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NARROW GAUGE COUNTRY
1870-1970
By Mallory Hope Ferrell. One hundred years of historic rail memories
captured in classic narrow gauge photography. This book features William
Henry Jackson, Picture Maker of the West; early Colorado cameramen and their
struggles; the glory days of the narrow gauge; how photography came of age
in the West; following the railfan era on the narrow gauge, and the
Third and Fourth Divisions of the Denver & Rio Grande. It focuses
on narrow gauge lines in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
372 pages, 632 black and white photos, 9" x 12", hardbound.
$59.95
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NARROW GAUGE PICTORIAL:
Volume 4 - Refrigerator Cars, Stock Cars and Tank Cars of the
D&RGW
By Robert Grandt. Refrigerator Cars, Stock Cars and Tank Cars of the
D&RGW.
176 pages, horizontal format, softbound. $30.00
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NARROW GAUGE PICTORIAL: Volume 5 - Cabooses of
the D&RGW
By Robert Grandt. Cabooses of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.
223 pages, album format, softbound. $28.00
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NARROW GAUGE PICTORIAL: Volume 7 - Denver &
Rio Grande Western Work Equipment - OA to OZ
By Jerry B. Day. Covers the specialty work equipment used by the D&RGW
narrow gauge operations.
224 pages, album format, softbound. $35.00
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NARROW GAUGE PICTORIAL: Volume 11 - Locomotives
of the D&RGW
This book covers all the modern classes of the D&RGW narrow gauge steam
locomotives.
192 pages, black and white photos, softbound. $33.00
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NARROW GAUGE... THEN AND NOW
By Tom Gildersleeve and Nils Huxtable. In this color pictorial, the authors
show the narrow gauge at work in its final years, with 22 steam locomotives
and 293 miles of spectacular mountain railroad. See Durango, once the narrow
gauge capital of world, as it used to be; work trains and passenger trains
on the scenic Silverton line; the Farmington branch; fall and winter action
over Cumbres. See the double-headers, pushers and flanger trains of the early
1960s. Today, the narrow gauge lives on as the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic
Railroad and the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. The pictorial
concludes with some recent glimpses of action on both preserved lines, from
rotary snowplows to double-headed passenger trains and photographers' freights.
48 pages with 56 color illustrations, 9x12, softbound. $14.95
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NASHVILLE, CHATTANOOGA & ST. LOUIS: The Dixie
Line
By Charles B. Castner Jr. The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway,
known as the Dixie Line, has roots dating back before the Civil War. This
book covers the early history and the Herculean efforts needed during wartime
to move traffic using any available equipment. The road beat out competitive
roads by upgrading equipment in its own shops and streamstyling several 1913
vintage Pacifics.
Hardcover. $26.95
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NASHVILLE, CHATTANOOGA & ST. LOUIS: A History
of the "Dixie Line"
By Dain L. Schult. A complete history of "Grandpa's Road", the NC&StL,
told with very readable and detailed text. Beginning in 1845, it was owned
most of its life by the Louisville and Nashville before finally being merged
in 1957. Linking the Tennessee cities in its name across the Appalachians
to the southeast, it was powered by powerful Mikados, fast Pacifics, and
large Mountains, as well as the first 4-8-4s in the South. This superbly
researched history is detailed and complete from the 1840s to the 1950s.
272 pages, over 500 black and white photos with some color, rosters, hardbound.
$39.95
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NASHVILLE, CHATTANOOGA & ST. LOUIS RAILWAY:
History and Steam Locomotives
By Richard E. Prince. This book was originally published in 1967, and its
reputation as the foremost work on this railroad is still unchallenged. Maps,
schedules, rosters, diagrams and hundreds of photographs supplement historical
information on the company and technical information on the trains.
196 pages, 348 black and white photos, hardbound. $65.00
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NEVADA COUNTY NARROW GAUGE
By Gerald M. Best. This classic book recounts the story of this short line
which served California's northern mines. There are at least 10 pictures
per mile of track, including those of the mines, the colorful mining towns,
the personnel of the railroad and a complete photographic roster of all of
its locomotives, freight cars and passenger cars.
284 photos, maps, diagrams, rosters action album, 224 pages, hardcover.
$39.95
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NEW ENGLAND 1930s STEAM ACTION WORCESTER
By Bob Liljestrand. This book gives you a glimpse of steam power around
Worcester, Massachusetts, in the 1930s. See Pacifics and Berkshires moving
passenger and freight trains across the Boston & Albany mainline.
48 pages, 55 black and white photos, timetables and maps, softbound.
$11.95
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NEW ENGLAND CLASSICS: Volume 1 - Class
Ones
By Jamie F. M. Serensits. This volume covers Class One fallen flags from
Main to Massachusetts during this era. Boston & Maine and Maine Central
will appear for obvious reasons; they carried Class One designations and
were two of the biggest independent players in northern New England. B&M
interchanged freight with the D&H at Mechanicville, New York, and Conrail
(Penn Central) at Selkirk, while Maine Central sent freight out via Portland
or aimed it toward Canada. Central Vermont, an arm of the giant Canadian
National, cut a swath from the Canadian border at East Alburgh, Vermont,
to the Long Island Sound in New London, Connecticut.
48 pages, all color photos, softbound. $19.95
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NEW HAVEN COLOR PICTORIAL: Volume 2
By David R. Sweetland. Volume Two continues the New Haven Railroad pictorial
series of all-color books, this time focusing on its operations in central
Connecticut and Rhode Island. This book reviews New Haven's road switchers
and switchers purchased from Alco, Electro-Motive Division, Fairbanks-Morse,
General Electric and Lima between 1931 and 1965. Its photographic trip during
the 1950s and 1960s begins at Old Saybrook and covers New Haven's black lines
in Connecticut and the branch lines of Rhode Island as well as the Shore
Line route from New London to Providence, ending at Boston Switch.
128 pages, 250 all-color photos, hardbound. $59.95
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NEW HAVEN COLOR PICTORIAL: Volume 3 - The East
End
By David R. Sweetland. This volume Two focuses on operations in Rhode Island
and Massachussetts.
128 pages, over 250 all color photos, hardbound. $59.95
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NEW HAVEN PASSENGER
TRAINS
By Peter E. Lynch. Day and night for well over 100 years, the New Haven Railroad
plied the rails between New York City and Boston, its mere 1,800 miles of
track carrying more passengers than any other railroad in the history of
the U.S. rail industry. This illustrated history revisits the days when New
England's fortunes were inseperable from the New Haven's - when trains like
the Merchants Limited, Yankee Clipper, Cranberry, and Quaker
carried tourists and commuters to the great cities of the East Coast, and
to destinations like Cape Cod, Hyannis, and Woods Hole, boat connections
to Martha's Vineyard, and ski slopes in the Berkshires.
160 pages, color photos, hardbound. $34.95 (Due
January)
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NEW HAVEN RAILROAD
By Peter Lynch. Captured in rare archival imagery, readers can explore the
"New Haven", the legendary railroad of New York, New Haven & Hartford.
The book is a definitive guide to the New Haven as well as a rich source
of pictorial history.
160 pages, 100 color and 50 black and white photos, hardbound. $29.95
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NEW HAVEN RAILROAD ALONG THE SHORE LINE: The
Thoroughfare from New York City to Boston
By Martin J. McGuirk. First-class trains traveled the New York, New Haven
& Hartford mainline connecting Boston and New England villages to the
largest city in the world. Timeless photos capture the steam, diesel and
electric locomotives and the eclectic paint schemes of the 40s and 50s, as
well as historic landmarks in New York City and Boston.
128 pages, album format, 120 black and white photos, softbound. $18.95
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NEW HAVEN RAILROAD IN THE McGINNIS ERA
By Marc J. Frattasio. This book gives the reader rare artwork, most never
seen before. A complete chapter on the Boston & Maine, with a detailed
index.
256 pages, over 500 photos and illustrations, 80 in color, hardbound.
$44.95
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NEW HAVEN RAILROAD IN THE STREAMLINE ERA
By Geoffrey H. Doughty. The complete story of the New Haven in the postwar
period. Despite its internal troubles, the railroad became a patchwork of
color which belied the turmoil it was experiencing, and its trains became
emblematic of the administration which strove to alter the railroad's stodgy
image. Included are builders' photos, a look at the railroad's experiments
with the futuristic trains of 1956-57, car rosters, and a host of color photos
which illustrate a fascinating period in the New Haven's history.
128 pages, 120 color and 50 black and white photos, hardcover.
$33.95
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NEW HAVEN RAILROAD'S STREAMLINED PASSENGER FLEET,
1934-1953
By Geoffrey H. Doughty. How New England's "little giant" managed to order
a fleet of streamline passenger cars and locomotives in the midst of two
national crises. Unpublished drawings, designs and artist renderings.
160 pages, over 150 black and white photos and color illustrations, hardbound.
$28.95
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NEW HAVEN TRACKSIDE WITH THOMAS J. McNAMARA
By Jeremy Plant. In 1954, as Tom McNamara was refining his rail photography
and entering his most productive period of covering the New Haven, it was
entering the latest of many periods of tumultuous change.
128 pages, all-color photos, hardcover. $49.95
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NEW MEXICO'S RAILROADS: A Historical Survey
By David Myrick. Revised edition. Over a century of railroading in New Mexico
is captured in over 200 photographs and a crisp text. From a bygone era of
narrow gauge to today's Amtrak service, this book covers both the short lines
and the branches feeding to mainlines of major railroad systems.
276 pages, 6 x 9, softbound. $21.95
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NEW YORK CENTRAL COLOR PICTORIAL: Volume 2 -
St. Louis to New York City
By David R. Sweetland. NYC's third rail electric locomotives are featured
in the introduction. Follow us on our trip as we depart St. Louis Union Station
through Indiana and Ohio. See rare NYC Fairbanks-Morse and Baldwin diesels.
Side trips take us to Louisville, Kentucky and Cincinnati. Then our journey
skips to New York State along the four-track mainline during the 1940s and
1950s, viewing New York Central steam and early diesels.
128 pages, all-color photos, hardbound. $59.95
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NEW YORK CENTRAL FACILITIES IN COLOR
By Geoffrey H. Doughty. A new concept in all-color books: a system-wide
examination of NYC's stations, towers, shops, signals, yard structures, bridges,
and many more miscellaneous parts of the road's physical plant. A valuable
book for both railfan and model railroader alike.
128 pages, all-color photos, hardbound. $59.95
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NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD
By Brian Solomon and Mike Schafer. Famous for its many great passenger trains,
including the New York-to-Chicago 20th Century Limited, the New York
Central also operated high-volume freight trains and the fabulous Grand Central
Station in Midtown Manhattan.
224 pages, black and white and color photos, hardbound.
$36.95
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NEW YORK CENTRAL STEAM ON THE HARLEM AND PUTNAM
DIVISONS
By Richard L. Stoving. Photographs from the collection of Edward L. May.
Seventeen distinct classes of NYC steam locomotives photographed between
1917 and 1952, printed from negatives produced by Edward L. May, F. Ray McKNight,
and many pre-1930 images from the Lavelle collection.
56 pages, 79 black and white photos, softbound. $19.95
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NEW YORK CITY TROLLEYS IN COLOR
By William D. Volkmer. East side, west side, all around the town. See vintage
views of Third Avenue Railway, Brooklyn and Queens Transit, South Brooklyn
Railway and Queensborough Bridge Railway.
128 pages, all-color photos, hardbound. $59.95
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NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD: Dining on the
Shore Line Route - The History and Recipes of the New Haven Railroad Dining
Car Department
By Marc Frattasio. Part history book and part cookbook, this book serves
as an in-depth look at what it took to operate one of America's finest railroad
dining car services. A blend of meticulous research and the first-hand
reminiscences of onboard staff with a remarkable collection of classic recipes
from the New Haven Railroad's Standard Recipe Book.
112 pages, over 170 black and white photos and 200 classic recipes, softbound.
$24.95
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NEW YORK, ONTARIO & WESTERN IN THE DIESEL
AGE
By Robert Mohowski. Diesels helped extend the frail life of legendary New
York, Ontario & Western, and this book tell the story. Ample text and
photos - including some remarkable previously unpublished color scenes -
document O&W's diesel fleet - GE 44-tonners, EMD FTs, F3s, NW2s - and
operations between 1941 and the road's demise in 1957. Steam is not forgotten
either, with coverage of O&W steam power in the book's historical section.
96 pages, black and white and color photos, softbound. $29.95
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NEW YORK, SUSQUEHANNA & WESTERN IN COLOR
By Paul R. Tupaczewski. Most fans today know the Susquehanna as an operator
of huge stack trains and Big Six motor power. This book begins in 1940 and
shows the Susy-Q of yesteryear. Motorcars, RS1s, RDCs, commuter trains as
well as several chapters on the more modern era.
128 pages, all color photos, hardbound. $59.95
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NEXT STOP HONOLULU!
By MacKinnon Simpson and Jim Chidix. The Oahu Railway and Land Company, a
narrow gauge operation that established sugar as a phenomenally profitable
crop on Oahu. The primary line headed west from the main station in downtown
Honolulu, eventually stitching together sugar plantations in Aiea, Waipahu,
Ewa, Waianae, Waialua, and Kahaku. A later branch wending its way to the
center of the island served the pineapple plantations around Wahaiwa. This
book is the story of that line.
352 pages, black and white and color photos, hardbound.
$59.95
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NORFOLK & WESTERN: Diesel's Last Conquest
By William E. Warden. The story of why and how the N&W, "Alamo of Steam",
dieselized in 1955-1960. Over 100 steam and diesel photos of the era. Last
all-steam and first all-diesel rosters included. A real bridge for the transition
years.
64 pages, softbound. $13.95
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NORFOLK & WESTERN: ...Steam's Last
Stand
By Mallory Hope Ferrell. A photographic study of guts, grime and power as
everything from small consolidations and "Mollies" to husky double-headed
2-8-8-2s moved coal trains to Tidewater and the midwest. The final years
of smoking action on America's last steam-powered railway (1945-1960).
320 pages, horizontal format, hardbound. $59.95
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NORTH AMERICAN RAILROAD BRIDGES
By Brian Solomon. In this book, the author examines each major type of railroad
bridge construction - truss, trestle, viaduct, suspension bridge, and movable
span - as well as the men responsible for pioneering them, while explaining
in layperson's terms the principles behind each. In addition, iconic structures
such as Hell Gate, Starrucca Viaduct, and Suisun Bay Bridge are examined
in detail.
160 pages, color photos, drawings and diagrams, hardbound.
$36.95
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NORTH AMERICAN RAILYARDS
By Michael Rhodes. Railroad classification yards are sprawling, multi-acre
facilities featuring miles of complex track and 'sidings' where rolling stock
is dropped off, sorted, and otherwise switched from train to train before
being sent off to its next destination. With the glory days of train passenger
service, and thus railroad terminals, long gone, classification yards have
become the focus of modern railroad operations.
240 pages, 200 color and black and white photographs, hardcover.
$34.95
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NORTH AMERICAN STEAM LOCOMOTIVE BUILDERS AND THEIR
INSIGNIA
By Harold Davies. While the steam locomotive today has a place in our
hearts, in earlier years it was the key to continental travel. This book
gives a fascinating look into the successes and failures of the locomotive
builders, then on the cutting edge of technology. Each builder is considered
in its place of toil. Philadelphia, Schenectady and Lima, Ohio are here
with a host of other locations from New England to San Francisco. The
Canadian builders are included.
266 pages, 290 black and white photos and drawings, hardcover. $43.95
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NORTH SHORE LINE: Interurban
Freight
By Edward M. De Rouin. This book explores express and freight services provided
by the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad. These often-seen
- but little-known - trains operated in the shadows of the famous
Limiteds and Electroliners. Cars of coal, building materials,
and manufactured goods hauled by electric locomotives supported the company's
bottom line and contributed to the growth of the on-line towns.
96 pages, over 100 black and white photos, maps and drawings, softbound.
$34.95
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NORTH SHORE, SOUTH SHORE
By Russ Porter. In no section of the country has the interurban electric
railway been brought to a higher point of development than in the Middle
West. The North Shore Line (that ran from Chicago to Milwaukee) and the South
Shore Line (that still runs from Chicago to South Bend) carried thousands
of passengers over the years, getting work or school and home again. Russ
Porter chronicles his 50-year-old coverage of these two interurban stalwarts.
140 pages, more than 220 color photographs, 11 x 9, hardcover. $41.95
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NORTHERN INDIANA RAILWAY
By George K. Bradley. Streetcars, interurbans and motor buses - the Northern
Indiana Railway used them all to serve the greater South Bend area in the
1930s. Their fast interurban cars reached out to Benton Harbor, Michigan,
as well as Goshen and Michigan City, Indiana. Author Bradley explores the
development and ultimate decline of this fascinating electric railway and
the role it played in serving the communities clustered near Lake Michigan's
southeast shore.
244 pages, hardcover. $55.00
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THE NORTHERN PACIFIC
By Dale Sanders. This beautiful book features an all-color tour of the entire
Northern Pacific system, from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Northwest. Steam,
black and gold freight diesels, and the two-tone green North Coast
Limited are all here.
176 pages, 264 color photos, horizontal format, hardcover. $74.95
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NORTHERN PACIFIC IN COLOR: Volume 1 - 1949-1959
By Doug Nighswonger. An all-color pictorial of the NP's transition from steam
to diesel, standard to lightweight passenger equipment across the entire
"Main Street of the Northwest".
128 pages, all-color photos, hardbound. $59.95
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NORTHERN PACIFIC PICTORIAL: Volume 4 -
The First Northern Transcontinental Becomes the Main Street of the
Northwest
By John F. Strauss Jr. Featuring NP's passenger operations: Super Steam and
the Depression 1930-1936; Economic Improvement Brings Traffic Increase 1936-1941;
Traffic Demand Exceeds Capacity 1941-1946; and NP's Transition to the Streamlined
Era 1947-1951. See NP's competition in the northwest as well as connection
trains. Here is a documentary on NP's Passenger Operations with many rare
train action and equipment photos.
208 pages, hardcover. $59.95
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NORTHERN PACIFIC PICTORIAL: Volume 5 -
Domes, RDCs and Slumbercoaches
By John F. Strauss Jr. This book features NP's passenger operations between
1951 and 1970, when the MP merged into the Burlington Northern and 1971 when
Amtrak was formed.
208 pages, mostly color photos, hardbound. $65.00
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NORTHERN PACIFIC PICTORIAL:
Volume 6 - Freight Train Service Along the Main Street of the
Northwest
By John F. Strauss Jr. This book features the freight operations along the
Main Street of the Northwest, from the 1930s through the BN merger.
224 pages, black and white photos, hardbound.
$64.95
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NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY
PHOTO ARCHIVE
By John Kelly. Always a progressive leader in railroading, Northern Pacific
was the first to offer sleeping and dining car service from St. Paul to the
Pacific Northwest. Outstanding vintage photography, brochures, postcards,
menus, timetables and advertisements tell the story of the Northern Pacific's
glory years from the 1930s through the 1960s. Featured are the heavyweight
North Coast Limited, the faster Vista Dome passenger trains, steam
and diesel locomotives, freight cars, maintenance-of-way and cabooses.
128 pages, 122 black and white photos, softcover. $29.95
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NORTHWEST PASSAGE
By Rob Leachman. All-color pictorial of the Burlington Northern in the Pacific
Northwest. Created by the merger of predecessor railroads in 1970, and expiring
as a corporate entity upon merger with the Santa Fe in 1995, the BN offered
a distinctive corporate image inspired by the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.
For 25 years, trains powered by BN's Cascade Green diesels were a familiar
icon of the region, complementing its physical beauty.
186 full color images from 43 photographers, 160 pages, 12 x 9 album format,
hardcover. $59.95
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NORTHWEST RAIL PICTORIAL: Volume 3
By Warren M. Wing. Here is a fantastic collection of photographs featuring
a who's who of Northwest railroad photographers. You'll see hundreds of images
from Oregon, British Columbia, and Montana, and especially around the Puget
Sound area. In addition to the mainlines, including the SP&S, there are
shots of smaller roads such as the Seattle, Lakeshore & Eastern and the
Hartford and Eastern.
232 pages, hardcover. $42.95
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NOT ONLY PASSENGERS: How the Electric Railways
Carried Freight, Express and Baggage
By the Central Electric Railfans' Association. A study of freight transportation
on the electric street and interurban railways in the United States and Canada.
128 pages, hardcover. $35.00
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