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    Europe, various

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    Includes (selected items): booklet: "Ganz Railway-Carriage Manufacturers and Mechanical Engineers, Budapest [Hungary]" Maker of rail cars and trains for various countries. Four fold-out profiles and floor plans.(1951?); brochures on rail systems for cross-Europe travel.

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    Railroad rosters

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    Two books: "Diesel Locomotive Rosters, The Railroad Magazine Series." Compiled by Sy Reich (technical editor of Railroad Magazine). Lists of Diesel engines owned by "almost all the large roads and hundreds of short lines." (1973?); and "Car Names, Numbers and Consists." A roster of streamlined and lightweight passenger and "certain groups" of heavyweight cars rebuilt for streamlined trains. Brief sections on Train of Tomorrow, Aerotrain, Talgo, and Train X. Some floor plans. (New York, Wayner Publications, 1972).

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    Railroad books: various

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    Two books: 1) "Streamlined Steam, Quadrant Press Review 1." Photographs of shrouded (streamlined) steam locomotives, brief descriptions and dates of their conversions (exterior shrouding). ["Commodore Vanderbilt" named as America's first steam streamliner, December 1934.] (1972); 2) "The Streamlined Decade" by Donald J. Bush (George Braziller, New York, 1975).

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    Railroad books: De Spoorwegen series

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    Series of five books, published in Holland. Titles are: 1) "De spoorwegen van West-en Noord-Europa." (Europe) 112 p., 1965 2) "De spoorwegen van Midden-en Zuid-Europa." (Europe) 112 p., 1965 3) "De spoorwegen van de United States en Canada." 104 p., 1966 4) "De spoorwegen van Afrika." (Africa) 88 p., 1967 5) "De spoorwegen van Azie en Australie." (Asia to Australia). 128 p., 1968

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    Europe: Italy

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    Includes (selected items): brochures and photographs for Breda trains and equipment, such as "Breda, Elettrotreno ETR 30," with fold-out footprints and elevations for a streamlined electric train (1953); "Breda, Automotrice Breda Con Motore A Nafta," photos, descriptions of diesel rail cars (1934, 1935); others.

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    Oversize materials, various

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    All items in this box are 15 x 18 inches or smaller and include railroad pamphlets; advertising prints and clippings from 1940s magazines; and Leslie Merrill's scrapbook of streamliner clippings (1934-1938). The box includes photographs. Materials on Western Maryland Railway Company's fast freight line (1952?); "Train Album of Photographs: Railroads of Chicago" (1950); California Zephyr Vista-Dome brochure; General Motors' diesel "Train of Tomorrow"; California Western Railroad "Skunk Train" broadsides; Pullman-Standard Company portfolio of print advertisements, "Tops in Streamliners" (1941); Western Pacific Railroad Company Finance docket 25784, California Zephyr Advertising and Promotions (1968-1969); American Locomotive Company (Alco) line of diesel-electric engines; Two photographs of the Pioneer Zephyr (1949); color promotional illustrations of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad streamliner trains; Amtrak promotional train display (1970s?); and tearsheets of advertisements from magazines (1940s).

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