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CINICINNATI LOCOMOTIVE BUILDERS 1845-1868
Edition: First printing
Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution, 1965. Octavo, green cloth without jacket, as issued. A s Illustrated. 167 pages, appendix, bibliography, index. Sticker stain on front free endpaper and sticker residue on half-title leaf, else fine, no owner names.
Book ID: 43432More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
DAYLIGHT THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN. Letters and Labours of Civil Engineers Walter and Francis Shanly. Research by Gladys Chantler Walker.
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: The Engineering Institute of Canada, (1957). Green cloth, white on green endpaper diagrams. (xiv), 442 pp + plates; illustrations in text, index. Fine copy. Dust jacket has small tears, minor chips, VG. Letters and biography of the Shanly brothers, Canadian civil engineers who were instrumental in the building of Canadian railways, and also the Hoosac Tunnel, North Adams, Mass. "Walter Shanly was General Manager of the longest Railway [Grand Trunk Railway of Canada] in the world at the age of forty, while, until the prairies were crossed, his brother Francis surveyed, located and built more miles of railway in Canada than any other engineer." - page 1.; Octavo
Book ID: 14406More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
DAYLIGHT THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN. Letters and Labours of Civil Engineers Walter and Francis Shanly. Research by Gladys Chantler Walker.
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: The Engineering Institute of Canada, (1957). Green cloth, white on green endpaper diagrams. (xiv), 442 pp + plates; illustrations in text, index. Yellowing to page edges, a VG jacketless copy. Letters and biography of the Shanly brothers, Canadian civil engineers who were instrumental in the building of Canadian railways, and also the Hoosac Tunnel, North Adams, Mass. "Walter Shanly was General Manager of the longest Railway [Grand Trunk Railway of Canada] in the world at the age of forty, while, until the prairies were crossed, his brother Francis surveyed, located and built more miles of railway in Canada than any other engineer." - page 1.; Octavo
Book ID: 51492More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
DELAWARE & HUDSON: the history of an important railroad whose antecedent was a canal newtwok to transport coal
Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books, 1974. Fifth printing. Quarto, grey cloth. pp 476, index, many photos. Fine in VG jacket. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Book ID: 43442More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
'DELTICS' AT WORK
Edition: First Edition
Shepperton, England: Ian Allan, 1985. Quarto, black cloth. pp 144. Photos, tables, index. Fine copy. Jacket has a piece torn away from upper inner corner of rear panel, VG otherwise. Design, construction and operation of the most famous British main line diesel locomotives. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 43589More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
DESPERATE VENTURE: Central Ontario Railway
Edition: First Edition
Belleville, Ontario: Mika, 1979. Quarto, brown cloth. pp (220< [2]. Many photos in text. Fine copy, no owner names, in a bit used but still respectable good jacket. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shiipping may be required.
Book ID: 41194More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
END OF STEEL
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Peter Martin, 1973. Octavo, green boards, endpaper maps. pp viii, 133, [3]. Fine in jacket. Author's experiences working for the Canadian Pacific Railway at the turn of the 20th century. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 43521More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
ENGINES AND MEN: the history of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Fireman : a survey of organisation of railways and railyway locomotive men
Edition: First Edition
Leeds, England: Goodall & Suddick, 1921. Maroon cloth. pp (xvi), 302, [2] + 22 plates (3 in colour). Index. Page edges yellowed, light damp spotting to covers; VG otherwise. Scarce railway union history.
Book ID: 43600More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
Festiniog 150: the history of the Ffestiniog Railway
Edition: First Edition
Addlestone, Weybridge, Surrey, UK: Ian Allan, 1986. Quarto, pp (48) stapled in card covers. Illustrations in b&w, some colour photos. Fine. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced. 0711016585
Book ID: 43423More details Price: USD $8.00 USD $7.20 -
FIFTY YEARS OF PROGRESSIVE TRANSIT: a history of the Toronto Transit Commission
New York: Electric Railroaders Association, 1978. Second printing of the hardcover issue. Quarto, maroon cloth. pp 176. Large folding supplement (maps and charts) and folding map in homemade-pouch at rear. Fine copy. Jacket has a bit of rubbing to spine lettering, small tears and one small chip to panels, VG otherwise. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 43443More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
FOOTPLATE LUCK: stories of railway adventure at home and abroad. Illustrated by E.S. Hodgson
London: Blackie, no date (1922 or 1923). Green pictorial cloth stamped in black & white. pp 256, (32, ads) + 5 (of 6) plates. Lacking the plate at p. 48, ink names at front, else a VG clean, tight, unworn and attractive copy. 14 stories.
Book ID: 43465More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
FROM HALIFAX TO VANCOUVER
Edition: First Edition
London: Mills & Boon, 1912. Octavo, black cloth. pp xvi, 352, (32, ads) + frontispiece with tissue guard and 39 other photo plates. Spine gilt dulled, occasional light foxing, else a VG clean and tight copy, no owner names. A travelogue of a trip by rail across Canada. Peel III, 3795. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Book ID: 35289More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
From San Francisco Along the Line of the Western Pacific Railroad; the Feather River Route to Salt Lake City (cover title)
Chicago: The Interstate Company, 1944. Blue card covers printed in gilt and dark blue, sepia photographic label on front cover. pp [44]. unpaged. Photos throughout. Soft crease / curl to upper outer corners; 1945 ink name at front; else fine. ; Oblong quarto
Book ID: 50518More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
From Telegrapher to Titan: The Life of William C. Van Horne
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Dundurn, 2004. Red boards. pp 501; photos, notes, index. Ink owner name, else fine in fine jacket. Railway tycoon Van Horne was the General Manager and prime mover of the Canadian Pacific Railway. 1.5 kg parcel; Octavo 1550024884
Book ID: 47972More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
GRAND TRUNK HERITAGE: steam in New England
Edition: First Edition
New York: Railroad Heritage Press, 1978. Oblong quarto, glossy card covers. pp 48. Many photos. Creases at head of spine, ink owner name on title page, map pasted in at front and rear, crease to upper outer corner throughout, VG otherwise. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 43504More details Price: USD $12.00 USD $10.80 -
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM. Maintenance of Way Department. Report of Annual Inspection October-November 1914
No place (Montreal ?): Grand Trunk Railway, (1914?). Oblong format, 8 x 11 inches, green cloth backstrip and grey card covers. pp 41. VG clean and unworn copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 43439More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM. Maintenance of Way Department. Report of Annual Inspection October-November 1915
No place (Montreal ?): Grand Trunk Railway, (1915?). Oblong format, 8 x 11 inches, green cloth backstrip and grey card covers. pp 41, [3]. VG clean and unworn copy. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 43440More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
GREAT NORTHERN LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS. Volume One: 1846-1881.
Edition: First Edition
London: Allen & Unwin, 1966. Green boards. 252, (4) pp + plates. Creases to lower inner corner of early leaves, else fine in VG jacket ; Octavo
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Book ID: 2287More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
GWR LOCOMOTIVE ALLOCATIONS. First and Last Sheds 1922-1967.
Newton Abbot (England): David & Charles, 1986. Gossy pictorial boards. 176 pp. Fine copy, no previous owner marks. 0715388207.
Book ID: 18484More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
HAMILTON'S OTHER RAILWAY 1853-2000. The Hamilton and North Western Railway in retrospect
Edition: First Edition
Ottawa: Bytown Railway Society, 2001. Tall quarto, blue cloth, endpaper maps. pp (10), 419. Index, extensive bibliography, many photos. Fine in jacket. A Memoir of the H&NW Railway including its Lake Erie Division, the former Hamilton and lake Erie Railway. This book retraces its pioneering beginnings, subsequent merger with the Northern Railway of Canada, absorption by the Grand Trunk Railway and its survival into the days of the CNR. Ontario railway history. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Book ID: 43495More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00