Posted May 10th, 2012

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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

Newest Books

Title
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
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
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
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
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
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
NOT New Releases

Title
Description
Publisher
Retail Price
Our Price
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
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
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
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
books recently added to our list

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