Each book complements the other. True, a few photos are duplicated, but this drawback to owning both is minor. Authors Labbe, Goe, and Adams have zeroed in on their subject matter from different angles and both approaches are rewarding to the reader. The Beauty of Railways, edited by C. Hamilton Ellis. 1960, 8" x 10", 128 pages. $5. Max Parrish & Co., 55 Queen Anne St., London, W.1, England. WE have at hand an interesting if unsatisfactory pictorial, a sort of English answer to Jean-Michel Hartmann's laudatory Magic of the Railways of 1959. To be sure, many of the 162 plates in The Beauty of the Railways are fetching; the content, while basically U.K., ranges to America and beyond to Australia even; and Ellis' introductory essay on the esthetics of the railroad makes pleasant reading. But the gravure-process book (on soft, brownish stock) lacks continuity, its few paintings do not mix with its photography, and quite inexplicable is the inclusion of (for example) a shot of shophands posed and/or smiling at the camera during the business of joining a boiler to a frame. Many photos are splendid, but too many others are hackneyed (a sea of freshly turned wheel sets), out of place (three-quarter stills of engines), or purely publicity (CN's Super Continental). Disappointing. Steam Power of the New York Central System (Volume 1, 1915-1955), by Alvin F. Staufer. 1961, 84" x 11", 223 pages. $12. Alvin Staufer, Box 57, LeRoy, O. NO other system in America, indeed on earth, so epitomized "standard railroading" as did New York Central in the full flower of its water-level route, four-track main, Great Steel Fleet, monumental stations, track pans, and Hudsons, Mohawks, and Niagaras. Central was a passenger-oriented road of speed and frequency and prestige, a road whose trademark was an extraordinarily handsome breed of six-coupled engine and whose signature was a Waldorf on wheels designated as Nos. 25 and 26. And until this year neither professional nor amateur had dared more than a magazine assay of the nearly 500 steam locomotives which Central's roster carried at its peak. It was a subject that simply seemed too big for the press. It remained for a highschool art teacher from an Ohio hamlet (LeRoy, population 504) who considers himself Central's most avid fan to try to cram the impossible between hard covers. If Alvin Staufer's Steam Power of the New York Central System isn't the total answer, then it will certainly tranquilize NYC devotees until a more comprehensive work appears. Steam Power is, by its publisher's estimate, a collection of photos, not a history or a technical manual, and as such it scores high marks. Builder broadsides, in-service stills, and frankly atmospheric shots of virtually every class of engine at work from 1915 until diesels are stirred well with a fine display of action from La Salle Street Station to Har STEAM AND TROLLEY slides or prints, color or black & white. Over 75,000 choices, including scenic, for reproduction. Roster type list of your favorite roads for 35c, including sample. Synopsis of lists free. Outside USA, send photos or color slide to offset expense. THIRTY-FIVE SLIDES Box 3333 Green Mountain Falls, Colorado XMAS LIST FOR RAILFANS! Send for our Special Christmas Sales List of RR books, pix, gifts. Order for quick delivery - or check your choices and give list to your family for your own Xmas gifts! Colorado Railroad Museum Dept. 123, Box 641, Golden, Colo. Steam Locomotives of the by Bernard G. Corbin & William F. Kerka A complete story of CB&Q steam motive power in photos, engine drawings, text and rosters-it's all here in one big 304page volume with hardback binding. Two colored prints and maps of the System are included. Letterpress printed on 81⁄2 x 11 glossy paper. C&S and FW&D included. This publication is a must for the rail historian, photo collector and model builder. Supply limited. $15.00 per copy postpaid "Christmas Eve on the F. & C." Fiddletown & Copperopolis The Life & Times THE GIFT BOOK SUPREME $7.95 postpaid (California residents add 32c tax) HUNGERFORD PRESS 6949 Reseda Blvd. Reseda, Calif. CPR 4-4-0 NO. 136 on the Famous triple-headed excursion of May 1, 1960. Return with us on a Sentimental Journey as we ride up the Caledon Hills through the Forks of Credit and Cataract region. Hear mellow whistles and barking exhausts you'll never forget. All on pure vinyl 12" L. P. record. Delivered for Christmas! $5.00 (U. S. $5.50). RAILFANS UNLIMITED, 1-A Pritchard Avenue, Toronto 9, Ontario. Railroad Record Club Authentic Steam and Electric Railway Recordings Sampler record with over 20 excerpts from 8 different records $4.00 (refunded on first order) or sampler included free with standard Soo Line-I. C. introductory record at $4.00. Both postpaid. 10 lach 331⁄2 r. p. m. Send for free literature. Railroad Record Club, Hawkins, Wisconsin A NEW DOLLAR BOOKLET SEVEN SHORT-LINES Seven articles by short-line admirer and TRAINS columnist William S. Young. The lives and times of Cassville & Exeter (Mo.), Flemingsburg & Northern (Ky.), Lakeland Ry. (Ga.), New Haven & Dunbar (Pa.), Pacific Coast R.R. (Wash.), Suncook Valley (N. H.), and Waco, Beaumont, Trinity & Sabine (Tex.). Slick paper, photos, maps. $1.00 from Starrucca Valley Publications, Box 231, Susquehanna, Pa. SOUNDS OF STEAM RAILROADING A 12" LP Recording 33-1/3 RPM MONO VOL. 1 0. WINSTON LINK mon. The mass-production classes, particularly the passenger power, naturally consume most of the pages, but all the oddities are here as well (e.g., P&LE's compound 0-8-8-0 hump power, IHB's three-cylinder 0-8-0's, B&A's tankers, NYC's own high-pressure 4-8-4 of 1931). Supplementing the photos (and the unabashed enthusiasm of Staufer's comments and captions) are side-elevation and end drawings of principal types, the 1944 roster (with additions) which appeared in Railroad Magazine, two fullcolor paintings by the author, and blackand-white reproductions of 11 Walter L. Greene calendars. Letterpress reproduction is reasonably good; and if certain action shots are fuzzy, they make up in spirit what they lack in focus. Steam Power of the New York Central System is Staufer's first book and it represents a one-man job of photo selection, writing, artwork, paste-up, and production. Typographical errors are in evidence and the Spartan type face of the captions is formidably heavy. What matters, though, is that someone overcome with concern for a rare race of handsome locomotives has succeeded in placing that enthusiasm on paper and, in so doing, placing all of us who recall Central's J-1's and their brethren in his debt. I STATEMENT REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AS AMENDED BY THE ACTS OF MARCH 3, 1933, JULY 2, 1946 AND JUNE 11, 1960 (74 STAT. 208) SHOWING THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION OF TRAINS, published monthly at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for October 1, 1961. 1 The names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business manager are Publisher, A C Kalmbach, 4625 N Cramer St, Milwaukee, Wis. Editor, David P Morgan, 7838 Harwood Ave. Wauwatosa 13, Wis. Managing Editor, Rosemary Entringer. R. 4, Box 340. Pewaukee, Wis, Business Manager, None. 2 The owner is Kalmbach Publishing Co., 1027 N 7th St, Milwaukee 3, Wis, stockholders owning holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of stock are: Elizabeth K Cole, 255 North St, Iowa City, Iowa; Alexander L. H. Darragh, 242 Greenleaf Ave., Wilmette, Ill., Finat and Co. c/o First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago 90, II.. George F Hirschmann and Helen M Hirschmann, 635 Glenridge Dr, Glenview, Ill., Albert C. Kalmbach, 4625 N Cramer St, Milwaukee 11, Wis., James J King. 4900 N Berkeley Blvd, Milwaukee 17, Wis. Raymond J Leannah or Leanor Jean Leannah, 9325 W Auer Ave, Milwaukee 16, Wis, Kathryn Mahnke, 2622 Sobrante Way, Rancho Cordova, Calif. Ray J Mertz. 9317 Stickney Ave., Wauwatosa 13, Wis, Joseph C O'Hearn, 1609 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee 2, Wis. M. D. Thornburgh or Norma Thornburgh, 50 Carlisle Pl, Chillicothe, Ohio, Linn H. Westcott, 1235 Lakeside Dr., Elm Grove, Wis, Linn H Westcott and Regina H Westcott. 1255 Lakeside Dr. Elm Grove, Wis. 1. The known bondholders. mortgagees and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are None 4. Paragraphs 2 and 3 include. in cases where the stockholder security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting: also the statements in the two paragraphs show the affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees. hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner. 5. The average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed. through the mails or otherwise to paid subscribers during the 12 months preceding the 37,835 date shown above was AC Kalmbach, Publisher. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th day of September 1961. Betty J. Jacobsen, Notary Public (My commission expires April 25, 1965) Seal) Grizzly Flats 2-6-0 didn't rate inclusion, nor did N.R.H.S.'s 1960 Johnson City (Tenn.) convention, but photographer Farrell Grehan came up with some de luxe stuff on East Broad Top, Reading, and Strasburg (plus just a peek - no engine at the Milwaukee Road special behind an ex-IC 2-8-0 in Iowa). Aside from a mural-like impression of revolving drivers, the one different view was a head-on shot of Bud Swearer handling Strasburg 0-6-0 No. 31 at speed. Accompanying copy and captions were expectedly bland, but then, few enthusiasts care much about the image they project or are credited with so long as it's not raining at the photo stops. At least the writer didn't call an engine a "train." Speaking of the Reading, I finally satisfied a since-1959 ambition to ride the 2124 a few hours last September during research on a story which, under another and more interesting by-line, will appear in the magazine next spring. On the evening before, I chanced to hear General Road Foreman of Engines Erv Watters observe that the 4-8-4 would "load water" on arrival in Reading. Now, one normally thinks of water as a fluid to pour or fill but not load. And yet there it was. Which makes me wonder if any student of English is taking down the language of railroading- and not just the words peculiar to the game (e.g., hotshot, hoghead, Johnson bar, caboose) but also the colloquial usage of what's already in the dictionary. The dispatcher thinks aloud into his phone to a yardmaster, "Looks as if he'll get out of there in good shape, eh?" and the "he" refers not alone to the engineer but the crew, the diesel, the train, and the caboose all 6000 tons of them. If a train gets late and invalidates a meet, the DS "busts" the orders. Or again, if a train becomes late, the engineer may be expected to "run off" the lost minutes and "go in on time." These are semantics deserving of preservation in a glossary. Ата Amaya P.S. We Americans take it for granted that we operate the world's most luxurious passenger trains. All in all, we do, I think, but the news from Australia is a bit disturbing. Down there the Victorian Railways' overnight Overland on the 483mile Melbourne-Adelaide run includes sleepers with roomettes and twinettes in its consist (as well as leg-rest chair cars). The twinette appears to be the equivalent of our double bedroom except that each such accommodation includes a private shower! A shower aboard a U. S. train is still a rarity confined to the master rooms of the Broadway and the Crescent, perhaps a full-length Pullman lounge here and there, and office cars. But on the Overland every twinette occupant rates the amenity - plus a Continental breakfast in bed and the morning newspaper! I RUMMING EXTRA X1027) [Although every possible precaution is taken to insure accuracy. TRAINS assumes no responsibility for errors in listing fan trip schedules which are subject to change without notice. Send copy for the February issue to reach us by December 15; for the March issue by January 15. No charge is made for these insertions. Limit two insertions, restricted to the month of the trip and the month preceding it except when circumstances of the trip demand longer notice.] November 27-December 17: Rail tour to Mexico Rail-Fans & by Civil Service will be operated Special train leaves Los Finlay Fun-Time Tours. Angeles on Santa Fe Railway to El Paso, Tex. From here National Railways of Mexico takes train via Central route to Mexico City. All of Mexico is to be covered by private automobile. Highlights of tour are probable ride behind steam from San Felipe Pescador to Mexico City; ride on open-sided streetcars of Veracruz, and ex-Pacific Electric cars; ride on narrow-gauge with steam between Cuautla and Puebla on Mexicano Railroad. Return to U. S. is via National Railways of Mexico to Guadalajara, then via Pacific Railroad of Mexico on West Coast of From Nogales, Southern Mexico route to Nogales. Pacific takes group to Los Angeles via Phoenix, Ariz. Equipment will be all streamlined lightweight Pullmans, lounges, and diner, plus privately owned openplatform car La Marguerita de Oro. All expense rates from Los Angeles start at $536. For information and reservations, contact Civil Service Rail-Fans & Finlay Fun-Time Rail Tours, 11308 Burbank Blvd., North Hollywood, Calif. New Year's holiday exDecember 28-January 1: cursion to Mexico will be sponsored by Golden West INTERCHANGE a former railroad president will be used in addition Railfans. Santa Fe special train leaves Los Angeles December 29-January 1: Tour sponsored by Civil p.m. All-inclusive rate starts at $139. Equipment New Year's week end: Chartered Pullman trip from February 1962: Special-car party from Washington, D. C., to New Orleans, La., for Mardi Gras will make stops en route (for choice of side trips, tours, visiting). Information and reservations are available from Rail Travel, P. O. Box 62, Alexandria, Va. Railfan tour to Colombia will March 26-April 7: depart Miami International Airport 2:20 p.m. on 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-foot(standard gauge of Colombia) will be gauge train 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. [This department is for the convenience of readers Please note change in rate Rate: 15 cents a word, in advance. Count all numbers FOR SALE Superb Enlargements of steam on AT&SF, SP, UP, Other dishes Pullman spoons, $1.00 each postpaid. S. W., Wonder What a Shay sounds like at full speed? Have John A. Krave, 429 Ford Building, Detroit 26, Mich., Photos and slides, steam only. Large list with U.P. 3987 printed on cover, only 25c. Roy F. Wake Railroad Productions, 1429 Congress, Chicago 7, Ill. Our Little Railroad Classics still available: "Narrow 1961 printing, $1; "The Slim Gauge to Silverton,' $1.50. Princess, SP Narrow Gauge Story, $1; "Cab-inFront,' 50-yr. account of SP's backups. Hungerford Press, Reseda 2, Calif. Kodachrome All areas North Shore Electric Railway 8 mm. Original Negatives: Narrow Gauge RR's trunk roads interurbans. loggers Wisconsin and Illinois operation, including, features. Short lines Each 50 ft., Canada. Send stamped, self-addressed enveU.S.NEW: North Chicago, and Racine. Railway Negative Ex$9.65. Robert Kairis, 1418 Wisconsin, Racine, Wis. lope for schedule of listings. change, P. O. Box 92, Oakland 4, Calif. For Sale: PRR yellow markers, single, lens $15.00 a pair, $10.00 each. 3-lens type, $12.50 each. Brakeman lanterns from RDG, PRR, CRR of NJ, NYC and NH, $5.00 each; many others. Send stamp for complete list of railroadiana. J. A. Bidwell, River Drive, Titusville, N. J. Train- postcards B&W send 20c for lists and Colorado Railroadiana, special items galore in our new Swedish Villas, London W8, England. Steam recordings of Nickel Plate and B&O combine 5 Elmira, New York Trolleys. 48-page pamphlet; 32 Steam, gas trains: 311⁄2" to 24" gauge. Photos, details European railroad color slides and photo prints. Free Locomotive headlights, bells, whistles, classification The Skunk, 4 colorslides of the California Western Trolleys and Christmas crowds on Market Street once New York Central Lines complete rosters; all Pacifics, builders, dates, class, line and number changes; all Atlantics data; NYC&HR-LS&MS locomotive trade; Prairies of LS&MS and T&OC; the Consolidations rebuilt to Mikes; 1936 system renumbering; plus other material in current issues Midwest Railroader, P. O. Box 2665D, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Six issues, $2.00. 616 B&W negatives, original Kodachrome slides, eastern trolleys, RDG diesels, MU's for sale. Trade: steam, electric locomotives. Set of 12 different RDG steam postcard size photographs, $2. Richard Short, 303 S. 4th St., Philadelphia 6, Pa. scenes. featuring Reading FOR SALE OR TRADE WANTED James Lanterns. Switchmen's, kerosene burning, indicate Penna NYC, PRR railroad calendars, Locomotive Cyclopedias, railroad books. Ben Smith, 265 Tompkins, Brooklyn 16. N. Y. New York, Ontario & Western fans. I am collecting 8 and 16 mm. moving pictures of Ontario and West- Photographs, tickets, data, maps, passes on narrow |