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New Year's holiday exDecember 28-January 1: cursion to Mexico will be sponsored by Golden West Railfans. Santa Fe special train leaves Los Angeles Thursday afternoon, proceeds via Phoenix, Ariz. From there Southern Pacific takes train to Tucson, then over freight-only branch to international border at Nogales. Train will operate 300 miles down west coast of Mexico on lines of Ferrocarril del Pacifico as far as (formerly Southern Pacific of Mexico) Day Guaymas, resort center on Gulf of California. will be spent at Playa de Cortes Hotel, with sightOn return seeing, cruising on bay, and swimming. trip stop will be made in Hermosillo, capital of New Sonora state, for several hours of sight-seeing. board train Year's Eve will feature celebration on traveling northward toward Phoenix. Return to Los Angeles is scheduled for late Monday afternoon. Consist will comprise heavyweight Pullmans, open-door baggage car, full-length lounges, and Santa Fe's openFare, $169 (lower platform observation-lounge car. berth), including 12 meals, all side tours. For further West details and complete brochure, write Golden Railfans, 215 W. 5th St., Rm. 323, Los Angeles 13, Calif.

December 29-January 1: Tour sponsored by Civil Finlay Fun-Time Tours will Service Rail-Fans & depart Los Angeles 6:30 p.m. Friday and will journey via Southern Pacific to San Francisco, with arrival Saturday morning. Group will attend East-West football game among other activities Saturday.

On Sun

Back read. 1.

Trains, Model Railroader, RMC, Rail-
issues
others. A. D. Welborn, Box 2487, Fort Worth

Texas.

A. Krave, 429 Ford Building, Detroit 26, Mich., John quality original steam negatives of the following sels reads: CNR, CPR. NYC, PRR, B&O, GTW, UP, SAL, NKP, MILW, C&NW, D&RGW, AT&SF, Please SOT QC, N&W, CB&Q, C&S, and L&N. WI. 10c in coin for list of each road desired. Sizes remit negatives are given on each list. Postrard and 4 x 5 negatives are $2.50 each. All other smaller sizes All of the above negatives are sold $1.50 each. approval.

Wonder What a Shay sounds like at full speed? Have
liard a chime whistle echo through damp forests?
37013
Longplay
a1 on Whistles in the Wood" with lots more
It's
Free color slides
exciting sounds of backwoods railroading.
sells for $4.98 postpaid.
Box 4068, Pasadena
Kistler,
Stan
record
incluuled!
Calif.

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Electric Railway Maps: revised 1925. ExcelPacific $1.00 cash, postpaid. G. Wenzlent de tail. 15 x 25. 19849 Acre St., Northridge, Calif. JafT. Builder's Plates. Will buy or trade for Heisler, Climax, Davenport, Grant, Pre-Alco, Shop Plates, many others. Alan Miller, 1836 Gardena Ave., Glendale 4,

Write

day, rides will be taken on cable cars and visit will
New Year's Eve
be made to carbarns of cable cars.
will be spent in Garden Court Room of Palace Hotel.
Group will return on Sunday over San Joaquín Val-
ley Line of Southern Pacific, traveling over Tehachapi
Loop. Arrival in Los Angeles will be about 7:55
p.m. All-inclusive rate starts at $139. Equipment
will be all streamlined lightweight Pullmans, dome
car on return trip to Los Angeles, private railroad
For in-
car La Marguerita de Oro on entire trip.
formation and reservations, contact Civil Service Rail-
11308 Burbank
Fans & Finlay Fun-Time Tours.
Blvd., North Hollywood, Calif. Telephone: TRiangle
7-7759.

New Year's week end: Chartered Pullman trip from
to Hermosillo,
Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico,
Sonora, or Guaymas, Sonora, via Ferrocarril Sonora-
Baja California and Ferrocarril del Pacifico train, the
Mexicali, will be sponsored by Railway Historical
Society of San Diego Inc. Possibly business car of
a former railroad president will be used in addition
For further information,
to standard Pullman car.
contact Wally Duthie, excursion director, Railway
Historical Society of San Diego Inc., 3380 Granada
Ave., San Diego 4, Calif.

Early in 1962:

South American railroads will
Group will ride rack
be visited on four-week trip.
railway. Serra Inclines, Transandine Railroad, boat on
Lake Titicaca, Central Railroad of Peru, and other
Fare, in-
lines. Time for local sight-seeing planned.
cluding air and rail transportation, hotels, and trans-
fers, about $1400 from New York City. For further
information, send stamped, self-addressed envelope to
Frank B. Fairbanks, 512 Glen Arden Dr., Pittsburgh
8, Pa.

January 27: Steam and diesel Iron Horse Tour will
via C&NW
leave Chicago C&NW station 10 a.m.
Chicago to West Chicago; CB&Q West Chicago to
Aurora (original lines of both railroads), and via
Mendota and Denrock to Sterling; C&NW Sterling to
Chicago. CB&Q Mikado No. 4960 will pull C&NW
Consist
yellow equipment from Aurora to Sterling.
will be C&NW 800-series coaches, snack car, and
110 v. A.C. baggage car with open slatted doors.
Group will return to C&NW station, Chicago, about
7:15 p.m.
Round-trip fare, including tax and dona-
fund, $10.75.
steam preservation
tion to CB&Q
Tickets and information are available by mail from
Madison St.,
Chicago & North Western, 400 W.
Chicago 6, Ill.; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, 105
W. Adams St., Chicago 3, Ill.; or Railroad Club of
Chicago, 55 E. Bellevue Pl., Chicago 11, Ill.

Angels Flight. Just published 36-page book on this
Photos and scale drawings.
60-year-old cable line.
$1.00. La Siesta Press, Box 406, Glendale, Calif.

Back issues: Trains, Model Railroader, RMC, Railroad,
many others.
16, N. Y.

February 23-25: Special dome coach with leg rests will be added to Burlington No. 29, the Fast Mail, to Omaha. After a layover of approximately 8 hours in Omaha, return will be made on No. 14, piggybackonly train. Both of these trains do not normally carry passengers. Group will leave Chicago 9 p.m. Friday; return to Chicago 4:15 a.m. Sunday. Tickets limited to capacity of coach. Fare, $31. For information and tickets, write Railroad Club of Chicago, 55 E. Bellevue Pl., Chicago 11, Ill.

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Railfan tour to Colombia will March 26-April 7: depart Miami International Airport 2:20 p.m. Braniff jet flight 977, will arrive Bogota 6:50 p.m. Monday. Inspection will be made of Bogota Yards of Colombian National Railways; steam-powered 3-footwill be gauge train (standard gauge of Colombia) taken through Andes on 8000-foot descent on grades as high as 5.5 per cent, then up to Ibague; diesel rail car will accommodate tour group from Armenia to Cali, where shops of Pacific Division of National Railways will be toured; from Cali steam-powered train will be used to traverse valley to Pereira; again diesel rail car will take group to Cartago and over mountains to La Pintada; special steam train will be provided on Antioquia State Railway to make 7000-foot climb in 50 miles through many tunnels to Caldas, then descent to Medellin. Group will leave Medellin Thursday, April 4, 10 a.m. aboard Avianca for Panama. Five-foot-gauge Panama Railroad will be ridden from Braniff flight 986 will take group Balboa to Colon. from Panama to Miami for 5 p.m. arrival. Plenty of sight-seeing, many side tours, and innumerable opCost of portunities for picture-taking are arranged. For further information, tour, $575 from Miami. write Sanders World Travel Inc., 939 Shoreham Bldg., Washington 5, D. C.

Locomotive photos. Three post card size samples and lists 25c. Dick Patton, Box 573, Christiansburg, Va. Steam, gas trains: 311⁄2" to 24" gauge. Photos, details $1.00. Trains, 33T Winthrop, Rehoboth, Mass.

Seven kinds of
locomotive headlights, locomotive and car hardware,
John J. Scott, 3716 Rose-
railroadiana, list 25c.
brook Ct., Concord, Calif.
12" LP recording "Steam Power
New and unique!
Along The Chicago & North Western Railway" fea-
Steam photos, color slides and original Baldwin Build-
tures mainline whistles and steam echoes, also a long
Ex-2466 in rail-
ers photos. Giant size list only 25c. Roy F. Wake
a giant Mikado on
His-
Railroad Productions, 1429 Congress, Chicago 7, Ill.
sequence of
other items.
slipping action and unusual power performance.
toric recording was made on mainline between Chicago
Builders' plates, number plates and
Frank Leslie, 123 Lake Ave.,
and Minneapolis, where a five-mile ascending grade
List, 10c in coin.
amid 600-foot-high quarzite bluffs at Devils Lake,
Fair Haven, N. J.
Wisconsin, gives whistle signals pronounced resounding
on Pennsy power.
Coming
echoes. You marvel at the fast Pacifics once used
The big book
on the famous Twin Cities "400." Jacket photos also
Staufer, Box 57, LeRoy, Ohio.
Single copy. $4.98 or two for
have special appeal.
RLP Company,
Dealers welcome.
$8.00 postpaid.
233 Third St., Baraboo, Wis.

Locomotive bell in mount, $110.
Ben Smith, 265 Tompkins, Brooklyn

Good cond.
Original Builder's Catalogs.
22.24.25.28.29/1901,
19.20.21 1900.
(no./year)
31,39/1902, 41.43.44,45/1903, 47.48/1904, 51,
54/1905, 56.59/1906, 60,61,62,63/1907, 64,65,
66/1908, 67,68/1910, 69,70,71/1911, 72/1912,
75,76/1913, 79./1914, 81.82/1915, 88,89/1917.
Alco "Pamphlets": Atlantic Type Pass. Loco, Prairie
Type Loco, Eight Wheel Pass. Loco, Ten Wheel Loco
(2 copies), Consolidation Type (2 copies), Mogul
Articulated Compound Loco, Rotary
1902.
Type Freight,
Kurt
Snow Plow, First Annual Report June 30,
Make offer on each or lot before January 31.
Moller, 12684 Dewey St., Los Angeles 66, Calif.
"Down
without
No
500-page history of accidents,
ilustrated
Chrono-
Brakes,'
safety precautions and operating practices.
logical, comprehensive index all major accidents. Covers
train dispatching,
snakeheads, timetable operation,

Collections or singles
NS Georgia
AB&A

negatives or prints SAL GS&F CofG A other small roads Carolinas and Georgia. C. P. Atherton, Slough Rd.. Harvard, Mass.

Rahway Valley R.R. of N. J. Photos of 2-8-0 No. 13.
Sam Skean, 59 Quincy Ave., Trenton 9. N. J.

Enclosed find my check or money order for $.

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Address

City, Zone, State

November, 1959

All steam issue
Duplex-drives

Missabe's 2-8-8-4 ore extra
Toast to the fireman
All-steam photo section

December, 1959

The railroad image by D. P. Morgan
Railroading today in the U.S.S.R.
The NP likes passengers

PCC cars for Chestnut Hill, Mass.

January, 1960

Pre-Zephyr luxury passenger cars
Past and future of Ontario Northland
Q&TL, dead but not buried.

February, 1960

Story of 83,764 mile test run of
EMD's first diesel, No. 103
The end of V&T's No. 26
Peabody Coal Co. yellow hoppers
Disaster at Newark Bay bridge

March, 1960

C&IM revisited after 5 years
Dave Morgan's Preconvention memo
1959 L&N fan trip with IC steam
Spokane, Portland & Seattle, part 1

April, 1960

Spokane, Portland & Seattle, part 2
Shays of Twin Seams Mining Co.
Rayonier lumber railroad, Washington

May, 1960

1959 annual speed survey
What price piggyback?
12th annual motive power survey
Reproductions of railroad paintings

June, 1960

All about Hoosac Tunnel

The Pacific Great Eastern, part 1
The paraphernalia of piggyback

July, 1960

The Erie-Lackawanna story with map
Diary of Anne Dovel, lady railfan No. 1
Steam on the ET&WNC

The story of the McKeen car
The PGE story, part 2
Piggyback performance

August, 1960

MKT since William N. Deramus
Mixed train steam on the MC&SA
B&O's crossing of the Alleghenies part 1
10-page photo section on CPR
Push-Pulls for profit

September, 1960

Britain's diversity of diesels
Northern Utah railroading, part 1
B&O's crossing of the Alleghenies, part 2
Special photo study section

October, 1960

112 mph behind a British 4-6-2
Winnipeg, halfway point of Canada
Northern Utah railroading, part 1
Budd cars for Philly's transit line

Trains Magazine, Dept. 2385A, Milwaukee 3, Wis.

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Scrumptious steamcars, Lucius Beebe
I like trains, A. C. Kalmbach
Interurbans abuilding in 1941
Y6 close-up

December, 1960

Reading's 4-8-4's

East Broad Top revival
Special 1959 N.R.H.S. fan trip
How much steam is left on NdeM?
The first U.S. R. A. engine

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