Chicago: Popular Publications, July 1949. Paperback. (Vol. 49, No. 2). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Slight bit of mild spine wear. A tight, clean, bright issue with a fine Aurion Proctor oil painting reproduced on the front wrapper entitled "Harborside..... More
Chicago: Popular Publications, June 1946. Paperback. (Vol. 40, No. 1). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Good plus. Tight and quite decent, but with some edgewear. Attractive issue with a nice Frederick Blakeslee oil painting reproduced on the front wrapper entitled "Through the..... More
Chicago: Popular Publications, June 1947. Paperback. (Vol. 43, No. 1). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear. Attractive, tight and clean issue with a nice Aurion Proctor oil painting reproduced on the front wrapper entitled "Class 5 Overhaul..... More
Chicago: Popular Publications, June 1948. Paperback. (Vol. 46, No. 1). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Almost a "Near Fine," with bright handsome color wrappers. Attractive, tight and clean issue with a nice Aurion Proctor oil painting reproduced on the front..... More
Chicago: Popular Publications, June 1949. Paperback. (Vol. 49, No. 1). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Good plus. Tight and quite decent, but with some edgewear. Attractive issue with a nice Philip A. Ronfor oil painting on the front wrapper entitled "Rounding Up..... More
Chicago: Popular Publications, March 1946. Paperback. (Vol. 39, No. 4). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear. Attractive, tight and clean issue with a handsome Aurion M. Proctor oil painting reproduced on the front wrapper entitled "Consignment for..... More
Chicago: Popular Publications, March 1947. Paperback. (Vol. 42, No. 2). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear. Attractive, tight and clean issue with a nice Frederick Blakeslee oil painting reproduced on the front wrapper entitled "Silver Creek Trestle."..... More
Chicago: Popular Publications, March 1948. Paperback. (Vol. 45, No. 2). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear. Attractive, tight and clean issue with a nice Frederick Blakeslee oil painting reproduced on the front wrapper entitled "Homeward Bound (Delaware..... More
Chicago: Popular Publications, March 1949. Paperback. (Vol. 48, No. 2). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear. Attractive, tight and clean issue with a nice Frederick Blakeslee oil painting reproduced on the front wrapper entitled "First RPO Run..... More
Chicago: Popular Publications, May 1946. Paperback. (Vol. 39, No. 6). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Mild edgewear. A tight, clean issue with a nice Frederick Blakeslee oil painting reproduced on the front wrapper entitled "Helpers in the Haze (Murphy Branch..... More
Chicago: Popular Publications, May 1947. Paperback. (Vol. 42, No. 4). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear. Attractive, tight and clean issue with a nice Frederick Blakeslee oil painting reproduced on the front wrapper entitled "Highballing the Grain."..... More
Chicago: Popular Publications, October 1946. Paperback. (Vol. 45, No. 4). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Handsome, tight issue with a lovely Frederick Blakeslee oil painting on the front wrapper entitled "Locomotive Washer, Sunnyside Yard (PRR)." More
Chicago: Popular Publications, May 1949. Paperback. (Vol. 48, No. 4). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Minor bit of edgewear. Handsome, tight issue with a lovely Frederick Blakeslee oil painting on the front wrapper entitled "Over the Hell Gate (New Haven..... More
Chicago: Popular Publications, November 1946. Paperback. (Vol. 41, No. 2). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Some edgewear. Attractive, tight and clean issue with a nice Aurion M. Proctor oil painting reproduced on the front wrapper entitled "Tonnage on the Wasatch..... More
Chicago: Popular Publications, November 1947. Paperback. (Vol. 44, No. 2). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear. Attractive, tight and clean issue with a nice Frederick Blakeslee oil painting reproduced on the front wrapper entitled "'Daylights' in the..... More
Chicago: Popular Publications, November 1948. Paperback. (Vol. 47, No. 2). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear. Attractive, tight and clean issue with a nice Frederick Blakeslee oil painting reproduced on the front wrapper entitled "Nashville Terminal." More
Chicago: Popular Publications, October 1945. Paperback. (Vol. 38, No. 5). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear. Attractive, tight and clean issue with a nice Aurion M. Proctor oil painting reproduced on the front wrapper entitled "Glass Dome..... More
Chicago: Popular Publications, October 1948. Paperback. (Vol. 47, No. 1). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear. Attractive, tight and clean issue with a nice Frederick Blakeslee oil painting reproduced on the front wrapper entitled "The 'New Look'..... More
Chicago: Popular Publications, October 1949. Paperback. (Vol. 50, No. 1). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear. Attractive, tight and clean issue with a nice Frederick Blakeslee oil painting reproduced on the front wrapper entitled "Shoreliner (New Haven)."..... More
Chicago: Popular Publications, September 1946. Paperback. (Vol. 40, No. 4). Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 146pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, maps, advertisements. Very good. Minor edgewear. A tight, clean, bright issue with a superb Frederick Blakeslee oil painting reproduced on the front wrapper entitled "The Tortoise and the Hare..... More
After two decades of false starts and endless stalls, in February 1851 the Illinois legislature at last incorporated the long-anticipated Illinois Central Railroad Company. Staking and surveying began immediately, and the first section -- running between Chicago and Calumet -- opened for traffic on May 24, 1852. Despite the fact..... More
Denver: The Van Noy Inter-State Company, 1922. Paperback. Wide small 4to. Stiff calf-textured wrappers and large ornate gilt lettering, string-tied. (40pp). Numerous large sepia-tone photographs. Very good. Faint wear to outer wrappers (only). Tight and attractive first edition of this oversize promotional vehicle for the storied Denver & Rio Grande..... More
Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, [1978]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Textured red paper over boards with gilt spine lettering. 175pp. Frontispiece, maps, extensive illustrations. Very good. Bit of edgewear, mainly at head and tail of spine; ownership name/address inked on front pastedown. A tight and nice first edition of this superbly-illustrated study..... More
N.p. Brother Railroad Carmen of America, [1940]. Hardcover. 12mo. Stiff black card covers with silver lettering and black leatherette spine. 304pp. Numerous illustrations and figures. Very good. Mildest of edgewear, with bit of age toning to preliminary leaves, else tight and internally near fine. A tight and nice first edition..... More
London: Collins, [1947]. Hardcover. 8vo. Green pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 48pp. Numerous illustrations (some color). Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; faint offsetting to endpapers. A lovely and tight volume from the "Britain in Pictures" series edited by W.J. Turner -- revised second printing of this 1945..... More