Books - Street Railways, Interurbans and General Transit Interest

Canadian Trolleys, Volume 1 - Eastern Canada by Robert Halperin. A color photo book covering Halifax, St. John NB, Quebec City, Quebec Railway Light & Power, Montreal, Montreal & Southern Counties, Ottawa, Cornwall, Oshawa, Toronto, St. Catharines, Hamilton, Dundas, Guelph, Grand River, Lake Erie & Northern, Kitchener, London, London & Port Stanley, Windsor, Sudbury, Inco, Noranda, Port Arthur and Fort William. 128 pages, color photos. (August 2006) Morning Sun Books  

Hardcover $59.95  

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Canadian Trolleys, Volume 2 - Western Canada by Robert Halperin. A new color photo book covering Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary, Lethbridge, Nelson, Vancouver, Vancouver Interurbans and Victoria. 128 pages, color photos. (July 2008) Morning Sun Books  

Hardcover $59.95  (NEW)

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Edmonton's Electric Transit, The Story of Edmonton's Streetcars and Trolley Buses, Colin K. Hatcher and Tom Schwarzkopf, 210 pp., over 200 photos (1983) Railfare Enterprises Limited.

Hardcover $22.95

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Montreal & Southern Counties Railway Co. by J. R. Thomas Grumley. Another volume in the “Canada’s Traction Heritage Series”. 67 pages, mostly B&W photos. (2004) Bytown Railway Society  

Softcover $21.95

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Montreal Streetcars Volume 2: "People & Places" by J. R. Thomas Grumley. The second volume on Montreal in the "Canada's Traction Heritage Series" The names of places and streets reflect the names in use at the time of the events described. For example, Dorchester Street became Dorchester Blvd. in 1954 and was subsequently renamed René Lévesque Blvd. It should be noted that all reports from newspapers, Montreal Tramways notices, etc. have been copied verbatim and reflect the English in common use at the time of the report. 35 pages, mostly B&W photos, some colored photos, includes a fold-out 1929 MTC map. (2005) Bytown Railway Society  

Softcover $14.95

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Montreal Streetcars Volume 3: "Scenic Routes" by J. R. Thomas Grumley. The third volume on Montreal in the "Canada's Traction Heritage Series" (1) Route #29 - Outremont, (2) Precursor to the Tram Lines on the Mountain, (3) Route #93 - Remembrance Road, (4) History of Montreal Streetcar/Bus Transfers, (5) Route #11 - Mountain (Montagne), (6) Observation Car Routes, (7) Route #17 - Cartierville, and (8) Route #91 - Lachine and Route #92 - Lachine Extension. 43 pages, B&W and color photos, includes a fold-out 1941 MTC map. (2008) Bytown Railway Society  

Softcover $19.95 (NEW)

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Ottawa Car Company, The 1898 - 1948, by David C. Knowles (2003). Second in the Bytown Railway Society's Canada's Traction Heritage Series. The cover features QRL&P Car 454 now at the Seashore Trolley Museum. 35 pp., B&W.        

Softcover $13.95  

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Ottawa's Streetcars An  Illustrated History of Electric Railway Transit in Canada's Capital City by Bill McKeown. This book details the history of the Ottawa Electric Railway, its predecessors and the Ottawa Transportation commission, all forerunners of today's OC Transpo. The book contains 256 pages with over 300 photos (over 40 in full colour) plus seven city trackage and route maps including one huge 1929 route map in full colour. Also includes many appendices.`(2006) Railfare DC Books        

Hardcover $54.95 

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Quebec Railway Light & Power Company, Montmorency Division by J. R. Thomas Grumley. Another volume in the “Canada’s Traction Heritage Series”. Includes photos of Seashore's Car 454, 51 pages, B&W and color photos. (2006) Bytown Railway Society  

Softcover $20.00 

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Saskatoon's Electric Transit, The Story of Saskatoon's Streetcars and Trolley Buses, Eaten Wayman, 98 pp., 138 photos (1988) Railfare Enterprises Limited

Hardcover $19.95

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Streetcar Builders of Canada Volume One: The Ontario Car and Foundry Company, The Preston Car & Coach Company, The Tillsonburg Electric Car Company – William Bailey and Douglas Parker, 155 pp., B&W photos, diagrams, car details.

Softcover $23.50

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Trackside Around Ontario 1955-1960 with Don McCartney by John Riddell. A look at Ontario railroading in the late 1950's including CP, CN, TH&B, ET, electric lines, equipment, rail ferry operations. Includes 55 photos on the following Electric Railways: Canadian National, British Columbia Electric, Cornwall Street Railway Light & Power Company, Grand River, Lake Erie & Northern, London & Port Stanley, Montreal & Southern Counties, Niagara, St. Catharine & Toronto and Quebec Railway Light & Power Company. 128 pages, all color (2003) Morning Sun Books.

Hardcover  $59.95  

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Tr         Transit in British Columbia — The First Hundred Years  by Brian Kelly and Daniel Francis — Harbour Publishing — 1990 — 150 pp.

Hardcover  $44.95

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Chicago Area

Colorado

Centennial State Trolleys — The Life and Times of Colorado’s Streetcars  by Ken Fletcher — Colorado Railroad Museum — 1995 — 160 pp. — Photographs and descriptions of trolley operations in the state. Major emphasis on the Denver Tramway  system. A very nice book that covers most of this state’s lines. This 160 page softbound book is full of photos and text

Softcover  $24.95

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Denver’s Street Railway  — Volume 1 1871–1900 — Sundance — 352 pages with many black and white photos and maps.  Divided into six chapters. This is an excellent history of the early years of the Denver Tramways.  

Hardcover  $51.95

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Denver’s Street Railway  — Volume II 1901–1950 — by Don Robertson and Rev. Morris Cafky. 536 pages, 736 B&W photos, 50 color photos, and 50 maps and schedules. (March 2004, Sundance Publications.  

Hardcover  $75.00 (Out of Stock)

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District of Columbia

Baltimore-Washington Trolleys in Color by LeRoy O. King, Jr. This new book covers the Capital Transit Company, Baltimore Transit Company, The Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad Co., and The Hagerstown and Frederick Railroad. 128 pages, (2006) Morning Sun

 Hardcover  $59.95 (NEW)

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Florida

The Florida Keys Overseas Railroad by Warren Zeiller. The story of the Overseas Railway to Key West, an extension of the Florida East Coast Railway, has been told many times, but there is more to tell. The core of this new book is the collection of photographs made by William Asa Glass, one of the construction engineers on the project. His views show both the engineering and human sides of the great project in a unique way. Also included is a retrospective of the route today, with the modern Keys highway alongside many of the surviving original railroad bridges. Maps, artwork, 166 photos, most unpublished, including 129 by or collected by Bill Glass. A few modern photos in color. 156 pages. (2006) Signature Press 

Hardcover  $55.00 (NEW)   

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Street Railways of St. Petersburg, Florida — by James Buckley - 48 pages, B&W photos (1983) Harold Cox

Softcover  $8.95

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Hawaii

Streetcar Days in Honolulu (Breezing Through Paradise) — A well illustrated story of the creation of modern Honolulu and of the creators and communities created. Brizdle and Simpson. 156 pages.

Softcover  $29.95 (Out of Stock)

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Illinois

Illinois Terminal In Color Volume I — by Gordon E. Lloyd. The personal photography of noted traction authority Gordon Lloyd takes the reader on a tour of the IT from 1952 up to the NW takeover. 128 pages, (1998) Morning Sun

 Hardcover  $49.95

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Illinois Terminal In Color Volume II — by William E. Volkmer. Through the camera lens of master traction photographer Eugene Van Dusen the reader is taken across the IT system in the late 1940’s, early 1950’s. Both freight and passenger operations in full color.  128 pages, (2001) Morning Sun

Hardcover  $54.95

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Indiana

Central Indiana Interurban  by Robert Reed — Covers the rise and fall of the mighty interurban that provided a link from Indianapolis to nearly every city and village in existence. 128 pages, B&W photos, Arcadia Publishing

Softcover  $19.99 

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Electric Railroads of Indiana by Jerry Marlette (Second Edition 1980) 214 pages, B&W photos, sample tickets, schedules, map of abandoned lines. 

Softcover  $20.00  

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Gary Railways published by the C. E. R. A. — 1975–36 pp.

Softcover  $4.00   (Out off Print, 4-LEFT)

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Indianapolis Railways A Complete History of the Company and Its Predecessors From 1864 to 1957 by Jerry Marlette. (2002) The title says it all. From mule cars through "club lounge" cars and trackless trolley operations, 301 pages, many B&W photos, samples of tickets, transfers, tokens, maps, schedules, car rosters, track and car barn plans, etc. Includes three suburban lines.

Hardcover  $50.00 

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Moonlight in Duneland — Indiana University Press — This oversized soft bound book is a history of the artwork and advertising posters used to promote the South Shore line.  The full color posters depicted alone should make this a most welcome addition to anyone’s library.  140 pages 

Softcover  $35.00

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Northern Indiana Railway  by George K. Bradley — CERA — 244 pages — Covers South Bend, Mishawaka, Elkhart County, Southern Michigan, LaPorte and Michigan City Rail Lines

Hardcover  $55.00

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Kansas

Arkansas Valley Interurban: The Electric Way: Wichita to Newton and Hutchinson, Kansas. B&W photos, 60 pages (1999) South Platte Press

Softcover $17.95

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Heartland Traction, The Interurban Lines of Kansas City by Edward A. Conrad. This is the story of the five interurban lines that served the Kansas City area (Kansas and Missouri) It tells the story not only from a historical and technical standpoint, but also from the perspective of the individuals associated with the line, including its promoters, financiers, builders, associates and competitors. Covers (1) Kansas City, Leavenworth & Western - the Leavenworth Line, (2) Kansas City, Lawrence & Topeka - the Hocker Line, (3) Kansas City, Kaw Valley & Western - the Kaw Valley Line, (4) Lawrence City Streetcars, (5) Missouri & Kansas - The Strang Line, and (6) Kansas City, Clay County & St. Joseph - the Missouri Short Line. 336 pages, many B&W photos, maps, diagrams, equipment lists and photos, (2006) Heartland Rails Publishing Company

Softcover $39.95  (NEW)

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Splendid Ride, A, The Streetcars of Kansas City 1870 - 1957 by Monroe Dodd, Kansas City Star Books. 208 pages, many B&W photos, maps, diagrams. An excellent study of how Kansas City gained such a marvelous network of rails and how they lost them. Includes horse cars, the third longest cable car system in the US, an incline, a tunnel, and more.

Hardcover  $34.95  

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Louisiana

New Orleans, The Canal Streetcar Line -by Edward J. Bramley, 128 pp. B&W photos, (2004) Arcadia Publishing

Softcover  $19.99

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Maryland

Baltimore Streetcars - The Postwar Years  by Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. Revised Edition 2003, John Hopkins University Press, 173 pages [First Edition published by Quadrant Press in 1984 as "Baltimore and its Streetcars: A Pictorial Review of the Postwar Years]

Softcover  $29.95

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Early Electric Cars of Baltimore — by Harold Cox, 136 pages, B&W photos, (1979)

Softcover  $11.00

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Hagerstown (MD), Railroading Around The Hub City — by Mary H. Rubin, 128 pp. B&W photos, small section the Hagerstown & Frederick Railway (Trolleys), Arcadia Publishing

Softcover  $19.99 

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Michigan

Detroit's Street Railways— by Kenneth Schramm. (1) Early Streetcars in Detroit 1863-1901, (2) Detroit United Railway and the City of Detroit Municipal Operations: 1901-1922, (3) Early Department of Street Railway Operations: 1922-1945, (4) Later Department of Street Railway Operations: 1946-1956, (5) Early Detroit Buses: 1925-1962. 128 pp. (2006), Arcadia Publishing

Softcover  $19.99  (NEW)

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When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails – Book Three – by Jack E. Schramm, William H. Henning and Richard R. Andrews – Covers the lines from Detroit to Jackson and across the state. 224 pp., 338 B&W photos

Hardcover $39.95

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When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails — Book Four — by Jack E. Schramm, William H. Henning and Richard R. Andrews — Covers the lines from Detroit to Wyandotte, Monroe and Toledo and also covers lines in neighboring Windsor, Ontario. 230 pp., more than 345 photos and 40 other illustrations.  — Transportation Trails.

Hardcover  $59.00

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Minnesota

Como-Harriet Line Streetcar Line, The, A Memory Trip Through The Twin Cities: Aaron Isaacs and Bill Graham, 64 pp. B&W, several color photos, Minnesota Transportation Museum

Softcover $12.75

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Twin Cities by Trolley The Streetcar Era in Minneapolis and St. Paul by John W. Diers & Aaron Isaacs. Baker. This book offers a rolling snapshot of Minneapolis and St. Paul from the 1880's to the 1950's, when the streetcar system shaped the growth and character of the entire metropolitan area. It recounts the rise and fall of the Twin Cities Rapid Transit Company including the history, organization, and operations of the system, life as a streetcar operator and the technology, design and construction of the cars. The illustrations show nearly every neighborhood in Minneapolis and St. Paul as it was during the streetcar era. More than 400 photos and 70 maps, 349 pages (2007) University of Minnesota Press

Hardcover $39.95 (NEW)   

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Missouri

Heartland Traction, The Interurban Lines of Kansas City by Edward A. Conrad. See under Kansas for description.

Softcover $39.95

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King Trolley and the Suburban Queens by James F. Baker. This book details streetcar service (1890 - 1950) from the St. Louis and Suburban Co. and successor to the self proclaimed "Queens of the St. Louis Suburbs". The two major county lines operated by the Suburban were the Manchester line and the cross county lines that joined and became best known as the Kirkwood-Ferguson Line. 25 Chapters, B&W photos, diagrams and maps, 307 pages (2005) Meramec Highlands Books

Softcover $25.00  

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Street Cars, Light Rail & Utility Cars of St. Louis — 1899-2003 — by Andrew D. Young. This book examines the passenger and utility cars owned and operated by United Railways (1899-1926), St. Louis Public Service Company (1927-1963), and Bi-State Development Agency (1963-2003) plus light rail cars of Bi-State's Metrolink System (From 2/1/2003)  111 pages, black and white photos. (2003) Archway Publishing

Softcover  $34.95   

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Streets & Streetcars of St. Louis, A Sentimental Journey by Andrew Young, 144 pages. many B&W photos.  Archway Publishing

Softcover  $39.95 

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When Missouri Took The Trolley by Andrew D. Young. Sections on (1) This is Missouri, (2) Here Comes the Trolley, (3) Passengers and Freight, (4) Old Cars, New Cars, (5) The End of the Affair, and (6) Missouri's Trolley Towns with copious information on each of the trolley towns in Missouri. Large number of black and white photos, 225 pages. (2007) Archway Publishing

Softcover  $54.95  (NEW)

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New England

Along Branford Shore, History, Maps and Pictures of the Branford Electric Railway Company and The Connecticut Company. Richard H. Fletcher and James M. West. 58 pp. B&W photos. (1995) Shore Line Trolley Museum.

Softcover $14.00

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Beneath The Streets of Boston. Building America's First Subway by Joe McKendry. An exploration of a century-old world when the city took the initiative to design and create the country's first subway. In stunning artwork and through a fascinating (and historically accurate) narrative of Beantown's first "Big Dig" you will enter the subterranean realm of workers who dug miles of tunnels by hand.  Some autographed copies available.(2005) David Godine, Publisher

Hard cover $19.95 

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Boston and Maine The, Volume 3 Gas/Diesel Railcars, Flying Yankee, Talgo, and Electric Locomotives. By Robert Liljestrand & David R. Sweetland, 46 pages, B&W photos.

Softcover  $15.00

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Boston's Blue Line by Frank Cheney, 128 pages, B&W, (2004) Arcadia Publishing.

Softcover  $19.99 

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Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad by Robert Liljestrand and David Sweetland. Narrow Gauge Steam and Electric. 48 pages, B&W photos (2000)  

Softcover  $18.00  

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Boston Trolleys in Color, Volume 1: The North Side by William D. Volkmer. Travel the road of color photography between the years 1940 and 1990 over the Boston transit system. This volume covers the northern part of Boston, Cambridge, Lechmere, Watertown, Somerville, North Station, Revere, Braves Field and Reservoir/Cleveland Circle.128 pages, (March 2004) Morning Sun Books

Hardcover $59.95 

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Boston Trolleys in Color, Volume 2: The South Side by William D. Volkmer. Travel the road of color photography between the years 1940 and 1980 over the Boston transit system. This volume covers the southern part of Boston, City Point, Tremont Street, Arborway, Mattapan High Speed Line, Dorchester, Riverside, Beacon Street, and operations outside of Boston including Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway-Quincy, Union Street Railway-New Bedford, Worcester Street Railway, Springfield Terminal Railway-Springfield VT, United Electric Railways-Providence RI, and Connecticut Company-New Haven CT .128 pages, (August 2004) Morning Sun Books

Hardcover $59.95 

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Capital City Streetcar Days — The Concord & Manchester Electric Branch, The Concord Electric Railways, and Predecessors 1878-1933 — by O.R. Cummings (Harold Cox)

Softcover  $12.95

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Concord, Maynard & Hudson Street Railway by O. R. Cummings  — 1967 — 38 pp. — Connecticut Valley Chapter NRHS Transportation Bulletin No. 74.

Hardcover  CVNRHS74    $17.00  

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Connecticut Company’s Streetcars  by Frederick A. Kramer with Ed Wadhams — Carstons Publication — 1993

Hardcover  $26.95

Softcover  $21.95

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Golden Age of the Trolley, A History of the Nahant & Lynn Street Railway Company: by Suzanne Hamill & Ken Wilkie, 91 pp., B&W, Nahant (MA) Historical Society

Softcover $20.00 (Out of Stock)

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Hartford and Springfield Street Railway Co. — Diary of a Trolley Road — compiled by Michael C. De Vito — NRHS — 1974 — 191 pp. — Transportation Bulletin No. 80  The story of the Hartford & Springfield Street Railway company and other street railway companies of north-central Hartford County in Connecticut.

Hardcover  CVNRHS80    $34.00  

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Hartford County Trolleys by Connecticut Trolley Museum. During the golden age of the trolley, Hartford County (CT) was crisscrossed with over 200 miles of trolley lines, reaching to all major cities and towns in the county. Only 8 out of the 29 cities and towns in the county were without some type of public transit. This book features: (1) The Bristol Line, (2) The Farmington Street Railway, (3) Downtown Hartford, (4) The Hartford Suburban Liens, (5) New Britain, Plainville, and Southington, (6) The Hartford and Springfield Street Railway, and (7) The Connecticut Trolley Museum in 2005. 128 pages, B&W photos, (2005) Arcadia Publishing.

Softcover   $19.99 

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Hartford Trolleys by Connecticut Motor Coach Museum, compiled by Nancy Johanson, Bert Johanson, and John Sullivan. 128 pages, B&W photos, (2004) Arcadia Publishing.

Softcover   $19.99 

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Manchester Streetcars — Arcadia — yet another wonderful street railway book from our prolific author, historian and long term member O. R. Cummings.  As part of Arcadia’s Images of America series it contains a large quantity of B&W photos of trolleys in and around the Queen City of New Hampshire.  Many of the photos are from our late member Charles A. Duncan.  Its a packed 128 soft bound pages.

Softcover   $18.99

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Nantasket Beach Branch  by Bob McGarigle — NRHS — 1981 — 76 pp. — Covers the New Haven Railroad, Bay State Street Railway and steamboat lines serving this Massachusetts resort — Transportation Bulletin No. 90

Hardcover  CVNRHS90  $19.95 

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New Haven EP-5 Jets, Classic Power No. 9 by Joe Cunningham. 98 pages, B&W and color photos (1991) N. J. International

Softcover  $29.95 

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New Haven Railroad The Final Decade by Scott Hartley. 160 pages, color (Railpace 1992)

Hardcover  $49.95  

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New Haven Streetcars -by Branford Electric Railway Association, 128 pp. B&W photos, Arcadia Publishing

Softcover  $19.99   

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Norway & Paris Street Railway The Shortest Streetcar Line in The State of Maine 1895 - 1918 by O. R. Cummings and Peter C. Hammond. History and social aspects of a 2.13 mile streetcar line. 54 pages, B/W photos (2008)

Softcover  $14.99   (NEW)

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Railroad Cities: Providence, Rhode Island: by Robert A. Liljestrand & David Sweetland, Photo album includes coverage of trolleys of United Electric Railways. 48 pages, B&W photos

Softcover $15.00

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Railroad That Came Out At Night, The, A Book of RAILROADING in and around BOSTON, 72 pages, B&W photos, Frank Kyper, Carstens Pub.

Softcover $12.95

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Railroads of Vermont, A Pictorial: 634 photographs plus maps, tickets and timetables that cover Vermont from the Civil War through the early 1990s. Forty railroads including obscure logging railroads, urban trolley systems, industrial railroads and large well-known rail systems. Robert C. Jones, 355 pages

Hardcover $60.00

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Savin Rock Amusement Park by Edith Reynolds. (Postcard History Series) A summer destination for riders of the Connecticut Company streetcars from New Haven to West Haven. 128 pages, B&W photos, (2006) Arcadia Publishing

Softcover $19.99  (NEW)

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Shelburne Falls and Colrain Street Railway Company, The — Published by Conn. Valley Chapter of NRHS — 1968 — 42 pp. — The story behind the “Bridge of Flowers”. Also includes some information on the Green Mountain Railroad Co.

Hardcover  CVNRHS75  $20.00  

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Shore Line Electric Railway Company, The, by O. R. Cummings. The story of one of the nation's more unprofitable traction companies during the otherwise prosperous 1910-1924 period. At its height from mid-1916 until mid-1919, the Shore Line Electric Railway operated a nearly 230 mile system in Connecticut, except almost 17 miles of main track in Rhode Island. The chapters include: (1) Shore Line Predecessors 1913-1916, (2) The Shore Line Electric Railway 1905-1929, (3) Shore Line Green 1910-1924, (4) Shore Line Successors 1923-1929, and (5) Rolling Stock. 8 3/4" by 11" format, 168 pages, B&W photos, maps and diagrams. (Sept. 2007) CERA Bulletin 139.

Hardcover  $40.00   (NEW) 

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Shore Line Electric Railway Company, The, Parts 1 and 2 by O. R. Cummings and Charles F. Munger, Jr. — 1960 — 42 pp. — Connecticut Valley Chapter NRHS Transportation Bulletin No. 13, parts 1 and 2. Part 1 features the development of the system which in six years became New England's 5th largest trolley system. Part 2 features the predecessor companies.

Hardcover  CVNRHS13    $24.95 

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Streetcar Lines of the Hub, The 1940's, Heyday of Electric Transit in Boston by Bradley H. Clarke — This book is about the Metropolitan Boston streetcar system of the 1940's operated by the Boston Elevated Railway and its successor, the Metropolitan Transit Authority, and the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company. Chapter 1 provides an overview of events that affected the entire system and the remaining chapters cover the surface streetcar network geographically.  206 pages, both color and black and white photos. (Nov. 2003) Boston Street Railway Association

Hardcover  $46.95 

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Taunton Street Railway Company by Carlton E. Tucker — 1963 — 22 pp. — Connecticut Valley Chapter NRHS Transportation Bulletin No. 68. The Horsecars and the Electrics Taunton Street Railway Company, Taunton division, Old Colony Street Railway Co. and the Independent Lines operating in Taunton, Massachusetts.

Hardcover  CVNRHS68    $19.50 

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Transit to Wethersfield, The First 100 Years by Roger Borrup — 1970 — 72 pp. — Connecticut Valley Chapter NRHS Transportation Bulletin No. 77 The story of a hundred years of local transit to Wethersfield (CT) - with horse cars, trolley cars and motor buses - 1862 through 1969. It also tells about Hartford's horse car era transit, 1862 to 1893.

Hardcover  CVNRHS77    $20.00 

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Tremont Street Subway — A Century of Public Service  by Bradley H. Clarke and O. R. Cummings — 1997 — 64 pp. — History of America’s oldest subway in Boston — BSRA.

Softcover  $15.95

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Trolleys in the Land of the Pilgrims — The Plymouth & Kingston Street Railway, The Brockton & Plymouth Street Railway, The Plymouth & Brockton Street Railway, and The Plymouth & Sandwich Street Railway 1886–1928 — by O.R. Cummings

Softcover  $11.95

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Trolleys to Beaver Lake — A History of the Chester & Derry Railroad Association 1891–1928 — by O.R. Cummings, 32 pages, (1990) Harold Cox

Softcover  $7.50

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Trolleys to Brunswick, Maine, 1896–1937  by O. R. Cummings — 1966 — 42 pp. — NRHS Transportation Bulletin No. 73

Hardcover  CVNRHS73  $19.00

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Waterbury Trolleys -by Connecticut Motor Coach Museum. This book traces the growth and expansion of the streetcar system throughout the Naugatuck Valley and the the collection of vintage photographs documents the network of streetcars that once thrived in Waterbury CT. 128 pp. B&W photos, (2005) Arcadia Publishing

Softcover  $19.99  

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Waterville, Fairfield and Oakland Railway Company  by O. R. Cummings — 1965 — 40 pp. — NRHS Transportation Bulletin No. 72

Hardcover  CVNRHS72    $15.00  

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Western Connecticut Trolleys by Connecticut Motor Coach Museum. (1) Bridgeport Lines, (2) Danbury and Bethel Lines, (3) Meriden Lines, (4) Middletown Lines, (5) New Haven, (6) Norwalk Lines, (7) Shore Line Electric Railway, (8) Stamford Lines, (9) Odds and Ends, and (10) Connecticut Trolleys in 2006. 128 pages, B&W photos (2007) Images of Rail, Arcadia Publishing

Softcover  $19.99   (NEW)

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Yale Bowl and the Open Trolleys  by John D. Somers  — Dorrance Publishing — 1996 — 46 pp. — Recollections of the famous open car fleet in New Haven.

Softcover  $16.00

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New Jersey

Cumberland County Trolleys (New Jersey) — Shirley R. Bailey and Don Wentzel. Covers a trolley line serving Millville, Vineland, Bridgeton and Port Norris, NJ. 104 pages, B&W photos. (1995)  

Softcover  $19.95

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Lindenwold Hi-Speed Line, The: The first Twenty Years of the Port Authority Transit Corporation. 56 pages, B&W photos

Soft Cover $10.00

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Morris County Traction  Company by Larry Lowenthal & William T. Greenberg, Jr. Story of a trolley line that ran in Morris, Union and Essex Counties, New Jersey which generally stayed close to the tracks of the DL&W RR's Morris & Essex Division. It ran from Elizabeth to Morristown to Dover to Lake Hoptacong. Black and White photos, 136 pages. (2005)  Marker Press

Hardcover  $29.95  (NEW)

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New Jersey Trolleys in Color: Atlantic City & Shore Railroad, Atlantic City Transportation Co., Five Mile Beach Electric Ry., Public Coordinated Transport, NJ Transit. Joseph Eid & Barker Gummere. 128 pages, Morning Sun Books

Hardcover $59.95

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NJTransit Rail Operations — by Joel Rosenbaum and Tom Gallo. Railpace Co., color, 112 pages

Softcover  $29.95  (1 LEFT)

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Public Service Railway — Bergen Division — by B. H. Sennstrom and E. T. Francis

Softcover  $21.95

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Public Service Trolley Lines in New Jersey — Revised Edition — by Edward Hamm, Jr.  400 pages, more than 400 photos, more than 150 maps, 7 diagrams.

Hardcover  $63.00

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New York

100 PCC Trolley Cars Ran In Brooklyn James Clifford Greller. A photo record that shows each car of the historic Brooklyn fleet at various times and at various tasks that they faithfully carried out from 1936 - 1956. (2003) Xplorer Press

Softcover $26.00

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722 Miles, The Building of The Subways and How They Transformed New York, Clifton Hood, 336 pp., text bibliography, index, 5 maps, (1995) Johns Hopkins Press.

Softcover $16.95

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Brooklyn & Queens Transit, The, From Coney Island to Flushing by Smith & Cramer, 81 pages, B&W

Softcover $19.95

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Buffalo's Historic Streetcars and Buses by D. David Bregger.(1) Horsecars, Early Electric Operations, and the Pan American Exposition, (2) The International Railway Company, (3) Here Comes the Bus, (4) From Rails to Rubber, (5) International Railway Company, Soldier of Transportation, (6) A Bumpy Ride, (7) Rails Were Good, but Rubber is Better, (8) From Railway to Highway, (9) Serving the Niagara Frontier, and (10) The Streetcar's Revenge. 128 pages, B&W  photos, (2008) Arcadia Publishing  

Softcover  $19.99 (NEW)   

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BY THE EL, Third Avenue and It's EL at Mid-Century, second edition by Lawrence Stelter, photography by Lothar Stelter. A glimpse of a bygone era in New York. The color shots contain a wealth of detail of life along the Third Avenue EL in the early 1950's. The author even goes to great lengths to identify the now "vintage" autos seen in the photos. 132 pages, all color photos, and some diagrams. Sponsored by the New York Transit Museum and the Bronx County Historical Society.

Softcover  $19.95 (NEW)  

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Cortland County Traction — The Story of Cortland’s Trolley System — by Richard F. Palmer and Sheldon S. King. 36 pages, black & white photos (1992) Harold Cox 

Softcover  $7.95

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Evolution of New York City Subways, An Illustrated History of New York City’s Transit Cars, 1867-1997, by Gene Sansone. 375 pp. B&W, offers an extensive array of photographs, line drawings, and stories about the city’s most treasured railcars. John Hopkins Univ. Press.

Hardcover $52.00 (Out of Print, 1 LEFT)

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Gotham Turnstiles — New York Rapid Transit 1958 - 1968 by John Henderson — H & M Productions — 1992

Softcover  $33.95

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Greater Rochester (NY), A Century of Progress: Postcard History Series, covers the area as shown on postcards, including many scenes of streetcars, locomotives and canal boats. 128 pages, B&W. Arcadia Pub.

Softcover $19.99

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How We Got to Coney Island The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County by Brian J. Cudahy. A survey of more than 150 years of Brooklyn life covering the development of streetcars, steamboats, excursion railways, and elevated lines. 346 pages, some B&W photos and diagrams.

Softcover  $25.00  

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Interborough Fleet — by Joe Cunningham, Xplorer Press — 1997 — 160 pp. — Photos, plans and text describing New York’s first subway fleet.

Softcover  $30.00

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Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long island by Stephen L. Meyers. An amazing assortment of electric trolley lines once traversed the towns and villages of Queens and Long Island. This book features: (1) The New York and Queens County Railway, (2) The Manhattan and Queens Traction, (3) The New York and North Shore Traction Railway, (4) The Trolleys that Met All the Trains, (5) The South Shore Lines and a Surprise, (6) The New York and Long Island Traction Company, (7) The Long Island Electric Railway, (8) The Survivors: Steinway and Jamaica Central, (9) The Saga of the Rockaways, and (10) Finishing the Story. 128 pages, B&W photos, (2006) Image of Rail  Series, Arcadia Publishing.

Softcover  $19.99   (NEW)

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Manhattan's Lost Streetcars by Stephen L. Meyers. By the first quarter of the 20th century, Manhattan had well over 400 miles of streetcar trackage, and less than 50 years later, the rail system had completely vanished. This book chronicles the finance, political pressures, and advancing technology behind Gotham's streetcar network from 1890 to 1935. The story ends with the dismantling of the system. This is the era when New Yorkers rode the Metropolitan Street Railway, the Green Lines, the Manhattan Bridge Three Cent Line and the Brooklyn & North River line, among others. 128 pages, B&W photos, (Nov. 2005) Arcadia Publishing.

Softcover  $19.99  

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Metropolitan New York's Third Avenue Railway System by Charles L. Ballard. This book features never-before-published photographs documenting the final years of this streetcar system from 1940 to 1957. Divided into the following chapters: (1) Manhattan Lines, (2) Bronx Lines, (3) The Yonkers Railroad, (4) The Westchester Electric Railroad, (5) Car Barns and Repair Shops, (6) Work and Service Cars, (7) Car Retirement and Scrapping, and (8) The Queensboro Bridge Railway. 128 pages, B&W photos — (2005) Images of Rail Series, Arcadia Publishing

Softcover  $19.99  

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NYC Electric Locomotives & MU Cars by Robert Liljestrand & David Sweetland. 48 pages, B&W

Softcover  $15.00 

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The New York City Subway - Its Construction and Equipment - Interborough Rapid Transit with an Introduction by Brian J. Cudahy. Centennial paperback edition of the 1904 inaugural volume. First published in October 1904 by the Interborough Rapid Transit Corporation, the company that built New York's first underground railway, this unique facsimile edition is an illustrated guide to one of the century's greatest engineering feats. Twelve detailed chapters on the routes, stations, tracks, rolling stock, signal systems and electric supply stations of the new subway that ran under the streets of Manhattan and the Bronx. 149 pages. 100+ photos, maps,. drawings and charts, (2004) Fordham University Press

Softcover $25.00   

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New York City Subways by Tom Range Sr. Postcard History Series. Transportation in NYC as shown on postcards. Includes surface transportation, the elevated, subways, Hudson Tubes. 128 pages, B&W. Arcadia Pub.

Softcover $19.99

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New York City Subway Cars — by James Clifford Greller, 160 pp., mostly color photos. Xplorer Press

Softcover  $50.00

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New York City Trolleys In Color – by William Volkmer. Third Ave. Railway, Brooklyn and Queens Transit, South Brooklyn Railway and Queensborough Bridge Railway, essentially 1942 to 1947. 128 pages, Morning Sun Books                                        

Hardcover  $59.95

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Ontario County (NY) Transportation – Munn and Buttaccio, Area History including section on railroads (Lehigh Valley and New York Central) and trolleys (Rochester and Eastern). 128 pp., B&W, Arcadia Pub.

Softcover $19.99

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Rails Under The Mighty Hudson, The Story of the Hudson Tubes, the Pennsy Tunnels, and Manhattan Transfer: Brian J. Cuddahy 2002 revision and update of a small book originally published in 1975. 105 pp., B&W, Fordham Univ. Press

Softcover $20.00

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Subway Cars of The BMT — by James Clifford Greller - 171 pp., Xplorer Press 

Softcover  $36.00

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Third Avenue Railway — A Cityscape of Manhattan and The Bronx — Frederick A. Kramer (2001), 81 pages

Softcover  $18.95

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Third Avenue Railway System in Manhattan, 65 pages, (1996) N. J. International, Inc. B&W and color photos. 

Softcover  $27.95    

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Trackside around the Big Apple 1964-1973 with Al Roberts by Allan H. Roberts. A circle tour in a variety of seasons around the "Big Apple" (New York City) to view some operations extant in the 1960's and early '70's - the pre-Conrail era. Heavily electric powered passenger service, some freight, and some harbor scenes of tugs and ferries. Sections on (1) Staten Island - Richmond County, (2) Brooklyn - Kings County, (3) Queens - Queens County, (4) The Bronx - Bronx County, (5) Manhattan - New York County. 128 pages, all color photos, (2007) Morning Sun Books. 

Hardcover  $59.95  (NEW)    

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Trolley Trips through the Hudson Valley — Purple Mountain Press — 1994 — Reprint of a 1911 edition of The Trolley Press — 24 pp.

Softcover  $6.00

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Trolleys to Glen Haven (Irondequoit Park RR, Rochester NY area)

Softcover  $12.50

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Under the Sidewalks of New York —The Story of the Greatest Subway System in the World — by Brian J. Cudahy — Fordham University Press

Softcover  $19.95

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Uptown–Downtown — Horsecars, Trolley Cars — Urban Transportation in Kingston, New York, 1866–1930 — by Glendon L. Moffett — Purple Mountain Press

Softcover  $12.50

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Westchester County's Million-Dollar-A-Mile Railroad, New York, Westchester & Boston Railway Company 1912 - 1937  by Robert A. Bang. "A story of a railway with the most glorious and positive outlook, built with nothing less than the best materials and most of its stations built practically in the middle of nowhere with hopes of bringing civilization to these parts. How can an outlook so positive go so unsuccessful?" (1) A look at the mammoth size steam shovels used to build the line, (2) Rare pictures of building the line, stations, cuts, bridges, etc., (3) Viaducts - see Columbus Avenue and Hutchinson River viaducts being built then later dismantled, (4) the towers - see the New York, Westchester & Boston's Italian Renaissance style ultra-modern interlocking towers from several locations, (5) a look at the New York, Westchester & Boston in service, (6) The line's destructive ending ordered by the New Haven and federal judges, and (7) Yesterday and today, a look back at the railway then and now Many comparison photos. 62 pages, B&W photos, (1999) American Novelties.

Softcover  $16.95 (Back in this catalog again)

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Ohio

Cincinnati and Lake Erie Freight Motors 635–649 — Seashore Trolley Museum — Plan and photos.

Softcover  $1.50

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Cincinnati on the Go: History of Mass Transit by Allen J. Singer — An exploration of the various modes of transportation that helped people get around in the first half of the 20th century, providing a unique view of the Queen City through the eyes of her everyday commuters. Contains historic images of river transportation, street railways, city buses, steam railroads and the first automobiles. 128 pages, B&W photos, (2004) Arcadia Publishing

Softcover  $19.99

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Cincinnati Streetcars No. 9 Streamliners and Warhorses — 53 pages, B&W photos, Valley Car and Coach

Softcover  $14.95

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Cincinnati Streetcars, No. 10 to the End of Track  by Wagner & Wright with Tom McNamara — 75 pages —  picks up late in 1947 and ends with the final abandonment in 1951  — Valley Car and Coach

Softcover  $19.95

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Cincinnati Subway, The - by Allen J. Singer - The most ambitious plan of the early 20th Century, the Cincinnati Subway was doomed to failure. Construction began in 1920 and ended in 1927 when the money ran out. Two miles of empty subway tunnels still lie beneath the city - 128 pages - (2003) Arcadia

Softcover  $19.99 

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Cleveland’s Dynamic Transit Heritage — 35 pages, B&W photos, NORM

Softcover $4.95

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Cleveland and Its Streetcars - by James R. Spangler and James A. Toman. This book emphasizes the years 1910 through 1954, the era of the Cleveland Railway Company and the Cleveland Transit System. Sections include (1) Early Streetcars in Cleveland, (2) Downtown Cleveland, (3) The Detroit-Superior Subway, (4) The West Side Lines, (5) The East Side Lines, and (6) Special Events. 128 pages, B&W,  (Oct 2005) Arcadia

Softcover  $19.99  

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The Cleveland Railway Story - 1940 and 1941 by Robert S. Korach edited by Blaine S. Hays, Ralph A. Pfingsten and Laura J. Weber. Bob Korach received a new camera in December 1939 for his 16th birthday to record family events. Starting in January 1940 he used it to record daily activities of the Cleveland Railway Company street car system. This booklet contains 60 never before published photos from Bob's 1940-41 picture taking expeditions. Not all of the pictures are perfect but they do show a major street car system in action. 28 pages, B&W photos, (2005) Northern Ohio Railway Museum

Softcover  $10.00  (NEW)

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Cleveland Transit Through the Years, A 48 page photo album with some text. Contains many interesting black and white photos. Cleveland Landmark

Softcover $8.95 

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Heart of Cleveland, The — One of the finer aspects of this city is Public Square. From Terminal Tower to Society Tower and all the trolleys in-between and underneath, this book covers the Square’s rise, decline and outstanding rebirth. 136 large format pages., Cleveland Landmark Press.

Hardcover  $28.50

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Horse Trails to Regional Rails  by James A. Toman and Blaine S. Hays — Kent State University Press — 1996 — 352 pp. — Story of the street railways around and in Cleveland, Ohio.

Hardcover  $49.95

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A Shaker Rapid Album by James A. Toman and James R. Spangler. A pictorial history of the rapid transit cars that have carried passengers between downtown Cleveland and suburban Shaker Heights. This book traces the different kinds of cars used on the line since 1920, from the 1200-series center-entrance fleet, through the colorful PCC cars, to the current fleet of Breda LRVs which have operated the line since 1982. The photos cover the two branches of the Shaker line from its outer terminals at Green and Warrensville-Center roads, through Shaker Square, to the Cleveland Union Terminal station, on to the 1996 Waterfront extension, and many stops in between. Cars are shown in all kinds of weather and in many different paint schemes. 80 pages, 135 B&W photos, 38 color photos, (2005) Cleveland Landmarks Press

Softcover $16.50 

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Toledo and Western Railway Company, The, 1900–1935 — The planning, construction and inevitable abandonment of this Ohio line. Many B&W photos with text by Wilbur E. Hague and Kirk F. Hise. 80 pages, (2002) Harold Cox

Softcover  $12.00

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Toledo Trolleys by Kirk F. Hise and Edward J. Pulhuj. (1) Early Toledo Streetcars, (2) Private Car Toledo, (3) Maintenance of Way and Other Equipment and (4) Interurbans in Toledo. 128 pages, B&W photos (2006) Images of Rail, Arcadia Publishing

Softcover  $19.99   (NEW)

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Oregon

Portland's Streetcars by Richard Thompson. [1] Before the Trolley (1872-1888), [2] Early Electrics (1889-1904), [3] The first Interurban (1891-1905), [4] Millions for Street Railways (1904-1905), [5] After the Final Merger (1906-1924), [6] Standard Gauge Too (1906-1924, [7] Slow Fade (1924-1958) and [8] Trolley Redux (1986-Present). 128 pages, B&W Photos (2006) Arcadia Publishing

Softcover $19.99

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Willamette Valley Railways by Richard Thompson. (1) Portland Area Interurbans (1891-1958 (2) Oregon Electric Railway (1908-1933) (3) United Railways (1911-1923), (4) SP Red electrics (1914-1929), (5) Willamette Valley Southern (1915-1933), (6) Salem Street Railways (1889-1918), (7) Albany Street Railways (1889-1918), and (9) Eugene Street Railways (1891-1927). 128 pages, B&W  photos, (2008) Arcadia Publishing  

Softcover  $19.99 (NEW)   

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Pennsylvania

Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway by Leonard E. Alwine and David W. Seidel. Dating back to 1882, the Altoona and Logan Valley electric Railway had humble origins but it quickly became a viable transportation system serving the city of Altoona, Pennsylvania. This railway employed 300 people, transported 11.5 million passengers a year and traveled 7,220 scheduled route miles a day until economic conditions forced the line to discontinue service on June 2, 1954. This streetcar network served the employees of the Pennsylvania Railroad as well as the community. 128 pages, 200 B&W photos, (Nov. 2005) Arcadia Publishing.

Softcover  $19.99  

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Beaver County Trolleys  by Benson W. Rohrbeck — 1985 — 81 pp.

Softcover  RB22 $16.50 

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Erie’s Trolleys — Rohrbeck

RB40 $12.95

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Fairmount Park Transit  by Frederick A. Kramer — 25 pages — A photographic journey through Philadelphia’s largest park via the Fairmount Park Transportation Company — Railroad Avenue Enterprises

Softcover  $6.95

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Garden Spot Trolleys  by Luther P. Cummings and Benson W. Rohrbeck — 1994 — 144 pp.

Softcover  RB09  $20.00  

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Greater Erie Trolleys by Kenneth C. Springirth. (1) Erie Trolley Cars, (2) Conneaut and Erie Traction company, (3) Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction Company, (4) Northwestern Pennsylvania Railway, (5) Westfield to Jamestown by Trolley, (6) Warren county Trolleys, (7) Corry and Titusville Trolleys. 128 pp. B&W photos, (2005) Arcadia Publishing

Softcover  $19.99 

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Hazelton’s Trolleys  by Benson W. Rohrbeck — 1993

Softcover  RB35 $18.50

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Johnstown Trolleys and Incline by Kenneth C. Springirth. (1) The Beginning Years, (2) System Growth, (3) Abandonment of Trolley Car Service, (4) Johnstown Incline, (5) Cambria County Transit Authority 128 pp. B&W photos, (2006) Arcadia Publishing

Softcover  $19.99 

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Lehigh Valley Transit Co. 1934-1953 — by Benson W. Rohrbeck (2001) 144 pages plus four map inserts, B&W photos including a number taken of Car 1030 now at Seashore Trolley Museum.

Softcover  RB46 $25.00

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Northumberland County Trolleys  by Benson W. Rohrbeck and Gene D. Gordon — 1986 — 118 pp.

Softcover  RB23  $18.00    

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Pennsylvania Electric Locomotives & MU Cars  by Robert Liljestrand & David Sweetland. 48 pages, Bob's Photos

Softcover  $18.00  

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Pennsy Electric Years,  Volume 1  by William D. Volkmer. 190 color photos cover the gamut from FF2 to DD1, in action and at work, throughout all points in the PRR electrified territory.  128 pages, Morning Sun

Hardcover  $45.00

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Pennsylvania Electric Years, Volume 2: Color pictures by Division and area within Divisions. Lots of GG-1’s, etc. 128 pages, Bert Pennypacker, Morning Sun Books

Hardcover $59.95

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Pennsylvania Electric Years, Volume 3: By Ivan S. Fischer. All Color. 128 pages, (2005) Morning Sun Books

Hardcover $59.95 

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Pennsylvania Street Railway Atlas by Benson W. Rohrbeck. Includes maps of each county in Pennsylvania showing operating electric railways in 1917 and also not operating street railways (most were paper companies) and a list with information on each company. 86 pages, maps and B&W photos. (2007) Ben Rohrbeck Traction Publications.  

Softcover $20.00   (NEW) 

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Pennsylvania Street Railways — Rohrbeck

RB41 $35.00

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Pennsylvania Trolley Photo Album Volume 1 The Philadelphia Transportation Company by Ben Rohrbeck, 32 pages, 49 B&W photos 

Softcover  RB47  $10.00   

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Pennsylvania Trolley Photo Album Volume II The Pittsburgh Railways Company by Ben Rohrbeck, 32 pages, 49 B&W photos, (2003) 

Softcover  RB48  $10.00   

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Pennsylvania Trolley Photo Album Volume III The Red Arrow Lines Company by Ben Rohrbeck, 32 pages, 49 B&W photos, (2004) 

Softcover  RB49  $10.00   

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Pennsylvania Trolley Photo Album Volume IV The West Penn Railways Company by Ben Rohrbeck, 32 pages, 49 B&W photos, (2005) 

Softcover  RB50  $10.00   

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Pennsylvania Trolleys in Color — Volume I — The Anthracite and Pennsylvania Dutch Regions  by William D. Volkmer — Morning Sun — Features the Lehigh Valley Transit Co., Wilkes-Barre Railways, Hershey Transit, etc.

Hardcover  $49.95

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Pennsylvania Trolleys in Color — Volume II —The Philadelphia Region  by William D. Volkmer, A color look back at PTC, Red Arrow, P&W and Fairmount Park — Morning Sun

Hardcover  $49.95

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Pennsylvania Trolleys In Color Vol. III — The Pittsburgh Region by William D. Volkmer, full color coverage of West Penn Railways Company, Johnstown Tractions Company and Pittsburg Railways. — Morning Sun

Hardcover  $54.95

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Pennsylvania Trolleys In Color Vol. IV — The 1940s by LeRoy O. King. During the decade of World War II, some pioneering color photographers were out shooting film on the last of Pennsylvania's traction.. — Morning Sun

Hardcover  $59.95

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Pennsylvania’s Oil Region Trolleys  by Benson W. Rohrbeck — 1995

Softcover  RB37  $13.75

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Philadelphia Trolleys by Allen Meyers and Joel Spivak. 128 pages, (2003) Arcadia Publishing

Softcover  $19.99

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 Pig & Whistle The Story of the Philadelphia & Western Railway by Ronald DeGraw. The story of a small line with a fascinating history. It was built during the interurban boom in the first decade of the century to railroad standards. The interurban industry grew to 17,000 route miles by 1917, and the P&W was one of only two lines that weren't gone by the 1960s. Eleven chapters, glossy paper, B&W photos, 224 pages, (2007) Central Electric Railfans (C.E.R.A.).

Hardcover  $  60.00  (Out of Stock)

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Pittsburgh Streamlined Trolleys by Kenneth C. Springirth. (1) System Growth and Development, (2) Presidents' Conference Committee Trolleys, (3) Port Authority Transit Takes Over, (4) Final Years of Presidents' Conference Committee Trolleys, and (5) Reconstruction to Light-Rail Transit. 128 pages, B&W photos (2006) Images of Rail, Arcadia Publishing

Softcover  $21.99  

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Reading Street Railway Company, The  by Benson W. Rohrbeck — 120 pages — One of a series in the Pennsylvania Traction series that concentrates on the City of Reading and Berks County

Softcover  RB43  $17.50

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Reading Trains and Trolleys by Philip K. Smith with the Historical Society of Berks County (PA), 128 pages, B&W photos, (2004) Arcadia Publishing.

Softcover  $19.95 

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Ride With Me on the LVT by Mervin E. Borgnis - 1996 - A collection of Museum member Merv Borgnis' recollections of his days working for and riding on the Lehigh Valley Transit Co. 140 pages, some b&w photos.

Softcover  $22.50

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The Road From Upper Darby, The Story of the Market Street Subway-Elevated by Harold E. Cox. The story of Philadelphia's most important transit artery (Reprint of 1967 issue with new cover) 46 pages. Harold Cox

Softcover  $13.00

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The Schuylkill Valley Traction Company by Ben Rohrbeck. The history of street railways that connected Northwestern Philadelphia and Boyertown, via Norristown and Pottstown. 120 pages, Over 90 photographs, roster, car barn plans, and maps. B&W (2005) 

Softcover  RB51  $20.00      

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Scranton’s Trolleys — Rohrbeck

  RB44  $17.50

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Shamokin and Edgewood Electric Railway Company  by Gene D. Gordon — Rohrbeck — 1992

Softcover  RB34  $13.75

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Shamokin and Mount Carmel Transit Co.  by Gene D. Gordon — Rohrbeck — 1994 — 118 pp.

Softcover  RB36  $20.00

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Suburban Philadelphia Trolleys by Kenneth C. Springirth. Covers (1) Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company, (2) Philadelphia and Western Railway Company, (3) Philadelphia Transportation Company Delaware County Lines, (4) Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority Takes Over, and (5) October Trolley Fest. 128 pages, B&W photos, (2007) Arcadia Publishing.

Softcover  $19.95  (NEW)

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Trackside Under Pennsy Wires with James P. Schuman by Jeremy F. Plant. Jim Schuman was out recording PRR electrics in action on the west end of the electrified zone in the late 50’s and early 60’s. Morning Sun

Hardcover $54.95

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Trolleys of Johnstown, Cambria and Somerset Counties by Benson W. Rohrbeck — 1991

Softcover  RB30  $19.00

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Trolleys of South Central Pennsylvania — Rohrbeck — 1995

Softcover  RB38  $16.50

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Trolleys to the Delaware Water Gap  by Benson W. Rohrbeck — 1989 — 117 pp.

Softcover  RB28  $18.00 

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Warren County Trolleys  by Benson W. Rohrbeck — 1988 — 96 pp.

Softcover  RB27  $17.00  

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West Branch Trolleys — Street Railways of Lycoming and Clinton Counties by Paul J. Schieck and Harold E. Cox — 1978

Softcover  $11.00

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West Chester Street Railway Co.  by Benson W. Rohrbeck — 1992 — 76 pp.

Softcover  RB33  $10.50

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York County Trolleys  by Benson W. Rohrbeck — 1992 — 76 pp.

Softcover  RB33  $16.00

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Texas

Houston North Shore, The — co-authored by Seashore Member Charles C. Robinson. An excellent history of that interesting system. As part of the Missouri Pacific Railroad it featured electric freight operations and its electric passenger service was turned over to a small fleet of Twin Coach railbusses — 166 pages — CERA

Hardcover  $40.00

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Virginia

Forward Is the Motto of Today — Street Railways in Charlottesville, Virginia 1866–1936 by Jefferson Randolph Kean — 80 pages, B&W photos, (1984) Harold Cox

Softcover  $11.00

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The Street Railways of Roanoke, Virginia 1887-1948 by James E. Dalmas. Subjects covered include: (1) The Electric Street Railway of Roanoke Begins, (2) Streetcar Routes and The Development of Roanoke, (3) Facilities, (4) Rolling Stock, (5) The Electric Business, (6) Organization and Management, (7) Mountain Park, (8) The Mill Mountain Incline, (9) Bus Transit Evolves in Roanoke, (10) Just Tracks, and (11) The Final Years. 152 pages, B&W photos, (2006) Historical Society of Western Virginia

Softcover  $14.95  (NEW)

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General

The Barber Car, Electric Traction's Ugly Duckling by Harold E. Cox (2002). "Barber cars were unattractive, giving the appearance of boxes on wheels. However, they represented an effort to find cheap solutions to many of the existing problems of car design." 32 pages, B&W, Harold Cox.

Softcover  $12.00   

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Birney Car Panorama  by Frederick A. Kramer — 33 pages — Black and white photos — a photographic retrospective

Softcover  $8.95

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Breezers  by Stephen L. Myers  — Transportation Trails — 1993 — 184 pp. — The definitive history of the open trolley car in the United States.

Hardcover  $56.00

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Budapest’s Földalatti Subway — edited by James Schantz — Seashore Trolley Museum

Booklet  $5.00

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Cash, Tokens & Transfers — A History of Urban Mass Transit in North America — by Brian J. Cudahy — 266 pages, B&W photos, Fordham University Press

Softcover  $26.95

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The Colorful Streetcars We Rode — CERA Bulletin No. 125 — 1986 — 112 pp. — All color album of streetcars in North America.

Hardcover  $15.00

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Electric Car Builder's Images, Documentary Historic Photographs by Kuhlman, Bradley and others 1915-1950. Including the original Brill Master Unit Car and specifications by Donald Engel.  The Branford Electric Railway Journal, Volume 38, 2004. 45 pages, B&W photos.

Softcover $9.00   

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The Electric Way Across the Mountains (Second Edition) by Richard Steinheimer. The Milwaukee Road electrification powered heavy-duty railroading in a challenging environment through the rugged Western mountains of Montana, Idaho and Washington. One of America's most celebrated railroad photographers directed his talents to the immensely popular subject of the Milwaukee Road electrification. The result was an outstanding volume of railroad atmosphere and history, out of print within a few years of its 1980 publication. This new edition adds 20 more Steinheimer photos, including 12 in color, along with other material to enrich the book. This volume remains the richest account of the human side of the Milwaukee Road and it notable electrification. 192 pages; 321 photos; maps and drawings, timetables (November 1, 2005) Signature Press

Hardcover $65.00 

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Faster Than the Limiteds, The Story of the Chicago-New York Electric Air Line Railroad and Its Transformation into Gary Railways by Dr. Thomas R. Bullard and William M. Shapotkin, Bulletin 137 of the Central Electric Railfans' Association. The story of how the Chicago-New York Electric Air Line Railroad began life as a planned high-speed, 743 mile, straight-line railroad , operating between the two named cities. Trains were to be operated on a ten-hour schedule between the two cities, cutting travel time in half over the fastest limited trains of the day. This book is the story of a dream unfulfilled and a vision which failed. This was the precursor of the successful Gary Railways.  280 pages, many B&W photos, maps, charts, etc. (2003) CERA

Hardcover $55.00

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From Bullets to BART — Bulletin 127 of CERA — by William D. Middleton

Hardcover  $25.00

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From Small Town to Downtown,  A History of the Jewett Car Company 1893-1919 by Lawrence A. Brough and James H. Graebner. The Jewett Car Company was born in the heyday of the electric railway boom in the 1890s and gained an excellent reputation for its elegant, well-built wooden cars for street railway companies, interurban lines, and rapid transit services. Many interurban lines employed the graceful, arch-windowed wood interurbans that Jewett was famous for. Many B&W photos, a roster of cars made by the Jewett Company, the Jewett record of production, 1893-1919 by state and operating system. 8 1/2" by 11", 254 pages, (March 2004), Indiana University Press.

Hardcover  $49.95  

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Getting Around Exploring Transportation History  by H. Roger Grant. From the Exploring Community History Series, Kreiger Publishing. 190 pages, B&W photos.

Softcover  $24.50   

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Great Lakes Trolleys in Color by Robert Halperin. Enjoy a city-by-city tour around the Great Lakes in the 1940s and 50s as seen through the camera of noted traction photographer Eugene Van Dusen. Buffalo, Rochester, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Fort William, London, Toronto and other towns toured when trolleys ruled the day. 128 pages, (April 2004) Morning Sun Books.

Hardcover  $59.95 

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The Hedley–Doyle Stepless Streetcar — 80 Years Ahead of Its Time by Henry Elsner — NJ International — 1997 — 78 pp.

Softcover  $22.95  (Out of Print, 1 available)

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Historic Cars of the Seashore Trolley Museum  by Ben Minnich — 1997 — 144 pp. — The story of the National Collection of American Streetcars at the Museum.

Softcover  $12.95  (Temporarily Not Available)

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History of the J. G. Brill Company by Debra Brill. The story of the growth of a small horsecar building firm established in 1868 to a world leader in a rapidly evolving and growing industry.  246 pages, well illustrated.

Hardcover  $49.95

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International List of Extant Horsecars - Published by New England Electric Railway Historical Society - List 3 as of June 1, 2004, 21 pages, 3 pictures. A specialized but interesting subject.  

Softcover  $4.99

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Interstate — A History of Interstate Public Service Rail Operations by Jerry Marlette. From Indianapolis to Louisville KY. 272 pages, (1990) Transportation Trails

Hardcover  $48.00

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Interurban Electric Locomotives From Baldwin-Westinghouse — Joseph Strapac 128 pages. 220+ photos, drawings, tables, etc. Comprehensive study in photos, text drawings and tables discussing the 189 electric locomotives B-W built for interurbans, switching roads and industrials between 1896 and 1937. Three photos of Seashore’s No. 300, one in the plant as No. 26 for a Cuban Sugar plantation, one in Oshawa and one at Seashore. Shade Tree Press.

Softcover  $32.95

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Interurban Electric Locomotives From General Electric by Joseph A. Strapac 128 pages. B&W photos, drawings, tables, etc. Comprehensive study in photos, text drawings and tables discussing the electric locomotives GE built for interurbans, switching roads and industrials between 1893 and 1955. This book examines the production, primarily for domestic and Canadian operators, of electric locomotives weighing between ten tons and about eighty-five tons. (Oct. 2004) Shade Tree Press

Softcover  $32.95

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The Last Interurbans —  By William D. Middleton (2003) CERA Bulletin 136. This book takes a look at 74 hardy interurban properties that managed to last beyond the Great Depression, even if only briefly. 234 pages, 480 photos, including 79 color photos.        

Hardcover  $55.00

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McGraw Electric Railway Directory 1924: Reprint, 200 pages, Details on lines in US, Canada, Mexico and West Indies.

Soft cover $6.60

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Metropolitan Railways, Rapid Transit in America by William D. Middleton, 273 pages, many B&W photos, diagrams, maps. Indiana University Press.

Hardcover $59.95  

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Modernization of Car 15 — and other Early CERA Bulletins — Bulletins 35 through 45 — CERA

Softcover  $10.00

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North American Street Railways at Mid-Century — A Color Survey by Allan H. Berner — Rohrbeck — 1991

Softcover  RB32  $29.95

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Not Only Passengers — How the Electric Railways Carried Freight, Express and Baggage — Bulletin 129 of CERA — Central Electric Railfans Association

Hardcover  $35.00

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Ohio Valley Trolleys  In Color by Edward A. Ridolph. The Ohio River flows from a point known as the "Golden Triangle" in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh PA to where it joins the Mississippi River at Cairo IL., a distance of 981 miles. It flows through one state and forms the boundary of 4 states. By the second decade of the 20th century there were nearly 50 different streetcar companies in towns along the river. This book covers the period from the 1930's when color film became available to around 1970. Covered are (1) Pittsburgh PA - Pittsburgh Railways Co., (2) Wheeling WV - Cooperative Transit, (3) Parkersburg WV - Monongahela West Penn Railways Co., (4) Cincinnati OH - Cincinnati Street Railway, (5) Dayton OH - City Railway Co., (6) Moraine City - Cincinnati & Lake Erie Railroad, (7) Covington KY - Cincinnati, Newport & Covington Street Railway, (8) Louisville KY - Louisville Railway, (9) New Albany IN - New Albany & Louisville Railway and Home Transit, and (10) Indianapolis IN - Indiana Railroad.  128 pages, all color photos, (2007) Morning Sun Books. 

Hardcover  $59.95  (NEW)    

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Pioneers of Electric Railroading — Their Story in Words and Pictures — John R. Stevens, Editor — ERA — 1991

Softcover  $39.95

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Rainbow of Traction, A — Bulletin 126 of the C. E. R. A. — 1988

Hardcover  $35.00

Softcover  $15.00

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Seashore Trolley Museum Guide Book — STM

  $3.49

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Southern States Trolleys in Color by Edward A. Ridolph. The remaining streetcar companies in the Old South after WWII are visited in full color. Richmond, Norfolk, Newport News, Roanoke, Fairmont, Parkersburg, Wheeling, Princeton, Louisville, Newport, Memphis, Charlotte, Greenville, Savannah, Atlanta, Birmingham, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, New Orleans, Hot Springs, Little Rock, Houston, Dallas, Waco and El Paso are all represented. 26 systems in 12 states, 128 pages, (Nov. 2004) Morning Sun Books

Hardcover  $59.95  

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Street, Interurban and Rapid Transit Railways of the United States — A Selective Historical Bibliography — by Thomas R. Bullard

Softcover  $11.00

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Streetcar Scenes of the 1950’s; In Color — Morning Sun — Another wonderful book from Morning Sun in their series of all color books.  This hardbound beauty is 128 pages of scenes that will either make you wish that you could go back and ride them again, or that you were a tad older. 

Hardcover  $54.95

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Subways of the World — MBI Publishing — A nice 96 page softbound photo essay with some text in a compendium type compellation of the world’s major systems, including Paris, London, Moscow, New York and Boston. 

Softcover  $15.95

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Traction Prototype and Models Plan Book, Vol. 1 Edited by James S. Eakin. Featuring all plans from issues No. 1 through No. 24. LRV's, Streetcars, Interurbans, Cable Cars, Work and Freight Equipment. All plans, no photos. Railhead Publications  

Softcover  $11.95   

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Tri-Sta Tri-State Traction, The Interurban Trolleys of Southwest Missouri, Southeast Kansas and Northeast Oklahoma by Edward A. Conrad. Covers Southwest Missouri Railroad - The Rogers Line; Joplin & Pittsburg Railway - The Heim Line; and Northeast Oklahoma Railroad - The Fishhook Line. 230 pages, over 200 B&W photos, over two dozen specially created maps and other artwork, 25 detailed route maps and directions to remnants that still exist. A nostalgic trip back to an era when lead, zinc and coal mining were the engines that powered the economy of the Tri-State region, and how the interurban lines transported the workers who stoked the engines. (September 2004) HeartlandRails Publishing.

Softcover  $29.95 

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Under Milwaukee Wires — The Color Photography of Sanford Goodrich and William C. Janssen by Bill Marvel. Beginning in 1951 these photographers began a quest to chronicle the electric operation of the Milwaukee road in color. Contains beautiful Kodachromes of Bi-polars and maroon-and-orange “Little Joes”. 128 pages— Morning Sun

Hardcover  $49.95

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When the Steam Roads Electrified – Revised Second Edition: By William D. Middleton. Revised edition includes the Acela Express. 448 pages, 791 photos

Hardcover $65.00

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World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus and Rapid Transit Systems — Part Four: North America, 368 pages. Robert Peschkes.

Softcover $25.00

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2008 Revision

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