AUTUMN – WINTER BOOK SALE
THE PRR CITY SERIES

Available December 1, 2011 through January 31, 2012

The Society is offering three books covering cities served by the PRR. The books include:

• Altoona and The Pennsylvania Railroad – Between A Roar And A Whimper.- Details
• Lewistown and The Pennsylvania Railroad – From Moccasins to Steel Wheels - Details
• The Pennsylvania Railroad In Cincinnati - Details

All three of these books that normally sell for $80, are now available, for a limited time, for $39.00.

Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Car Painting & Lettering

by Charles Blardone, Jr. and Peter Tilp 1988

Authored by two of the PRR's well known passenger car historians, this 9¾" x 14" landscape style, 127 page, color publication contains 111 photos of passenger equipment, 27 painting and lettering diagrams, 14 tables showing painting scheme details and dates, several maps and timetable covers, 2 pages of excellent paint color samples and numerous other details pertaining to passenger car livery. An abbreviated table of contents follows.

• The Great Red Fleet [all type cars] - Raymond Lowey - PRR Pullmans in Transcontinental Service
• PRR Pullmans on Texas and Oklahoma Routes - New York to Florida
• New York to Atlanta and New Orleans - Washington D.C. to Points North - Special Assignment Cars

SPECIAL NOTE: The book as offered has three potential problems and are sold as is. The potential problems are not with the quality of the printing, rather only with the (a) glue used in the binding, (b) that the jacket covers may have minor scruff marks and very small tears and (c) in rare instances some pages have been partially glued together along part of the page edge. With care these can be easily separated. It is also possible that pages may start to separate from the spine. This does not happen to all books only some. The potential problem has a probability of about 85% occurrence with minimal seriousness, as the solution is to have the book spiral bound or rebound like the original at a local bindery. Spiral binding is actually a better format for modelers as the book lays flat during use.

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Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Car Painting & Lettering

Soft Cover - Spiral Bound

by Charles Blardone, Jr. and Peter Tilp 1988

Authored by two of the PRR's well known passenger car historians, this 9¾" x 14" landscape style, 127 page, color publication contains 111 photos of passenger equipment, 27 painting and lettering diagrams, 14 tables showing painting scheme details and dates, several maps and timetable covers, 2 pages of excellent paint color samples and numerous other details pertaining to passenger car livery. An abbreviated table of contents follows.

• The Great Red Fleet [all type cars] - Raymond Lowey - PRR Pullmans in Transcontinental Service
• PRR Pullmans on Texas and Oklahoma Routes - New York to Florida
• New York to Atlanta and New Orleans - Washington D.C. to Points North - Special Assignment Cars

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The Pennsylvania Railroad's Golden TriangleMain Line Panorama in the Pittsburgh Area

by Ken Kobus and Jack Consoli 1998

Authored by Ken Kobus and Jack Consoli of the PRRT&HS Pittsburgh Chapter, this 92-page perfect-bound, reinforced soft cover publication contains about 270 photographs, several maps, plus a separate foldout 11” x 34” map of the PFW&C between Pittsburgh and Conway ca. 1920s. Released in conjunction with the PRRT&HS 1998 annual meeting in Lancaster, the publication supplements the commemoration of 150 years of the PRR's presence in Pittsburgh, the traffic heart of the railroad's operations, begun with the authors' first book on this subject "The Pennsy in the Steel City.. .", published in 1996.

Photographic coverage includes locomotives, trains, stations, yards, bridges, engine houses, towers, and related facilities, from the 1860s to 1968, with a few photos from the early'70s. Maps identify all PRR lines in the Pittsburgh area. Narrative covers PRR Pittsburgh area history. Geographically the book covers from Pennsylvania Station, Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh to Pitcairn on the Main Line, Pittsburgh to Mingo Jct., Ohio on the Panhandle, Mingo Jct., Ohio to Rochester, Pa on the C&P, Pittsburgh to Beaver Falls on the Ft. Wayne , and Rochester, Pa. to New Castle on the PY&A

Altoona and the Pennsylvania Railroad Between a Roar and a Whimper

by Betty Wagner Loeb 1999

Authored by Altoonan Betty Loeb, this 100 page, color/black, perfect bound, reinforced soft cover publication contains 228 photos, 3 full paintings, 2 multi-page maps and a chart of Altoona towers with additional text by John Denny, JR., Bill Strassner and Peter Barton. Features include the PRR in Altoona, the men and women of the PRR, Altoona’s trolleys and prominent buildings, and the Horseshoe Curve.

Altoona and the Pennsylvania Railroad...tells the story of Altoona's birth, the place chosen by the PRR to begin its operations. In this wilderness appeared makeshift shops and ribbons of steel rails. Men, hungry for work, rushed to the scene. Families followed. Up sprang houses, schools and churches along both sides of the tracks. In words and pictures, this book traces the growth of the railroad until Altoona housed the largest car shops in the world. Together, the city and the PRR became famous. The fame was due in part to the dedication of the men who spent most of their lives with the railroad; also the women who shouldered the men's jobs during times of war. Nothing--not rigid work rules, dangerous and demanding jobs, low pay, or few benefits dampened the devotion they held for the Pennsy.

Lewistown and the Pennsylvania Railroad From Moccasins to Steel Wheels 2000

Authored by several prominent local and national historians, this publication is perfect bound, soft covered book with 160 pages containing 360 photos (B&W and color). There are also 13 area maps, 5 paintings and numerous illustrations.

Chapters include:
Forty-eight pages on Lewistown – A Juniata River Community, the Juniata Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, the Standard Steel Company, the Lewistown & Reedsville Electric Railway, the Kishacoquillas Valley Railroad, and the Mifflin County Airport.

The majority of the book, over 113 pages covers many items of interest on the PRR including:
Articles about the PRR in Lewistown, the Main Line Block Stations between Mifflin and Newton Hamilton, the Denholm Coal Wharf, and the Sunbury & Lewistown Branch. There are also pictorials of the Hawstone Track Pans, Milroy Branch, Lewistown Yard, PRR Lewistown Wreck Train, and Lewistown Junction Station and its reconstruction by the Society.

The Pennsy’s P5 Electrics

by Frederick Westing, Mike Bezilla and Roger L. Keyser 2002

This publication is perfect bound, soft covered book with 116 pages, with close to 200 photos (11 in color), this book also contains 13 line drawings, with a few other small illustrations sprinkled through the pages. There is a fifteen chapter tome by the late Fred Westing, a 14-year Baldwin Locomotive Works veteran, covering everything from development, through construction details, use in passenger service, problems with the design, testing, modifying the P5a, riding head-end, and relegation to freight service. Westing’s work is followed by an equally enlightening dissertation on the P5 with many photographs by Mike Bezilla. A third section describes notable P5 wrecks including photographs, diagrams and ICC Accident Investigation Reports.

In addition to in-depth coverage of the development, testing and operation of the class P5, there is a pictorial study of PRR Electrics with multiple photos of all classes from the AA1 through R1 and equipment rosters by Roger L. Keyser, which include LIRR and PRR electric locomotives by class, a complete listing of the PT&T class AA, BB and DD units with original numbers and subsequent PRR numbers, and a PRR and LIRR, five page all-time roster of electric locomotives arranged by road, class and number.

The Pennsylvania Railroad in Cincinnati

Co-authored by Rick Tipton and Keystone editor Chuck Blardone 2004

Before the Civil War, Cincinnati was the biggest town in “The West” - larger than St. Louis, and far larger than Chicago or Cleveland. Once the Pennsylvania Railroad reached Pittsburgh, Cincinnati was the great inland city to which the Railroad had to connect.

This book brings together photos, historical materials, and company records from sources both local and nationwide. It thus combines knowledge and images never before brought together. The book explores yards, stations, interlocking plants, and motive power over the 100 years the Pennsy came into Cincy, and shows that this part of the System was made up of both “standard” and highly nonstandard components. The 160 pages include 305 photos, three paintings, nine sidebars, six maps, and 44 assorted tables, posters, and track diagrams. All color originals are reproduced in color.

The book’s major sections include:

• notes on the Pennsy’s local history and the Company’s relationship
  to other railroads in town
• descriptions and photos of locations listed in employee timetables
• roster and action shots of PRR steam and diesel in Cincinnati
• detailed history and consists of the Cincinnati Limited
• photo section dedicated to sleepers of the Cincinnati Limited

The Pennsy in the 1950s – The Last Great Decade

Featuring the excellent photography of John Dziobko, Jr. and a compelling essay of the PRR’s “Golden Eras” by Christopher T. Baer 2006

Contents include: Sunnyside, New York City, Aerotrain, Northern New Jersey, Ballast Cleaning Train, Meadows Enginehouse, Central New Jersey, Trenton, Shore Points, Union Transportation Co., Camden, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore, Phoenixville, Thorndale, Harrisburg, Enola, Susquehanna River, Paxinos, Williamsport, Middle Division, Altoona, Hollidaysburg, Horseshoe Curve, Cresson, Blairsville, Pitcairn, Pittsburgh, Conway, Steubenville, Crestline and Columbus.

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Pennsy’s Conemaugh Division – Pittsburgh to Johnstown and Oil City

by Ken Kobus and Gary Rauch 2007

Contents include: text spread over 33 pages, 4 color maps, 10 B&W maps and 341 photos, most never published before. There are great line side and ROW photos of the line; these are not just a bunch of roster shots. This is the most definitive work ever put together on the Conemaugh Division.

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Business & Special Cars - A Century of Tuscan Deluxe

by Chuck Blardone 2007

Contents include: a chronology and (where possible) photos and/or diagrams, of all known wooden and steel PRR and all subsidiaries. It includes business, private, special, pay and inspection cars; from the first car in 1871 to 1968, and on into Penn Central. There are 390 images (about ½ are photos and ½ are digitally redrawn car diagrams). The book is in landscape format, 8-½" x 11", on heavy paper, color and B&W.

The book is currently available in the softbound edition only.

The Pennsy in the 1960s – The Final Decade

Featuring the excellent photography of John Dziobko, Jr. and a compelling essay of the PRR’s final years by Christopher T. Baer 2008

Contents include: North of New York City, The Corridor between New York and Philadelphia, Philly and South Jersey, The Corridor between Philadelphia and Washington, Washington DC, Philadelphia to Harrisburg, York, The Yard at Enola, Middle Division – Harrisburg to Altoona, Buffalo to Harrisburg, Altoona to Pittsburgh, Northeast Ohio, Pittsburgh to Chicago – via the Fort Wayne, Pittsburgh to Chicago – via the Panhandle, Ballast Cleaning Trains, Wire Trains, Wreck Trains.

Women’s Aid PRR Cook Book

A reprint by the Society of a 1935 Cook Book 2008

A 120 page, perfect bound exact reprint of the PRR's Women's Aid Society Cookbook of 1935, 6-" x 9-1/8". Similar to a church cookbook, it contains favorite home cooking recipes from wives of PRR employees (including some prominent officers you'll recognize). Editor Chuck Blardone says it’s the most usable PRR cookbook he has ever seen. Your grandmother's recipes! A member wrote saying: “Thought you would like to know that I noticed my wife reading the PRR Cook Book at the kitchen table yesterday. She looked up with a big smile and said "This is a Great Cookbook!"

Everything reproduced exactly, with an added photo of PRR Women's Aid china, Corrections noted in the front and at the recipes affected, and a write up by Chris Baer on who made up the Women's Aid Society, and what it did. (The cover price of 75 cents is for the original, not this reprint.)

This book is available only through the Society, no dealer sales.

Pennsylvania Railroad Flat Cars – Revenue & Work Equipment, 1881 – 1968

by Elden Gatwood and Al Buchan 2008

A 116 page book includes an Introduction covering an overview of freight cars and flat cars; PRR Flat Cars covering - FA, FB, FC, FD, FE, FF, FG, FH, FI, FK, FL, FM, FN, FNA, F21, F22, F23, F24, F25, F25A, F25B, F25C, F26, F27, F28, F29, F30, F30A, F30B, F30C, F30D, F30E, F30F F30G, F30H, F30K, F31, F31A, F32, F33, F34, F35, F36, F37, F37A, F37B, F38, F39, F39A, F39B, F39C, F40, F41, F41A, F41B, F41D, F41E, F41F, F42, F42A, F43, F44, F45, F46, F47, F48, F49, FD1, FD2, FD3, FD3A, FW1, FW2, FGR, FGRA, FG27 and FXL; flat cars in Work Equipment service and an Epilog

There are over 240 photos many with cars under load, in addition to numerous car diagrams and information tables. The book is in landscape format, 8-½" x 11", on heavy paper, color and B&W. The book is available in both softbound and hardbound editions.

Hardbound books are available only through the Society, no dealer sales.

Prophet’s Pennsy

2009

John Prophet, one of the founding members of the Society, passed away September 3, 2002. We are memorializing his efforts in helping to make the Society what it is today by printing two all color books of most of his slide collection. The first book, Prophet’s Pennsy is all about locomotives and equipment. The hardbound book of 146 pages has 95 steam locomotive photographs, 48 diesel, 28 motors, 88 freight cars (including 34 cabins), 34 passenger cars, 29 MUs, and 18 pieces of work equipment (including 6 office and inspection cars). We hope that you enjoy this trip back through time, courtesy of photographer John Prophet. The second book, publication date unknown, will contain John’s right-of-way photos.

PHILIP R. HASTINGS - PORTRAIT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD Photographs from the Collection of the California State Railroad Museum

by Douglas M. Nelson 2002

This book was originally published by Pine Tree Press in autumn 2002 and has been generously donated by them to the Society for future sales.

This is a 9 ¾" x 11" landscape format 130 page hardbound book, with dust jacket, of over 140 of Philip’s most outstanding black and white photos of the PRR in action. The photos are organized into five sections with each section having color maps depicting the territory.

His photos not only capture trains in action but also the people, surrounding buildings and landscape. This is one of the finest B&W photograph books documenting the PRR in its heyday. ISBN 0-9640356-7-7

LOCOMOTIVES of the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
Volume 1, THE EARLY YEARS, 1848 to 1874

by Richard D. Adams 2010

Originally authored by the late Richard D. Adams this book has been brought to fruition by the efforts of Gary Rauch and Chuck Blardone.

This 8½” x 11” landscape format 192 page book has 182 black and white photographs and illustrations, 24 charts and a 24 page roster of the early steam fleet. It is organized into the following chapters -1. The Pennsylvania Railroad in 1874, 2. The Locomotives of PRR’s Predecessor Lines, 3. Men, Shops & Machinery: Motive Power Development on the PRR, 4. Shops & Enginehouses in 1874, 5. Locomotive Practice, 6. Locomotive Liveries, 7. Locomotive Numbering; and a Locomotive Register corrected to January 1, 1874, as well as several appendices. Hardbound ISBN 978-0-9821485-2-5, softbound ISBN 978-0-9821485-3-2.

Hardbound books are available only through the Society, no dealer sales.

The Pennsylvania Railroad in Columbus, Ohio

by Rick Tipton 2011

Hardbound 8½” x 11” 188 pages with 334 illustrations (the large majority, photos). Chapter 1, A Short History of Columbus Railroads, PRR Lines into Columbus, Other Lines and Connections at Columbus; Chapter 2, Columbus Union Depot and its Passenger Trains; Chapter 3, St. Clair Avenue Enginehouse; Chapter 4, Pennsy Freight Yards; Chapter 5, 20th St. Shops; Chapter 6, The Columbus & Newark (C&N); Chapter 7, Columbus & Xenia (C&X); Chapter 8, Chicago Columbus & Indiana Central (CC&IC); Chapter 9, The Akron Branch (CA&C); Chapter 10, The Sandusky Branch.

Maps in Rear Pocket: Columbus Railroads, 1893; Columbus Railroad Facilities, 1934; Columbus Railroads and Industries, 1962; Port Columbus to Olentangy, 1958, Yards in Columbus and Bradford, 1928; Alum Creek to “RA,” 1945; The Enginehouse at Spruce Street, c.1950; The Freight House at 4th & Naughten Sts., 1941; St. Clair Enginehouse and its Environs, 1951 and St. Clair Diesel Servicing Facilities, 1956.

Pennsylvania Railroad Gondolas
Revenue & Work Equipment, 1869 - 1968

by Al Buchan and Elden Gatwood 2011

A 156 page book includes an Introduction covering an overview of freight cars and gondolas; PRR Gondolas from GA to G44, gondolas in Work Equipment service and an Epilog.

There are over 350 photos many with cars under load, in addition to numerous car diagrams and information tables. The book is in landscape format, 8½" x 11", on heavy paper, color and B&W. The book is available in both softbound and hardbound editions.

Hardbound books are available only through the Society, no dealer sales.

Summer 1985

Volume 18 - Number 2

• Fort Wayne’s Project “X” [class X, later G3 4-6-0]
• Tenders for the Class X
• The Allen Valve Gear
• PRR 6800 – One of a Kind [class P85G coach]
• Old Friends
• Electric Engines at Thorndale
• Testing the E44
  

Winter 1987

Volume 20 - Number 4

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• The Anchor Line
• The Day the Arizona Burned – 1887 Marquette Spectacle remembered
• Pool Trains and Santa Fe’s
• Grooming An “American” Beauty [Bill Russell photos]
• The Visitors [UK Midland Rwy official visits]
• One-Hundred Years Ago on the PRR System [1887]
• Ashtabula Dock Facilities - Pictorial

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Summer 1990

Volume 23 - Number 2

• The Pennsy in Wildwood, NJ
• Memories of the Philadelphia and Wildwood RPO
• Martin H. Lee – Engineman Extraordinary
• “Man’o War” FW-8

Autumn 1990

Volume 23 - Number 3

• The Pennsylvanian [Amtrak NY-PGH train]
• The “Sandhouse King”
• The Pennsylvania Abroad
• The Un-Standard Railroad of the World
• High and Wide Loads
• The Braeburn Accommodations

Winter 1990

Volume 23 - Number 4

• The Panhandle Division – Early History
• The Panhandle Division – Main Line, 1942
• 100 Years Ago on the PRR – 1890
• The American-European Express and the Broadway
• The Wellsville Ohio Centennial

Spring 1991

Volume 24 - Number 1

• Legend of Raymond Fernand Loewy
• The PRR Streamlined By Raymond Lowey
• Thesis Questionnaire [Q&A with Lowey]
• Raymond Loewy PRR Project Listing
• The New Broadway Limited [On Amtrak]

Summer 1991

Volume 24 - Number 2

• Brooke Tower [Birdsboro, PA]
• PRR Power Whips Mountains [class T1 cab ride]
• Cabin With A Porch

Autumn 1991

Volume 24 - Number 3

• Electrification of the WJ&S [3rd rail]
• Pennsy’s Overwhelming Articulated
• The Old GR&I [poem]
• The Locomotive Pennsylvania [UK 2-4-0]
• PRR Police

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Spring 1993

Volume 26 - Number 1

• PRR Steel RPO Cars
• Anatomy of a Grif Teller Painting [Running By ET]
• The Snow Storm [RPO Story]

Summer 1993

Volume 26 - Number 2

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• PRR Chesapeake Barge Service
• Long Island City Float Operations

Autumn 1993

Volume 26 - Number 3

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• Stations By Tichy: Modern Architecture for the PRR, 1940-1957
• Interviews with John W. Ebstein, Special Projects Manager and VP,
  Raymond Loewy & Assoc.
• Class KF and KFA Stock Cars
• Life on the RPO
• A One-Man RPO [Phillipsburg-Trenton]
• Interview with William C. Weiler, RMS Clerk, NY & Pitts.
• NY & Pitts. RPO 1876-1971

Winter 1993

Volume 26 - Number 4

• On The Way to Cape May – History to Railroad Transportation to Cape May, NJ
• Railway Mail Service in Cape May County
• The Last A3a [A&BB 0-4-0]
• 100 Years Ago On The Pennsylvania Railroad System-1893
• Pennsy Perfins
• X23, X24, K7 Lettering Diagram

Spring 1994

Volume 271 - Number 1

• More Than Locomotives, Part II – PRR artifacts
• The Panhandle Division-The Branch Lines Part I
• Remembering the Panhandle-Conversation with Ronald O. Drake, PRR Engineman
• Road Testing the E44

Summer 1994

Volume 27 - Number 2

• Benevolent it Wasn’t – PRR discipline cases
• Renovo and the P&E Railroad
• The Panhandle Division-The Branch Lines, Part II
• The PRR at Morrisville-June 1964

Autumn 1994

Volume 27 - Number 3

• PRR GLB Hopper Cars
• Columbia On The Pennsy
• William V. Russell-PRR Portfolio – Motive power around the Eastern Region
• It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This – Trip on business car 120 in 1994
• Malone’s Last Run

Winter 1994

Volume 27 - Number 4

• The Atglen & Susquehanna: Lancaster County’s Low Grade
• 100 Years Ago On The Pennsylvania Railroad System – 1894
• The Panhandle Division-Branch Lines, Part III

Spring 1995

Volume 28 - Number 2

• Terminals, Tunnels and Turmoil-The History of Pennsylvania Station-Baltimore

Summer 1995

Volume 28 - Number 2

• More Than Locomotives, Part III – Collection of lesser known things
• Eugene Foster’s PRR Portfolio – Motive power from around the Eastern region
• Turbine Power – The S2 and other plans
• The Panhandle Revisited
• Down In The Corner – Harvey Teeter PRR engineman 1913-1961

Autumn 1995

Volume 28 - Number 3

• The Route Of The Weekend Chief – LIRR parlor car operations
• Not Worth Repeating? – Using circle keystones on class N5 cabins
• A Streamliner, It Wasn’t –A Ride on Pennsy’s Railcar 4666

Winter 1995

Volume 28 - Number 4

• The Big Pacific: Class K5
• Construction of the 5698
• A Christmas Tragedy – Pittsburgh derailment of K4s 8309 in 1937
• The South-West Pennsylvania Railway and Youngwood, 1871-1935
• 100 Years Ago On The Pennsylvania Railroad System-1895
• Requiem For The Broadway Limited
• Overlooked Defect in Pennsy N5 Cabin cars – problems with sway brackets

Spring 1996

Volume 29 - Number 1

• Sunnyside: The World’s Greatest Passenger Railroad Yards
• The Cars of Sunnyside – Passenger car pictorial

Summer 1996

Volume 29 - Number 2

• How To Wash A Locomotive – Class H9 1493 goes overboard at South Amboy
• Interview with Clair I. Clugh-Manager Altoona Works (Retired) – With plans and photos
• The 4700 and W. W. Atterbury-Development of the First M1 – Squelching an urban legend
• PRR Crew Express Cabin Cars – Photos, lettering diagrams, rosters, text
• An Unsung Hero – Thomas P. Cope

Autumn 1996

Volume 29 - Number 3

• Hand Lanterns of the Pennsylvania Railroad Part 1
• Overview Of The History and Development Of The Pennsylvania Railroad’s
  Altoona Shops
• Made in Altoona – Pictorial of various steam locomotives
• Passenger Cars Interior Color Schemes – Coaches 1939

Winter 1996

Volume 29 - Number 4

• Overhead Catenary Of The PRR
• Electrification Photo Gallery – Includes construction photos
• The PRR’s Altoona Machine Shop Fire of December 17, 1931
• 100 Years Ago on the Pennsylvania Railroad System – 1896

Spring 1997

Volume 30 - Number 1

• PRR Portfolio – Motive power from the Eastern Region
• My Altoona Experiences, 1950-1951
• Of Poles, Bridges and Substations – Details about electric-traction facilities

Spring 1997

Volume 30 - Number 2

• Rail Passenger Service Returns To Cape May County – Current operations on the P-RSL
• George Weaver: My Career with the PRR
• Second 5698-An Extraordinary Project – 1 ½” scale live steam class K5
• The Wreck of the Ashtabula-“You only do that once.” – Operation-demise of the car ferry
• Railroading in a Blizzard – Ca. 1960s
• Pictorial-Painting of PRR Vehicles – ca. 1929-1949
• On The Road Again – Ken Brier’s PRR 1950 Ford pickup
• Stopped in Its Tracks – Problems with potatoes from a track pan

Autumn 1997

Volume 30 - Number 3

• The Way Things Are Supposed To Be Done – Experiences on the GR&I
• Queponco Station – 1996 restoration of DM&V station
• For Sale – The selling of PRR steam locomotives to other railroads
• Locomotive Operations – Setting up steam locomotives for high-speed operation
• The Diary of Wilson Howell Carpenter-An Account of the 1877 Railroad Riots
• The Greenville Bypass - Stories from a car trace clerk
• George Weaver-An Epilogue, George Weaver Commentary – corrections to previous article

Winter 1997

Volume 30 - Number 4

• Train-Watching in the Harrisburg Area – Pictures, plans and text
• 100 Years Ago-On The Pennsylvania Railroad System 1897
• Construction of the New York Connecting-Last Act Of An Ambitious Plan
• The Burlington & Mount Holly Traction Railway
• The American Influence On Gresley’s Pacifics

Spring 1998

Volume 31 - Number 1

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• The Pennsylvania Railroad: I – Reprint of May 1936 Fortune magazine article
• The Pennsylvania Railroad: II – Reprint of June 1936 Fortune magazine article
• What Might have Been-Pennsy Steam Locomotive Development-a Different Perspective
• 1,343 Miles of Electrified Track
• Day and Night – Demise of the PSNY clock entablature
• Operation Beaver – PRR’s 1963 clean-up campaign

Summer 1998

Volume 31 - Number 2

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• Apex Of The Atlantics Divided By 8 – Scale live steam, class E6s 737
• Midnight Ride – Head end ride on GG1 4894 PSNY-HBG 1961
• Pennsy’s Perimeter of Plenty – Seafood and the Delmarva
• How Air Brakes Really Work
• Arrangement of Lettering-X29 Express Service 1950 and 1954
• Baltimore Division Revisited – 1975-78 vs. 1992
• The Detroit Arrow – At Plymouth, IN

Autumn 1998

Volume 31 - Number 3

• The War-Emergency Box Car Conversions – Troop coaches and kitchens
• The Long Island Switch Gems-The C51 and C51sa
• New York Harbor Terminals – Map

Winter 1998

Volume 31 - Number 4

• Hand Lanterns Of The Pennsylvania Railroad-Part 2
• The Last Gasp – Union Transportation Company’s B6sb 5244
• 100 Years Ago-On The Pennsylvania Railroad System-1898
• Pullman Car Libertas of the 1898 “Pennsylvania Limited” – Restored at Conway Scenic
• Susquehanna, Pride of the Fish Commission – Stocking fish in PA ca. 1880s
• Help From Above-The saga of the knife-nosed devil – The McKeen Motor Car 4701
• Pennsylvania Steel, 1867-1916 – PRR’s early steel rail manufacturing venture
• Rockville Bridge Under the PRR – A Capsule History
• Union Jct. and B&P Jct. Towers at Baltimore, MD

Spring 1999

Volume 32 - Number 1

• Penn Station and the Sam Rea Line
• My Career on the Grand Rapids Division – An engineman’s story 1941-1954
• My Days in the Towers Part I – Philadelphia Division
• A Short Course in PRR Signals

Summer 1999

Volume 32 - Number 2

• Rails To The Rockaway’s Part I – LIRR operations
• Miracle At Hammels – 1928 derailment on the Jamaica Bay movable bridge

Autumn 1999

Volume 32 - Number 3

• Buying Time – The leased ATSF Texas types ca. 1956
• Ironshire Railroad Station – Worcester County, MD
• Rails To The Rockaway’s Part II – LIRR operations
• Practical Steam Locomotive Firing

Winter 1999

Volume 32 - Number 4

• Heyday of the RPO System of The Pennsylvania Railroad
• Grif Teller, Artist Remembered

Spring 2000

Volume 33 - Number 1

• The PRR’s Fredrick Branch
• Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotive Bells
• It Was The Day That The Railroad Died, At Least in Indiana - 1916 auto vs. train race

Summer 2000

Volume 33 - Number 2

• The XL Box Car and Related Classes
• New Information on Old Cars – More about the XL and related classes

Autumn 2000

Volume 33 - Number 3

• A Brief History of the Pennsylvania Railroad MP54 Multiple-Unit Cars
• Wait Until Dark – Taking night photos at Meadows Yard Engine house
• Unfulfilled Ambition-Why the Pennsylvania Railroad Ended at Effner
• Remarks at Retirement Luncheon for Joseph F. Tripican – Retiring Director, Personnel
• A PRR 4-8-4 – Speculation of design
• The PRR Confronts the Port of New York Authority – 1928 proposed railroad changes My Altoona Experiences

Winter 2000

Volume 33 - Number 4

• Last Chance – Last days of the class T1 in Blue Ribbon Service
• Everything a Road Day Should Be
• Philadelphia Terminal Division Operator Part II
• PRR Test of De Glehn Atlantic Type Locomotive
• Two To Go – 1 ½ “scale, live steam class G5s NYP & N Railroad – Side-wheel Walking-Beam Carferry Steamer Cape Charles
• Dieselization of the PRR’s Grand Rapids Division
• Members Favorite Photographs
• PRR Truck Classification – Passenger Cars 1947

Spring 2001

Volume 34 - Number 1

• Waynesburg & Washington Engine 4 – A surviving PRR narrow gauge 2-6-0
• The New Pennsylvania Limited – The “Yellow Kid”
• All Tickets Please – PRR passenger ticket styles
• N.C. Wyeth’s Pennsylvania Railroad Paintings – 1929 Promotional Posters
• Test Run of S2 6200

Summer 2001

Volume 34 - Number 2

• PRR War-Emergency Coaches - All classes
• The Northumberland Affair - Faking live steam in 1967
• The Placing of K4s 1361 on Horseshoe Curve – 1957
• Pennsylvania Lines Steel Tender Lettering and striping - 1916
• Restoration of EP22 5809

Autumn 2001

Volume 34 - Number 3

• An Appreciation of the T1 – The Engineman’s Perspective
• A Slippery Subject – The class T1 slipping problems
• T1 Keystone Controversy – The T1’s number plates
• Locomotive Cab Lettering and Striping – 1920
• The “Great” P&BC Train Robbery – At Rising Sun, MD
• MD-22, “Georgia Peach Train”
• My Years on the Pennsy – 1948-1950
• MisMatches - Locomotive-tender mismatches
• Insert – 1945 class T1 Lettering Diagram

Winter 2001

Volume 34 - Number 4

• Remembering the Parkton Local – Baltimore Commuter Service ca. 1850s-1959
• Pennsy Diesels Roar Again – Bennett Levin’s restored class EP22’s
• The PRR at 14th Street, Louisville, Kentucky – The 14th Street Engine house
• The “Slippery” T1

Spring 2002

Volume 35 - Number 1

• Ohio River & Western Railway Models – On3
• Riding The Cape May Seashore Lines
• Part of the Pennsy Look 1922-1957 – Electric marker and class lamps
• The History of the Class T1 Keystones
• Philadelphia Terminal Division Operator Part III
• DT&I ex-PRR Steam Locomotives
• The Missing Link – Class GV Steel Hopper Cars
• PRR Class L1 “Berkshire” 1306 – At the Altoona Test Plant

Summer 2002

Volume 35 - Number 2

• Locomotive Tonnage ratings – Central Region 11-11-43
• Wild Ride on Mixed Train 6609 – Punxsutawney to Cresson, 1940
• Lettering Schemes for PRR Covered Hoppers, 1931 – 1968
• PRR Steam Boiler Explosions
• Moving the US Route 30 Bridge at Paradise, PA – 1998
• Train NL-3, ca. 1952
• Paint ‘Em Green – Painting of early steam power

Autumn 2002

Volume 35 - Number 3

• The Pocomoke City Station
• 19 North, Copy 1 – Stories from a NEC Dispatcher
• 2000 Plus, The Pennsy’s Class H6
• Farewell to the LIRR P-S Passenger Cars

Winter 2002

Volume 35 - Number 4

• Emigh’s Gap – T&C Branch over Tyrone Mountain
• The Railroads of Lewes, Delaware
• An Engineman’s Recollections of the Beloved K4s

Spring 2003

Volume 36 - Number 1

• D78, The Lines West Diner

Summer 2003

Volume 36 - Number 2

• The Airway Limited [Transcontinental Air Transport – TAT]
• Tender Lettering & Striping, Lines Wear Drawing [1902]

Autumn 2003

Volume 36 - Number 3

• Second Engine 28
• The Big Elephant [4-6-0T No. 258]
• Preston, MD
• Tender Underbody Detail Part I
• The Way It Was [MW Stories]
• LIRR Road Vehicles
• Steel Tender Lettering & Striping Diagram [LW 1915]

Winter 2003

Volume 36 - Number 4

• Rails Along Tangascootac Creek
• K4s Siderod Design
• Arrangement of Lettering, Classes R8 & X26 [1920]
• The Penn Central Bankruptcy – A Blessing in Disguise
• Postcards of the PRR
• William V. Russell’s H6 Scrapbook
• The Disappearing Fireman
• Girdletree, Maryland Passenger and Freight Stations
• South Amboy and Camden Pictorial [Steam Locos]
• Harold Ickes’ Railroad Days
• The Lost Tunnel of Brooklyn [NY]
• J1/J1A Vilco Sander [1943 Drawing]
• The Development of Rail
• Retirement in 1909 after 55 Years
• How Half A Locomotive Ran Away [T1 at Altoona Test Plant]
• The Last Run of K4S 5478 [Redbird Derailment June 1948]
• Streamlined K4S Lettering and Striping [No. 3768, 1936]

Spring 2004

Volume 37 - Number 1

• The T1 and Related Ruminations
• A Reassessment of T1 6110 and 6111
• Panic Stop at Greensburg
• Legendary Ghosts of Irish Railroad Workers [Duffy’s Cut]
• Eugene W. Foster Postcard Pictorial
• Jack Emerick Pictorial
• LIRR Cabin Car 14
• The Evolution of Crossties
• A Piece of the Pennsy [PFW&C MP 439]
• Monmouth Junction Accident [November 1925]
• Summer 2004 – Volume 37 – Number 2
• Joe - Tribute to a Railroader [Pictorial]
• Pennsy’s Peninsula of Plenty [The Delmarva]
• Eugene W. Foster Pictorial
• Sloping Tenders Lettering Drawing [1903]
• Ballast and Roadbed
• Rails Along Tangascootac Creek

Summer 2004

Volume 37 - Number 2

• Joe – Tribute to a Railroader [Pictorial]
• Pennsy’s Peninsula of Plenty – The Del-Mar-Va
• Eugene W. Foster Pictorial
• Sloping Tender Lettering Diagram – December 1903
• Ballast and Roadbed
• Tangascootac Area Maps and Pictorial

Autumn 2004

Volume 37 - Number 3

• A Guide to PRR F-Units and Their Evolution, Part 1

Winter 2004

Volume 37 - Number 4

• Horseshoe Curve 150th Anniversary Celebration
• Horseshoe Curve Pictorial
• Port Columbus Celebrates its 75th Anniversary
• Airway Limited Postscript [TAT]
• Runaway GG1 Crash, Washington Union Station [4876]
• The Great Dynamite Wreck [Harrisburg, 1905]

Spring 2005

Volume 38 - Number 1

• A Guide to PRR F-Units and Their Evolution, Part 2

Summer 2005

Volume 38 - Number 2

• A Cincinnati Sojourn
• Limes of the JM&I Railroad in Southern Indiana
• Hooray for Horan [Paul Schopp poem]
• Long Pull of Power [Madison Hill Motive Power]

Autumn 2005

Volume 38 - Number 3

• The Pennsylvania Railroad and the Civil War
• Two Civil War Railroaders – Thomas A. Scott and Herman H. Haupt
• The Railroad Fiction of Stephen W. Meader
• The End of the Long Island Rail Road Mail Service
• The Wreck of the Broker – February 6, 1951
• Station “FK,” Franklin City, Virginia

Winter 2005

Volume 38 - Number 4

• The East Wind – New England Catenary
• 70 of My Best – Over 70 years of Pennsy Photographs

Spring 2006

Volume 39 - Number 1

• All Roads Lead to the I1s – But Not Quite
• The PRR’s Lewisburg & Tyrone Railroad
• Cuyahoga Falls “Doodlebug” Crash Memorial Erected
• It Was The Most Horrible Sight – Doodlebug Crash July 1940
• RRMPA Restores PRR Air Brake Instruction Car

Summer 2006

Volume 39 - Number 2

• The Q1 - An Alternate View
• All Roads Lead to the I1s – But Not Quite (Part II)
• PRR Steel Tenders Lettering and Striping Drawing

Autumn 2006

Volume 39 - Number 3

• A History of Cab Signaling and Automatic Train Control on the PRR
• A Case for the T1A 5547
• Memories of a Neophyte Fireman
• The T1 That Might Have Been

Winter 2006

Volume 39 - Number 4

• The PRR’s Navy – Part 1 New York Area
• Metamorphosis of the [Tugboat] Pittsburgh III
• With a Special 24-page Don Wood Tribute Insert

Spring 2007

Volume 40 - Number 1

• The PRR’s Navy – Part II, Philadelphia Area
• The first 50 PRR Accidents
• A History of the H&P Branch
• Pitcairn Roundhouse

Summer 2007

Volume 40 - Number 2

• D82 Series Dining Cars
• A Magnificent Collection [Number Plates, Badge Plates, Signs, etc.]
• Ten-Wheeler North – Part 1 [a tribute to the class G5s on the GR&I]

Autumn 2007

Volume 40 - Number 3

• Class FS-24m Diesels
• Ten-Wheeler North, Part II [a tribute to the class G5s on the GR&I]
• The Howie Waelder Tales
• Pitcairn Pictorial
• PRR Through Passenger Service to the Southwest

Winter 2007

Volume 40 - Number 4

• PRR’s Navy, Part III – The Chesapeake Bay Area
• When The Pennsylvania Railroad Sailed the Chesapeake Weather and Tide Permitting
• D16SB Power on the Eastern Shore
• Last Crossing At Odenton [WB&A over the PRR]

Spring 2008

Volume 41 - Number 1

SOLD OUT

• Baldwin Road Switchers on the PRR
• In Defense of the 5550s [class T1]
• Philadelphia Terminal Division Operator, Part IV
• Ten-Wheeler North, Part III of IV

Summer 2008

Volume 41 - Number 2

• The PRR in Crestline, Ohio
• The Wreck of the Golden Triangle
• The Wreck of the Red Arrow
• PRR EP-20 Diesels

Autumn 2008

Volume 41 - Number 3

• The PRR’s Navy Part IV – The Great Lakes
• Ten-Wheeler North – Part IV
• William B. Haxel, Engineman
• The Second 50 – PRR Accidents 51-100 Investigated by the ICC [1921-1929]
• The Mechanization of Track Work – Part I

Winter 2008

Volume 41 - Number 4

• K2 Speed Trials on the WJ&S, 1913
• Pennsy Tests the N&W Class J
• Some Thoughts on Pennsy Passenger Steam Power
• Computer Simulation Modeling of the T1
• Colonial Crafts [3BR-1DR-Buffet Lounge Pullman]
• An American Live Steam Treasure [1” scale model T1]
• PRR GP7s and GP9s
• PRR North Jersey Coast Commuter Clubs
• PT Division Operator, Part V
• The Tuscan Red K4s
• Key Center, One Ring [PRR T-Boxes]
• Heavyweight Parade at Northumberland [Stored Pullmans]

Spring 2009

Volume 42 - Number 1

• RMPA Line Up of Lowey and Studebaker Clients
• GG1 4935 and WUT 100th Anniversary
• My Tour at Chicago’s 59th Street Enginehouse
• The Pennsy Fan Trip That Thawed The Freeze
• Grade Crossing Accident at Snow Hill, Maryland
• Exhaust Steam Injectors (three articles)
• A Walk to MP 3 on the Princeton Branch
• Sheffield & Tionesta Valley Railroads
• Oil City & Pithole Railroad
• The Louis Sockalexis (Originally Frank Thompson class POS 211)
• PRR ALCo Switchers

Summer 2009

Volume 42 - Number 2

• RRMP at Strasburg
• PRR’s Navy Part V – Pennsylvania Canals
• PRR Class T1 Tests on the C&O and N&W
• PRR Tests The N&W Class J – Part II
• “Airway Limited” 80 Years Ago
• K2 Trials on the WJ&S, 1913, Supplement

Autumn 2009

Volume 42 - Number 3

• The Building of Tornado (UK class A1 Pacific)
• Tornado and 1361
• 1361’s Career
• K4s No. 1361 PRR Historical Record Cards
• 41st Annual Meeting – Merrillville, IN
• Amtrak Celebrates National Train Day
• First Human Remains Recovered at Duffy’s Cut
• Doings on the Eastern Shore (NYP&N)
• Boat Train to Brooklyn
• Working the Pennsy Main Line
• PRR Medal for Heroic Service

Winter 2009

Volume 42 - Number 4

• Letters About 1361
• LIRR class G5s No. 39 at Strasburg
• PRRT&HS class E6s No. 460 Matching Grant Program
• Scope of Restoration for No. 460
• Survivor of the Atlantics
• E6s No. 460 History 1914-1956
• Lancaster Train Station Makeover
• PRR Alliance Inn and Hamilton Inn to B&O Museum
• 2009 Annual Meeting Pictorial
• First Attempted Restoration of G5s No. 39
• Logansport Memories
• How I Remember the Pennsy
• Two Natural Disasters (1913 and 1936 floods)
• Pennsy Memories

Spring 2010

Volume 43 - Number 1

• Demolition of Philadelphia Steam Heat plant and Pier 122 Ore Crane No. 1
• PRR Steel Horse Cars (B74a and B74b)
• 29,000 Box Cars, The Ubiquitous X29
• The Third 50 PRR Accidents Investigated by the ICC
• The Chartiers Southern Railway Company – A PRR Subsidiary
• The Veteran Employees Association Delaware Division Beach Club House
• Far From Home (class B6sb No. 1687 in Korea)
• A Section Foreman’s Look at Duffy’s Cut

Summer 2010

Volume 43 - Number 2

• PRRT&HS Presentation of Check to RRMP
• Life and Time of Locomotive No. 35 (LIRR G5s)
• Keystone Cars (P85k) to Canada
• Olney, MD Freight Station Restoration
• More About No. 1361
• Charlie Fox Takes the Throttle (RRMP)
• Pittsburgh Locomotive and Cars Works and the PRR
• Andrew Carnegie’s Former Locomotive Works Slated for Demolition
• Extra Board and Speed or, “Now It Can Be Told”
• Etris Pictorial
• A Camp Train Story (Dining in camp cars)
• Pop Pop (PRR Veteran Story)
• PW&B and PB&W MW Equipment, Part 1
• Lettering Diagram for F21, F22 and F24 flat cars
• Greensburg (Pa) Station
• Cloyd’s Creations (Record of a PRR sign painter)
• PRR EMD SW1 and NW2 Switchers

• Edgar Thomson Led The Railroad Revolution

Autumn 2010

Volume 43 - Number 3

• The Pennsylvania News
• The Q2 Enigma
• P82AR Coaches
• My Tugboat Career
• Greensburg at Pier R – Steve Cryan watercolor

Winter 2010

Volume 43 - Number 4

• The Pennsylvania News
• Centennial of Pennsylvania Station (NY)
• Centerspread – Gateway to Gotham (Peter Lerro)
• PRR Class GG Hopper Cars
• PRR MP54 Multiple Unit Cars

Spring 2011

Volume 44 - Number 1

• The Pennsylvania News
• Lettering Schemes for PRR Cabin Cars, 1876 to 1968 (Part II)
• Olean, NY, The Way it Was [c. 1952]
• Pittsburgh’s OC Bridge

Summer 2011

Volume 44 - Number 2

• The Pennsylvania News
• PRR’s Navy, Part V
• The PRR’s Snow Shoe Branch
• 4231 Peeks Out

Autumn 2011

Volume 44 - Number 3

• The Pennsylvania News
• OC Bridge Postscript
• The Red Sox Wreck of 1933 [Wyoming, Del.]
• Show of Shows [Sunnyside Yard]
• Fleet of Modernism Lettering Differences

Winter 2011

Volume 44 - Number 4

• The Pennsylvania News
• Centennial of Pennsylvania Station (NY)
• Centerspread – Gateway to Gotham (Peter Lerro)
• PRR Class GG Hopper Cars
• PRR MP54 Multiple Unit Cars

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