Rare Books

Europe: Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)

Description: Includes (selected items): photographs; materials on Finnish State Railways (1961); Norwegian State Railways; Swedish State Railways; Danske Statsbaner (1964); "Hillerod Privatbaner" (Denmark, 1965); others.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1954-1989
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.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

Europe: Italy

Rare Books

Includes (selected items): photographs; materials on Italian State Railways; "Le Ferrovie Italian Dello Stato Chemins De Fer Italiene De L'Etat Italian State Railways." History, economics, operations, and physical description of the system since 1839 (1952); others.

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Europe: Spain; Portugal

Rare Books

Includes (selected items): photographs; materials on the Spanish National Railway system (Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Espanoles--RENFE); Book: "Railways In Spain, 1848-1958." Addressed to delegates of a meeting in Madrid of the International Railways Congress; others.

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Europe: Ireland, various

Rare Books

Three books: 1) "Railway History in Pictures, Ireland, Volume 2." by Alan McCutcheon. Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1970) 2) "Irish Railways Today" by Brendan Pender and Herbert Richards (Dublin 6, Transport Research Associates, 1967) 3) "Standard Gauge Railways in the North of Ireland" by R.G. Morton. (No. 5 Transport Handbook, Belfast Museum & Art Gallery, 1965)

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Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania

Rare Books

Includes (selected items): photographs; book: "South Australian Railways, Locomotives, Steam and Diesel, Electric and Rolling Stock" (1964); brochures: Trans-Australian Railway; Commonwealth Railways; Tasmanian Railway Passenger Services, The Tasman Limited; New South Wales Government Railways; blueprints of locomotives.

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Europe: Italy

Rare Books

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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Europe: France

Rare Books

Includes train(s): Le Mistral; TGV. Includes (selected items): pamphlets: "French National Railroads." Aimed at American audience. Brief history, wartime destruction, reconstruction (1948); "The Channel Conquest, La Conquete De La Manche." History and building of the tunnel ("Chunnel") under the English Channel. (1994); materials on Turbotrain T.G.V., others."

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Europe: Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)

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