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CANADIAN STEAM

A rich pictorial of steam power above
the border in its finest and final
hour. See the locomotives of CN and
CP in main line and branch line oper-
ation Royal Hudsons, 6100-series
4-8-4's and many others from 2-6-0's
to 2-10-4's. Edited by David P.
Morgan. $6.95

NIGHT TRAIN adventure along the iron trail. Most extensive collection of night time rail photos of all types of motive power, equipment and the men at work. More than 140 illustrations, 811⁄2" x 11". Regular edition $5.75; Deluxe $7.00

CL WAR RAILROADS

NIGHT TRAIN

CIVIL WAR RAILROADS

A pictorial, true story of the
railroads and men in the Civil
War with on-the-spot photos
and eye-witness accounts of
the warfare as collected and
researched by author, George
Abdill. 83%" x 1011⁄2". $12.50
THE VIRGINIAN

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Steam Power of the New York Central
Central's steam power from 1915
to 1955 (from 0-6-0's to Niagaras)
is wonderfully displayed in this 224-
page collection of action and still
photos. $12.00

Trolley Car Treasury. Another re-
print of an old-time favorite. More
than 300 photos and 60,000 words
on the heyday of the trolley car.
200 pages, 81⁄2" x 11". A very com-
prehensive book at only $2.98

TROLLEY CAR
TREASURY

Electric Interurban Railways in Amer-
ica. The construction, technology, traf-
fic, regulations, finances, and decline
of electric railways. 300 companies,
$9.50
496 pages, 47 maps.

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Maine Two-Footers. The st..
the 24" gauge Maine carriers
how they met the problem
heavy lumbering, fires, long
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floods and blizzards.
photos, maps, rosters, etc. $

FIDDLE
HILL

Fiddle Hill. A railroad novel by
James McCague that reeks with the
pound and pulse of steam & diesel
mountain railroading. A story 80
alive, daring and convincing you will
re-read it many times. 343 pages.
$4.50

The Last of Steam. Here is steam
action at its smokingest, most pow-
erful best- from the last 10 years
of steam loco operation. 270 large
81⁄2" x 11" pages with more than
275 illus. A real must. $10.00

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Sierra Railway. The sight, sound,
smell and feeling of the Sierra Rail-
way construction and operation against
a background of Calif. mining and
lumbering. 300 pages; 350 photos;
2-color system map. $6.00

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Rails West. Another in the trilogy
from the fabulous library of George
B. Abdill. Hundreds of photos, the
legends, the drama of early western
railroading. 811⁄2" x 11". $12.50

འདུལ་ཐབ་དུ༔ ཀའ་ན་ཚུལ་ RAILROADS

RAILS EZI

Pacific Slope Railroads. He
the true tales, history, photo
anecdotes of all the pioneer
Coast railroads. 350 bea t
photos, copious text, superb
ing. 81⁄2" x 11" size. $10.0

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last journey over the 134-mile Mullens (W. Va.)-Roanoke (Va.) electrified district which N&W inherited from Virginian in the 1959 merger. Now, during the annual two weeks miners' vacation, the catenary began coming down.

Virginian had erected the overhead in 1925-1926 at a cost of more than 15 million dollars to defeat once and for all Clarks Gap, an eastbound ruling grade against loaded coal trains of 2.11 per cent which throttled to 7 mph the 2-8-8-2 and two 2-10-10-2 helpers of 6000-ton drags. A pair of the dozen Westinghouse 642-ton three-unit 1-D-1 electrics which replaced steam showed themselves capable of doubling that speed- and easing down the other side on regenerative braking as well. After the war VGN rebuilt its coalburning power plant at Narrows, Va., and added four 6800 h.p. streamlined 2 (B-B+B-B) motors in 1948, then 12 3300 h.p. C-C rectifier hoods in 19561957 all from GE. Barring the unexpected, VGN's electrification was then good for another 20 years.

But the unexpected - merger - took place, and suddenly N&W was possessed of "134 miles of electrification in the middle of nowhere." Headaches then developed. First, N&W began directing its cars onto VGN rails at Kellysville, W. Va., east of the Clarks Gap grade which had originally prompted catenary. Second, N&W began running eastbound loads over the easier profiles of VGN, returning the empties over its own rails - which meant that the motors had nothing much with which to return west.

The locomotives are up for sale (Pennsy tested one of the 3300 h.p. C-C's before buying its look-alike E-44 4400 h.p. C-C's) but there have been no takers as yet.

Once again, the safest

In the realm of passenger safety last year, the railroads were 22 times as safe as automobiles, nearly 4 times as safe as domestic airlines, and half again as safe as buses. In 1961 there were 20 rail passenger fatalities, most of which resulted from carelessness in boarding or alighting from moving trains; private cars and taxis claimed 24,700 lives; 124 died in domestic plane accidents; and 80 were killed in buses. Statistically, the railroad fatality rate was .10 per 100 million passenger-miles vs. 2.2 for cars, .38 for domestic airlines, and .15 for buses.

BEYOND THE ATLANTIC

ROBERT SPARK

WARMER FOR THE WEST: Although the political climate between east and west remains cool, as far as railway equipment is

concerned the forecast is favorable. Krupp & Siemens working together have recently completed a Russian order for 25 6700 h.p. electric locomotives, while Mak has shipped a 3000 h.p. C-C diesel-hydraulic to the U.S.S.R. [page 8]. More recently, Henschel has completed at its Kassel plant the DH4000-a 4000 h.p. diesel-hydraulic for the Russians.

In Britain, the Vulcan Foundry is busy on an order for 20 3000 h.p. 3000 v. D.C B-B electrics for the Polish State Railways

-a joint English Electric-AEI contract. The first batch of six of these locomotives was completed in May, and after the entire 20 have been built, more are likely to be manufactured under license in Poland. Sweden -as reported on page 13 of July TRAINS has obtained an order for 20 Nohab-GM 1950 h.p. C-C diesel-electric locomotives for the Hungarian State Rail

ways.

The Henschel 4000 h.p. diesel-hydraulic, referred to earlier, is powered by two Maybach MD870 engines and has two sets of Maybach-Mekydro transmissions. It has a top speed of 100 mph, weighs 131 tons, and like all locomotives supplied to Russia it can operate in widely varying climatic conditions from Arctic cold to desert heat.

ALCOS FOR GREECE: The Greek State Railways are dieselizing. Last year the Greeks took delivery of 10 Alco DL-532 1050/950 h.p. diesel-electrics and they are now receiving 10 further Alco locomotives this time 1950/1800 h.p. World units. The order is worth about 2.5 million dollars.

These latest Alcos will be used mainly for the haulage of express passenger trains between Athens and Salonika. They will be geared for a maximum speed of 75 mph and will be equipped for multipleunit operation.

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