McGonigal, Robert S., Ed. (Ed King, Joe Welsh, Jack Elwood, Michael Blaszak, Neil Carlson, Kevin Holland, Mike Martin, Peter Hansen, Bill Kuebler, Greg Gormick.) Listings

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	1 McGonigal, Robert S., ed. (Ed King, Joe Welsh, Jack Elwood, Michael Blaszak, Neil Carlson, Kevin Holland, Mike Martin, Peter Hansen, Bill Kuebler, Greg Gormick.) FAST TRAINS IN THE GOLDEN YEARS OF RAILROADING. CLASSIC TRAINS SPECIAL EDITION NO. 7. Kalmbach, Waukesha, WI, 2008.  114 pp, 10 7/8" H, soft cover (magazine format). Front cover states "Display Until February 17, 2009". B&w and color photographs, reproductions. Contents: "Make Her Go Fast'; Chicago-Twin Cities Speed War; Super C: The World's Fastest Freight; Speed, Signals, and Safety; Hudsons: Passenger Speedsters; Banana Trains of Mid-America (Illinois Central et al); A Strong Closing Performance; Coast to Coast in Record Time (Union Pacific); Who Gets to Fargo First? (Northern Pacific); Pennsy's Fast Track to the Future; Speed Champ in Two Centuries; Pennsy's High-Flying Atlantics; GTW: Canada's Fast Connection; In Steam the Builders Trusted; Fast Berkshires and E units; Speed Demons of the North; The Magic of 'Fast Freight'; Master of Fast: Hale on SP; Speedways to the Sunshine; Saving Time by Not Stopping. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - a few tiny dints. Very Good+  Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 Welsh, Joe. PENNSY STREAMLINERS: THE BLUE RIBBON FLEET. Kalmbach, Waukesha, WI, 1999, first printing.  160 pp, oblong 8vo (8 5/8" H x 11 1/8" D), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0890242933 "Scarcely 50 years ago, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest and most important rail passenger carrier in the nation. Its fleet of more than 700 trains inc luding its premier east-west Blue Ribbon Fleet, carried Presidents and movie stars, the wealthy and the not-so-wealthy, across the countryside at high speed and in style. But those days of glamor and grace were short-lived. Railroad historian J o e Welsh invites us to look over the shoulder of the Pennsy president as he plans strategy against the New York Central; he takes us alongside the drafting table of Raymond Loewy, designer of the Fleet of Modernism; and he lets us listen in on the b oa r droom debates that ultimately seal the fate of the Blue Ribbon Fleet. Employee interviews, Pennsy documents, rare color and black-and-white photos, and period advertising all give the reader a sense of what it was like to ride the Pennsylva nia Ra il road when America traveled by train." Soft crease at bottom edge of rear panel - very minor edge wrinkling elsewhere. Fine/Very Good+  Price: 45.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3 McGonigal, Robert S., ed. (Joe Welsh, Dwight Akers, Fred Wrixton, Charlie Knight, Robert Gillespie, Arthur Bleich, Ed King, Michael Matejka, Robert Ramsay, David Jones, Peter Hansen, Jack Elwood, Les Hoffman, Jim Warsher.) RAILROADS AND WORLD WAR II. HOW AMERICA RODE THE RAILS TO VICTORY. CLASSIC TRAINS SPECIAL EDITION NO. 6. Kalmbach, Waukesha, WI, c2007.  114 pp, 10 7/8" H, soft cover (magazine format). Front cover states "Display Until February 19, 2008". B&w and color photographs, reproductions. Contents: All Aboard Again!; Inside Lima; FDR's Wartime Train Travels; Douglas MacArthur's Engines; Trains in White (military hospital trains); Kodachrome on the Home Front; N&W's Wandering Y-3's; Woman's Touch in Wartime (Henrietta Hanson, B&O nurse-stewardess); Boom Times in Paradise (Hawaii's Oahu Railway); Black Gold by the Trainload; Slice of Home and a Cup of Joe (Dennison, Ohio station canteen); Photo Section; Putting Out the Maximum Effort (Santa Fe's L.A. Division); Tales of a GI Hogger; IC's Mysterious Freight 4-4-2's. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor wear at top/bottom of spine, one tiny edge tear archivally taped. Very Good  Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart