Author: MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS
Title: Trains Magazine, March 1943, Vol. 3, No. 5 *Grand Central Station*
Description: USA: Kalmbach Publishing Co, 1943. First Edition. Paperback. 52 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Pennsylvania's Mountain Types; The Man in the Tower; Grand Central Station - super 12-page photo-illustrated article; Via Burlington - Wartime Freight - climb to the black cusions in the caboose of First 67 and witness some real train handling; Car Retarders - They speed up switching by controlling cars from a central point; Pictorial Presentations - B&M transfer point, SP in the Siskyous, Old New York & Harlem locomotive, World's sharpest curve, NYNH&H, Western Pacific - Norfolk & Western; Lumber Railroad - The Michigan-California Lumber Company's 45-mile railroad northeast of Placerville - with photos of their aerial lumber ferry; Photos of the world's longest chute? - 3,000 foot drop to the South Fork, American River. Railroad Ups and Downs; They Look Alike - Forney and a Fairlie. Average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Pennsylvania's Mountain Types; The Man in the Tower; Grand Central Station - super 12-page photo-illustrated article; Via Burlington - Wartime Freight - climb to the black cusions in the caboose of First 67 and witness some real train handling; Car Retard. Good .

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