645 posted:mark s posted:I buy books in which I have interest, when announced. RR books are short print runs (5-10,000?) and once they are gone, they might be hard to obtain in the future.
Very few railroad books get a second (or more) printing nowadays. The days of multiple printing runs are long gone as was done with Staufer's 'Pennsy Power' and other popular railroad titles years ago.
The typical Morning Sun title has a press run of 3,000 books. For a very popular railroad like the PRR it may be 3,300 to 3,500 copies. This is information from a friend who personally knows Bob Yanosey who is the publisher/owner of Morning Sun Books.
Morning Sun only does one press run of each title and once sold out eventually a digital reprint is made available. The only exception to this is 'Penn Central Power' which Morning Sun did a second printing of 25 years after the first print run.
I've found deals on railroad books on Amazon and eBay - just need to be patient and know what the prices are so one can snap up a deal if it gets listed.
PENN CENTRAL POWER? Guess people like worms!
