R&LHS 88:VALVE MOTION;RICHMOND & ALLEGHANY RR;ADIRONDACK RY;NJRR & TRANS.>PENNSY

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Your bid is for the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society BULLETIN No. 88, with a publication date of May 1953, with Charles E. Fisher as Editor and President. This digest-sized soft cover book measures 15.5 by 22.9 cm and contains 176 pages, plus the wraps, plus 8 unpaginated glossy photo pages, printed on one side only, that can be a photograph or two or a drawing. The cover drawing depicts the Granite Building, the Western Rail Road Headquarters in Springfield, Massachusetts, with one of Eddy's Clocks, No.55, westbound, crossing Main Street, in a work by Charles O. Egerton. Page 4 is unusual as it is a color photograph taken from a slide made at Silverton, Colorado, on 21 June 1950, and shows D&RGW Eng No.473 backdated on a freight consist. The first use of a color photo in the BULLETIN I do believe. 101 VALVE MOTIONS by Fred Jukes is the beginning installment on this series to explain the development and operation of various valve control motions in the reciprocating steam locomotive. This installment covers pages 7-54 with usually a text description of the motion followed by a drawing of same on the next page. Single Eccentric, Drop Hook, Stephenson Link and Englemann you may have heard about, but are you familiar with Carmichael, Cabry, Buddicom and Gooch? A very fine study for the student of steam locomotion. THE ADIRONDACK RAILWAY COMPANY, Passenger Traffic, by David S. Weatherwax ran and runs from Saratoga Springs to North Creek, New York. I say runs, which it does as a world class tourist operation known as the Saratoga & North Creek Railway. Weatherwax tells us that service began from the Springs to Wolf Creek on 01 December 1865, and all the way to North Creek in 1871. This article covers 4 pages, plus an 1872 flyer and map photo pages. RICHMOND AND ALLEGHANY RAILROAD by Laura E. Armitage tells how the R&A was incorporated in 1878 to build from Richmond, Virginia, 230.31 miles west to Clifton Forge, with a 19.38 mile branch to Lexington. On 20 May 1889, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway began operating the company and, of course, this is currently a very important section of CSX. This article covers 10 pages, plus two photo pages of locomotives. "Excepting along Maiden's Adventure pond, Tye River and about a mile on the south side of the James near Joshua Falls bridge, the track was everywhere laid upon the towpath between Richmond and Lynchburg......" A most interesting read and included are the financial problems that brot about receivership, a roster of all rolling stock in 1881, 1884 and 1888 and a roster of locomotives as of 30 September 1881. All in all, a very well-organized piece of work. CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS LEADING UP TO ADVENT OF EASTERN CAPITAL INTO THE AURORA BRANCH RAILROAD, ITS CHANGE OF NAME TO CHICAGO AND AURORA RAILROAD, AND PASSING OF LOCAL CONTROL TO THAT OF EASTERN FINANCIAL INTERESTS by A.W. Newton fills 8 pages beginning with: "March 26, 1850, the directors of the Aurora Branch Railroad planned extension of the line westward,........" With a title like the preceding, I need write little more except to say that the listing of Mileage of Railroads in Illinois --- West of Chicago as of 01 January 1851, 1852, 1853 and 1854 makes a most impressive case for Chicago becoming the railway capital of the Americas. GAUGES ---- STANDARD AND OTHERWISE by Robert R. Brown takes a 9 page look at the development of standard gauge beginning with a photo page chart that dates back to 500 B.C. A fine piece, especially useful when the author relates his experiences in India riding in sleeping cars on both the meter and broad gauge lines. Yes, 1435 mm is not ideal for psgr travel, nor good basic railway engineering, but I fear we are stuck with it. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO LOCOMOTIVE ROSTERS OF FLORIDA RAILROADS IN BULLETIN No.86 is self-explanatory and fills 14 pages with immense detail. THE NEW JERSEY RAILROAD AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANY by Leslie E. Freeman, Jr. tells in great detail about this company that opened for business on 01 September 1834 between Newark and Jersey City and grew to own much of the line you ride today on Amtrak between New York and Philadelphia. This article covers 60 pages, plus a map and 3 photographs, and ends in 1871 when the NJRR&TC was formally leased to the Pennsylvania Railroad for 999 years. A really definitive article concerning the beginnings of what could well be called the most important psgr rail line in the Americas. Worth Reading, New Books, Minutes of the 1953 R&LHS Annual Meeting and In Memory Of 9 departed members, end this fat edition. This book is in excellent, near-perfect condition.
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