives in use, and several pages of information in the rear. The final page is..... More
Erie, PA/Tacoma, WA: Heisler Locomotive Works/Whitney Engineering Co.. 1908. Oblong softcover. Sixteen pages with detailed frame illustrations, geared truck illustrations, center shaft and couplings illustrations, compound steam brake illustrations, boiler and fittings illustrations, motor engines illustration, reversing valve gear illustration, and piston and connecting rods illustrations, with each part located..... More
Erie, PA: Heisler Locomotive Works, 1908. Oblong softcover. Forty-seven pages with builder's photographs and full-page photographs of the locomotives in use. Informtation is provided on Requirements of a Perfect Geared Locomotive, Arrangement of Gearing, Trucks and Gearing, Sand-boxes, Univeral Couplings, Main Bearings, Motor Engines, Centrally Located Driving-Shaft, Main Frame, Brake..... More
New York: Hyperion, 1993. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket in the original shrink wrap with the paperback copy of THE LOST GET-BACK BOOGIE, as issued. Unopened in the original shrinkwrap. More
Columbus, OH: Kilbourne & Jacobs Mfg. Co., 1910. Oblong softcover. Thirty-six pages of K&J contractors steam shovel cars [dump cars] with descriptions, data and information. Photographs of 1½, 3, 4, and 6 yard capacity, two-way dump cars; 6 yard capacity, hopper dump cars; 1½ yard capacity, rotary dump cars; track..... More
Chicago: Goodman Manufacturing Company [1922], 1922. Oblong softcover. Sixty-four pages with full-page photographs of Goodman electric locomotives in the mines and above, and builder's illustrations. The photographs feature 20-ton three-motor locomotives, 20-ton, 15-ton, 13-ton, 10-ton, 8-ton, and 6-ton two-motor locomotives, single motor locomotives and battery locomotives. Illustrations of appliances and..... More
New York, Chicago, St. Louis: American Steel Foundries [circa 1913]. Oblong softcover. The Davis One-Ware Steel Wheel is the logical successor of the cast iron wheel. Thirty-two pages with photographs, illustrations, diagrams, descriptions and data tables. Bound in original gray stiff paper covers printed in green and orange with red..... More
Harrisburg, PA;: The National Historical Society, 1987. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of the 1898 edition published by the Government Printing Office. North Atlantic Blockading Squadron from March 8 to September 4, 1862. 894 pages. Bound in original blue cloth with lettering in gilt. Very fine, issued without dust jacket. An as..... More
Corry, PA: Climax Manufacturing Company [1913], 1913. Oblong softcover. Western Union code word, "Climaxloco." Thirty-two pages with a description of the various Climax type of locomotives, builder's illustrations with data on opposing page, full-page photographs of locomotives in use, and several pages of information in the rear. The final page..... More
Erie, PA: Heisler Locomotive Works [1912], 1912. First edition, first issue. Oblong softcover. Forty-seven pages with builder's photographs and full-page photographs of the locomotives in use. Informtation is provided on Requirements of a Perfect Geared Locomotive, Arrangement of Gearing, Trucks and Gearing, Sand-boxes, Univeral Couplings, Main Bearings, Motor Engines, Centrally..... More
Pittsburgh, PA: H.K. Porter Company, 1920. Softcover. The Porter Fireless Steam Locomotive is a steam locomotive without boiler and firebox. A simple exlantion on the workings is in the introduction.Thirty-two pages wtih builder's photographs and data information below or above, half-page and full-page photographic examples of the locomotives in use..... More
Pittsburgh, PA: H.K. Porter Company, 1913. Oblong softcover. Eighty three pages with four pages of locomotive builder's photographs, 35 photographic or illustrated plates of Porter steam locomotive repair parts with details listed on the opposite page, and index. Supplement plates 36 and 37 of Walschaert Valve Motion Details and Assembly..... More
San Francisco: Arthur Koppel Company, 1908. Softcover. Fifty-six pages with numerous illustrations with data and descriptive information; rails, spikes and wooden ties, steel ties, switches, turnouts, track climbers, cast plate track, turn-tables, cast steel wheels, bearings, dump cars, platform cars, steel mine cars, logging cars, sugar cane cars, gondola and..... More
Bay City, MI: Industrial Works [circa 1910]. Softcover. Sixty-three pages with numerous half-page, full-page and double page illustions of Industrial Works locomotive cranes, pile drivers, rail saws, wrecking crane, steam shovles, their types, table of data, descriptive information, boom diagrams, industrial works plant, and index. Bound in olive stiff paper..... More
Duluth, MN: Clyde Irion Works Sales Company [circa 1913]. Staple bound. Thirty-nine pages illustrated with mostly full-page examples of their rail logging machinery.and equipment with descriptive data on each. Topics include the McGiffert Loader on rails or as a skidder, the deck loader, and the Clyde "Rapid" logging machine. Each..... More
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Columbus, OH: Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, 1909. Staple bound. General instructions for the care and operation of electric mine locomotives together with brief descriptions of locomotive equipment. 71 pages with illustrations, photographs of equipment and mining locomotives and locomotives in use, plus other coal mining equipment. Staple bound in original green..... More
Cleveland: White Company, 1920. Paper covers. 26 pages with illustrations of the various trucks plus descriptive information on each and their engines and parts. Bound in original olive stiff paper covers illustrated and lettered in dark green, light green and orange. A near fine, handsome copy. More
Erie, PA: Heisler Locomotive Works, 1923. First edition, first issue. Paper covers. This is the original issue printed by Heisler, not the 1973 facsimile.reprint. 32 pages with numerous photographs of working locomitives for logging, coal, slag, and excavations. Every page with an informative description. Bound in original orange stiff paper..... More
Schenectady, NY: General Electric Company/Power and Mining Department, 1904. Paper covers. 67 pages with numerous photographs of motors, parts, equipment and electric locomotives, either singly or in use at various mining operations. Two order pages in the rear. Errata slip laid in. Bound in original gray stiff paper covers printed..... More
New York [about 1905]: Terry & Tench Co., Inc. Paper covers. A catalogue with data and information on Guy Derricks, Stiff Leg Derricks, Hand Power Guy Derricks, Hand Power Stiff Leg Derricks, Jenniwinks, Derrick Fittings, Hand Powers, Various Blocks, Downhill Balls, Takle Blocks and Sheaves, Wire Rope, Erection Tools, Derrick..... More
Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. First edition thus, first printing. Hardcover. "First Printing, June 1979" noted on the copyright page. New introduction by Sandra Miesel. Nebula nominee, 1970. Hugo nominee, 1971. Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 1987, *4-557. Magill, Survey of Science Fiction Literature, pp 2520 - 2524. Bound in original dark..... More
