For Sale: Train Books
Railway History by C. Hamilton Ellis, paperback, 1966. Primarily steam from the UK and Europe. Small 5x7 format with excellent photography and drawings. A very readably history from Stephenson to the 1960's. $5
Pennsylvania Railroad Compendium, Vol. 1, by George Kusner and Nicholas Seman, blueprint size, covering freight car lettering in the PRR Middle Division over the period 1954 to 1968. Incredible and impressive research with superb, large diagrams. Aside from the lettering, the diagrams of the cars are a treasure-trove for the scratch-builder or persons modifying commercial freight cars to be correct to PRR practice. About 125 pages. $15
The First 50 Best of New York Central System, Book One, by Herbert Harwood, Jr., spiral bound 11x17, 1978, 52 pages. This is a fabulous collection of 50 large NYC photographs, almost all NYC steam locos. Super nice. $15
Waterloo to Weymouth, by Steam into Wessex, by Mike Esau, wide format hardback about 8.5 x 17, a mix of color and B&W photographs of Western UK steam and depots from the late steam era with excellent text. Really a good read. $10
The Complete Book of Model Railroading by David Sutton, hardback with dust jacket, 1964, 330 pages, this is THE classic model RR text--still useful even today and fun to read to see where the hobby was 60 years ago! The book is in good shape. The dust jacket has tears and chips. $10
Trains in Transition by Lucius Beebe, hardback in great shape with very good dust jacket, 210 pages covering the transition era but almost all steam. Excellent text as you would expect from a railroading master. $12
Highball, A pageant of Trains, by Lucius Beebe, hardback, with wear on cover, 225 pages. Marvelous photography with accompanying text, which is both historical and educational, that could only have been written by a true train lover. The photo captions can't be skipped either. $10
Railroading Coast to Coastby S. Kip Farrington, Jr., 1976, 300 pages, hardback with rough dust jacket. Farrington had some connections with railroad management and he used them to get cab rides in many locomotives. Then he briefly itemized his experiences in these pages. Some of it is junk. But some is fascinating reading for steam loco fans. For instance, he rode the New York Central 6002, an S-1 class 4-8-4, at the head end of the 20th Century, pulling 14 cars in 1946, from Chicago to Buffalo, Of that ride, he says (among other things) "Good to see NYC has a great engine at last that can go through Chicago in all weather with high wheel (sic)." The format he uses has its weaknesses but this is probably the next best thing to being in the cab. $10
Commuter Railroads by Patrick C. Dorin, 192 pages, hardback with dust jacket, 1968. This covers the short-haul passenger railroading that we seldom read about. Dorin gives some pretty complete descriptions with many pictures of the evolution of popular commuter roads fro Steam days through 1st generation diesel. I didn't expect to like this book. But all those pics of RS-1's and covered wagons, plus a well-written text, won me over. All pix are B&W unfortunately, but they are worked-in nicely with the narrative. $10
My email is in my profile. Thanks for looking.
Don
