Posted May 10th, 2012
Newest Train Books
MORNING SUN BOOKS COMING 2012
Each Book Hard Cover; 128 page all color List $59.95 Ours $44.95ea
May 2012 Releases
Railroad Critters In Color Volume 2 By Stephen M. Timko
New York Shortlines In Color Volume 2 By: Gary R. Carlson
June 2012 Releases
New York City Electrified Railroads In Color Volume 2: Lines into Pennsylvania Station By: Alfred E. Fazio, Jr.
Trackside Around Detroit and Windsor 1943-1976 with Emery Gulash By: Jerry A. Pinkepank
July 2012 Releases
Anthracite Railroads & Mining In Color V.2 By Chuck Yungkurth
Trackside on the Union Pacific 1960-1975 with Emery Gulash By Timothy Morris
August 2012 Releases
Lehigh Valley V.6 In Color By Mike Bednar
Long Island Rail Road In Color V.4: The Photography of William J. Brennan By Arthur J. Erdman
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Description |
Publisher |
Retail Price |
Our Price |
Amtrak by the Numbers |
D.C. Warner & E. Simon 224 pg; 440 Full Color Images 12x9" with dust jacket. A guide to 40 years of Amtrak locomotives and cars. | wrvr |
$79.95 |
$61.98 |
Cabooses on the Terminal Railroad |
The Strange tale of TRRA obsercation #20. Summber 2001 issue 71. SC 117 pg b&w/color | trra |
$35.00 |
$27.50 |
Chicago Railroad Scenes In Color V.1 |
1956-'66 and 1984-'96 R.P. Olmsted SC 48 color photos | cent |
$24.95 |
$19.98 |
Electro Motive E Units & F Units |
The illustrated history of North America’s favorite locomotive. HC 160 pge b&w/color. from 1930’s development through transition up to the reused and restored units. Solomon | cent |
$45.00 |
$35.98 |
Fast Running |
B&W Steam and diesel photos SC 48 pg Robert Olmstead | omst |
$18.95 |
$13.95 |
Kelly Lake to Allouez |
Transporting iron ore on the Great Norhtern RR by retired GN employee Robert Porter as told to Doug Addison Sr. SC 151 pg b&w & color | $34.95 |
$24.95 |
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Merchants Despatch |
Its history and equipment. By R.C. Hinman. HC 296pge, 298 photos, 90 drawings & graphics. | sigp |
$65.00 |
$51.98 |
Model Railroading with John Allen |
By Linn H. Westcott. Expanded edition--Remembering John Allen. Story of HO scale Gorre & Daphetid. HC 160 pge b&w/color |
hyd |
$63.95 |
$49.98 |
Otto M. Perry and the Union Pacific Nebraska Division |
By M.M.Bartels & J.J. Reisdorff The best of Perry’s Photos across Nebraska. | cent |
$24.95 |
$20.95 |
Pennsylvania RR Facilities V.16 West Div |
By Robert J. Yanosey ?Indianapolis to St. Louis main line and branches to Louisville, Logansport and elsewhere. Steam and diesel. | ms |
$59.95 |
$44.95 |
Railway Prototype Cyclopedia #23 |
Wood sheathed box cars (1937-43) Drop end gons & wagon top box/auto cars. | rpc |
$29.95 |
$23.50 |
Robert W. Richardson's Rio Grande Southern Chasing Narrow Gauge V. III |
A close look at the RGS 172 mile narrow gauge route between Durango & Ridgeway, CO. HC 12x8” 345 photos, 224 pge 14 chptrs | hmb |
$58.95 |
$48.95 |
Rock Island RR Photo Archive; Travel on the Rocket |
By Kelly; 10x 8 1/2” scvr40’s-60’s b&w/color Emphases on the “Rockets” and a section son system map, timetables, brochures and full color secrtion on RI Depots and stations. | $32.95 |
$26.95 |
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Nevada Central; Sagebrush Narrow Gauge |
Mallory Hope Ferrell HCvr 204pp 299 photos, 13 chapters History of the 93 mile N.G.line | heimb |
$43.95 |
$35.50 |
New York Short Lines in Color V. 2 |
By: Gary Carlson Traditional Shortlines of the state HC all color 128 pag | ms |
$59.95 |
$44.95 |
NS Locomotive Directory 2011-2012 |
By Withers SC | dblet |
$26.95 |
$20.50 |
Pacific Electric & Growth of San Fernando Valley |
By David Coscia Hcvr 240 page; 224 b&w photos 15 pp color photos. A history of the San Fernando Valley and service by PE and its competitors. | cent |
$65.00 |
$59.95 |
Railroad Critters in Color V.1 |
by Stephen Timko 128 pge Small industrial diesels | ms |
$59.95 |
$44.95 |
Railroad Critters in Color V.2 |
by Stephen M. Timko 128 pge Small industrial diesels | ms |
$59.95 |
$44.95 |
Railway Prototype Cyclopedia V.24 |
PRR X29 & X28 box & automobile cars. Rebuilt USRA dble sheathed box cars b&w; Data & Models SC 113 page | rpc |
$29.95 |
$23.50 |
San Ramon Branch Line of the Southern Pacific |
Irma M Dotson 11x 8 1/2” HCvr 288 page 126 b&W with glossory and Index. Well researched book looks at complete history to branch from 1891 to 1978 abandonment. | SPHS |
$50.00 |
$41.50 |
Shortlines of the Pacific Northwest |
J.Shaw 192 pge Washington & Oregon shortlines 1960’s to 2008. By Robert Yanosey | $59.95 |
$47.98 |
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Southern Pacific Coast Line Steam Pictorial V.37 |
J. Ainsworth. Scvr b&w photos | mtva |
$27.50 |
$21.95 |
Southern Pacific Depots in California V.1 |
By Stephen Hayes. Hcvr 11x8”, 259 b&w pages w/index. The coast & Western Div and branches. | SPHS |
$55.00 |
$47.98 |
Southern Pacific Passenger Cars V.5 |
Lounge, Dome & Parlor cars HC 818 photos, 576 pg | SPHS |
$145.00 |
$119.95 |
Southern Pacific Steam 1940-'57 |
J.A. Strapac Telling story of the final years of SP steam operation. HC 224 pge, over 400 b&w photos | SPHS |
$75.00 |
$59.98 |
SP Historic Diesels V. 17 |
Joe Strapac. EMD SD40 family Locomotives Scvr | cent |
$34.95 |
$28.95 |
SP's El Paso Route Pictorial. V .38 |
LA to El Paso SC 66 pge b&w | mvtp |
$27.50 |
$21.95 |
SP's California Coast Line Pictorial V. 40 |
Watsonville Jct. to LA SC 66 pge b&w | mtvp |
$27.50 |
$21.95 |
The Historica Atlas of North American Railroads |
By J.Westwood & Ian Wood. Transportation system that united the U.S. and Canada from the Earliest times through peak years of 20th Century. | cent |
$14.99 |
$12.99 |
The Rock Island in Minnesota |
J.C.Luecke. The first complete in-depth history of R.I. in Minnesota. HC 192 pge more than 200 b&w & color photos & 12 maps. | $52.00 |
$38.98 |
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The Wisconsin Southern Story |
Hcvr 286 color page. Complete WSOR story in text & photos from 1980 to present. | jt |
$60.00 |
$45.95 |
The Western Pacific |
By K.Meeker HC 256 page 410 color photos, 11 maps | $79.95 |
$61.98 |
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Union Pacific’s Topeka Rails 1965-2010 |
R.P. Olmsted SC b&w | cnt |
$18.95 |
$13.98 |
Windy City Steam. |
Photos from the Roy Campbell Collection. edited by T.E.Burg. SC 122 pge 208 b&w photos of steam RRing in Chicagoland, 21 RRs. | merrl |
$29.95 |
$21.50 |
West Virginia Railroads V. 4 Virginian Rwy |
By Lloyd D. Lewis. Tells story of Virginian Rwy within state of West Virginia HC 128 pge b&w | TLC |
$29.95 |
$24.98 |
Yellowstone By Train |
Thorton Waite; History of rail travel to America’s first National Park. SC 168pp b&w/color. Tells how the five RRs served the park, competed and cooperated. Park was served UP, NP, CB&Q, CNW and Milw. | heimb |
$24.95 |
$21.25 |
Book Titles ADDED to List
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America’s Fighting RRs |
A WWII Pictorial History SC 152 pp b&w by D. NeNevi. 200 photos. Steam and early diesel hauling material, soldiers | heimb |
$14.95 |
$12.50 |
B&M Trackside |
By Carl Byron w/Arthur E. Mitchell | $54.95 |
$40.95 |
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BN’s Northwest Passage |
By Rob Leachman HC b&w/color | hydn |
$59.95 |
$48.95 |
Classic American Railroads |
By: M. Schafer, Focusing on Golden Age of RRing. WWII and 1970’s color photos from 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. SF. Milw. NYC, DRGW. 150 color, 50 b&w | heimb |
$36.95 |
$29.95 |
Milwaukee Road Diesel Power |
Hyde & Sanders, HC. 254 pge color & b&w | mhs |
$64.95 |
$55.95 |
| Norfolk & Western, Steams Last Stand | By M.Hope Ferrell. HC b&w | hyd |
$59.95 |
$48.98 |
Railway Prototype Cyclopedia #21 |
SC, b&w | rpc |
$29.95 |
$23.50 |
Railway Prototype Cyclopedia V. 22 |
Wagon top Box; Auto cars & GATC airslide cov. hoppers SC 112 pge b&w/color | rpc |
$29.95 |
$23.50 |
Railroads of Ohio Valley 1947-1960 Book#1 |
(reprint) Scvr b&w/color 100 page Pittsburgh, PA to Gallipolis, OH | $14.95 |
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Rio Grande- A Last Look Back 1974-2010 |
HC by R.C. Farewell | cent |
$69.95 |
$53.95 |
Santa Fe Auto Service; Engineering Ser V. 4 |
R.D.Walz Scvr | prr |
$24.98 |
$18.95 |
Santa Fe Engineering Ser. V. 5 BRIDGES |
R.Walz Sc 11x8 1/2” 60 pge b&w | prr |
$24.98 |
$18.95 |
Southern Pacific Oregon Division |
By Brian Jennison & V. Neves HC color/b&w | hydn |
$59.95 |
$48.95 |
SP Historic Diesels V. 10 |
By Strapac; EMD freight Diesel. | cent |
$29.95 |
$23.50 |
SP Historic Diesels V. 11 |
By Strapac; Scvr Baldwin switchers & road switchers | cent |
$29.95 |
$23.50 |
The Northern Pacific |
By Dale Sanders HC. All color |
hydn |
$74.95 |
$58.95 |
The Pennsylvania RR 1940s-1950s |
By Don Ball; Reprint. 10 1/4x11” Hcvr color | heimb |
$50.00 |
$39.95 |
Trains to Victory--America’s Railroads in WWII |
Hcvr by Heimburger & Kelly. 380 b&w photos with several color pages. Complete coverage of the role RRs played in moving men and machines in the Great War 13 chapters + Bibliography | $59.95 |
$48.98 |
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Windy City to the Twin Cities |
J.Leopaid; HC, A Burlington Rte BN/BNSF color pictorial. Chicago to Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN | 4wy |
$59.95 |
$44.95 |
Pennsylvania Technical & Historical Society |
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Altoona and the Pennsylvania Between a Roar And a Whimper |
By Betty Wagner Loeb; A story of a RR, the City it built and the men it shaped. B&W photos w/xome colro. SC 99 pge | pths |
$20.00 |
$17.98 |
Prophet’s Pennsy |
All color steam, Diesel, electric, freight and passenger cars. HC 143 pge | pths |
$50.00 |
$40.95 |
The Pennsy in Cincinnati |
By Rich tipton and Chuck Blardone. B&w and color photos SC. 158 pge | pths |
$40.00 |
$33.98 |
The Pennsy in Columbus, OH |
By Rich Tipton; Steam and diesel photos b&w photos with a few in color. HC 188 pg | pths |
$75.00 |
$61.00 |
The Pennsy in the 1960’s The Final Decade |
Photos of John Dziobko Jr, text by Christopher Baer. Color and B&w photos. HC 144 page | pths |
$50.00 |
$40.98 |
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