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Industry Guides – Non-Railroad Issued

All items are in excellent condition unless noted.  Please ignore the bracketed [  ] notations.  [nb]

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Industry Guides – Non-Railroad Issued

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  • Bureau of Explosives – General Information on Explosives & Other Dangerous Articles, 87 p, 1968  [nb]   Photo                                                                                                         

$2.00

  • Link Motion by Fred Colvin, 126 p., 1914.   A book on the fundamentals of link motions and valve gears including a short dissertation about William Howe who attempted to wrongly take credit for inventing the link motion.  4"x 6", cloth bound, 101 p, 1914. [bcj]

$20.00

  • Loetzer’s Handbook, 172 p, 1913, leather bound (a guide for railroad machinists)  [bca]

$50.00

  • Military Chemistry and Chemical Agents.  This is a World War II manual dealing with the tactical use of chemical agents in warfare, behavior of these chemicals and how to deal with them in the field.  War Department Technical Manual TM 3-215,  5-1/2” x 8-1/2”, 171 p., April 1942.  Excellent condition for its age  with minor scuff on the cover  [wt]  Photo

$25.00

  • Railroad Retirement Board – Questions & Answers, 100 p, 1957, mint condition                  

  $1.50

  • Standard Stoker Co., Inc. – Standard MB-1 Stoker, description and instructions for care, operation & maintenance.  5” x 7”, 38 p. including fold-out diagram, 1939.  [afu, nb]

$20.00

  • The Superheater Co. – SFX Exhaust Steam Injector, Questions & Answers, 24 p., 11/1937  [bcj]

$3.00

  • Train Derailment Cause Finding.  An AAR-FRA-RPI-TDC joint publication on the causes of train derailments including investigation methods & tools, equipment failures, track structure, track train dynamics & reporting.  5-1/2” x 8-1/2”, spiral bound, 103 p. 1983.  Near-mint with prior owner’s name marked on cover.   [wt]  Photo

$10.00

  • Vapor Heating Corporation – Operator’s Manual for Vapor-Clarkson Steam Generators, Models OK-4616, OK-4625, OK-4630, OK-4635, OK-4740 & DSK-4530.  5” x 8”, 21 p. with 3 fold-out diagrams, 1953.  Very good condition, shows some use.  [nb]

$15.00

  • Westinghouse Air Brake Co. – Instruction Book with 4 separate, large air brake system diagrams, 72 p, 1897  [bca]

$60.00

 

 

 

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