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4449 Daylight Decade: Celebrating the Daylight Legend
Stock #: KB10771
Author: Harold A. Edmonson
List Price: $19.95
Karen's Price:
$12.95
"50th Anniverysary Commemorative Edition". The Daylight series of steam locomotives were among the most famous in the world even before #4449 was pulled out of Oaks park in Portland, OR in 1974 to undergo the restoration process that would see the locomotive not only pull The American Freedom Train in 1975-76 but propel a variety of special passenger trains across the Western U.S. during the decade beginning in 1981.
This book celebrates the Daylight legend and 50 years (1941-1991) of engine 4449. Color photos. Soft cover. more»
Subject: Trains
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Lake Line
Stock #: KB10574
Author: Bajema, Kindem & Budzynski
List Price: $55.00
Karen's Price:
$44.95
The Lake Line relates in time to an experience living in the electric interurban and street car era between 1900 and 1928. The Lake Line Interurban did more than just carry passengers and express freight between Grand Rapids, Grand Haven and Muskegon and points in between. The Interurban also completed with steam railroads for passengers and packages bound to and from Chicago. 180 photographs, 27 maps, 7 timetables, 27 advertisements and 17 other illustrations are included. Hard cover.
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Subject: Trains
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New York Subway Cars, from R-1 to R-160
Stock #: KB10468
Author: James Greller
List Price: $65.00
Karen's Price:
$39.95
This popular work now updated with the newest additions to the vast New York City transit system. The book picks up where the third edition left off with the order of the R110 A/B test trains. Covering the new orders of R142, R143 and R160 in detail and supported by drawings and color photographs by some of the best urban rail photographers. In this new hard cover 200-page book all the historical facts from the first R1 to the future fleet of R188s are covered. The retirement and disposition of the R32s and R40s is also included as well as some work equipment. In full color with drawings of each car and roster information. A must for the New York subway spotter and a history of where the great system is headed in the future. Hard cover. more»
Subject: Trains
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Steam on the Kettle Valley
Stock #: 14666
Author: Robert Turner
List Price: $24.95
Karen's Price:
$19.95
Chronicles the history of the railway, the restoration project to have "steam" on the Kettle Valley again, and historical insights. Features an outstanding selection of B&W and color photos. Many Canadian Pacific and Kettle Valley railroaders and their family members have contributed to this book over the years. Soft Cover.
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Subject: Trains
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West From Omaha
Stock #: 11176
Author: Jack Pfeifer
List Price: $69.95
Karen's Price:
$49.95
Features the superb color photos of Jack Pfeifer, this classic covers the Union Pacific's Big Boys, the Challengers, Great Northern steam, D&RG and RGS narrow gauge, first generation diesels and more. Hard Cover.
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Subject: Trains
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TravElectric: The Story of the Rochester, Syracuse & Eastern Railroad and Associated Lines
Stock #: 13863
Author: James R. McFarlane
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The Rochester, Syracuse & Eastern Railroad is a double-tracked high speed electric line, directly connecting Syracuse and Rochester, a distance of 86 miles. This also is the story of the several Beebe Syndicate electric railways in central and western New York State during the 1st third of the 20th Century. Hard cover. more»
Subject: Trains
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Railroads In the African American Experience
Stock #: 13578
Author: Theodore Kornweibel Jr.
List Price: $40.00
Karen's Price:
$29.95
This book takes the reader on an illustrated tour of the black railroad experience from slavery to Amtrak. With almost 200 photos the author examines the significant contribution of African Americans to the building, maintenance, operation, and profitability of the American railway system. 18 color photos & 191 B&W. Hard cover. more»
Subject: Trains
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Jeffrey: Coal & Ash Machinery Handling Catalog
Stock #: 13575
List Price: $0.00
Karen's Price:
$24.95
Only 2 Left!!! Founded in 1876 by Francis Lechner & Joseph A. Jeffrey, The Jeffrey Manufacturing Co. produced the USA’s first power-driven coal cutter. This catalog includes bucket carriers, conveyors, elevators, weight larries, track hoppers, track feeders, skip hoists, crushers, coal storage equipment and more. Soft Cover. more»
Subject: Trains
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Mountain Timber: The Comox Logging Company in the Vancouver Island Mountains
Stock #: 13592
Author: Richard Mackie
List Price: $42.95
Karen's Price:
$24.95
On one level the story of loggers and their machines—cold deckers, skidders, geared locies and many more. The book's nine chapters alternate revealingly between logging and social history: between working landscapes and the communities they supported. A stunning visual feast, this richly illustrated history contains 340 photographs of the men, women, families and communities supported by logging. Soft Cover.
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Subject: Trains
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Richmond
Stock #: 12367
Author: Donald Bastin
List Price: $21.99
Karen's Price:
$18.95
Spanning from the shores of San Francisco Bay to the rolling hills of the San Pablo Ridge, Richmond is a city with a history as diverse as its citizens. Many people have never seen the Richmond of yesterday, with its massive shipbuilding operations that employed thousands of steelworkers, both men and women, during World War II. At one point in the 1940s the city's shipyards had nearly 100,000 workers turning out Liberty ships and other vessels by the score for the war effort. Soft Cover. more»
Subject: Ships
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SP Lines Pacific Lines Stations: Coast, Los Angeles and Portland Divisions, Volume 1
Stock #: 14815
Author: Compiled by John Signor
List Price: $0.00
Karen's Price:
$29.95
Only 2 Left!!! Covers these territories as they existed in the early 1950s, although some material dates from earlier periods. This is the first in this series and will be of interest to SP fans, modelers, restoration architects, historians and more. 209 photos. Soft Cover.
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Subject: Trains
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Delaware & Hudson in Color, Volume 1
Stock #: 12015
Author: David Sweetland
List Price: $0.00
Karen's Price:
$59.95
An outstanding collection of 185 color photos from late steam to early diesels, 1946-1968. Tour the entire system. Hard Cover. more»
Subject: Trains
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Old Maud - A Life & Times: America's Pioneer Mallet
Stock #: 15233
Author: Gregory P. Ames
List Price: $69.95
Karen's Price:
$59.95
Only 2 Left!!! Includes over 150 photos in B&W and color. This book brings to life America's Pioneer Mallet -the locomotive, the men who built it, and the people who admired it. Includes detailed mechanical drawings & data about No. 2400 - Baltimore & Ohio's Mallet. Hard Cover. more»
Subject: Trains
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Reading Company Cabooses
Stock #: 18790
Author: John W. Hall
List Price: $49.95
Karen's Price:
$34.95
Only a Few Left!!! The development, construction, and endurance of the Reading’s “standard” caboose is at the heart of this highly detailed reference. Includes 335 photos, drawings, and details of modifications & improvements. Hard Cover.
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Island Timber
Stock #: 17302
Author: Richard Mackie
List Price: $39.95
Karen's Price:
$24.95
Richard Mackie charts the history of the largest logging concern on coastal British Columbia—the Comox Logging Company—from the turn of the century to the devastating Sayward fire of 1938. With 450 employees, six huge steam-powered logging machines known as skidders, a dozen locomotives, hundreds of miles of track, and sole access to the great Douglas fir forests between Courtenay and Campbell River, Comox Logging boomed and towed billions of board feet of logs from Vancouver Island to Fraser Mills at New Westminster—the largest sawmill in the British Empire. But Island Timber is more than the story of the "heroic age" of coastal logging. This innovative and entertaining book is rich with stories, humour, and pithy sidebars on coastal legends like Big Jack McKenzie, "Greasy" McQuinn, "Promise Bob" Filberg, "Highpockets" Hughie Cliffe, Boomstick Thompson, and Sailor Lehtonen. Island Timber is also the first social and community history of a logging company in British Columbia. Mackie interviewed over 100 people directly involved in the early logging industry, and the book is packed with dozens of stories and stunning photographs that have never before appeared in print. Logging history, up close and personal! Soft cover.
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Subject: Trains
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Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway's British Columbia Lake and River Service
Stock #: 11551S
Author: Robert D Turner
List Price: $39.95
Karen's Price:
$22.95
This book recounts the dramatic story of the CPR's sternwheelers and steam tugs through seventy years of races, boiling rapids, moonlit cruises and gold rushes. Features previously unpublished color photos and a section detailing the restorations of the S.S. Moyie and the S.S. Sicamous. Over 350 B&W maps, photos and illustrations. Soft Cover.
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Subject: Trains
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Logging by Rail: The British Columbia Story
Stock #: 11689
Author: Robert D. Turner
List Price: $39.95
Karen's Price:
$22.95
The exciting story of railroad logging in another of Robert Turner's award-winning books. Begins with the small rail logging operations of the 1880s and continues through the height of the steam era, two world wars, the Depression, the change to truck logging and the last steam and dieselized logging lines. Hundreds of outstanding photos capture the workers themselves and their equipment - the Shay, Climax and Heisler locos. Over 500 B&W and color photos. Soft Cover.
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