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By: N/A
Price: $12.00
Stock No.: 77097
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Volume 124, No. 24. The trade weekly magazine for the rail industry. Contains a feature story on the Trailer Train company. With lots of period advertising for the various rail suppliers of the day. With light wear and address sticker to the Comptroller of the D&RGWRR in Denver. Ships via First-Class Mail (or Priority Mail if so desired). ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 82 pages View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: St. Ives, Huntingdon, U.K., Photo Precision Ltd.: [c.1970s]
Stock No.: 82720
ISBN: 0859330281
Condition: Very Good
A slim booklet profiling many of the steam locomotives in use in the British Isles from 1829 to 1951. In all, the power units of 30 British lines are featured, each with a color illustration of a locomotive, and the emblem of the railroad which put it into service. --- A softcover copy in stapled wraps. Booklet in very nice condition; clean and bright but with lengthy gift inscription inked to inside of front cover.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); 32 pages View more info
By: N/A
Price: $11.00
Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad: 1937
Stock No.: 83790
Condition: Very Good
System time tables and condensed schedules for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, dated May 16, 1937. At the height of steam-powered passenger service, travel by train was "the way to go" in the USA. With detailed timetables for all B&O and affiliated railroad routes, serving both large and small cities; also with a condensed version in a separate booklet. Each with East Coast to Kansas City B&O system map in center of publication. --- In folded stapled wraps, with covers in blue and white. Main time table features period ads. --- Both brochures in good shape, though with minor rubbing and... View more info
Price: $16.00
Publisher: New York, Bonanza Books: [c.1960s-70s]
Stock No.: 83206
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
The glory days of American steam locomotives are displayed in this gallery of historic black & white photos, collected by former Southern Pacific locomotive engineer George B. Abdill. These several dozen photos portray power units, railroad people, and the sights to be seen along the trackage. This work was originally published by Superior Publishing Company of Seattle. --- In full orange cloth-covered boards with titling in black to spine. Dust jacket with engine images to front panel. --- With prior owner's signature and bookplate affixed to front free endpaper, Christmas-time sticker to ver... View more info
By: ADAMS, Kramer A.
Price: $17.50
Publisher: New York, Bonanza Books: 1961
Stock No.: 82807
Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
A summary of the railroads that were built to address the needs of loggers and mills in the Western U.S. With dozens of black & white photos depicting logging operations, locomotives, and several impressive but rather dodgy-looking trestles. Includes listing of logging railroads by state at rear of volume; indexed. --- In full beige cloth-covered boards with spine titling in dark brown. Jacket with blue monochrome image of train pulling logs. --- A very nice copy: clean, bright and tightly bound but with slight soiling to cloth. Jacket with rubbing, light chipping to edges and a little fading... View more info
By: Administration, U.S. National Archives and Records
Price: $10.00
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service: 1989
Stock No.: 75110
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
2nd Edition, May 1989. In nice shape, clean and unmarked. Intended for use as an aid in the reading of NOAA aeronautical charts.; 11 in. wide x 8-1/2 in. tall; 108 pages View more info
By: Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Dayton, Ohio, Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc.: [c1980s]
Stock No.: 77346
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
A catalog of the exhibits at the Museum in Dayton, with descriptions and photos of hundreds of various aircraft housed there, from the Wright brothers through spacecraft. The volume is undated, but likely produced in the 1980s. Cover with a 1916-vintage SE-5E WWI biplane. --- A clean, bright, firm copy lacking obvious damages. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 162 pages View more info
By: ALLAN, Ian
Price: $18.00
Publisher: London, Ian Allen: 1964
Stock No.: 78376
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
A roundup of the various types of locomotives and other equipment used on United Kingdom railroads in the 1960s. With numerous b&w and color photos. Text supplies details about the trains pictured. No author or editorial names are provided. --- In pictorial hardcovers; lacks a dust jacket (likely as issued). --- A clean, bright copy without markings but with mildly bumped cover corners. Scarce in this edition.; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 64 pages View more info
Price: $11.50
Publisher: Seattle, Washington, Superior Publishing Company: 1958
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 82805
Condition: Fair with no dust jacket
The daunting job of felling, milling and transporting the magnificent redwood trees of Northern California is described in this work. With numerous historic black & white photos of the men, railroads, saws, sawmills and ships used in this effort. --- In grey cloth-covered boards with woody titling in red to cover and spine. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A Fair only copy, with a near-complete split at rear hinge and retailer's rubberstampings to front endpapers, else binding is rather tight and leaves are clean.; Small Quarto (9 to 11 in. tall); 174 pages View more info
By: ANGELUCCI, Enzo
Price: $43.50
Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers, Inc.: 1981
Stock No.: 77691
ISBN: 0517547244
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
A hefty compendium of all manner of aircraft of the world. Contains over 3000 illustrations, many in color, depicting alternate views, comparative sizes of aircraft, airline insignias, engines, and much more. --- In full blue paper-covered boards with titling in silver on spine. Jacket with color images of aircraft, in their commercial or military paint schemes. --- A bright, clean, firm copy in similar jacket. (NOTE: Due to substantial weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested.) ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 414 pages View more info
Price: $30.50
Publisher: New York, Viking Penguin: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Stock No.: 83777
ISBN: 067080889X
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
A signed first printing of David Haward Bain's monumental description of the construction of America's transcontinental railroad, which was completed in 1869. The author goes into great detail regarding the feats of engineering and logistics necessary to complete this link, which had such an important impact on the future growth of the United States. With an emphasis on the workers, entrepreneurs and engineers who actually built the two railroads: the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific. With a lengthy section of plates at mid-volume bearing photos of leading figures and construction scenes ... View more info
By: BALL Jr., Don
Price: $14.00
Publisher: New York, Galahad Books: 1972
Stock No.: 83352
ISBN: 0883651009
Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
Extensively illustrated with photos, this work takes the reader through the transformation of America's railroads from coal-fired steam engines to diesels. With introduction by David P. Morgan and dozens of black & white photos. --- In grey paper-covered boards with spine titling in white. Jacket with photos from both the steam and diesel eras. --- A clean, bright, unmarked copy. Unclipped jacket with chips, rubbing and small tears but intact and protected in removable archival mylar protector.; Quarto - 11 to 13 in. tall; 296, (8) pages View more info
By: BECKSROM, Paul; BRAUN, David W.
Price: $140.00
Publisher: Edmonds, Washington, Pacific Fast Mail: 1992
Stock No.: 83079
ISBN: 0915713241
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
A history of the Swayne Lumber Company of northern California, and the narrow gauge railroad they operated as part of their business. Based at Oroville, California, the railroad was used to transport logs from the forests to the company's mills. Many of the black & white photos in this work were taken by Lloyd Swayne, a photography buff and son of founder Robert Swayne. With color paintings by John Coker and Jim Finnell. Includes schematic drawings of railroad equipment and finished Swayne wood products by Al Armitage and others; along with rosters of company equipment and maps. The authors al... View more info
By: BEEBE, Lucius
Price: $49.00
Publisher: Berkeley, California, Howell-North Books: 1959
Stock No.: 83775
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
First edition. The fabulous private Pullman cars that were used by the "well-born and well-off" of America as they traveled across the country are profiled in this work by the noted railroading expert Lucius Beebe, himself a connoisseur of these opulent cars. Includes 350 photographs (6 in color) and with plentiful illustrations by Howard Fogg, Robert Richards and E. S. Hammack; also with drawings, sketches of car layouts, menus, itineraries and other details about these opulent rolling "mansions". Appendix includes roster of Pullman business and private cars built between 1882... View more info
By: BEEBE, Lucius; CLEGG, Charles
Price: $20.50
Publisher: Oakland, California, Grahame Hardy: 1951
Stock No.: 82996
Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket
Stated second edition of this history of San Francisco's various cable car lines. With over 150 historic black & white photos, showing the golden age of San Francisco. Decorations by E. S. Hammack. Color drawings of various S.F. cable cars to endpapers and with at least one map. --- In brown paper-covered boards with cable car illustration to cover, white spine titling. Jacket with elaborate color Hammack drawing of a busy city street scene. --- With a partial split at mid-volume which doesn't affect the soundness of the binding, and with a little cover edge rubbing & prior owner's signature t... View more info
By: BEEBE, Lucius; CLEGG, Charles
Price: $34.50
Publisher: New York, Rinehart & Company, Inc.: [1957]
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 83013
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
First edition, with Rinehart colophon on copyright page. The great legacy of documenting American railroads by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg is augmented with this tribute to the steam engines that were being phased out as this work was being published. Includes over 500 illustrations, consisting of black & white historic photos and engraved drawings. --- In full pale green cloth-covered boards with titling in white on red cover & spine ovals. Jacket features color painting by Howard Fogg to front panel, and a color photo of the authors enjoying a meal in one of their privately-owned Pullman ... View more info
By: BEEBE, Lucius; CLEGG, Charles
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Stock No.: 83017
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
A first edition of this account, in words and pictures, of the glamorous days of railroading, when ". . .the starred performer was the brave engineer". With 223 pages of black & white photos and illustrations of locomotives, trains, people, stations and rail-side sights, which artistically depict the strange beauty of these railroads. --- In full black cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations in gilt and silver on cover and spine. Jacket with color Howard Fogg painting of Pennsylvania & Reading RR train to cover. --- Once wrapped in an old-style Bro-Dart mylar dust jacket prot... View more info
By: BEEBE, Lucius; CLEGG, Charles
Price: $22.50
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers: [c.1960s-70s]
Stock No.: 83743
Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
The fascinating story of the impact of American railroads on the country is documented in pictures and words by the noted railroad author/photographer duo of Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg.. Includes 870 illustrations, consisting of black & white historic photos and engraved drawings as well as 10 original drawings by E. S. Hammack. A reprint edition, possibly published in 1960s-1970s, of this work originally published by E. P. Dutton in 1952. --- In textured olive paper-covered boards backed in red cloth, with titling in gilt and black to spine. Jacket features Ron Ziel black & white photo of... View more info
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club: 1980
Inscription: Signed by Author
Stock No.: 83216
ISBN: 0910146322
Condition: Very Good
Per the back cover, this work details the history of logging in New Hampshire at the turn of the 20th century. The timber was needed for lumber and paper in the rapidly-growing country, and logging companies relied heavily upon steam-powered trains to transport both the logs and the finished products to market. With 20 maps and 60 black & white historic photo. With a foreword by Sherman Adams. Signed by author C. Francis Belcher on half title page. --- In brown wraps with color Arch McDonnell painting to cover. --- A clean, tightly-bound copy, but with minor chafing and creasing to extremities... View more info
By: BEST, Gerald M.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Berkeley, California, Howell-North Books: 1965
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 83351
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
A first edition of this history of California's Nevada County Railroad. Notable for its high trestles & bridges, the narrow gauge line was built to service the mines, and also carried passengers between Colfax and the "twin cities" of Nevada City and Grass Valley. With several dozen black & white photos of people, equipment, timetables and other relevant information. Also with route and yard maps, specifications, power units, rolling stock and other info. Includes a fold-out schematic drawing to NCNGRR unit no. 5. --- In orange cloth-covered boards with railroad insignia stamped in mar... View more info
By: BEUTER, Arthur J.; DUKE, Donald (editor)
Price: $33.00
Publisher: San Marino, California, Pacific Railway Journal: 1957
Stock No.: 83771
Condition: Very Good
Volume 2, Number 1 of the Pacific Railway Journal. This issue describes the operations of railroads maintained by the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company in Washington and Oregon. Locomotives, cars, lines and people are all depicted as they extract logs from the forests. This issue was originally published in an April, 1935 work entitled "Baldwin Locomotives". --- A thin softcover copy, in stapled wraps with black & white photo of a log-hauling train and wooden trestle to cover. --- An excellent copy: unmarked and sound but with a bit of age-toning to covers.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; ... View more info
Price: $11.00
Publisher: New York, Empire State Railway Museum, Inc.: 1969
Stock No.: 82718
Condition: Very Good-
A guide to various local operating United States and Canadian passenger tourist railways as of 1969. Includes steam and trolley (electric) lines, as well as museums devoted to railroading. Each line is profiled, with black & white photo and information about locations, schedules, fares, and amenties. Organized alphabetically by state or province. A tribute to the centennial of the laying of the Golden Spike is also included, as is a section of black & white photos of steam locomotives at back of volume. --- A softcover copy, with Golden Spike art and references to gold-toned front and back cov... View more info
By: BOLLINGER, Edward T.; BAUER, Frederick
Price: $140.00
Publisher: Denver, Sage Books / Alan Swallow: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Stock No.: 83012
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Number 456 in a limited edition of 2000 copies, so noted on a limitation page and signed by both authors, with full color Otto Kuhler painting. The story of the Moffat Road, "America's most colorful railroad" is told, with dozens of historic black & white photos, schematics and schedules. The road was notable for its Moffat Tunnel through the Continental Divide, as well as many other smaller tunnels. Folded map of the Moffat Road routes used by the Road's operating companies laid in. Also laid in is a separate publication in stapled wraps, which provides supplementary information about... View more info
Price: $27.00
Publisher: Boston, Ginn and Company: 1907
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 82377
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
First edition. A description of the development of railways through the Appalachian Mountains and in the eastern U.S. With lots of black & white illustrations. The intent of this work, per the author's preface, is to make geography and history interesting to his target audience, which is the student. --- In pale green cloth-covered boards with titling and railroad-and-pine-tree motif to cover and spine. --- An exceptionally clean, tightly-bound copy, though with penciled notations to front free endpaper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); viii, 188 pages View more info
By: BROWN, Dee
Price: $11.00
Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston: 1977
Edition: BCE
Stock No.: 82728
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
A full-sized book club edition of Dee Brown's examination of the importance of transcontinental railroads in building the American West. With several black & white photos and drawings, as well as maps of western rail routes at endpapers by Rafael Palacios. --- In full black cloth, with titling in gold and red foil to spine. Dust jacket with image of steam locomotive to cover. --- A sound, bright copy but with spot of soiling to top textblock edge. Jacket with sunned spine, sticker remnants to spine, and a little chipping and creasing to edges; else bright and intact.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall);... View more info
By: BRYAN, C.D.B. (text); LARKIN, David (art direction and design)
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Toronto, Peacock Press/Bantam Books: 1982
Stock No.: 78434
ISBN: 055301384X
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
A softcover reprint edition of earlier work featuring exhibits from the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum. With copious color photos. Extensive text explains the histories of flight in its many variations. --- In pictorial covers. A firm, clean copy though with some chafing to cover extremities. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 160 pages View more info
By: BRYAN, C.D.B. (text); LARKIN, David (art direction and design)
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Toronto, Peacock Press/Bantam Books: 1982
Stock No.: 78435
ISBN: 0553013858
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
A softcover reprint edition of earlier work featuring exhibits from the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum. With copious color photos. Extensive text explains the histories of space travel in its many variations. --- In pictorial covers. A firm, clean copy though with some chafing to cover extremities. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 160 pages View more info
Price: $95.00
Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1930
Edition: First Trade Edition
Stock No.: 82848
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
A memoir of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's aviation adventures flying in Antarctica, based at Little America, and including his first-ever flyover of the South Pole. With 74 black & white photos and maps, including two fold-out maps. Signed by Byrd on half title page. Though stated as a first edition, this is actually the first trade edition, following the Author's First Deluxe Edition. --- In full electric blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on cover and spine; gilt-stamped frame and aircraft to front cover. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A somewhat loosened front hinge ... View more info
By: CAIN, Charles W. (general editor)
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Windsor, Berkshire, England/Garden City, New York, Profile Publications Ltd./Doubleday & Company Inc.: 1975
Stock No.: 79086
ISBN: 0385099827
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
Revised (4th) edition, 1975. A U.S. edition of the first volume in the Aircraft in Profile series, providing in-depth descriptions of twelve important aircraft models used in World War I and World War II. With dozens of color illustrations and black & white photos. A facsimile edition of the first volume in the series. Publishers' dust jacket sticker apologizes for the lessened quality of the photos. --- In blue paper-covered boards and with titling gilt-stamped on spine. Dust jacket with aircraft images on front and back. --- Remainder spray to lower textblock edge, otherwise a clean, firm, u... View more info
By: CARRANCO, Lyunwood; SORENSEN, Henry L.
Price: $54.00
Publisher: Caldwell, Idaho, The Caxton Printers, Ltd.: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 83214
ISBN: 0870043218
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
First edition. The difficult job of felling, milling and transporting the magnificent redwood trees of Humboldt County in Northern California required the use of various steam-powered railroads. These railroads are described in this work, along with dozens of black & white photos, as well as rosters and maps. --- In cloth-covered boards with wrap-around red monochrome illustration of a steam locomotive pulling a load of mammoth logs. Jacket repeats the monochrome photo from the book covers. --- A clean, tightly-bound copy, but with a hint of rubbing to edges. Dust jacket is in excellent condit... View more info
By: CAVALIER, Julian
Price: $29.00
Publisher: Cranbury, New Jersey, A. S. Barnes & Co., Inc.: 1979
Stock No.: 77689
ISBN: 0498021211
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Some of the notable railway stations in towns and cities in Canada and the U.S. are profiled here. Each station is pictured with over 300 photos, usually in black & white (but a few in color), along with a brief description of the railway they are on, with architectural features and history. Introduced and edited by Frederick A. Platt. Indexed. --- In full blue paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine. 2 color photos of stations on jacket cover. --- A bright, firm, unmarked copy lacking apparent damages. Jacket with crease & tiny tear to upper front edge, else very nice an... View more info
By: CHAPPELL, Gordon
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Golden, Colorado, Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation: 1967
Stock No.: 82794
Condition: Very Good
A thin pictorial history of narrow gauge railroading over Southern Colorado's and Northern New Mexico's 10,015 foot Cumbres Pass, ("Los Cumbres"), the highest rail pass in the United States. The line also runs through the steep Toltec Gorge. Originally built starting in 1879 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, the line ran from Alamosa, Colorado to Chama, New Mexico and ceased operations in 1967. However, a joint effort by the two states resulted in the 1970 rebirth of the line, renamed the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad. This book offers historic views of trains along these track... View more info
By: CHAPPELL, Gordon; HAUCK, Cornelius W.
Price: $26.00
Publisher: Golden, Colorado, Colorado Railroad Museum: 1970
Stock No.: 83213
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
In lieu of bypassing the Rocky Mountains in a quest to complete a transcontinental railroad route, the overseers of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad chose to route their narrow-gauge trains directly through these rugged mountains. This volume offers two separate works in one regarding this subject: Scenic Line of the World by Gordon Chappell, and Black Canon Revisited by Cornelius W. Hauck. These stories are told, along with dozens of historic photos, timetables and maps; as well as two color paintings by Otto Kuhler. --- In full brown cloth-covered boards with titling in gilt to cover... View more info
By: CHODA, Kelly
Price: $17.00
Publisher: Aurora, Colorado, The Filter Press: 1956
Stock No.: 83758
Condition: Very Good
A description of the various routes, passes, gorges and other challenges faced by the builders of narrow gauge railroads in the Rocky Mountains, especially by the Denver & Rio Grande Western RR and others. With plenty of black & white engraved illustrations depicting some of the rugged terrain in which the rails were laid. With a two-page map of the Rio Grande system in 1885 at mid-volume. The title is a reference to the weight of one yard of steel rail, as produced at a steel mill at Pueblo, Colorado and laid in the Rockies. --- A softcover copy, in yellow stapled wraps with wrap-around black... View more info
By: COHEN, Marvin H.; BOGEN, Stephen D. (editors)
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Middletown, New York, Empire State Railway Museum, Inc.: 1986
Stock No.: 82696
Condition: Very Good
A guide to various local operating United States and Canadian passenger tourist railways as of 1968. Includes steam, trolley, electric, diesel lines, as well as museums devoted to railroading. Each line is profiled, with black & white photo and information about locations, schedules, fares, and amenties. Organized alphabetically by state or province. --- A softcover copy, with color illustrations to front and back covers. In very nice shape: clean and unmarked.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); 200 pages View more info
By: COHEN, Stan
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Missoula, Montana, Pictorial Histories Publishing Company: 1984
Stock No.: 83073
ISBN: 0933126190
Condition: Very Good-
Stated third printing, March 1984. A tribute to the steamboats that plied the Yukon River during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1800s & early 1900s. With dozens of black & white photos, a few maps and reproductions of advertisements and schematic drawings. --- A softcover edition, in stiff wraps with color steamboat images to covers. --- A sound copy, clean and tightly bound but with 1-inch tear to back cover.; Quarto (11 to 13 in. tall); 118 pages View more info
By: COLLMAN, Russ (author); McCOY, Dell A. (publisher)
Price: $70.00
Publisher: Denver, Sundance Publications, Limited: 1990
Stock No.: 83356
Condition: Near Fine
A likely first edition of this first volume in the eventual 12-volume set, detailing the history of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad. The railroad was the final narrow gauge line to be built in Colorado, starting in 1890. The trains served the mines and towns of southwestern Colorado, generally south of Montrose in Ridgway, Telluride, Rico, Dolores, and Durango. Being some of the most challenging, steep terrain in the Colorado Rockies, the RGS had to construct numerous bridges and trestles. This portfolio of historic and modern photos in black & white and color tells the story of the power uni... View more info
By: CORBIN, Bernard G.; KERKA, William F.
Price: $17.00
Publisher: New York, Bonanza Books: 1978
Stock No.: 83077
ISBN: 0517261952
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
This work offers detailed descriptions of the steam locomotives used on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, or the "Burlington Route". With over 530 illustrations, including b&w photos, drawings, specifications of engines, route maps, and rosters. Also provided is a history of the railroad, which grew rapidly as its lines spread west across the plains from Chicago. Includes a color frontis painting of a Burlington train underway by Alvin F. Stauffer. --- In blue paper-covered boards backed in pale blue cloth, with dark blue spine titling. Jacket with color photo of a Burlington ... View more info
By: CROSSEN, Forest
Price: $110.00
Publisher: Boulder, Colorado, Pruett Press, Inc.: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Stock No.: 83139
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
A tribute to the narrow gauge railways built and operated in the 19th century to serve the mines and mining towns in the Colorado Rockies west of Boulder. The book tells the story of the Colorado & Northwestern RR; the Denver, Boulder & Western RR, the Colorado & Southern RR and the Greeley, Salt Lake & Pacific RR. With four full color paintings (3 by Howard Fogg, 1 by Richard Ward) as well as hundreds of black and white photos, timetables, old ads and promotions and a few maps. Rear pocket contains two additional folded maps, showing route systems of two of the lines. A limited edition (no. 3... View more info
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By: CROSSEN, Forest
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Boulder, Colorado, Boulder Publishing Co., Inc.: 1966
Stock No.: 83757
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Number four in the Western Yesterdays series, presenting 20 interviews with interesting people who describe their adventures, principally in Colorado and the American West. Includes a section of 4 plates with photos on both sides, plus a two-page map of the west-central U.S. at rear of volume. --- A softcover copy, in stiff wraps with wrap-around black & white image of a Colorado & Northwestern narrow gauge steam locomotive pulling cars at Sunset, Colorado in 1898. --- An excellent copy: tightly bound and unmarked.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (6), 94 pages View more info
