Railroadbooks.biz main page Featured Site Content Upcoming Shows and Expos Shop for Books thru GoEMerchant Alphabetical Book Listings Looking for a rare or unusual book? We can help! Contact us Outline of Site Content
     
 

HERE NOW and Coming Soon, May 13, 2008:

CLICK THE PIC for more info on the title.

Expedited Shipping is available (USPS shipping just went up, but YOUR media rate shipping is still free over $50).

Click on WHAT'S NEW to see an alpha listing of these and the other new titles that were added during the last six months.

Morning Sun: click here to see all new issues through August 2008

Just in and shipping to you now / Due now from suppliers:

Chicago Stations & Trains Photo Archive

SP P Class 4-6-2 Pacific Pictorial Volume 35: SP P-1 2400 to P-5 2444, T&NO P5 600 to P-6 612

Railway Prototype Cyclopedia Volume 17 is here, and

Railway Prototype Cyclopedia Volume 16 is now listed (having been left off the website in error)

Wisconsin central Heritage Volume Two Color Pictorial

Texas & New Orleans: Southern Pacific's Lines in Texas & Louisiana

Built to Move Millions: Streetcar Building in Ohio

Early Wood Frame & Masonry Buildings scratchbuilding designs, plans, drawings, pictures

Ghostly Ruins America's Forgotten Architecture

Turbo Train: A Journey

Southern Pacific SP Type 4-10-2 Pictorial Volume 34 Classes SP-1 through SP-3

Rio Grande F Class 2-10-2 & M Class 4-8-2 Pictorial Classes F-81, M-67, M-69, M-75, M-78

Santa Fe 3800 Class 2-10-2 Pictorial Volume 12; includes 3887 through 3909

Burlington Route Steam Locomotive Photos from the Roy Campbell collection

Logging Railroads of the Blue Ridge & Smoky Mtns Vol 1: Cold Mountain, Black Mountain & White Top

Securing America's Passenger-Rail Systems

A Social History of Mexico's Railroads: Peons, Prisoners, and Priests is available in cloth and paper

The Lehigh Valley Railroad A Photo Album is here now. For trolley fans, here's

The Sapulpa and Tulsa Trolley Connection

Four Ways West's newest are

Milwaukee Road Passenger Trains Vol 1: Pioneer Limited, the Hiawathas, and other Speedliners

California Rails 1950s: A Color Pictorial.

Classic books about classic items: the long - awaited

Brass Train Guide (includes the 500+ page price and data guide book while supplies last) and

AARPCO Collection of Classic Private Railroad Cars.

Inside Bethlehem Steel: The Final Quarter Century is a stunning visual tour.

here now: TRP's

PRR Lines West Volume 2 Pittsburgh & Northeast Ohio 1960-1999.

All Aboard for Santa Fe: Railway Promotion of the Southwest, 1890s to 1930s and

Marking the Land 1, along with another Western Landscapes book

Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains. David Plowden's 50-year celebration of American photography is

David Plowden: Vanishing Point Fifty Years of Photography, as well as his

A Handful of Dust: Disappearing America.

We've begun to restock Withers Publishing titles, including the 2 new ones:

Norfolk Southern Loco Directory 2007-2008

Alco's Century Series Volume Two - Six-axle Models

The Original Norfolk Southern Railway 1883-1974 is here.

Standard Catalog of American Flyer Trains and

Standard Catalog of Lionel Train Sets: 1945-1969, along with

O'Brien's Collecting Toy Trains: Identification and Value Guide

 

from Great Northern Pacific,

BNSF Railway Freight Cars Volume Two and

BNSF Railway Locomotive Review & Locomotive Diagrams 2006 for you modelers of the current era;

New York Central Color Pictorial Volume 4: Kankakee, IL to Weehawken, NJ from Four Ways and

New Haven Railroad Midland Division, from Bob's Photos;

lotsa new SP - Here's the list from the SP Historical and Technical Society:

Southern Pacific Water Lines: Marine, Bay & River Operations of the Southern Pacific System

Southern Pacific Passenger Cars Volume Three: Head End Equipment

Southern Pacific Passenger Cars Volume Two: Sleepers & Baggage-Dorms

Southern Pacific Passenger Cars Volume One: Coaches & Chair Cars

Sunset Limited: Southern Pacific’s Premier Train With a Southern Accent

Ghost Trains of SP’s Overland Route Nos. 21-22, Mail, 1947-1967 and

Steam Over Donner is Monte Visa Publishing's latest effort, and their first hard cover book.

B&O's Magnificent 2-8-8-4 EM-1 Articulated Locomotive just dropped in from TLC.

Comprehensive Railroad Atlas - North East (the 152-page 2007 revised version) has arrived, and all SPV atlases are back in stock. Also,

Rails to the North Star: A Minnesota Railroad Atlas is here.

Bob Karig's latest is

Coal Cars: The First Three Hundred Years, and it's as complete and detailed as his Hard Coal and Coal Cars: Hauling Anthracite on the New York, Ontario & Western Railway. Also from University of Scranton Press, a long-awaited

The Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry 1860-1902.

Transport Design: A Travel History traces technological innovation from early methods of motion to the present day.

The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in 19th Century America is the latest book on the subject of the mails.

Milwaukee Road Locomotives Volume 2 EMD First Generation Switchers & Road Switchers from Four Ways West.

Canadian Pacific to the East: The International of Maine Division is Omer Lavallée's last book. From Sono Nis:

Steam Along the Boundary: Canadian Pacific, Great Northern and the Great Boundary Copper Boom. Here's some more Sono Nis just in or restocked after long absence:

Powell River's Railway Era,

The Thunder of Their Passing: A Tribute to the Denver & Rio Grande and the Cumbres & Toltec Railroads,

West of the Great Divide: The Canadian Pacific Railway's First Century in British Columbia,

Logging by Rail: The British Columbia Story,

V & S: The Victoria and Sidney Railway 1892-1919, and

The Skyline Limited: The Kaslo & Slocan Railway

2008 Locomotive Rosters & News has arrived, as has Signature's

Key System Streetcars: Transit, Real Estate and the Growth of the East Bay,

Chicago's Steam Suburbans, and

The GrandLuxe Express Traveling in High Style, from IU Press, accompanies their

The Train Of Tomorrow: Complete history of the Train Of Tomorrow from Concept to Rescue and the amazing Encyclopedia of North American Railroads, now in its 2nd printing.

Piggyback & Containers A History of Rail Intermodal on America's Steel Highway is the revised third printing of David DeBoer's seminal book. Pick it up along with Brian Solomon's

Intermodal Railroading.

Click on WHAT'S NEW to see an alpha listing of these and the other new titles that were added during the last six months.

Thinking S P? Here's the long-awaited

Tucson Was a Railroad Town, as well as Signature Press' reprint of

Chard Walker's Cajon which follows on the heels of their

Southern Pacific's Salt Lake Division, also just arrived. Then MBI has reissued their

Railroad Color History of the SP, as well.

Click on WHAT'S NEW to see an alpha listing of these and the other new titles that were added during the last six months.

Back to the east:

MBI's latest title in the Great Passenger Trains series is here now:

B&O's Capitol Limited and National Limited, and the newest history is

Southern Railway Railroad Color History.

Vermont Rail System: A Railroad Rennaissance and

A Whistle Up the Valley: The Story of the Peavine, Vermont’s White River Railroad have arrived from Evergreen.

The Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad & Predecessors, Equipment Manufacturers & the Equipment Vol 1 is the first of SIX planned volumes.

Tunneling to the Future The Story of the Great Subway Expansion That Saved New York is available in cloth and paper. New York and environs:

Forgotten Railroads Through Westchester County. .

More Mining:

Coalwood A history of the West Virginia Mining Communities of Coalwood, Caretta, & Six joins

Gary Hollow as books that tell the story of the mining industry of West Virginia and its interfaces with the railroads, such as Mallory Hope Ferrell's

Norfolk & Western...Steam’s Last Stand.

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway West End: PM District, Chicago, Cincinnati & Russell Divisions.

More for maritime interests we have

Shipbuilding at Sparrows Point Yard A Century of Pride and Tradition, and a new printing of

Where Earth Dissolves like Snow: The Keystone Driller Story

David Myrick's catalogue is being extended with

Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California Volume 3: More Northern Roads (vol. 3 is NOT a reprint). Listed also: reprints of Volumes 1 and 2, to wit:

Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California Volume 1: Northern and

Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California Volume 2: Southern. Buy the set of 3 and save: Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California: The 3 Volume Set is here as well. Moving Mail & Express by Mail.

Morning Sun's latest issues through August

(preorders accepted for the prereleases below):

Chicago South Shore & South Bend In Color Vol. 2 with

Erie Lackawana Through Passenger Service In Color Vol. 2 1965-1970 and

New England Shortlines In Color,

Pennsylvania RR Trackside with John Dziobko, Jr. 1951 - 1961 with

Maine Central In Color Volume 3 and

Burlington Northern In Color Volume 3: Green Pastures.

Milwaukee Road In Color Vol. 5 Pacific Extension 1941-1961 with

Trackside in the South 1946-1959 with John Knauff and Vincent Purn and

Lehigh Valley Facilities In Color Volume 1 New York Division.

Lackawanna RR Facilities In Color Volume 2: Dover to Scranton with

Canadian Railways Color Guide to Freight/Passenger Equipment, Vol. 2 Manitoba & West and

Trackside in the Heartland 1946-1959 with John Knauff and Vincent Purn

Morning Sun books available for preorder:

Due May 1: Trackside on the PRR Delmarva Lines with John P. Stroup and

C&NW Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment Vol. 1: Passenger Cars, Cabooses and Acquired Roads

Due June 1: Ann Arbor Railroad In Color History & Operations 1869 to 1976 and

Trackside in the Rust Belt 1957-1977 with Cal Banse

Due July 1: Canadian Trolleys In Color Vol. 2 Western Canada and

Rio Grande In Color Vol. 4: Late Steam & First Generation Diesels .

Due August 1: Chesapeake & Ohio Facilities In Color Vol. 1: Midwest and

Northern Pacific In Color Vol. 2: 1960-1970 .

_______________________
As always, you pay no shipping for purchases over $50 shipped to one address, or choose your method of expedited shipping if you wish.

As always, expedited shipping is available at actual cost of service (no added service charges).

As always, we ship internationally at actual cost of service.
_______________________

 

 

 

 
 
[ Home ] [ New & Notable ] [ Show Schedule ] [ Contact ] [ Site Map ]
[ Online Store ] [ Shipping ] [ Book Wanted ] [ Book List ]