R&LHS 89:NP HENRY VILLARD;HORATIO ALLEN;MICHIGAN LOGGER;VALVE GEAR;PRR ENGS;PC&Y

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Your bid is for the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society BULLETIN No. 89, with a publication date of November, 1953, with Charles E. Fisher as Editor and President. This digest-sized soft cover book measures 15.6 by 22.8 cm and contains 176 pages, plus the wraps, plus 28 unpaginated glossy photo pages, if I counted them correctly, printed on one side only, that can be a photograph or two or a drawing. That's 204 pages containing information! The cover drawing depicts a Camden & Amboy train crossing the Delaware & Raritan canal in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and is one of my favorite BULLETIN cover drawings. HENRY VILLARD, Colonizer of the Pacific Northwest, Builder of the First Northern "Transcontinental," Exponent of Inter-Railroad Harmony by Francis P. Donovan, Jr. tells the story of Villard and his Northern Pacific Railroad beginning in 1853, when the 18 year-old immigrant arrived in New York City from Hamburg, Germany, without speaking English. Donovan was a fine writer and rail historian and his 7 pages of text are augmented by 4 photo pages, with one being Villard in 1883, the Villard Arch in Saint Paul erected that same year, the Gold Spike Special train and a painting of the ceremony that will save you a trip to Helena. 101 VALVE MOTIONS by Fred Jukes in the second installment of this most complex subject and here we find Hackworth, Jack, Joy, Brown and Sissions, and many more, detailed over 67 pages with an explanation and a drawing for each. THE MASON & OCEANA RAILROAD by Robert W. Garasha is a story that begins in Ludington, Michigan, in 1875, with the arrival of Horace Butters from Manistee, where he had been logging since age 19. This is the detailed story of a Michigan logging road, whose main track ran from Walkerville thru Peachville, Fern, Wiley and Riverton to reach Buttersville, which was just south of Ludington on Lake Michigan. This 15 page report is most detailed and includes several maps, a locomotive roster and 13 photographs. The line had a respectable Shay, but most of the hogs were in the dinky, critters and contraption categories. Not to suggest that they were unworthy of handling their assignments....  DIARY OF HORATIO ALLEN covers the period he was in England: 15 February 1828 until 17 April of that year inspecting the very earliest of steam railways. His purpose was as a student and he was the man who ordered the first four locomotives for the Delaware & Hudson. This transcription covers some 42 pages, and while basically industrial and technical in purpose, the description of English life is perhaps even more important. THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD SYSTEM by Charles E. Fisher is certainly an ambitious title, but here CEF limits himself to the years up to 1870 with a complete as possible roster of such locomotives 1847-1869. First we look at the New Jersey Railroads that were eventually swallowed up by the PRR, and then on to the Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad. There are some 30 photographs included. PITTSBURGH, CHARTIERS & YOUGHIOGHENY RAILWAY by Ivan W. Saunders begin with a short history of just over a page, and then moves on to a locomotive roster followed by 4 photos. A farmer in Unity, Maine, had a lot to say concerning the construction of the Penobscot & Kennebec RR in 1853. Wish he was still with us to render a judgment on Pan Am Railways. MORE ABOUT THE RHODE ISLAND 4-6-2's FOR THE C.M. & St.P. on one page is followed by MORE ABOUT SIR HUMPHREY DAVY on the next. Worth Reading, New Books, an obituary for Warren Jacobs and In Memory Of finish out this fat book. This fat book is in excellent, museum-quality condition.
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