Rare Books

Manufacturers: American Locomotive (ALCO); General Electric (GE)

Description: Includes (selected items): booklet. "Illustrated History of General Electric Locomotives. Diesel-Electric, Electric, Turbine & Industrial. Over 400 Photographs" by O.M. Kerr. Includes a 12 p. summary of GE locomotive history (96 p., 1979).
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1937-1979
Call number: 646607
Creator: Merrill, Leslie O(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Leslie O. Merrill, 1976-2008.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Manufacturers: Various, A - M

Rare Books

Brochures and publications for: Baldwin Locomotive Works; Clark Equipment Company; Edwards Railway Motor Car Co.; Fairbanks-Morse; Four Wheel Drive Auto Company; Lima Locomotive Works; Micheline.

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Manufacturers: American Car and Foundry (ACF) and Talgo

Rare Books

Includes (selected items): photographs; booklet. "The Story Behind The Talgo Story, A.C.F. Talgo Train." Reproductions of articles and ads for various manufacturers in magazines, "Radio Reports" transcripts. Talgo "is a manufactured name, made up with the first letters of the Spanish words tren (train), articulado (articulated), ligro (light), Goicoachea (inventor of train), and Oriol (backer of train)" (p. 50). Features two 4405 h.p. diesel engines with "Caterpillar" articulated design (110 p., 1949).

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Manufacturers: Pullman-Standard

Rare Books

Includes (selected items): photographs; booklet: "Color and Design in Passenger Equipment." Color pictures of interiors printed for railroad purchasing officers. Page 10 has color renderings of "Three new revenue producers...": City of Denver," "Green Diamond," "Daylight." (1937).

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Great Northern Railway Company

Rare Books

Includes (selected items): book. "Diesel, Gas-Electric & Electric Locomotive Diagrams, Reprint of Great Northern" (Reprint of 1952 Edition #32). "Blueprints and measurements for rail fans and model railroaders." Published by J.W. Sheets, 1963.

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Europe: Switzerland

Rare Books

Includes photographs. Materials include "Jungfrau Railway, Switzerland." History and description of mountain railway route (1940s?); electric railways; Swiss Federal Railways; book: "Railway Electrification In Switzerland, with Special Reference to the Swiss Federal Railways and their Rolling-Stock. Paper Read before the Institution of Locomotive Engineers by H. Loosli, Swiss Federal Railways" (1954).

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Chicago and North Western Railway Company

Rare Books

Includes train(s): 400; Minnesota "400"; Flambeau "400"; Dakota "400"

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Manufacturers: American Locomotive (ALCO); General Electric (GE)

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