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.

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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