Brown, John K.

The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915

Baltimore, Maryland, The John Hopkins University Press, 1995. Hardcover. black & brown cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. 328 pgs w/ bw illustrations. copper & black pictorial dustjacket w/ white printing. "..Combines economic, business, labor, and social history and the history technology to write a dazzling account of this giant of nineteenth-century industry."--Publisher. Good+ (slight spine lean; textblock firm. pink smudge to lower textblock, some pgs will have light remnants to lower edges. spine ends rubbed & creased. light bump to upper corner; light rubbing to corners. back cover endpaper has light yellow staining/smudging to edge. pgs have occasional light smudges, coffee-like spot or light stain, otherwise appear free of marginalia. dustjacket has edge-wear, scuffs & scratches; fade price-sticker to back cover) .

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Book number: 183439

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: Baldwin Locomotive Works, History of Baldwin Locomotive Works ; Baldwin Locomotive Works ; ;

Churella, Albert J.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume I: Building an Empire, 1846-1917

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Hardcover. Red buckram binding with gilt lettering. Glossy color illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated in B&W. 945 pp. Includes maps and index. First and only published volume of what is to become a set. "Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation" - from dust jacket. VG+/VG+, very minor shelf wear to edges, otherwise very clean and tight .

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Book number: 178312

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: Transportation, Trains, Pennsylvania Railroad ; Trains ; ;

Dinsmore & Co

Dinsmore's Railroad and Steam Navigation Guide and Route- Book, Volume VI, Number 1

New York, Dinsmore & Co, 1858. Softcover. Missing outer wraps; 256 pp, bw illustrations and maps. Mounted prior to the title page is a fold-out set of advertisements. A very rare edition of Dinsmore's railroad and steam navigation guide and route-book. This being Volume VI, Number 1 from May 1858. Includes an index to the railroads, the official time tables with distances, fares, etc. Also includes maps of several cities; Portland, Boston, New York City, Albany, Montreal, Niagra Falls and Buffalo, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis and Baltimore. Good (missing covers, Soiling to outer pages, light foxing spots to block, expected age toning but all pages are otherwise clear.) .

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Book number: 185383

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: Transportation ; Railroads ; ;

Hendrickson, Richard H and Edward S. Kaminski

Billboard Refrigerator Cars

Wilton, California, Signature Press, 2008. Hardcover. blue cloth boards w/ white spine printing. illustrated pastedowns & flyleafs. 224 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. glossy blue and pictorial dustjacket. 400+ photographs. A nice copy. VG+ light wear & creasing to spine bottom. light foxing to textblock fore-edge; instances of light foxing to pg edges. pgs clean. dustjacket has smudges & scratches.

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Book number: 178637

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: Refrigerator Railroad Cars ; Refrigerator Railroad Cars ; ;

Hickcox, David H.

Great Northern Steam & Electric in Color

Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Morning Sun Books, 1999. Hardcover. green boards w/ gilt printing & emblem. 128 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. glossy, pictorial green dustjacket. Appears to have been minimally handled; interior clean & bright. Wonderfully illustrated. Near Fine (slight spine lean; textblock & hinges firm. dustjacket has edge-wear.) .

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Book number: 183437

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: Great Northern Railroad, Great Northern Steam Railroad, Great Northern Electric Raildroad, American Railroad ; Great Northern Railroad ; ;

Hitt, Rodney

The Car Builder's Dictionary, 1906: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms Which Designate American Railroad Cars Their Parts

Kentfield, California, Newton K. Gregg, 1971. Hardcover. green boards w/ gilt spine printing. 166 pgs w/ section of 6,344 illustrations; 54 pgs of advertisments. A mammoth edition of technical illustrations for the railroad historian and enthusiast. Wonderful, early 1900s era advertisments. VG- (textblock edge has red scuffs/shelf-wear; rubbing to corners w/ red staining; back corner bumped & creased; edge-wear. textblock rattled; firm w/ intact pgs. previous owners name to cover pastedown) .

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Book number: 183434

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: Railway Cars, Railroads, American Railroads ; Railway Cars, Railroads, American Railroads ; ;

Jordan, C. Keith and Richard H. Hendrickson, et al.

Santa Fe Railway Rolling Stock Reference Series Vol. 2: Refrigerator Cars and Ice Bunker Cars, 1884-1979

Norman, Oklahoma, The Santa Fe Modelers Organization Inc, 1994. Spiral bound. oblong, spiral bound pictoral covers. 288 pgs w/ bw illustrations. Wonderfully illustrated with diagrams and component/mechancism breakdown of models. VG. light coffee staining & warping to title pg through pg 11. pgs edge-toned.

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Book number: 178633

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: Santa Fe Railroad Company; Santa Fe Railway Cars; Santa Fe Refigerator Cars ; Santa Fe Railway Cars, Santa Fe Railroad Company ; ;

Kaminski, Edward S.

Pullman-Standard Freight Cars, 1900-1960

Berkeley, California, Signature Press, 2007. Hardcover. red boards w/ white spine printing. 192 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. glossy red & yellow illustrated dustjacket. Pages bright and clean; appears to be minimally handled by human hands. "The books 418 photos, few ever published, and 59 which are color views, as well as drawings, advertising graphics and an index, make this book an authoritative historical survey."-Publisher. Near Fine (lower spine end bumped. dustjacket has light scratches; series of scores to back cover) .

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Book number: 183435

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: Pullman-Standard Freight Cars, George Mortimer Pullman, Railroads, Railway Cars, American Railroad ; Pullman-Standard Freight Cars ; ;

Kaminski, Edward S.

Tank Cars: American Car & Foundry Company, 1865 to 1955

Wilton, California, Signature Press, 2003. Hardcover. navy boards w/ silver printing. book xiv, 264 pgs w/ bw & select color illustrations. glossy blue pictorial dustjacket. A very nice copy. VG+ light rubbing to corners; light scratches to boards. pgs clean. dustjacket has light scratches & smudges.

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Book number: 178634

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: Railroad Tank Cars; American Car and Foundry Company ; Railroad Tank Cars, American Car and Foundry Company ; ;

Kreisel, Heinrich

Prunkwagen Und Schlitten

Leipzig, Germany, Verlag Von Karl W. Hiersemann, 1927. Hardcover. maroon cloth boards w/ gilt printing & emblem; gilt spine embellishments & black, gilt title plate. 183 pgs w/ various bw illustrations & plates; section of 60 bw plates. text in German. Appears to have had it's textblock rebound. Textblock is firm with intact pages. Spine sunned but gilt printing and designs remain bright and defined. Frontispiece with tissue-guard intact. Pages appear clean, but, may have instances of underlining, marginalia, etc. A fascinatingly illustrated tour of ornately designed sleds and carriages through the ages. Good (ex-library w/ internal stamps, usual markings, etc. scuffs & scratches to boards; sunning to back cover; edge-wear. corners rubbed. spine sunned w/ ends chipped & torn. 1inch split to upper gutter/hinge of back cover.) .

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Book number: 185572

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: Carriage Design, Sled Design ; Carriage Design ; ;

Million, Arthur B. and Sigrid K. Powell

Pere Marquette: Passenger Car Pictorial

Grand Haven, Michigan, Pere Marquette Historical Society, 2002. Hardcover. oblong green cloth boards w/ git design & printing. illustrated pastedowns & flyleafs. 299 pgs w/ bw photos. glossy, blue pictorial dustjacket. "This book presents the pictorial history of the passenger equipment of the Pere Marquette Railway, from its formation in 1900 through its merger with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in 1947, to the C & O equipment used thereafter"--Page 5. Good+/G-. sunning to top cover edges. pgs edge toned. back cover flyleaf has foxing/soiling-like smudges. dustjacket sunned at edges; large tear to back cover edge; chips to edges; sticker to back cover.

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Book number: 178642

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: Pere Marquette Railroad; Pere Marquette Railroad Cars; Pere Marquette Passenger Cars ; Pere Marquette Railroad, Pere Marquette Railroad Cars, Pere Marquette Passenger Cars ; ;

Moore, Marianne; David Wallace and Leonard Baskin

Letters from and to the Ford Motor Company

New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958. Hardcover. Gray paper boards with burgundy cloth spine, gilt spine lettering; 27 unnumbered pages, 1 wood engraving. The correspondence between American poet Marianne Moore and marketing executive David Wallace concerning an appropriate name for a new line of automobiles being designed by the Ford Motor Company. Despite the appeal of Miss Moore's final submission "Utopian Turtletop," the line was ultimately branded, as it turns out, under the unfortunate name--Edsel. "The edition of this book consists of five hundred fifty copies. Four hundred copies have been reserved for the Fellows of The Pierpont Morgan Library and one hundred fifty copies are offered for sale. They have been printed at The Spiral Press in New York. The wood engraving by Leonard Baskin has been printed from the original block"--Colophon. VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps inside front and rear covers with date stamp on foreword page. Binding is tight. Pages are otherwise clean.) .

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Book number: 184533

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: Transportation ; Ford Motor Company ; ;

Munger, Donald M and Jeffrey Alan Cauthen

Southern Pacific Official Cars: Business, Private, Instruction, Hospital and Company Service Cars

Upland, California, Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society, 2015. Hardcover. oblong, light greyish-blue cloth boards w/ black spine printing. illustrated pastedowns & flyleafs. 527 pgs w/ bw & illustrations. glossy, grey and orange pictorial dustjacket. Wonderfully illustrated and annotated with select color illustrations. Includes diagrams. VG. creasing to corners & cover edges; creasing to spine ends. dustjacket has edge-wear; scratches & scoring to back cover; closed tear to cover edge.

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Book number: 178632

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: Southern Pacific Rail Cars; Southern Pacific Railroad ; Southern Pacific Rail Cars ; ;

Pecotich, Robert A.

Southern Pacific's Sacramento Shops: Incubator of Innovation

Wilton, California, Signature Press, 2010. Hardcover. grey cloth w/ white spine printing. illustrated pastedowns & flyeafs. 496 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. glossy, green pictorial dustjacket. Coverage in this book ranges from the earliest days of the Sacramento shops..to the final closue. The book contains over 600 photos along with 21 drawings and maps. VG+/VG. pgs clean & bright. dustjacket has tape repaired tear to top cover edge; spine bottom worn & rubbed.

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Book number: 178638

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: Southern Pacific Railroad Company ; Southern Pacific Railroad Company ; ;

Simmons-Boardman Books

The Track Data Handbook

Omaha, Nebraska, Simmons-Boardman Books, 1994. 4th printing. Softcover. red half-wraps w/ gilt printing; rivet bound. 301 pgs w/ multiple fold-outs, diagrams & schematics. "This handbook has been prepared for the purpose of providing a readily accessible field reference for readmasters, track supervisors, track foremen, surveyors and similiar personnel engaged in the planning and execution of track mainteance and construction work."--Publisher. As New (light scuffs & edge-wear to wraps) .

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Book number: 183440

Catalogue: Transportation

Keywords: Track Data Handbook ; Track Data Handbook ; ;