everything with a flair. This David Morgan acknowledges in a stunning new album of locomotive portraits titled, with restrained enthusiasm, Canadian Steam! In 85 photographs, wisely confined to the two transcontinental lines, he has surpassed his earlier Steam's Finest Hourby omitting the lifeless builders' photos, for one thing. Considerably better value is the result.

As the editor admits, he does not purport to catalog all types or explore all areas. So perhaps it is only by chance that the Canadian National's early 6000's are included, recalling the first move made by Sir Henry Thornton as he contemplated his huge railroad back in 1923 and the disparate lack of proper power to carry out his big ideas on passenger business. These elegant Mountains and their slab-sided tenders seldom appear in print these days. Another species that worked out their life in relative seclusion were the Canadian Pacific's 2700 Pacifics, and they greet the eye in a couple of grand pictures. A most special delight is Morgan's favorite, the CP's rare 4-8-4; it is admirably presented, as is quite fitting, for no more graceful locomotive ever moved. It looks better this way than it does crouching outside Winnipeg backshop amid a congregation of the disgruntled and displaced, awaiting its destruction.

There are three features that cannot be overlooked in any examination of Canadian railroading, especially where steam locomotives are concerned. These are the weather, the mountains, and the branch lines. Morgan apparently couldn't find a picture to corroborate the savage winters of Algoma, but the reader is left in no doubt about what it was like on the bald prairie, which must have been about as bad. The mountains are all Canadian Pacific, and one or two of the pictures must surely be by Nicholas Morant, whose passions were the Rocky Mountains and CP steam trains, preferably together. The branch-line material is enchanting. A gallery of close-ups is the least effective, perhaps because there is nothing particularly Canadian about it; but the whole volume can be approached with the same excitement the first Lucius Beebe books occasioned. There is one double-page spectacular which was no doubt included for the world to take note that while the engineer might have answered to Telesphore St. Germain and his fireman used English only when reading train orders, give them half-decent coal and a clear board at L'Epiphanie, and their Royal Hudson would make up 20 minutes in 180 miles with the 1000 tons of tuscan glory that was the Frontenac!

The jacket painting expresses the raison d'etre of nearly all the railroading west of the Great Lakes: the devotion of the plains to the growing of grain, and the monumental organization of steel and steam and men needed to remove it.

Morgan's foreword is an unqualifiedly successful essay on the peculiar development of motive power on the Canadian roads, as well as a tribute to the genius of a handful of chief mechanical officers and their advisers. He exposes perfectly the

rationale of their locomotive philosophy, and the policies so appropriate to fourhole angle bars and 100-pound main line.

The opinion of this reviewer, however, is that Morgan has deferred somewhat unduly to the orders of his publisher about confining himself to a "minimum of words." The kind of sensation aroused by many of the pictures would have been heightened by modest excursions into syntax, where Morgan is known to be so at home. Certainly there has been enough white space left for some more of it; as it is, the titles are sometimes unsophisticated, the identifications are 99 per cent accurate but frequently overterse, and the credits appear in too bold a type. Not that these photographers don't deserve recognition.

This cry for more text, it could be, is less a criticism than a wistful yearning for further romancing. There is really so much that could be said; but then no one man knows it all, nor is there room to tell it all. Morgan ought to be advised that the jawbone initiated by his superb selections is going to be something to listen to! - F. H. HOWARD.

STOP LOOK & LISTEN

edited/DAVID A. STRASSMAN

[Unless otherwise noted, all recordings reviewed are 12", 33%" rpm discs. [M] indicates monophonic, [S] indicates stereophonic.]

East Broad Top ([M] 7", $1.25. East Broad Top Railroad, Rockhill Furnace, Pa.) is a capsule sound souvenir produced for the railroad by Ralbar Productions. This is the same company which recorded the Iron Horse Rambles for the Reading Railway. Record quality has improved over that of the last release; the sound here is full range and very live. Some of the whistle echoes are pure joy. The East Broad Top is the last narrow-gauge railway operating in its original location east of the Big River. True, the line was closed and locked up for four years, but in 1960 the benevolent new owner, Nick Kovalchick, reopened 31⁄2 miles of 3-footgauge track to excursion traffic. He has not regretted it, nor have the thousands of fans and just plain citizens who enjoy the picturesque ride behind steam in vintage cars. This record brings to ear the delightful chime whistles of EBT's little Mikados, both from driver-side and from across the rolling Pennsylvania fields. One close-up of a wheezing, panting air pump will splash steam and oil all over your listening room, but no matter, because the voice of the train announcer in the background soon has you scurrying off to purchase tickets for the 3:10 train. You are also treated to a seat next to the rails at Top-of-the-Hill for some heavy

The present situation of rail transportation in the New York metropolitan area and possibilities for the future are explained in "Where Are The Railroads And Subways Going?" by Robert E. Niebuhr.

This booklet mentions significant laws, outlines subway construction methods, lists present railroad and rapid transit lines serving the New York metropolitan area, and details proposed new routes and modifications of the existing system. It is illustrated with photographs of pictorial and historical value by the author, of such subjects as electrification and associated trains, locomotives, subway mosaics, typical subway construction, and famous terminals and stations.

No matter where you live or work, if you are a railroad man, railroad historian, or railroad buff interested in mass transportation by rail, you will find this booklet interesting and informative to be read carefully to determine its applicability to your business and private life or to your railroad. Available by mail $1.00

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ROBERT E. NIEBUHR
Bronxville, New York

stack noises of a steam engine buckling down to business.

The Narrow Gauge Line ([M] 7", 45 rpm, $1. Spur Records, P. O. Box 665, Durango, Colo.) is a big change from the world of railroad sounds. The title is the name of a folk-songy ballad written about the D&RGW's perennial Silverton line. One side is strictly instrumental, unfortunately spoiled by some train departure sounds alleged to have been made at Durango. The flip side has the same combo playing accompaniment for Becky Ann, a remarkable little eight-year-old Durangoite (or is it Durangoan?). Becky bounces along in a fast set of lyrics that describe a trip on the Silverton line. Her voice is sometimes "too cute" for my taste, and the combo does not always agree on the downbeat, but the record is dawgone

clever. If you want to hear a song about a 3-foot-gauge train, here it is. Quality is typical of 45 rpm recordings.

Whistles on the West Jersey ([M], $4.95. B&C Productions, 478 Paxon Hollow Rd., Broomall, Pa.) is saved by the fact that its content is now seven years old, and includes some stirring performances by Pennsylvania E6s No. 460, the nimblefooted 4-4-2 that pulled the Lindbergh Special from New York to Washington in 1927 with an average speed of 72 mph. Locale of this recording is the PRSL trackage to Atlantic City and the Ocean City branch. Atlantic 460 had a real screamer of a whistle, which tends to get lost in the reproduction, but what may be lacking in technical quality is balanced by the unmistakable action and excitement. Also heard are two K4s Pa

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OF RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHS These albums make up the finest and most dramatic collection of railroad photographs yet published. They combine the picturesque beauty of the iron horse with the flavor and glamor of one of the world's greatest industries. Each is prefaced with introductory text, each photo accompanied by a descriptive caption. The range of content includes dramatic action photos, general railroad equip7. Electric Railways. Superb action views ment and extraordinary scenic views.

of both the old-time interurban and the modern heavy electric railways.

cifics, two 0-6-0's, and Reading's 2124. There is a particularly commendable sequence at Ashland, N. J. An E6s pulls out lightly with a Camden local, is quickly followed by an Atlantic City express dashing through behind a Reading 4-6-2. Not top fidelity, but plenty of railroading.

Riding Behind Steam ([M] 7", $1.50. Carleton S Recordings, Box 1064, Newark, N. J.) is just another recording made from a baggage car behind the engine this one on the Grand Trunk out of Detroit. The engine is Northern 6322, and the entire record comprises only 10 minutes of sound. If you care to wade through the poor editing and the sheer mass of distorted sound you will find buried one unique moment, that in which the engine limps along with a broken cylinder head. The pathetic, whistling, screaming sound of the wound makes you want to turn away and not listen, out of embarrassment for the gallant old locomotive.

The Wonderful World of Railroading ([M]. $2.98. Nina-Lee Studios, P. O. Box 352, Dunsmuir, Calif.) is wonderfully naive and certainly different. It can best be described as a sincerely intended word picture of the railroad industry laid against an occasional backdrop of railroad sounds such as might be heard in the cab of a diesel or in a dispatcher's office. For the lad and the teen-ager whose eyes shine within sight or sound of a train, this is a must. The narration takes him behind the scenes and gives him a hatful of "gee whiz" type facts on the complexity and magnitude of the railroad machine. Part of the narration, unfortunately, is a sales pitch for a future recording. The sound quality is good, and one bit of repartee between the narrator and a station agent on the train wire is interesting. A TV producer wise in the ways of "mass-please" could take this recording as a nucleus and whip up a fine Sunday afternoon spectacular that would sell railroading to the public a lot better than did Gordon MacRae & Company on the old "Railroad Hour."

The

Steam Railroading Under Thundering Skies ([M], [S], $3.98. Mobile Fidelity, P.O. Box 336, Burbank, Calif.) presents for your pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, that popular practitioner of Whippoorwill Whistle Quilling, Mr. A. J. Lee, assisted by his talented Bonhomie & Hattiesburg Southern Mi-ka-do locomotive! dubbed-in storm, which is very wet and very stereo, furnishes a unique background for the artistry of Mr. Lee. This man gets as much sentimental sound out of a single brass whistle as Capt. E. J. Quinby does with an entire steamboat calliope, all the while running his locomotive with the other hand. The diet is almost too rich. By the end of the second side the listener would welcome hearing an unembellished crossing signal, blown impersonally by a C&NW commute engineer. Be that as it may, the record ought to be preserved in some national archive as the documentation of a vanished art, like dipping candles by hand or carving clock gears with a pocket knife. The stereo is convincing, with remarkable depth and presence. Fidelity range and record surface are tops. I

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March 18: Special train from San Diego to San Bernardino, Calif., via Santa Fe Railway for one-day visit to National Orange Show will be sponsored by ExRailway Historical Society of San Diego, Inc. cursion will leave San Diego station 8 a.m. and make stops for passengers at Del Mar, Encinitas, Oceanside, San Clemente, and Santa Ana. Train will travel through Santa Ana Canyon to Riverside and San Bernardino. Special charter buses will take group from railroad depot to Orange Show. Details are available from S. L. Thomson, excursion director, Railway Historical Society of San Diego, Inc., P. O. Box 9351, San Diego 9, Calif.

March 18: National Capitol Historical Museum of Transportation will operate special train via Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to Maple Sugar Festival at Meyersdale, Pa. Among features of trip will be visit via bus to operating maple sugar camp. Train leaves Washington (D. C.) Union Station 8:15 a.m.; Silver Spring, Md., 8:25 a.m.; Rockville, Md.. 8:35 a.m.; and returns to Washington by 8 p.m. Fare, including buckwheat cake meal, bus, train, and all taxes. $11.95; children 5 and under 12. $7.95. Limited food service will be available on train, which will consist of RDC-1's and one RDC-2. For tickets or details, write Paul W. Overholt, trip chairman, NCHMofT, P. O. Box 504, West Hyattsville, Md.

March 26-April 7: Railfan tour to Colombia will 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-footgauge train (standard gauge of will be 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, Apr 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 op

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Little Railroad Classics still available: "Narrow Gauge to Silverton, 1961 printing: "The Slim Princess, SP Narrow Gauge story, $1 each; "Cab-in-Front,' 50year history SP backups, $1.50; all generously illus trated. Hungerford Press, Reseda 2. Calif. Superb Enlargements of steam on AT&SF, SP, UP, other Far West and Mexican roads. Action and still, highest quality. Slides and movies too. Catalog and samples 25c (refunded with first order). Stan Kistler, Box 4068, Pasadena, Calif.

Angels Flight. Just published 36-page book on this 60-year-old cable line. Photos and scale drawings. $1.00. La Siesta Press, Box 406, Glendale, Calif. Steam locomotive and diesel slides, Kodachrome originals. Over 450 steam locomotives, 50 diesels. 100 railroads. Wide 0-4-0's to 4-8-8-4's, Shays. selection. List and sample, 30c. Joe Smith, 304 Picker Ave.. Wood River, Ill.

Builders' plates, number plates and other items. List, 10c in coin. Frank Leslie, 123 Lake Ave., Fair Haven, N. J.

portunities for picture-taking are arranged. Cost of tour, $575 from Miami. For further information, write Sanders World Travel Inc., 939 Shoreham Bldg., Washington 5, D. C.

Beginning in April: Pine Creek Railroad will resume regular Sunday operations, from noon until dark, on or about the first week end in April. Regular motive power will be ex-Ely Thomas Lumber Company Shay No. 6, pulling open passenger car and four-wheel caboose. Central American Porter 2-6-0 is expected to be in operation by late summer. Pine Creek Railroad is located on Route 9, 4 miles north of Freehold, N. J. For further information, write Pine Creek Railroad, 5 Water St., South River, N. J.

April 8: Lehigh Valley Chapter of National Railway Historical Society will operate Budd RDC trip on Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines from Camden to Bridgeton, N. J., and return, including Pennsgrove and Deepwater Point branches. Two Budd cars will be used. Excursion will leave Camden 10 a.m. [EST] and return about 5:30 p.m. Lunch stop will be made at Woodbury. Photo stops have also been arranged. Pennsgrove and Deepwater Point branches and trackage from Glassboro to Bridgeton are freight-only lines. Fare. $9; children. $4.50. For information, contact Gerhard Salomon, 606 Hamilton St., Allentown, Pa.; or Ernest Kovacs, 416 Second Ave., Bethlehem, Pa. April 13-15: Re-enactment of Great Locomotive Chase will be attended by special party which will leave Chicago 3:45 p.m. [CST] Friday on Chicago & Eastern Illinois-Louisville & Nashville Georgian. Group will participate in L&N's re-creation of Civil War railroad event. General will run under its own power and be "chased" by L&N special train. Reserved accommodations are available on special, and connection west is guaranteed. Sight-seeing arrangements during layover in Chattanooga are being made. Return to Chicago will be at 9:45 a.m. Sunday. Fare, including tax and fare on special train: coach, $43; upper berth, $78; lower berth, $83; roomette. $91; double bedroom (double occupancy only), $87 each. For reservations ($10 deposit required) and information. write General Agent, Passenger Department, Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 103 W. Adams St., Chicago 3, Ill.; or Railroad Club of Chicago, 3320 N. Sacramento, Chicago 18. Ill.

April 21, 22: Steam-powered specials from St. Louis, Mo.. to Herrin or Beardstown, Ill., via Burlington Railroad using 2-8-2 No. 4960 will be sponsored by Illini Railroad Club. Train will depart from Carr Street Station. Fare, about $7.50. Further information is available from Illini Railroad Club, Box 62, Champaign, Ill.

April 28: Iron Horse Tour to celebrate 25th anniversary of Railroad Club of Chicago will be sponsored by club from Chicago to Peoria, Ill., via Burlington Railroad using O-5B Northern from Chicago to Galesburg and return and O-1A Mikado from Galesburg to Peoria and back. Consist will be stainless-steel cars only and will include baggage car with opened barred doors and 110 v. A.C. for recorders, dome cars, dining car, and dome-parlor-observation car with reserved seats. Excursion will leave Chicago 9:15 a.m. [CST] and return 9:15 p.m. Fare, including tax and donation to CB&Q steam preservation fund: $15 coach; $21 parlor car. Tickets and information are available from Burlington Railroad, 103 W. Adams St., Chicago 3, Ill.; or Railroad Club of Chicago, 55 E. Bellevue Pl., Chicago 11, Ill.

April 28: Orange Empire Trolley Museum is sponsoring Santa Fe special train to Hemet, Calif., to attend Ramona Outdoor Play. Air-conditioned train

Steam negatives sold. Send stamped, self-addressed envelope for details. John A. Krave, 429 Ford Building. Detroit 26, Mich.

Other dishes

Pullman spoons, $1.00 each postpaid. and tableware also available. Elsie Williams, Box 247, R. D. 2, Elizabeth, Pa.

Colorado? Scads of unusual railroadiana of the narrow gauges at the Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden. Open daily the year around. Send for lists to Box 641, Golden, Colo.

Original Pennsylvania steam negatives sold. Highest quality. Send 10c for list. John A. Krave, 429 Ford Building. Detroit 26. Mich.

Photos black and white, color, sildes - CNJ and other roads send 15c for list and sample. Rail Photo Company, 323 Ave. B., Bayonne, N. J. Steam, gas trains: 311⁄2" to 24" gauge. Photos, brochure $1.00. Trains, 33-T Winthrop, Rehoboth, Mass. NYC, DM&IR, Original steam locomotive negatives. Southern Pacific, Penna., Union Pacific, Illinois Central, Short Lines, D&RGW Narrow Gauge, Mexican, Mopac, etc. Also a few diesel negs. Bill Jernstrom, 822 Pelham Dr.. Fort Wayne, Ind.

New Lists: Foreign Electric." "Steam in Foreign Countries," and "West & West Coast Steam' superb color slides for sale. Each list 15c or 35c with sample slide. Thirty-five Slides, Green Mtn. Falls, Colo. Australian Trains! "Along the Line" is new 44-page book, nostalgic photographs showing Australian trains of yesterday and today. $1.00. Owen T. Davies, 1214 North LaSalle St. Chicago 10, Ill. Steam Locomotive Photos, original Baldwin Builders photos and color slides. Giant size list 25c. Roy F. Wake Railroad Productions, 1429 Congress, Chicago 7. III.

Selling steam and traction negatives, color slides, and books. Also narrow gauge plans. Herb Cearley, 2529 Adams, Long Beach, Calif.

Get new free illustrated circular and list. Real, oldtime, kerosene caboose lamps, postal-dining car lamps, marker lamps, hanging depot lamp. Stamped, envelope please. John Scott. 3716 Rosebrook Court, Concord, Calif.

will depart Los Angeles Union Station 9:45 a.m. ani Pasadena 10:15 a.m. for direct run to Hemet. Buses will take group to pageant grounds. Barbecue dinner will be served at Hemet fairgrounds before departure Arrival at Pasadena will be 9:55 p.m. and Los Angeles 10:30 p.m. Train, which will operate over freightonly branch line, will consist of reclining seat chair cars, lounge car for refreshments, and baggage cars with barred doors. Dining car will not be carried: bring picnic lunch to eat on train. Fare, including all transportation, seat at pageant, and dinner: $13.25 children, $8.95. Ticket orders must be placed by April 10. For tickets and further information, wr Ramona Excursion, P. O. Box 501. Perris, Calif. Make checks payable to Orange Empire Trolley Museum.

June 2-9: Steam-powered Burlington special from Chicago to Lincoln, Nebr., en route to excursion en Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge will be sponsored by Illini Railroad Club. Train will operate from Denver via Moffat tunnel, will return via Royal Gorge to Alamosa, Colo. Narrow-gauge portion of trip includes all lines. Colorado & Southern steam side trip is to be made from Denver to Ft. Collins on return trip. Steam will be used from Lincoln to Chicago. All types of Pullman accommodations are available. Fares, from $186.35. For further information and reservations, contact Illini Railroad Club, P. O. Box 62, Champaign, Ill.

July 7-15: Private-car party aboard Chief Illini will be sponsored by Illini Railroad Club from Chicago to Vera Cruz, Mexico, via Burlington, Rock Island, Southern Pacific, Chihuahua-Pacific, National Ratways of Mexico, Missouri Pacific, and Gulf, Mobile & Ohio. Train carrying Chief Illini will operate Via Kansas City to El Paso, thence via Madera +1 Chihuahua, main line to Mexico City, thence Vera Cruz, with return via Laredo. Room car Jouquin Miller and other Pullmans will be used as needed. Fare, about $275 for lower berth: $250 for upper. For further information, write Illini Railroad Club, Box 62, Champaign, Ill.

August 11-25: Private-car party using Chief Illini and Jouquin Miller from Chicago to Century 21 Exposition in Seattle will be sponsored by Illini Railroad Club. Cars will operate from Chicago to Denver. Salt Lake City, Seattle, Vancouver, on side trip via Pacific Great Eastern, Jasper Park, Winnipeg, and return via St. Paul. Fare, approximately $295 for lower berth $275 for upper. Information is available from Illini Railroad Club, Box 62, Champaign, Ill.

August 4-19: All-Pullman trip, featuring Branford Trolley Museum: Montreal, Que.; Moncton, N. B.; Sydney & Louisburg Railway; Cape Breton Highlands National Park; Halifax, N. S.; Annapolis Valley Grand Pre; Peggy's Cove: steamship William Carson: and entire length of narrow-gauge Newfoundland Railway in only narrow-gauge Pullman sleeping cars on North American continent, will be sponsored by Washington Chapter of National Railway Historical Society. All types of Pullman accommodations are available: berths, roomettes, bedrooms, compartments, and drawing rooms. Cost per person ranges from $410 for upper berth to $480 each for two in drawing room Washington, D. C.. and return. Rates will also be quoted from New York and Montreal. Price includes

all transportation, sleeping accommodations on trains and steamship, all hotels, all sight-seeing trips, bet does not include meals. Fifty-dollar deposit will secure reservation. For further information and tickets, write Carrel I. Tod, tour director, c/o World-Wide Travel Service, Mercury Bldg., 20th and K sts. N. W., Washington 6, D. C.

Spike the switches: It's coming fast and smoky, double-
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Kuhler, Kindig. Perry, Haley, Le Masseria,
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There will be an extra-fare first section signed by the
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North Books, 1050, Parker. Berkeley, Calif.
New England short line negatives. B&ML HT&W
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Beebe's Age of Steam. Mixed Train Daily. Highball
Highliners, High Iron. $35.00 each. Cafky's Rail And
Gold Hill. $35.00. Jane's Fighting Ships - 1931.
$15.00. Doug Wornom, 454 Riverside Dr., N. Y.
27. N. Y.

Midwest Railroader, P. O. Box 2665D, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Established 1957. Complete locomotive rosters types, classes. 6 issues $2.00. See previous continuo ads Trains.

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Builder's Plates. Will buy or trade for Heisler, Climax. Davenport, Grant, Pre-Alco, Shop Plates, many others. Write Alan Miller, 1836 Gardena Ave., Glendale 4. Calif.

Lanterns. Switchmen's, kerosene burning, indicat railroad initials. general condition and cash pris e. G. V. Wilson. 707 Taft Rd., Hinsdale. Ill. Original tape recordings (Mono. or stereo) of steat! locoomtives. Must be top quality. Roy Wake, 1429 Congress, Chicago 7. Ill.

Original Tape Recordings (Mono, or Stereo) of Steam Locomotives. Must be top quality. Roy Wake. 1429 Congress. Chicago 7. II.

Pullman Company lists No. 28. 29, 30, 31, and 32 Write if any available. Phillip Scherer, 324 Thund Ave., San Francisco 18. Calif.

I want to buy Pennsy negatives and 8x10 prints. Als F. Staufer, Box 57, Leroy, Ohio.

Author Reed Kinert, above, has been an ardent rail fan since childhood, when his father was engineer and fireman on the CincinnatiLogansport division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. A professional pilot, Kinert never forgot his love of steam and glistening rails, and spent ten years on this book. He has also written four books on aviation, including "American Fighting Planes in Action," "Our Fighting Planes," and "America's Racing Planes and Historic Air Races."

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Text and drawings by

REED KINERT

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Long-departed locomotives are brought alive in full color in a 16-page collector's album of highly accurate scale drawings from blueprints and builders' specifications. Rare old engines, many never seen before, are recreated in 58 full-page black and white drawings and 48 full-page photos.

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