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Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Bulletins

Known as the R&LHS Bulletin since its inception in 1921, the name was later changed to Railroad History by mindless leadership unable to accomplish anything of real importance.  These issues measure 6” x 9” and contain up to around 150 pages.  They are in excellent condition, though the older issues may show signs of normal use

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 No.

   Date

                          Feature Article (one or two of several)

   Price

 

    1

00/1921     

Yesterday on the New York Central (Reprint)         

$  13.00

[b3]

 

00/1938

Locomotives of the Chicago & North Western Ry.  (nd)

$175.00

[bck]

100 

04/1959    

Steam Locomotives - New York, New Haven & Hartford R.R.

$  30.00

[b3]

101 

10/1959    

Pioneer Locomotives of North America        

$  30.00

[b3]

102 

04/1960    

Early Northern Pacific Consolidations              

$  22.50

[b3]

103 

10/1960    

Narrow Gauge in Fiji                   

$  22.50

[b3]

105 

10/1961    

Government Regulations - 1830 to 1900; New England R.R's. 

$  22.50

[b4]

106 

04/1962    

The Andrews Raid                       

$  22.50

[b4]

107 

10/1962    

Iron Brothers - The Crooks & the Rice     

$  22.50

[b4]

108 

04/1963    

Artemus-Jellico R.R.                    

$  22.50

[b3]

109 

10/1963    

Railroads of the Lehigh Valley         

$  22.50

[b3]

110 

04/1964    

Charles P. Clark (of the  New York, New Haven & Hartford R.R.)       

$  22.50

[b3]

111 

10/1964    

Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic  (nd)         

$  40.00

[b3]

113 

10/1965    

West Virginia Central & Pittsburgh Ry.      

$  22.50

[b4]

114 

04/1966    

Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville R.R.  

$  30.00

[b4]

115 

10/1966    

Green Bay & Western Railway  (nd)            

$  40.00

[b4]

116 

04/1967    

Wisconsin & Northern Railway           

$  35.00

[b4]

117 

10/1967    

Bellefonte Central R.R.                

$  22.50

[b4}

118 

04/1968    

Wisconsin & Michigan Railway           

$  35.00

[b4]

119 

10/1968    

More About Locomotives of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh R.R. 

$  22.50

[b4]

120 

04/1969    

Massachusetts Bay Railroads            

$  22.50

[b4]

121 

10/1969    

Milwaukee & Northern Railroad                    

$  35.00

[b4]

122 

04/1970    

Last 40 Years of New York Central Steam Locomotives 

$  30.00

[b4]

123 

10/1970    

Locomotives for the Madison Hill       

$  30.00

[b4}

125 

10/1971    

50 Years of American Railroading       

$  22.50

[b4]

126 

04/1972    

Lehigh Valley Railroad                 

$  22.50

[b4]

127 

10/1972    

B&O Mont Clare Railroad Shops              

$  22.50

[b4]

128 

04/1973    

USRA Freight Cars                      

$  22.50

[b4]

129 

10/1973    

Modern Steam of the South              

$  22.50

[b4]

130 

04/1974    

Richmond Locomotive Builders           

$  22.50

[b4]

131 

04/1974    

History of the Erie                    

$  22.50

[b4]

132 

04/1975    

Cincinnati Passenger Stations before 1930 

$  22.50

[b4}

133 

10/1975    

The Wabash Railroad                    

$  22.50

[b4]

134 

04/1976    

The Georgia Railroad                   

$  20.00

[b4}

135 

10/1976    

Fond du Lac Railroad Shops             

$  22.50

[b4]

136 

04/1977    

The Milwaukee Road                     

$  22.50

[b4]

137 

10/1977    

Norfolk & Western's Roanoke Shops      

$  20.00

[b4*]

138 

04/1978    

The Taunton Car Co.                    

$  20.00

[b4]

139 

10/1978    

The Portland (Maine) Company (locomotive builder); Mt. Clare Station

(Baltimore); List of Sources for Major Published Locomotive Rosters

$  15.00

[b4]

140 

04/1979    

All time steam and diesel roster for the Illinois Central Railroad. "Illinois

Central Predecessor Lines are listed first. Then Locomotive Rosters, Illinois Central Railroad & Predecessor Lines. The Mississippi, A Southern Foundling (oldest surviving IC predecessor locomotive).

$  35.00

[b4]

141 

10/1979    

Thomas H. Paul & Son (locomotive builder); Official Railroad Nicknames; Wooten and the Reading Shops; Locomotive Roster: The Panhandle (PRR)

$  15.00

[b4}

142 

04/1980    

Holmes Hinkley and the Boston Locomotive Works; Roster: Hinkley

Locomotive Construction

$  12.00

[b4]

143 

10/1980    

The Great Northern Railway Company: Predecessors and Fully-Controlled Subsidiaries. Great Northern All-Time Locomotive Roster, 1861-1970.

$  25.00

[b4]

144 

04/1981    

New Haven Ten-wheelers (includes roster); Mississippi Southern Railroad; Louisiana & Arkansas Railway (includes steam locomotive roster)

$  10.00

[b4]

145 

10/1981    

The Ogdensburgh Connection: A Failed Dream in Northern New York. The Lightweight Passenger Car with Special Reference to Pullman. "The Generals Up in Wall Street" Ray Stannard Baker and the Railroads. The Coast Line and its Bridges in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. The Illinois Terminal: Corporate Structure and Steam Power.

$  12.50

[b4}

146 

04/1982    

A.B. Stickney and James J. Hill: The Railroad Relationship. Genesis of a Miller's Road: The Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie. Westward from Denver: The Obsession of David Moffat. The Greenback Raid (a U.S. Civil War story). Ticket to Promontory. Steel Ropes into the Howling Wilderness: First Cable Cars in Los Angeles. The Fitchburg Railroad: A Corporate Genealogy and Locomotive Roster.

$  12.50

[b4]

147 

10/1982    

The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada: An Overview. The Grand Trunk Ry:  A Look at the Principal Components. The Grand Trunk Railway: Motive Power Acquisitions. Locomotive Rosters of the Grand Trunk Railway and Grand Trunk Pacific.

$  15.00

[b4]

148 

04/1983    

Profile on Fred A. Stindt. The Invention of Railroad Time. The Grand Narrow Gauge Trunk (Ohio to Mexico). Chinese Construction Workers on the Canadian Pacific. The Impact of the Great Northern Railway on Settlement in Montana, 1880-1920. The Flying Yankee (B&M and MEC).  A Tug-of-War on the Santa Maria Valley. The Clinchfield Railroad: A Brief Operating History & Steam Locomotive Roster.

$  15.00

[b4]

149 

10/1983    

Dundee-built Locomotives on Canada’s First Railways; Early Narrow Gauge Locomotives in the West; the Chicago Great Western Railroad   

$  10.00

[b4]

Spcl.

00/1985    

INDEX THE RAILROAD HISTORY INDEX compiled by Thomas T. Taber III. Covers issues 1-151. Arranged by Authors, RR's & RR History in the USA, Canadian Ry's, Ry's Worldwide; (Special Issue)   

$  12.50

[b4]

150 

04/1984    

Profile on H. Arnold Wilder. Guest Editorial: Basic Conservation for Historic Documentary Material. One the Greatest of Builders: The Norris Locomotive Works. William Montgomery's Nova Scotia Iron Works. American Railroaders in Siberia, 1917-1920. The Norris Construction Record (30 p.)

$  12.50

[b4]

151 

10/1984    

Electric Ry. Freight; Locomotive Roster: Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Ry.

$  12.50

[b4]

152 

04/1985    

Draughting the Steam Locomotive. The Steam Engine In Prints and Photographs. Downeast Pioneer: The Bangor & Piscataquis Canal & Rail-Road Company. The Maine Central Railroad: Predecessor Lines. A Brief History of the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad with All-Time Locomotive Roster. How a New Haven I-4 Pacific Became One of a Kind. To Santa Cruz on Southern Pacific's Sun-Tan Special.

$  12.50

[b4]

153 

10/1985    

On the Mark: The History and Symbolism of Railroad Emblems. To "Jettison Conventions and Taboos of Railroading": The Cotton Belt's BLUE STREAK. Raub's Central Power: The Little Engine that Couldn't.

$  12.50

[b4}

154 

04/1986    

Three Components of the Chicago & North Western (includes history and locomotive rosters): The Omaha Road (Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha), The Minneapolis & St. Louis & The Chicago Great Western

$  15.00

[b4]

155 

10/1986    

Profile on Arthur Detmers Dubin. Railroads, Good Roads and Motor Vehicles: Managing Technological Change. The Western Maryland: A Corporate History (22 pages). Steam Locomotives of the Western Maryland.

$  12.50

[b4]

156 

04/1987    

Guest Editorial: New Steam in the 1980s --- What Happened? "A Man of Large Experience": Edwin Noyes and Railroad Development in Maine. "A Thorough Man of Business": Daniel C. Gunn, Pioneer Canadian Locomotive Builder. Locomotives of the Alton Route.

$  12.50

[b4]

157 

10/1987    

“The Well Known Narrow Gauge Railway Champion”: Col. Edward Hulbert; Locomotive Roster: Mobile & Ohio Railroad

$    8.00

[b4]

158 

04/1988    

“Gerald M. Best: Autobiography of a Railfan”; Locomotive Rosters: Gulf, Mobile & Northern R.R. (Steam), Gulf Mobile & Ohio Railroad (Diesel)

$    8.00

[b4]

160 

04/1989    

160 Early R.R. Empire Builders (1850-1873); “Crookedest Railroad in the World”-Who Says So?; Locomotive Roster: National Ry. of Mexico (steam)    

$    8.00

[b4]

161 

10/1989    

Overland Route; Working for the Santa Fe (1909-1911); Saga of the Southern Pacific’s Martinez-Benicia (California) Bridge; Locomotive Roster: Spokane International Railroad                 

$    8.00

[b4}

162 

04/1990    

Railway Technology, the Canadian Northwest, & the Continental Economy. Spunky Little Devils: Locomotives of the New York Elevated. Railway Stations in New Zealand: A Case of Architectural Lag. Replacement of Technology: The Diesel as a Case Study.        

$    8.00

[b4]

163 

10/1990     

Biography & Translation of Letters (1839) of Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner; Earnest Elmo Calkins and the Creation of “Phoebe Snow”; ICC Railroad Valuation Records; Spirit Lake, Iowa

$    8.00

[b4]

164 

04/1991    

The North Carolina Railroad and the Confederacy; Pennsylvania Railroad’s Motive Power Strategies (1920-1950); Dissolution of the UP/SP merger (1912); Running a Locomotive in 1856; Johnson Co’s Street Railway Rail

$    8.00

[b4]

165 

10/1991    

The Railroad in American Literature; Traveling Detroit to Chicago in 1888; The Transportation Act of 1940; The B&O Presidency of Daniel Willard; Biography: Richard Eaton, Canadian Mechanical Engineer 

$    8.00

[b4]

166 

04/1992    

Railroad Safety (1910-1939); Derailment of the Milwaukee Road’s Olympian at Custer Creek (1938); Great Northern Railway’s Motor Buses; Oklahoma Central Ry; “Some Surprising Survivors” (Stations, Bridges, Etc.)    

$    8.00

[b4]

167 

10/1992    

Rogers Locomotives: A Brief History and Construction List (136 pages) by Peter Moshein and Robert R. Rothfus. Steam Vs. Diesel Locomotives by Robert Aldag. Editorial: Railroad History --- What's the Object?

$    8.00

[b4]

168 

04/1993    

Virginia’s First Railroad: Falling Creek; Detroit & Pontiac Railroad; Alaska’s Copper River & Northwestern Railway

$    8.00

[b4]

169 

10/1993    

Santa Fe’s Reading Rooms; Passenger Service on the Chicago & North Western; Chicago Chapter’s First Excursion; Biography: Thatcher Perkins.     

$  15.00

[b4]

170 

04/1994    

Motive Power Struggle: Pennsylvania Railroad vs. General Motors; Boston’s South Terminal Station: Electric Traction History; Firing and Running New Haven Steam Locomotives (1926-1939; Frank P. Donovan’s Delmarva Branch Line Odyssey

$    8.00

[b4]

171 

10/1994    

Railroads in the American Context; Locomotive Safety (1900-1945); A

Wartime Triangle Trip; Photo Essay: Destruction of New York’s

Pennsylvania Station; Biography: Thomas T. Taber

$    8.00

[b4]

172 

04/1995    

Biography: Edward Budd (part 1); Blind Tires on Steam Locomotives;

Technology and Law on the Dakota Frontier; California to Illinois by Train

in 1937; Locomotive Roster: Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad

$    8.00

[b4]

173 

10/1995    

Biography: Edward Budd (part 2); Rys. in the Netherlands (1830-1914);

System & Shop Practices of the Baldwin Loco. Wks; Women Telegraphers

$    8.00

[b4]

174 

04/1996    

Great Northern Railway and the Mesabi Range; Delaware Valley Railroad; Lebanon-Thorntown (Indiana) Traction Co.; Fort Smith & Western Railway; Locomotive Roster: Fort Smith & Western

$    8.00

[b4]

175 

10/1996    

H. W. Pontin and His Rail Photo Service; Motor Trains of the German National Railways; Dr. Borst’s X-12: the Atomic Locomotive; Morristown & Erie Railroad in the 1940s; Interview: George Krambles; Locomotive Roster: New York, Ontario & Western Railway

$    8.00

[b4]

176 

04/1997    

Andre Chapelon and French Locomotives (20th century); Testing a New

York Central “Mohawk”; Chicago Great Western Railroad and the John A. Cole Milling Co.; Great Northern Railway and Dryland Farming;

Technological Revolution at Grand Central Terminal

$    8.00

[bcb]

177 

10/1997    

Energy Conservation on Steam Railroads (1889-1943); Fish Cars in

Nebraska; John Edgar Thompson on the Pennsylvania Railroad; Robert E. Woodruff; Boston & Albany Railroad Locomotive Renumbering (1912); Locomotive Roster: Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad

$    8.00

[bcb]

178 

04/1998    

America’s Chapel Cars; Dan Paine: Milwaukee Road Engineer on the Iowa & Minnesota Division; Badnall’s Undulating Railway; New York Central Railroad’s Montreal Secondary

$    8.00

[bcb]

179 

10/1998    

The Railroad as an Aesthetic Object; Images of the Pacific Electric; Immigrant Contract Labor on the Milwaukee Road; Tay Bridge; Biography: Ludwig Hamberger (German National Railways)

$    8.00

[bcb]

180

04/1999

Spring 1999. Railroads Shipped by Sea (to California): Engineering Success and Disaster: American Railroad Bridges 1840-1900; The South Works (a Chicago steel-making plant) Narrow-Gauge Railroad; The North Western's Legacy (C&NW); Locomotives of the Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railway.

$  12.00

[bca]

181

10/1999

Toy Trains; Progress and Slavery on the South’s Railroads; Dummy Steam Locomotives; Railroads and Catenary; Liquidating the Rock Island; New Jersey & New York Railroad No. 10, “Woodridge”

$    8.00

[bca]

Spcl.

00/2000

Special single subject issue: The Diesel Revolution.  Also Business Strategies & Diesel Development; Railroads & the War; Culture Clash: Diesel vs. Tradition; Covered Wagons & Geeps; Diesel Railcar: A Look Ahead. A true USA locomotive buffet. [z]

$  20.00

[bca]

182

04/2000

Design-it-Yourself Locomotive: the 4-8-4; The Railroad Pass; “GNMZ” -Good Night Madison (reflections of James L. Larson); Biography: Henry U. Mudge

$    8.00

[bca]

183

10/2000

“Race to Chicago” (railroad building across Michigan); “Century Gone” (railroading highlights in the 20 century); Semaphore Blades by Night; Sahara’s Lost Railroads; Photo Essay: Illinois Central Gulf Employees by Ben Halpern

$    8.00

[bca]

184

04/2001

History of Train Wrecks; German Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotives in the US; Virginian Railway Mallets; Photo Essay: Pennsylvania Railroad by William Herman Rau; Preservation Topic: Buffalo’s Central Terminal Employees by Ben Halpern

$    8.00

[bca]

185

10/2001

Menu Art; Bravery at the World Trade Center; Preservation Topic: Town of Pullman; Locomotive Roster: Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad

$    8.00

[bca]

186

04/2002

Rails Across the Hudson: Getting across the barrier, then and now; On the Waterfront: New York Harbor railroading in the 1950s and 1960s; Hitler's Locomotives: Part 1; German Railroaders and the Holocaust; Strategic Short Line: All about South Carolina's Columbia, Newberry & Laurens. 

$    8.00

[bca]

187

10/2002

Railroaders: Lives and Stories; Hitler's Locomotives: Part 2; American Variety: Comparing engine classes here & abroad; The amiable New York & Greenwood Lake.

$    8.00

[bca]

188

04/2003

Too Big to Fail?: The political and regulatory mindset that led to Penn Central; Forgetting St. Louis and Other Map Mischief: The oddities and deception of railroad mapmaking; David P. Morgan bio: Part 1; Overwhelmed with Good Fortune: Sir Henry Tyler vs. the Vanderbilts in a gilded age battle for Chicago.

$    8.00

[bca]

189

10/2003

Oh, to be a Locomotive Engineer; A Passion for Trains (David P. Morgan bio, Part 2); The Elusive Mr. Hoagland; Defeating Division 699; Railroads & Slavery; Loss at Kinzua.

$    8.00

[bca]

190

04/2004

The Curve: Horseshoe Curve exerts staying power as an engineering feat and train-watching paradise; Cuba & R.R’s: Part 1: Main Lines, 1837-2003; O. Winston Link; Requiem for a Runaway: In search of the remains of a Mallet that disappeared off Rollins Pass in 1924.

$    8.00

[bca]

191

09/2004

History of the Dome Car; Cuba & Railroads: Part 2: Fifty Years Too Soon; Aftermath of an Ohio interurbans cutting of coal rates; Railroad Soldiers: Thumbnail history of U. S. Military Railways; The Bridge that Never Was: Japan's WWII Burma-Siam railway. 

$    8.00

[bca]

The format has now changed to 8” x 10-1/2” with 120 to 130 pages.                             

193

09/2005

China Steam, Lucius Beebe, Fighting Cars with Buses, Picturing the Railway.

$    8.00

[bcm]

194

04/2006

Chicago Railroaders, ALCO’s Pioneer, High Hoods, Jack Delano Color Photos, Georgia & Florida Railway.

$    8.00

[bcm]

195

09/2006

Canada’s Silver Age, In the Land of Few Roads (Northern Manitoba), Mont Clare Shops in 1872, Railroaders in Bronze & Stone (memorials).

$    8.00

[bcm]

196

04/2007

Loggers & Short Lines, Photography of Richard Kindig, Cairo, Illinois – Why it failed to become a rail center, McCloud River’s 90 Ton Mikes.

$    8.00

[bcm]

197

09/2007

A Short History of American Locomotive Builders in the Steam Era.

$    8.00

[bcm]

198

04/2008

R.R. Corporate Cultures, Bayer-Garratts Forever, Dining Cars & R.R. China

$    8.00

[bcm]

199

10/2008

B&O Dining Car Service, DL&W Fighting the 1914 Blizzard                     [z]

$    8.00

[bcm]

200

04/2009

The R&LHS – Events leading up to Issue 200, Amtrak F40PH

$    8.00

[bcm]

201

10/2009

Colo. R.R. Museum – Golden Anniv., Jack Delano, Artist of the Rails

$    8.00

[bcm]

203

10/2010

Railroad Signal Innovator, Telophone Train Order Signals

$    8.00

[bcm]

204

04/2011

Hospital Trains, Canada Photography, Nebraska Capitol, Lewis Hine

$    8.00

[bcm]

205

10/2011

POW’s on the Pennsy, Wabash Tales, C&NW in Michigan

$    8.00

[bcm]

R&LHS Newsletter

A quarterly newsletter; published for a very short time in booklet format.  Edited by Mr. Vander Yacht and discontinued after a few issues; its equal has yet to be seen.  Free upon request with the purchase of one or more of the above - one for one.

Vol. 24

No. 2

Spring 2004 – A.G. Trumbull, Locomotive Designer

$    0.00

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Vol. 24

No. 3

Summer 2004 – Counterbalancing 10-Coupled Power

$    0.00

[bcf]

Vol. 24

No. 4

Autumn 2004 – Philadelphia’s Broad Street Lady; Triple Valves

$    0.00

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