Search Results: Railroads from Chiefly Books

Denver: Rocky Mt. Railroad Club, 1955. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A wonderful copy staple bound 16 pages. Red covers.

NY: World Railway Pub., 1895. Hardcover. Very Good. Nice looking covers in green embossed cloth with gold lettering, Split at front hinge with title page loose, split at rear inside hinge also. Light corner wear and pages are yellowed at edges. Previous owners blind stamp on title page.

Boston: Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, 1949. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Bright red paper covers. 70 pages, lots of photos and some mapes. previous owners blind stamp on front end page and spine ends chipped up otherwise just mild wear.

Toronto: Macmillan, 1933. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Jacket has finger prints and light edge wear and soiling. A nice copy.

La Grange Ill.: Hyatt Bearing Div. GE, 1950. Soft cover. Very Good. A fairly thick oblong little staple bound book with bearings and locomotive on front cover. full of pictures. how to do book.

Denver: Rocky Mountain Railroad Club, 1956. Soft cover. Very Good. A very nice copy with little yellowing on edges of covers, contents including maps is excellent. Several big maps and lots of photos.

Schenectady Ny: American Locomotive Co. / GE, 1952. Soft cover. Very Good. A like new copy in glossy blue stiff paper covers. Rev. March 1952 on bottom of title page is only date I can locate. Covers locomotives FA-2 FB-2, FPA-2 and FPB-2. 56 pages.

Denver and Omaha: Williamson-Haffner Co for Barkalow Brothers, 1907. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A wonderful old picture book in blue paper covers with full color picture paste down on front of couple on small peak with large mountain in the background. contains 25 color plates mounted on black paper backing, one picture per page and only one side. Book is approx 12 X10 inches and the pictures are approx 8X6 inches. all in full color, street scenes, nature points of interest. Book was done for Railroad new agents in Omaha, appears to be a tourist thing to get people to take the train to oregon. Color sting binding. some wear to cover edges and corners. Nice uncommon item. No other printings listed.

La Grange Ill.: General Motors Locomotive Electro Motive Division. Soft cover. Very Good. A small stiff paper covered staple bound book of 24 pages. no date my guess is from the 1950's escellent shape with lots of pictures. Tables of horsepower.

Holly Co.: Kiowa County Public Lib.. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Terry Laird. A very nice oblong pamphlet with embossed white pictorial covers, showing train on tracks and line of track with towns along the way. Staple bound, 36 pages. lots of photos and illustrations. not dated but looks like 70's .

Chicago: Railway Business Association, 1941. Second . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A nice book with many pictures and illustrations of trains.

Canton Oh.: Railhead Pub., 1986. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. A very nice copy. It appears to be a soft cover that has had a hard cover attached. The hard cover is black cloth with exact same pictorial cover as the soft cover just beneath it. I think it was made this way but I am not sure. at the bottom of the title page inside are the name s of the author printed and the number 116 then each author has signed in ink next to his name.

Denver: Rocky Mountain Railroad Club, 1969. First Edition . Paper. Very Good. a four page flyer on the trip made in may of 1968. Photos of engines. description of trip. once a tri fold hand out now flat. nice shape.

Union Pacific Railroad, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good. A how to hand book for UP employees.

Southern Pacific, 1937. Soft cover. Very Good. An oversize picture book giving views of the California of the 1930's not sure if they are paintings or tinted photos. on heavy embossed paper, Cover is lightly stained and ther is a light crease here and there.

Washington: U. S. Army, 1943. Soft cover. Good. Interesting look at military railroads in world war II. Covers are worn and soiled and some pages are bit fingered. Some pencil notes for example the illustrations of soldiers doing lantern signals has the meaning of the signal penciled in next to it. Inside is a single sheet of typewritten notes giving the american morse code with heading from Telegraph Department 3rd training Regiment Training center Fort Francis e. Warren Wyoming.

Callaway, Ne: E. G. Pub., 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A good copy with soiled covers and a childs ink marking on half a dozen of the front pages. Pictorial hard cover.

Shade Tree. Stiff Wraps. Very Good. Light edge wear and the glue has dried out completely in the spine so the pages are just held loosely in the wraps, could easily reglue if desired.